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Following tradition where a daughter or son of one of Hollywood’s most respected actors is selected to assist at the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association named Greer Grammer, daughter of Kelsey Grammer, Miss Golden Globe 2015. HPFA President Theo Kingma made the announcement at the first event of the Golden Globes Awards season, a star-studded party held at Fig & Olive in West Hollywood, hosted by the HFPA and InStyle magazine.

A giant of American theater and cinema passed away today. Mike Nichols put his name to such classics as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate as well as beloved works like Catch 22, Working Girl and True Colors.

Golden Globe-winning director Mike Nichols has died at the age of 83. Nichols was nominated for six Golden Globes, winning in 1968 for The Graduate and in 1997 for The Birdcage.

Dumb and Dumber To beat Big Hero 6 to the punch and finished light-years ahead of Interstellar on the domestic market to come in first place with $38. 1 million in its opening weekend.

The HFPA tradition of giving to worthy cases did not stop with the grants dinner at which almost $2 million was given away. Since then the donations have continued to a variety of charitable organizations, and although the emphasis remains on entertainment-related causes, many others have benefited, too.

A great friend to the HFPA, powerhouse PR consultant and awards strategist Nadia Bronson has left us all too soon. Her long time friend Harvey Weinstein says it best in this touching tribute published in Deadline: Acerbic.

For almost four decades she was one of the most respected and trusted brokers between Hollywood’s studios and the journalists of the HFPA. Now, at age 67, Nadia Bronson died following a long battle with cancer.

On November 9, the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev was proclaimed "Man of the Century". The Berlin-based Cinema for Peace foundation organized a "Heroes" gala in the ballroom of the Hotel Adlon where the 83 year old winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was celebrated with eulogies and repeated standing ovations.

Faced with tough competition in its ailing home market, Interstellar was forced to venture to distant multiplexes to find the top spot in this weekend’s global box office. Christopher Nolan’s ambitious galactic odyssey, starring Mathew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine, had a cumulative opening of $132.