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Natalie Portman, who portrays a ballerina in her new film Black Swan, had ten years to think about the role. The director Darren Aronofsky first discussed it with her in 2000, she told HFPA members when she met with them to talk about the movie.

"I have two dogs, one I like that likes me and one I don't like that doesn't like me. One is a little mutt that thinks he's the sole protector of my nine-year-old son and at night when we're in my son's bed trying to get him to put his head down and go to sleep, every time I reach for my son, the little mutt tries to bite me.

I have had a dog now for 12 years. Her name is Minnie.

The HFPA today filed a lawsuit accusing Dick Clark Productions, which has produced the Golden Globe Awards show since 1982, of identity theft and breach of contract. The lawsuit was filed after it was discovered that DCP had negotiated its own agreement with NBC without the HFPA's knowledge.

Ronni Chasen with director Danny Boyle While police were taking computer hard drives, compact discs and boxes of files from the home and office of slain Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen in search of clues, a fellow publicist was establishing a reward fund for information leading to an arrest and conviction related to her death. Michael Levine says his goal is to raise $25,000 in the next week.

Police are investigating the death of Ronni Chasen, 64, a longtime Hollywood publicist with strong ties to the Hollywood Foreign Press, who was found shot in her car in Beverly Hills. Authorities said she had multiple gunshot wounds.

Ronni Chasen, a longtime Hollywood publicist with strong ties to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was shot to death today in Beverly Hills, California. She was 64.

There's a good reason why double Golden Globe winner Kevin Costner hasn't been seen on the big screen for a while. "What I've been doing for the past four years is having babies, building, writing a lot of music and writing screenplays," the 55-year-old actor tells Hollywood Foreign Press members.

A fifth Indiana Jones adventure is in the offing, Harrison Ford has told the HFPA. "George Lucas is working on a germ of an idea," the actor revealed when he met with members in New York to talk about his new movie Morning Glory.

"Monkey die, everybody cry. " Legendary Italian film producer, Dino De Laurentiis, explaining why he approved of the death of Hollywood's most beloved primate in the classic film King Kong.