Steve Carell enjoys his Golden moment

With his dark suit and regular-Joe looks, Steve Carell was feeling a bit out of place at Sunday’s Golden Globes.

Sure, he was nominated for musical or comedy actor in TV’s “The Office,” and yeah, he gained greater fame for having his chest waxed in last summer’s hit movie “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.”

But Carell, who wound up winning the Golden Globe for “The Office,” still had his doubts when he arrived on the red carpet.

“Looking around at all these very important people, you think, ‘Why are we here? What is this about?’” Carell said as he arrived on the red carpet. “I’m just a guy who got a part in a show.”

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Later, when he collected his award, he said he hadn’t bothered to write an acceptance speech. Instead, he read one he claimed was written by his wife, Nancy. It ignored his career and instead praised his wife, noting that she had put aside her career for his.

Controversial thanks
“Paradise Now,” which tackles the issue of Israeli-Palestinian violence in a story about two West Bank friends dispatched on a suicide mission, won the foreign language film Golden Globe on Monday.

Director Hany Abu-Assad told the Beverly Hilton audience that he saw the award not only as recognition of the film, its cast and crew, “but also as a recognition that the Palestinians deserve their liberty and equality unconditionally.”

The 90-minute film, which the Hollywood Foreign Press Association designated as coming from Palestine, was released by Warner Independent Pictures.

“Paradise Now” was selected over two films from China, “Kung Fu Hustle” and “Master of the Crimson Armor,” aka “The Promise,” as well as France’s “Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noel),” and South Africa’s “Tsotsi.”

In Capote's shadow
Philip Seymour Hoffman, winner for best actor in a drama film for “Capote,” cited the difficulties in portraying a real-life character onscreen.

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“Roles are difficult to play ... because of what stories (the characters) are living in, the obstacles they are dealing with and the relationships they are screwing up. ... (Truman Capote) was incredibly outgoing and savvy and sharp, and that intimidated me. I had to deal with that in order to successfully play him.”

Hoffman said that he prepped for the role for six months. “A lot of people already knew who the character was. Part of my job was to somehow give the essence of who this man was. If I didn’t behave like he behaved, it would be a falsehood.”

And what would the real-life Capote think of Hoffman’s Golden Globe win? “He’d probably be up here next to me. He’d probably be very critical and point out all the things that went wrong, but he’d also be very happy about the attention being showered on him again.”

Trusty typewriter
Larry McMurtry, co-winner of the screenplay Golden Globe for “Brokeback Mountain,” saved his most heartfelt thanks for his French-made typewriter.

“My typewriter is a Hermes 3000, surely one of the noblest instruments of European genius. And, ladies and gentlemen, can you believe it? It’s kept me for 30 years out of the dry embrace of the computer,” he said.

McMurtry and Diana Ossana received Monday night’s screenplay honor for the story of a homosexual romance between two cowboys.

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