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'Social Network' Juggernaut Rolls Over the Globes  Justin
Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg in 'The Social Network Courtesy
of Sony Pictures  Rotten Tomatoes tweets, "Will [Social Network]
now definitely take the Oscar?" Not necessarily, but Sorkin and
Rudin do smart campaigning on the Globes stage.  Bagging three
out of four important Globes (picture, director and screenplay,
leaving only Colin Firth's inevitable best actor win to rival
King's Speech), plus the less crucial best score prize (and the
night's top tally, four Globes to The Fighter's two, The Kids
Are All Right's two and everyone else's one), The Social Network
looks increasingly hard to stop as a runaway train.  But the
bully pulpit of a Globes thank-you speech is no time to stop
campaigning and fixing the film's image in the public mind.
Writer Aaron Sorkin did it by stressing how smart the film is,
and by implication, how smart Oscar voters would be to go for
it: He called it "a t