GOLDEN GLOBES - STRESSFUL SEATING

As I watched last night's Golden Globe Awards, I was struck by how many former couples were seated - apart - in the venue.

Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz.
Ben Affleck and J.Lo
J.Lo and Puff Daddy
Reese was there (but was Ryan?)
Brad was there, with Angelina, which most likely troubled Jennifer Aniston pal Courteney Cox, who was there with hubby, the truly trippy David Arquette.
Prince, who used to sleep with Kim Basinger, was there, so I hope Alec Baldwin (Kim's notoriously jealous ex-husband) didn't get near his table.

I would hate to be the poor scrub whose job it is to make the seating charts at Hollywood awards shows.

Of course, all of Hollywood rotates lovers like the players on a volleyball court, but still, wasn't it tacky when show organizers played that Madonna song over the Warren Beatty montage of films? Camera operators should have panned right to Annette Bening when the tune began. But she's too classy to react - and thank god, since her husband is Warren Beatty and she probably is faced with an ex-lover of his everytime she hits an L.A. Starbucks.

(P.S. However, I did think it was a riot that they struck up Madonna's "Vogue" as Meryl Streep took to the stage for a win for "The Devil Wears Prada," which is widely rumored to be about Vogue editor Anna Wintour.)