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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has always believed that preserving the world’s film heritage is a cultural mission of vital importance and film restoration efforts have always been a primary beneficiary of HFPA grants. That mission continued this year with a donation of $350,000 to the Film Foundation, which was accepted at the HFPA’s Installation and Grants lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel by Steven Spielberg.

Marilyn Monroe received her first Golden Globe in a ceremony at the Club Del Mar, Santa Monica California, in 1952, when she was 25 years old. More accurately it was the Henrietta award, an almost two foot tall statuette of a woman, but named after a man, Henry Gris, one of the first presidents of the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood, a predecessor of the HFPA.

Their impact on American popular music is undeniable and The Beatles were honored with a star-studded tribute on Monday night (January 27). “The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles” took over the Los Angeles Convention Center as Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr teamed up with a plethora of today’s top musicians for a special taping of a show that will air on CBS February 9 – 50 years to the day McCartney, Starr and the late John Lennon and George Harrison debuted on the Ed Sullivan show.

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The man speaking is a hood who comes to retrieve his lost bag of money, and 'Tiger', the woman he is talking to, is the one who found the bag and won't let go. And you know right away that you are in film noir territory, where the women are indeed beautiful, and smart, and hard.

Producing movies, his own way, was Saul Zaentz's third career. And it was richly rewarded, in money and fame, including two Best Motion Picture - Drama Golden Globe awards: Amadeus (1985) was nominated in 6 categories and won Best Motion Picture - Drama for Zaentz, as well as Best Director (Milos Forman) and screenplay (Peter Shaffer) and The English Patient (1996) brought Zaentz his second Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama, and another one for his composer, Gabriel Yared.

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Hollywood lost one of its screen legends this past weekend when Joan Fontaine died at 96. The Academy Award-winning actress found stardom with roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion and Rebecca and also worked with directors such as Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, and Nicholas Ray.