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Robert De Niro in Taxi DriverRobert De Niro, who is considered one of the greatest actors of his time, is to receive the Cecil B. deMille lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes ceremony on January 16.

Hollywood, CA, November 9, 2010– Robert De Niro will be honored at next January's Golden Globe® Awards telecast with the Cecil B. deMille Award for his outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.

Golden Globe winners Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, who have already talked with Hollywood Foreign Press members about their close collaboration, are getting together again to discuss it at the American Cinematheque.  The director and actor, who have made four films together, will be having a conversation about their work as the Egyptian Theatre screens their four films---Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed and Shutter Island beginning on Saturday.

At just 5ft 2in Kristen Bell knows all too well the pluses and minuses of being petite. “It’s easy to fit into a Prius, it’s easy to fit on a plane, I don’t have knee problems and people are generally nicer to you if you’re smaller,” she told HFPA members when she met them recently in Beverly Hills.

With Thanksgiving and the holiday season approaching, most Americans are planning parties and celebrations. But not Janet Jackson.

Actress Rachel McAdams, whose latest film Morning Glory was screened for the HFPA this week, has revealed how she was told to stop making 'stupid movies' by an immigration official as she tried to enter America. The 31-year-old Canadian born star, who will be meeting HFPA members in New York this weekend, was also criticised for her pink hair colour by the abusive agent.

Previous recipient Barbra Streisand On Tuesday, November 9, Golden Globe Award nominated actor, Kevin Spacey will announce the recipient of the Cecil B. deMille Award.

  Martin Scorsese has flown from London where he is filming the 3D mystery movie Hugo Cabret to unveil the digitally restored copy of Federico Fellini’s La dolce vita at the Rome film festival. The restoration of the 1960 classic movie, which starred Anita Ekberg, was made possible by Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, to which the HFPA has contributed nearly two million dollars.

When former Friends star Courtney Cox decided to talk for the first time about her struggle to deal with her recent separation from her husband of 11 years David Arquette, she chose to meet and discuss it with the Hollywood Foreign Press. “He’s a kook,” she said of her husband, who revealed to Howard Stern that he had cried after he had sex with another woman after separating from Cox.

Now filming has wrapped on the last of the Harry Potter films and with Part One of The Deathly Hallows due for release on the 19th of this month, Daniel Radcliffe has talked of the cast's tearful farewells on the last day of shooting. “I was devastated and so upset that I cried,” he told HFPA members.