All right already with Lena Dunham. Two Golden Globes. Both her fleshy ones she’ll probably unveil on TV. Vanity Fair’s immortalized her. Newspapers have pictured her. Richard Plepler, HBO CEO, advertises her second season of Sunday’s “Girls” show, which she creates, writes, produces, stars in. Enough already with Lena.
Andrew Saffir’s Cinema Society screened it. Jonah Hill showed. Ditto Zac Posen, who designs some of her shmattas, and Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy, Felicity Huffman, John Leguizamo, Zoë Kravitz, Gabourey Sidibe, Jason Biggs, Debbie Harry, Michael Stipe, Diane von Furstenberg, Paulina Porizkova & Ric Ocasek, Solange Knowles, Lorraine Bracco, Jill Hennessy, Anna Chlumsky, Mamie Gummer, castmember Allison Williams’ father, Brian Williams.
Also Kathy Najimy, Rachel Dratch, Caroline Rhea, Mike Birbiglia, Bobby Flay, Peter Cincotti, Natasha Lyonne, Kelly Bensimon, Amy Sacco, Cynthia Rowley, Christian Siriano, Nicky Hilton plus another crateload who’d show at a condemned diner if they were ladling year old pot roast.
So, why? Lena’s zaftig flesh bears multiple back, arms, shoulders tattoos. Mostly this menagerie never heard of her a year ago. What’s so great about her?
“Who knows?” she said. “I can’t believe it. I don’t understand this is happening. An Emmy, DGA Award and winning all these others? This was a maybe niche thing. We shot a demo, and I figured I’m lucky it got on.
“Possibly it won’t last like ‘Downton Abbey,’ and it’ll go into the ground. But I’m not sitting back waiting for ratings to drop. I’m right there, walking around, out physically, seeing everything in my own life. Seeing the world I live in.
“Look, I’m writing my own life. I’m 26, a simple person. Always lived in Brooklyn. Still living in an apartment there with no guy but with a 12-pound, not-very-mature dog I adopted who’s named Lamby.”
Yeah, fine. But a Grade-B flat and a handyman spaniel who does odd jobs around the house develops such a hotshot series?
“Maybe it caught because it’s fiction. I had a rotten boyfriend. Really lousy guy. When he later asked about it, I said, ‘Look, I haven’t even thought of you once in seven years.’ Some couples will recognize themselves in this. And I had bad jobs but good friends. Kooky New York City types who are still with me. Happy for me. Maybe not too excited — but excited.
“Best of all, I have my parents who are my real best friends. They live in TriBeCa. My mom’s in our second episode. She’s really thrilled for me. She especially loves my free clothes and the hairdo and makeup stuff.”
Lena Dunham. Sweet, loving, easy and friendly.
ANGELA Bassett: “I didn’t buy myself anything for Christmas. I don’t need another dress. I got things for the kids. My son, another game. My daughter, she’s 6, a music player. And I don’t worry about my figure. Today was chicken salad lunch and a big bag of potato chips.” She turned and in her tight tight dress showed me her tight tight behind. “Honey, I sure do eat.”
PARIS Hilton, with model stud River Viiperi, sprayed Champagne on “Big Brother” star Beau Beasley at Miami’s nightclub Story. Another night, in a skimpy dress, she slipped into DJ Kaskade’s booth uninvited. Not enchanted, he asked her to amscray and dance elsewhere . . . Hugh Grant, bunking with friends in the company of a beautiful mystery woman, donned a paper tiara in the Dominican’s Casa de Campo hooley.
GOLDEN Globes presenter Bill Clinton, introducing “Lincoln,” admitted snarky sneaky behavior at the White House. Saying the same, the book “Capturing Camelot” recalls JFK using their kids for a photo when Jackie was away. Returning, she angrily snapped: “Use the children any way you want. And if you want me to pose in the tub for photographers, I suppose I should do that, too, to help you out this year.”
MORE Golden Globes. Fey and Poehler were MIA for most of it, but OK. Not a shame for the neighbors . . . Notice, the whole audience stood when Ben Affleck rightly won for “Argo”. . . Also notice, Hollywood can not write comedy one-liners for actors. Their delivery so heavy-handed, a lumberjack could barely lift them.
CYNDI Lauper: “I can’t get my mother an iPhone because she’ll text me all the time.”. . . Robert Redford: “What if there’s no Christmas? It’s months of falling prey to bells jingling, Muzak in overcrowded stores, hypnotic advertising, last-minute shopping on bruised shelves and remaining bargains already depleted.”. . . Paul Rudd: “I’m ready for comedy in my next, ‘Anchorman 2’ because my dark role on Broadway got under my skin a little.”
AT Madison Square Garden: “The first masculine protective guard, the cup, was used in hockey in 1874. The first helmet was used in 1974.” Listener: “Yeah, so?” Speaker: “So this means it took 100 years for men to realize that their brains are also important.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.