As I watch Ricky Gervais present the Golden Globe Awards last night while in Santa Barbara – just before the rains hit us and everyone started sandbagging their properties – I had some pretty good laughs.  He was entertaining and funny.  However, I noticed the audience wasn’t as responsive and seemed to be more serious than usual in Award Ceremonies – if they do decide to turn up.  Perhaps they felt their careers were on the line, as the ‘non-winners’ did not fake smile nor continue the applause, they seemed genuinely pissed off.

Or perhaps it was that all the glam and glitter seemed rather self-serving in the light of the horrendous plight in Haiti.

Meryl Streep in her usual eloquent way accepted her award for “Julie & Julia”, and did not get the ‘musical wrap it up, girl’, from the producers when she began to talk about the less fortunate and the way in which people live in other countries who aren’t as privileged as we are.
Here is what some of these actors are doing to assist and still keep their integrity while being ‘stars’.  Hats off to all.

Hollywood stars including Meryl Streep and Gerard Butler are auctioning off the outfits they wore to the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday to raise money for the Haitian relief fund.

Josh Brolin, Amy Poehler and House’s Olivia Wilde (@oliviawilde) are also donating their awards show clothes to Artists for Peace and Justice, which is raising funds for the earthquake-ravaged country.

Wilde was involved in building a school in the nation in December, but it was destroyed in last week’s 7.0-magnitude tremor.

The auction will start on Ebay next week (starting 25th January, 2010). Find out more information at the Artists for Peace and Justice web site, and by following @artistsforpeace on Twitter.