Golden Globes promise glamour and pizazz Sunday (AP)

" would be sure to tower over last year's telecast, even without trying. And executive producer Barry Adelman is trying.

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"Last year was not a happy time to go through," Adelman said earlier this week. "But we're putting that behind us." A year ago, of course, the famously rollicking ceremony was caught up in the strike by Hollywood writers, who vowed to picket if it aired. The plug was pulled on Adelman's extravaganza just days before the big night. What NBC aired instead was an hourlong laundry list of winners, read aloud by the co-hosts of " Access Hollywood ." No stars! No glitz! No service to fans of the annual Globes gala. No wonder just 5.8 million of them watched the bare-bones substitute, less than one-third its audience in 2007.

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