They want a glitzy event, they want the tuxedoed attendants, they want the klieg lights up in the air.

Despite all this Hollywood angst, the 50th annual Golden Globe awards on Saturday night turned out to be the glitziest and zaniest event of the new year.

New York is a glitzy event, a 26-mile block party.

Winter wonder Millionaires and maharajahs converge every January in St. Moritz for what is still polo's glitziest event: the Cartier Polo World Cup, where 20,000 fans watch ponies on ice.

However, Glass criticizes Zizek for (like Baudrillard and Virillo) mirroring Rightist apocalyptic rhetoric by focusing on "glitzy" events rather than slow-building historical processes.

But the glitzy events have brought far-reaching publicity, generating articles about Mr. Evans and Random House in a variety of national publications.

On Monday evening, Winfrey was seen wearing a red sari as she travelled in a car with Bollywood acting legend Amitabh Bachchan to a glitzy event, hosted by socialite Parmeshwar Godrej.

Last year, Miss America took the crown in a glitzy event in the tropical Chinese resort town of Sanya, on Hainan Island.

George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and a contemporary of Mr Rothschild at Oxford, is unlikely to risk incurring the wrath of financially-squeezed middle England by attending the glitzy event.

Peaches Geldof was also at the glitzy event wearing a flowing white outfit reminiscent of a wedding dress.