Golden Globes Live Blog: The Haneke train pulls out

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6:37 p.m.: A very long and expressive monologue from Drew Barrymore backstage prevented us from hearing Michael Haneke’s speech as he accepted the best foreign-language prize for ‘The White Ribbon.’ But the sight of him accepting a statuette on this stage provides one of the more juxtapositional moments of the Globes. Celebrity primping! Designer gowns! Auteur-driven, 2 1/2-hour black-and-white films in repressed pre-WWI Prussia! (We can only wait for someone backstage to ask him who he’s wearing.)

That was the amusing part. As for drama, there’s less of that. ‘White Ribbon’ is all but assured a foreign-language Oscar.