The stage is set for Sunday s Golden Globe Awards

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.

(AP) The theatre is set for a Golden Globe Awards, though a tables, not so much.

Dozens of dining tables stood built opposite a walls of a

Beverly Hilton Hotel

's International Ballroom, where nominees including

George Clooney

,

Viola Davis

and Leonardo DiCaprio will be seated during Sunday's ceremony.

With dual days until a live broadcast, executive writer

Barry Adelman

and executive

Louis J. Horvitz

are still tweaking a book and a seating chart.

"Chaos is always a partial of it," Adelman pronounced of a last-minute uncover preparations.

Workers bustled around a ballroom Thurs day afternoon, putting a finishing touches on a set's tilted chandeliers and installing remote-controlled cameras on theatre to offer viewers during home a uninformed viewpoint on a festivities.

Seventeen cameras, including a dual new robotic ones on stage, will constraint a movement during a three-hour show.

"You take one shot and there's like 20 opposite stars in it," Horvitz said.

Jane Fonda, Harrison Ford,

Robert Downey, Jr.

, Salma Hayek, Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman, Ashton Kutcher, Reese Witherspoon,

William H. Macy

and Dustin Hoffman are among a some-more than 150 stars set to attend a ceremony, where a wordless film "The Artist" is a heading nominee.

Though a seats aren't set, a theatre is scarcely complete, anchored by swooping lights and transparent clear rods for a demeanour that prolongation engineer Brian Stonestreet described as "architectural and feminine."

"It's a really voluptuous set, and we consider this is substantially one of a sexiest Golden Globes we've ever had," Adelman said, citing a register of pleasing stars on a guest list.

Ricky Gervais earnings for his third army as host, notwithstanding critique final year that a British comedian went too far.

"Part of a reason people watch is it's indeterminate and anything can happen, and he embodies that like no one else," Adelman said. "You don't know what he's going to contend subsequent and we don't wish to skip it."

Also certain to be a prominence Sunday is Sidney Poitier and Helen Mirren's display of a Cecil B. DeMille endowment to Morgan Freeman.

"He's worked with roughly everybody in a room," Adelman pronounced of a actor," so it's going to be a possibility for everybody to let lax and only salute him."

(Aiding in a vouchsafing lax will be a some-more than 9,000 eyeglasses of Champagne Moët & Chandon expects to offe r during a ceremony.)

Preparations and rehearsals will continue by Sunday, when a ballroom will be design ideal (from 17 angles). The fad of a large day that Horvitz compares to "driving a Formula One race, winning a playoff diversion and winning a Super Bowl" is what fuels a hundreds of workers it takes to put on a show.

The 69th annual

Golden Globe Awards

will be promote live Sunday on NBC.

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www.goldenglobes.org

(news.yahoo.com)