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Here is the 2nd of 5 excerpts from the HFPA exclusive interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking with him for more than an hour via skype from the Embassy of Ecuador in London, UK, where he currently resides in exile.

The HFPA landed a coup with an exclusive interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, talking with him for more than an hour via skype from the Embassy of Ecuador in London, UK, where he currently resides in exile. Here is the first of 5 excerpts from this interview.

  HFPA members landed a world exclusive interview when they talked by Skype with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the weekend. In a wide-ranging conversation Assange slammed the movie about him, The Fifth Estate, as "opportunistic and hostile," talked of his work, warned of the dangers posed by the American security complex and revealed that his family had received death threats.

  Neil Patrick Harris, best-known for his roles as Doogie Howser M. D and Barnabus "Barney" Stinson in the long running TV comedy series How I Met Your Mother, invited an HFPA delegation to the Mecca of the world’s magicians, the Magic Castle in Hollywood.

Liza Minnelli at the 2012 Broadway & Beyond!   Two legendary entertainers who have gathered a total of 16 Golden Globe nominations, combine forces to support the next generation of performers: Liza Minnelli will present the Annual Rolex Dance Award to Ann-Margret during the 28th Anniversary of Broadway & Beyond! on October 8 at the New York City Center, NY. Broadway & Beyond! raises funds for Career Transition For Dancers.

Oscar Isaac, who has the title role, rocks with Mumford and the Punch Brothers A roster of stellar musicians under the guidance of legendary music producer T-Bone Burnett performed a benefit concert for the movie Inside Llewyn Davis at the Town Hall in New York City and attended by a group of HFPA members. The film, written and directed by Ethan and Joel Coen and produced by Scott Rudin, follows the fictional out-of-luck folk singer Llewyn  Davis , played by Oscar Isaac, drifting through the New York Club scene of the 1960s.

As part of the special Round Table series, HFPA members recently met with the man who inspired the making of the upcoming Tom Hank’s film Captain Phillips, merchant mariner Richard Phillips, the former captain of the Maersk Alabama who was captured and held hostage when the ship was hijacked by Somali pirates in April 2009. After spending five days tied up in a small lifeboat with the hijackers, Capt.

Exclusive video: 4 time Golden Globe winner Tom Hanks talks about the heroic real life title character he plays in CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, director Paul Greengrass's gripping big screen adaptation of the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged cargo ship MV Maersk Alabama.

  Every year thousands of film fans, foodies--- and a few HFPA members---head to San Sebastian, drawn by a combination of an eclectic slate of movies at the annual film festival and more Michelin star restaurants per head than anywhere else in the world. Since moving its opening date to five days after the Toronto festival closes, San Sebastian has been enjoying a new prominence with a high profile selection of films, increased industry activities, stronger ties with Latin America, audience development and a growing presence of U.

On this exclusive video, James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, from the iconic heavy metal band Metallica, talk about their experimental narrative concert film Through the Never.