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Uggie, the Jack Russell terrier from The Artist, with his owner Omar Von Muller.

Undoubtedly one of the silliest and most light-hearted awards shows in Hollywood history, the first annual Golden Collar Awards, brainchild of Alan Siskind of dognewsdaily. com, were held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.

HFPA member PHILIP BERK interviewed Whitney Houston 16 years ago for Waiting to Exhale. This is what he wrote at the time: Photo: Theo Kingma     "She's charming, she’s witty, she’s bright, she’s smart, she’s funny, and she’s grounded.

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  Some of us get to lie in bed and work – particularly if you are Golden Globe winner Colin Farrell, who talked with HFPA members on location for his latest movie, Seven Psychopaths, which reteams the actor with his In Bruges director/writer, Martin McDonagh. In the movie, a visual love story to the City of Angels that includes locations in downtown, the desert and the Hollywood Sign, Farrell portrays a struggling screenwriter who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles underworld after his friends (Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken) kidnap a gangster’s (Woody Harrelson) Shih Tzu.

Reese Witherspoon stars in This Means War.

The Harry Potter star takes on new roles.

  Australian filmmaker and deep-sea diver Andrew Wight, who met with the HFPA last year to discuss his 3D film Sanctum, has died in a helicopter crash on the south coast of Australia. Wight, 52, worked closely with Oscar-winning director James Cameron, who co-produced Sanctum with him.

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