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Since she erupted onto international consciousness and cinema screens in Mike Leigh’s Happy Go Lucky in 2008, Sally Hawkins has become synonymous with a kind of lightness and ease that belies serious insight and wisdom. That role won her a Golden Globe as best comedy actress, as well as multiple other awards.

The woman is standing with her daughter in her arms, her son by her side. The officer walks up to her and tells her how beautiful she is, that he’d like to get her in bed.

It has been a good year for seasoned actors. Dame Judi Dench has given us, at age 79, another heartbreaking performance as a mother in search of her son in Philomena.

Champagne will be flowing freely at this year's Golden Globe awards. Guests will be toasting the 71st awards show with  125 cases of 2004 Grand Vintage Brut magnums, one of which will be on every table.

Hilton executive chef Suki Sugiura's menu for the 1,500 Golden Globe guests is inspired by California's fresh produce while celebrating the global reach of the Hollywood Foreign Press. "It's a thrill to put together the menu again for the Golden Globe awards," he said, introducing the menu to scores of journalists, food writers and cameramen at the Hilton.

With a little over a week to go until the Golden Globe awards, preparations are well underway and excitement is building. Journalists, cameramen and television crews jostled for space in a packed ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel as plans for the Big Night were unveiled for the first time.

The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards menu was revealed today at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The press crammed into the Ballroom as Executive Chefs demonstrated the cuisine that was inspired by the tropics and which highlighted an explosion of variations of gold.

"In Hollywood they believe I’m retired. Even my agents think so.

It’s been twenty years since Julia Louis-Dreyfus was first nominated for a Golden Globe award. At that time in 1994, she was thirty-something and played a neurotic but intelligent and assertive Elaine Benes on Seinfeld, the hit show that became a cultural phenomenon.

While the glamour of the Golden Globes is being beamed around the world, on NBC January 12th, stars will be slipping away during the commercial breaks to sip The Moet Golden Night, a cocktail created specifically for the Golden Globe Lounge – a new introduction for the 71st Golden Globe awards. For the refreshing concoction of Moet et Chandon Champagne splashed with a hint of pear, creator, chef and author Aida Mollenkamp, wanted to maintain the sparkling golden hues that celebrate the effervescence of the Globes, while teasing the palate.