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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.

  THIS YEAR MARKS THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF SEPTEMBER 11 2001 when more than three thousand civilians were murdered by terrorists in the worst-ever attack on US soil. It's one of those times when we all remember what we were doing, when two planes were deliberately flown into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, one flew into the Pentagon and a fourth, bound for the White House, was forced to crash in Pennsylvania.

Jessica Chatain talks about presenting Al Pacino with the festival's Filmmaker Award.

To its credit, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave Elizabeth Taylor her first acting award before the Academy did, for one of her best performances in Suddenly Last Summer. The film has long been dismissed by critics, but it’s been a favorite of mine even though I had seen the original stage production (a two-hander under the title “Garden District” the other half was “Something Unspoken”) in which Anne Meacham played Catherine and became the toast of Broadway.

Gary Oldman introduced his newest film, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy to a delegation from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Venice Film Festival. Gary Oldman talking with HFPA members The British actor  portrays George Smiley, the lead character in John Le Carre’s 1974 cold war bestseller of the same title, a role previously played by Alec Guiness in a 1979 TV mini series.

Matt Damon loves Venice - but then, what's not to love?.