As the 2010 golden Globe Awards kicked into high gear, members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had reason to smile.     Despite persistent rain showers outside the Beverly Hilton, the red carpet at the HFPA’s annual film and television awards show again was packed with international media and entertainment elite: The Blind Side star Sandra Bullock mingled with Avatar director James Cameron and the cast of Mad Men. The Globes telecast would draw 250 million viewers worldwide and become that week’s highest-rated entertainment program on U.S. television, continuing a streak of stunning success for the event thrown by a ragtag group of foreign journalists .For the full Hollywood Reporter story click on this link: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/globes-go-court-226562