8:18 p.m.:  Hudson fields the inevitable America Idol rejection question and offers up the inevitable sound bite: "You like my award, Simon?"

8:19 p.m.:  Awards-show novice Hudson is calm, collected and cool—and not at all cold-looking. How can that be?

8:20 p.m.:  "It's the adrenaline," Hudson tells me. "You don't think about it...Like, I'm burning up right now with all the emotion and the excitement."

8:21 p.m.:   Jeremy Irons, a winner for the HBO miniseries Elizabeth I, shows off his Globe as best he can, considering his wardrobe. "These [shirt] sleeves—I can never get them under control," Irons says of the unruly things hanging out from under his jacket.

8:23 p.m.:   For the record, I am not the only one who thinks it's cold. In the words of the award-winning Irons, "it's quite chilly out."

8:27 p.m.:   In the morning, when her face is "crunched," Helen Mirren is a dead ringer for Elizabeth II, Irons reports. I'm pretty sure he meant this as a compliment to his Elizabeth I costar.

8:30 p.m.:   In grand awards-show tradition, The Closer's Kyra Sedgwick is "totally shocked" that she won a Globe.

8:33 p.m.:   I have to ask—just one more time: Are you, Kyra Sedgwick, cold? No. No, she is not. "I think my adrenaline was keeping me going," Sedgwick says.

8:34 p.m.:   Memo to self: Self, next time don't leave home without the adrenaline.

8:43 p.m.:   A tall British man with a scruffy beard is standing on the stage, holding a Globe. Either House's Hugh Laurie is back here now, or Jeremy Irons has returned.

8:44 p.m.:   It's Hugh Laurie. His long sleeves are shorter.

8:54 p.m.:   For the record, Cars director John Lasseter, a winner for Best Animated Film, arrived at the Globes in a car. A Mercedes-Benz S-Class, to be exact.

8:55 p.m.:   "Excuse me, what is your name?" a reporter asks Lasseter, who I'm guessing won't be going home with a big head tonight.

9 p.m.:   Meryl Streep is wearing Herrera and holding a Globe for Prada.

9:01 p.m.:   Streep admits to being flummoxed by her win. "I usually have a few drinks before my category comes up. My schpilkis were not quieted."

9:02 p.m.:   No, I don't know what schpilkis is. Streep declines to translate.

9:06 p.m.:   Streep is informed by a reporter that she looks 25. "You're so far in the back, though," the 57-year-old actor informs the scribe.

9:10 p.m.:   The press conference for the miniseries winners from Elizabeth I is short and sweet—Eddie Murphy is in the house.

9:13 p.m.:   Eddie Murphy, a winner for Dreamgirls, is not doing James Brown in the movie. He's doing James Brown, Otis Redding and Jackie Wilson, all of whose moves he says he studied.