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Despite her Academy Award nominated role in Frozen River, actress Melissa Leo is not - yet - a household name. That's a pity considering her enormous talent, but chances are that is all about to change very soon.

Since finishing his latest film, The Fighter, Christian Bale has let his hair grow down to his shoulders and has grown a full moustache and beard. "You're looking at unemployment," he joked with HFPA members.

TRON: Legacy beauty Olivia Wilde went through an intense course of martial arts training while keeping to a strict diet for her role as the warrior Quorra in the high-tech adventure. "I had never done anything as physical as this film and it required more than I ever expected," she told HFPA members when she met them at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills.

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.