As 2007 fizzles out, awards season is heating up, with the Golden Globes (which is still taking place no longer airing in light of the writers’ strike) and the SAG Awards in January and the Grammys and Academy Awards in February.
The scene may have been symbolic only two weeks ago.
On a lonely white stretch of Highway 20 in the middle of a blustery and cold Monday, a white sport utility vehicle with Arkansas plates and a sticker for Republican presidential-nomination hopeful Mike Huckabee steadily passed the caravan of Huckabee’s chief rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, including the candidate and his RV, the “Mitt Mobile.”
The leading three Democratic presidential-nomination hopefuls stormed across Iowa, making their last pitches, targeting undecided caucus-goers, and displaying sharpened elbows on the last day of 2007 and first of 2008.