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Even eight years after his death, Hollywood’s connection to Nelson Mandela is strong. In 2013, the year of his passing, the late South African leader was the subject of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom starring Idris Elba in the title role.

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I had once the great honor of meeting President Nelson Mandela and have a conversation with him. In 1995, the Hollywood Foreign Press presented Mandela with a glass plaque in appreciation for his relentless fight for freedom.

On November 13, 2013, all eyes were on a stunning petite brunette as she navigated the flash and organized chaos of the red carpet. Sosie Bacon, the 21-year-old daughter of Golden Globe winners Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon, had just been announced as this year’s Miss Golden Globes, by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Among this year’s extraordinarily strong slate of Hollywood films, an unusually large number tell “true stories. ” From 12 Years a Slave to Captain Phillips, from Lone Survivor to The Fifth Estate, 2013 certainly appears to have been the year of movies inspired by actual people and events.

Has there been a more riveting heavyweight champion than Mike Tyson? We won’t presume to know the answer to the question of his ultimate ranking among boxing greats. That’s best left to sports experts and pundits, but we’d be hard-pressed to name someone, boxer or otherwise, that is a more compelling figure.

Arguably the greatest comedian of the sound era, the Hollywood Foreign Press again got it right when they awarded Danny Kaye a Golden Globe in 1951 as Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for On the Riviera. Seldom seen since its initial release, it is one of Twentieth Century Fox’s best musicals.

Ayn Rand once worked as a stenographer at Paramount Pictures where her mentors were no less than Cecil B. deMille and Hal Wallis.