WEEK IN WOMEN: Carol Burnett To Receive Special Golden Globe TV Award – Brandy McDonnell reports

December 30, 2018 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments carol burnett, golden globes 2019

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Legendary comedian and feminist icon Carol Burnett will receive the inaugural Golden Globe television special achievement award in 2019 from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Appropriately dubbed the Carol Burnett Award, the new honor will celebrate the highest level of achievement in the television. A five-time Globe winner — making her the most honored in the television competition — Burnett will accept the award at the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards in January. Continue reading on THE WEEK IN WOMEN.

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Brandy McDonnell

Brandy McDonnell writes features and reviews movies, music, events and the arts for The Oklahoman, Oklahoma's statewide newspaper, and NewsOK.com, the state's largest news Web site. Raised on a farm near Lindsay, Okla., she started her journalism career in seventh grade, when she was elected reporter for her school's 4-H Club. Taking her duties seriously, she began submitting stories to The Lindsay News, and worked for the local weekly through high school. She attended Oklahoma State University, where she worked for The Daily O'Collegian and earned her journalism degree with honors. She worked for three years at small Oklahoma dailies The Edmond Sun and Shawnee News-Star. In 2002, she joined The Oklahoman as a features reporter, writing about movies, the arts, events, families and nonprofits. She moved to The Oklahoman's entertainment desk in 2007. In 2004, she won a prestigious Journalism Fellowship in Child & Family Policy from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Along with her membership in AWFJ, she also is a founding member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Brandy writes The Week In Women blog for AWFJ.org.