She adds yet more credit to Tina Fey's spectacular Golden Globes joke about Clooney's love life… Introducing the award-winning movie Gravity, in which Clooney stars opposite Sandra Bullock, Fey described it as "a story about how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age".
In typical fashion, the pair opened by calling the crowd a "bunch of despicable, spoilt, minimally-talented brats", while also teasing the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (a Golden Globes tradition) by introducing the awards as the "the 72nd and final Golden Globe awards".
Introducing the awards, Rusbridger said the Leveson inquiry and phone-hacking saga had shone a light on "journalism at its worst" and that it was "very easy to get depressed" about the British press.
Bella, 18, is a model along with elder sister Gigi, 20, who introduced the award to her mother at the event on Thursday.
He delivered a sixty-second speech about "questioning contemporary values" and introduced the award's presenter, Yoko Ono, describing her as an "artist of international repute".
Even having Simon Doonan, the beloved design pundit and the creative director of Barneys, introduce the award (with a sincere paean to Chrysler's history of design innovation) couldn't sprinkle enough sparkly dust on the moment to cover up the layers of grease.
Since NIH introduced the award in January 2006, it has received about 900 applications.
First, actress Lily Tomlin introduced the award before singers including Reba McEntire, Kacey Musgraves, Martina McBride and Carrie Underwood took the stage to perform some of Parton's greatest hits. .
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