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From Daily Variety, September 23:   O'Reilly: HFPA chief dedicated to empowerment Women's Impact Report 2011: Aida Takla O'Reilly By Kathy A. McDonald  Aida Takla O'Reilly  Aida Takla O'Reilly, the newly elected president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.

Madonna the filmmaker talks about directing and her latest film, W. E.

As Harry Connick jr talks about the film, Winter and her trainer Abby show us how the dolphin swims with her prosthetic tail.

Miss Golden Globe of 2003, Andy Garcia's daughter Dominik Garcia-Lorido, is one of the stars of the new TV show Magic City whom HFPA members met when they visited the set in Miami. Dominik, 28, co-stars with  Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olga Kurylenko, Danny Huston and Kelly Lynch in the series, which is set in Miami Beach in 1958-59.

Currently starring in The Skin I Live In, the Spanish actor talks about working with Pedro Almodovar and why he likes the Toronto Film Festival.

HFPA members were the guests of Sony Pictures Television on the set of the new Charlie’s Angels television show  in Miami, where they were greeted by the director and executive producer, Marcos Siega, who walked them through the set and described the show. “The mysterious Charlie sets up a mission and then sends the Angels to resolve it,” he says.

Visiting the set of the upcoming movie Dolphin Tale in the marine hospital in Clearwater, Florida, HFPA members were introduced to the star and the protagonist of the movie, Winter, the Dolphin whose tail had to be amputated and be replaced with a prosthetic one after sustaining an incurable injury in 2007. Dolphins swim by fluttering their tails vertically, up and down, but after losing her tail, Winter started to swim by wiggling her body horizontally in order to propel herself forward, which resulted in damaging her spine.

One of the social highlights of the Toronto film festival is the annual party thrown by InStyle magazine and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for filmmakers, actors and VIP guests at the Windsor Arms Hotel. This year the star-studded guest list included Jennifer Garner, Jessica Chastain, Katie Couric.

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - September 12, 2011 -The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and producer dick clark productions (dcp) bring "The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards" live on Sunday, January 15, 2012.

Hollywood Foreign Press members at the Toronto Film Festival chatted with Sam Childers, the real life Machine Gun Preacher who is portrayed by Gerard Butler in the film of the same name. The former drug addict biker-turned-preacher from Pennsylvania who runs an orphanage in Sudan confessed that when he met Butler he was not sure that the actor was the right man to play him on screen.