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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced a donation of a quarter of a million dollars to the International Rescue Committee to help aid relief in Japan following the devastating 8. 9 earthquake and tsunami.

On Sunday March 13, 2011 the 32nd annual Young Artist Awards were held in Studio City, California. This year’s winners in the Feature Film categories include Joey King (“Ramona and Beezus”) for Best Leading Young Actress 10 and under, and for Young Ensemble Cast:Laine MacNeil, Robert Capron and Karan Brar ("Diary of a Wimpy Kid”).

Yesterday, a reader pointed out why this blog did not link to any organizations which help the people of Japan following the devastating 8. 9 earthquake and tsunami.

From the vaults: Arriving at the 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards in 2002, Robert Altman explains his filmmaking philosophy.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and noted author of such literary classics as Love In The Time Of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude, never wanted to be a writer, according to his brother. Instead 83-year-old Marquez longed to be a filmmaker but never achieved his ambition, his brother Jaime told Hollywood Foreign Press members on a visit to Cartagena.

The HFPA asks Bradley Cooper to discuss which actor he has worked with that made him raise his own game.

The HFPA asks Aaron Eckhart to discuss which actor he has worked with that made him raise his own game.

"COME BACK TO THE FIVE & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN" RESTORED WITH HFPA FUNDING Cher always considered it her best work in film, still a trove full of her fondest memories as an actress. On March 3rd, 2011, 7:30 pm, at the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum, UCLA Film & Television Archive will present the restored version of Robert Altman's 1982 classic "Come to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean", his big screen adaptation of Ed Graczyk's play.

On March 3rd, 2011, 7:30 pm, at the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum, UCLA Film & Television Archive will present the restored version of Robert Altman's 1982 classic "Come to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean", his big screen adaptation of Ed Graczyk's play. The film, beautifully polished and re-mastered thanks to the generous funding of Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation and The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, is part of the 2011 UCLA Festival of Preservation.

On March 3rd, 2011, 7:30 pm, at the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum, UCLA Film & Television Archive will present the restored version of Robert Altman's 1982 classic "Come to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean", his big screen adaptation of Ed Graczyk's play. The film, beautifully polished and re-mastered thanks to the generous funding of Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation and The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, is part of the 2011 UCLA Festival of Preservation.