Secret Smile
So apparently I am having one of my every other yearly DD/GA tinhat spasms, and talking about it on SF is not sufficient. Trying to poke holes in my tin hat time line will only force me to come up with convoluted reasons that 2+2=5, dammit!
I had linked to videos that contained this picture, one that I had not seen before, but which looks awfully *cozy*. Well upon further research in places you don't want to know about, ahem, I found the whole batch of photographs from that night, which was the wrap party during season three of The X-Files. In one of them you can see that her husband at the time, Clyde Klotz is also there off to the side watching the drunken hug session.
Now I always thought her relationship with Klotz was kind of weird anyway, but the season three wrap party was in late March/early April of 1996, and there were rumblings that GA and Klotz were having problems or already unofficially separated by October of that year. DD was single for all of 1996, though he did briefly date Noni and Lisa Loeb.
So right before the 1997 Golden Globes, Gillian officially announces her plans to divorce Klotz, and DD "in a show of support and loyalty" escorts her to the show. Now at the time they appeared at the show together I wasn't in any significant way immersed in the fandom, certainly not anything on line, but I followed the show in magazines and was a mostly consistent viewer. I knew she was married to Klotz and that it was weird, I knew DD had been dating someone, but was now single (and was kind of a douche), and I knew that they had jointly laughed off any idea that they were/or had ever been a real life couple. They didn't go out of their way to say they weren't friends, but they never really came across as *close*, so I believed it completely.
Until I saw them at the Globes, where I then did not believe them AT ALL. I remember being like THUNDERSTRUCK that they were a) at a public event together as each other's "dates" being all glowly friendlys b) seemingly not just for shows, but for reals, as they were attached at the hip for the entire red carpet, and they barely let go of each others hands for most of that walk. She didn't let go even for a solo pose. And he is various degrees of beaming and besotted in every picture. I will note also, and importantly, that she is...less so.
For comparison's sake look at this picture of them w/Carter at the 1995 ceremony. It's all awkward discomfort, compared to their relatively blissed out behavior two years later.
Then there are their acceptance speeches where Gillian kisses DD, but forgets to thank him, whereas his voice softens and breaks a bit when he thanks her (and she gets emotional off stage and has to look away - kills me).
The pressroom video provides lots of goodness, like his sweet cheek kiss, and talk about how they felt their chemistry from the beginning, and then David get's asked what he says/does on days that make her not want to talk to him. Ha.
I think my all time favorite picture of them is a still from that video, that totally captures what the deal was between them, Gillian's sideways smug face while he's sweetly kissing her? Is fantastically hilariously bitchy. It is up there Gwyneth's Ben Affleck eye roll. Hee.
The thing I find interesting is prior to their recent and new supportive friends buddies and pals thing they've had going on since they shot X2 and promoted it, this was the only other extended period of time I can remember him being even remotely that animated and relaxed/happy doing press for the show/franchise. He is so much more fun when there is not a cork up his ass.
Alright, I think I effectively managed to waste all my time today. Bravo, self.
I had linked to videos that contained this picture, one that I had not seen before, but which looks awfully *cozy*. Well upon further research in places you don't want to know about, ahem, I found the whole batch of photographs from that night, which was the wrap party during season three of The X-Files. In one of them you can see that her husband at the time, Clyde Klotz is also there off to the side watching the drunken hug session.
Now I always thought her relationship with Klotz was kind of weird anyway, but the season three wrap party was in late March/early April of 1996, and there were rumblings that GA and Klotz were having problems or already unofficially separated by October of that year. DD was single for all of 1996, though he did briefly date Noni and Lisa Loeb.
So right before the 1997 Golden Globes, Gillian officially announces her plans to divorce Klotz, and DD "in a show of support and loyalty" escorts her to the show. Now at the time they appeared at the show together I wasn't in any significant way immersed in the fandom, certainly not anything on line, but I followed the show in magazines and was a mostly consistent viewer. I knew she was married to Klotz and that it was weird, I knew DD had been dating someone, but was now single (and was kind of a douche), and I knew that they had jointly laughed off any idea that they were/or had ever been a real life couple. They didn't go out of their way to say they weren't friends, but they never really came across as *close*, so I believed it completely.
Until I saw them at the Globes, where I then did not believe them AT ALL. I remember being like THUNDERSTRUCK that they were a) at a public event together as each other's "dates" being all glowly friendlys b) seemingly not just for shows, but for reals, as they were attached at the hip for the entire red carpet, and they barely let go of each others hands for most of that walk. She didn't let go even for a solo pose. And he is various degrees of beaming and besotted in every picture. I will note also, and importantly, that she is...less so.
For comparison's sake look at this picture of them w/Carter at the 1995 ceremony. It's all awkward discomfort, compared to their relatively blissed out behavior two years later.
Then there are their acceptance speeches where Gillian kisses DD, but forgets to thank him, whereas his voice softens and breaks a bit when he thanks her (and she gets emotional off stage and has to look away - kills me).
The pressroom video provides lots of goodness, like his sweet cheek kiss, and talk about how they felt their chemistry from the beginning, and then David get's asked what he says/does on days that make her not want to talk to him. Ha.
I think my all time favorite picture of them is a still from that video, that totally captures what the deal was between them, Gillian's sideways smug face while he's sweetly kissing her? Is fantastically hilariously bitchy. It is up there Gwyneth's Ben Affleck eye roll. Hee.
The thing I find interesting is prior to their recent and new supportive friends buddies and pals thing they've had going on since they shot X2 and promoted it, this was the only other extended period of time I can remember him being even remotely that animated and relaxed/happy doing press for the show/franchise. He is so much more fun when there is not a cork up his ass.
Alright, I think I effectively managed to waste all my time today. Bravo, self.