Power, it's an amazing thing.
People scrabble all their lives for it, but it's deeply elusive – a protean element that very few can conquer. George R. R. Martin even wrote an entire book series ruminating on the vagaries of power. It's called Game of Thrones. It's pretty good, if you've got a few months to spare.
In any event, one place that does not lack for power is Hollywood. Once you reach a certain stature in those rarefied circles, you've pretty much made it for the rest of your life.
A great reason for this is because you are surrounded by other powerful and (presumably) wealthy people, who scratch your back the way you scratch theirs, thus ensuring that power flows in a nice tight circle and never descends, willy nilly, on those mortals less deserving of its favors.
Streep even complained to Jimmy Kimmel, "Bitch stole my seat!"
She then humorously explained the reason for this. Apparently, Â you can only move around when the Globes are on commercial break, so you have to take the first seat you find when the cameras start rolling again. Celebrity musical chairs, who'd have thunk it. But behind all this humor, there was one little, but very important fact.Meryl Streep jokes about Mariah Carey's #GoldenGlobes gaff: 'B**ch stole my seat!' https://t.co/lK4IxVBE40 pic.twitter.com/6Dps4GrEP6
— EntertainmentTonight (@etnow) January 9, 2018
Three gajillionaire living legends sat down at a table of gajillionare living legends in a room surrounded by other gajillionaire living legends.
Basically, this was a room bristling with power.
See, the other people at Streep's table – as she divulged to Jimmy Kimmel – were  Tom Hanks, Stacey Schneider (head of Fox), Amy Pascal (legendary producer), and a few others whose bank combined accounts no doubt outsize the GDP of a mid-sized third world country.
Having a seat at the table is, undoubtedly, a good thing, but it's a very limited table, and only a few people get to join. The people at Meryl Streep's table, for instance, were all older, white and powerful – except for Mariah Carey, whose only deviation from the above is being mixed-race.
I have a difficult time seeing a person who deviates grandly from this formula getting a seat at that table.
I had a thought to myself then: Gosh, I'd really like a seat at THAT table.I love this picture and not just because Oprah Winfrey is front and center. ??? #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/XljtnVC8c2
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) January 8, 2018