Today's Read: Hollywood Parents Glam It Up For The Golden Globes

Here at momstown, certain stubbornly wakeful children prevented us from watching the whole thing. Still, the morning-after recaps of the awards and the fashion are almost better.
For someone who used to work nights, getting to take in the rare prime-time awards show on a night off was a delicious guilty pleasure. And what a gorgeous, extravagant escape it was from the often distressing news that was my daily fare.

And please excuse the cop-out headline on this piece. Hollywood stars -- including, yes, parents -- ARE glamorous, a lot of the time. Not just for the Golden Globes. The ones with kids are able to afford really high-quality child care, which means they are able to leave the house more often looking unfrazzled and stain-free.

More than the suggestion that they cleaned up bigtime for one night out, is the suggestion that on some level they are just like you and me. Because no. Rosamund Pike is not like you and me. We might all have kids, we might all have post-partum bodies. But I'm a word nerd who happens to be a parent, and she's a wealthy, talented actor and a parent. You might be a chief justice of the Supreme Court and a parent, I don't know. BUT I like her work and it's cool that in some small way, the circles of our Venn diagrams overlap. And for that sliver of overlap -- the raising of a kid or kids -- we bring you the Hollywood Parents edition of Today's Read.

Fashion first

First up, the red carpet, as avidly watched as the awards themselves. Just five weeks after having a baby, Rosamund Pike was luminous, and winning our hearts because she gamely came out to a glitzy party full of body-obsessed celebrity watchers (whether or not you like her her fluffy, body-baring gown), and references to her son.
There were a few maternity gowns on the carpet, too. Notable among pregnant celebs: Keira Knightley and Sophie Hunter. Remember what I said about escapism? Well yeah. With a big couture budget and their head start on the movie-star good looks, you could put these two in shapeless burlap sacks and they'd still glow. And US Magazine reports that in Hollywood, as everywhere else, the pregnant bladder gets to jump the line.

On stage

As for the awards themselves, the top film prize went to Boyhood, an innovative movie that took 12 years to make. Filmmakers collected footage of the child actors week by week while they grew to adulthood.

"The bottom line is we're all flawed in this world. No one's perfect. I want to dedicate this to my parents and to parents that are evolving everywhere, families that are just passing through this world and doing their best."
—Boyhood director Richard Linklater

The big TV winners were parents, too: among them Amazon's Transparent, about a transgendered parent who comes out to the kids. The show's creator, Jill Soloway, thanked her own trans parent in her emotional acceptance speech.
Also notable: Jane the Virgin, about a woman who is artificially inseminated by accident and keeps the baby.