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Veteran actor ErnestBorgnine, who won a Golden Globe in 1956 and was nominated for another two years ago at the age of 91, is to receive the Screen Actors Guild's life achievement award. Borgnine, who won his best actor Globe for his performance in the movie Marty and was nominated again in 2008 for his role in the TV movie A Grandpa for Christmas, has appeared in more than 200 movies, five television series and dozens of made-for-TV films.

Golden Globe winner Tom Selleck stopped by the Hollywood Foreign Press offices in West Hollywood the other day to talk about his new television series Blue Bloods, which will be seen around the world. In it he plays Frank Reagan, the head of the New York Police Department as well as the patriarch of a multi-generational family of cops.

Golden Globe winner Drew Barrymore believes that being awarded the Globe at last year's ceremony for her role in the HBO television film Grey Gardens was one of the high points of her life. "I have never experienced anything like that, " she told Hollywood Foreign Press members when she met them recently at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.

“I don’t have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children but I don’t know what I did with it and I didn’t appreciate it.

Would-be gatecrashers hoping to outwit the tight security and mingle with the stars at the glittering Golden Globes award ceremony could find themselves in jail under a tough new law going before California's Legislature. If they are caught they could face up to six months in jail, a $1,000 fine or both.

Highlights from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association annual Installation Luncheon at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. The star-studded luncheon presented a record $1,541,000 in financial grants to 41 film schools and non-profit organizations.

2010 Installation Luncheon Media Coverage ( PDF ).

Nicole Kidman stopped off at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on her way home to Nashville to accept a check for $350,000 on behalf of the Film Foundation from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The donation was among more than $1.

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