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Mila Kunis, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actress for "Black Swan", said to HFPA journalists: "Going into the ballet world, I personally didn't know what to expect. I found that they are the most competitive, most brutal group of ladies I've ever met in my life, truly they are ruthless.

Melissa Leo, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actress for “The Fighter”, said to HFPA journalists: "I think that women being engaged and participating in boxing is a modern day kind of thing, that quite frankly, for my money, comes after Alice Ward's time. When she was doing it, it was strictly a men's game; so the world has come a long way.

Geoffrey Rush, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actor for "The King's Speech", said to HFPA journalists: "Director Tom Hooper said something quite wonderful, that you don't have to be a stammerer to get the theme of the film, because that is just the dramatic device. The metaphor is: How do we find our better selves? That should be our life's goal, and falling short of that is what keeps us human, because unless you're Gandhi or a Tibetan Buddhist monk, I don’t think you ever reach a state of complete perfect being.

Jeremy Renner, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actor for “The Town”, said to HFPA journalists about his director: "Ben Affleck is a man who is without ego, as smart and as charming as they come. He made me want to be the best I could be for his movie and he gave me every resource I needed to do the job.

Michael Douglas, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actor for "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps", said to HFPA journalists: "If I look at this picture, to me it's almost like an operetta, on a larger than life stage, it’s wonderfully dramatic and surprisingly shows a lot of heart, compared to most of Oliver Stone's pictures. And with everybody screwing everybody else in this picture, my daughter included, I'd like to believe that there is a positive and hopeful ending.

Helena Bonham Carter, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actress for “The King's Speech”, said to HFPA journalists: ""Everyone's got an opinion about the Queen Mother, because she's so well known, but my job I guess was to get beneath her public front of amazing sweetness, because underneath she was a very powerful and strong woman. Royal photographer Cecil Beaton described her as a marshmallow, but made with a welding machine, and I felt like I wanted to capture that duality.

Ricky Gervais will use his trip to next month's Golden Globes to fit in some movie work as well. The British comedian, who will be hosting the awards show for the second year running, will shoot a walk-on part in Disney's new Muppets movie the day before the show.

Over forty kites and twenty plus pairs of boxing gloves will soon be on their way to Cuba thanks to the generosity of some Hollywood Foreign Press members.      The kites and gloves were sent to journalists as movie-related promotional items and are now being passed on to young people in Cuba, where they are in great demand but not easily available.

  During 1979 interviews by the Hollywood Foreign Press with director Blake Edwards and his wife, actress Julie Andrews, for the movie 10 starring Dudley Moore and Bo Derek, HFPA correspondent Elisa Leonelli from Italy asked: What are the advantages and disadvantages of working with your husband? Julie Andrews:  It’s the best way to work, for me at least, because he’s the easiest man to work with.  Obviously I can ask him anything I want and we can talk about it after work; so the advantages are tremendous.

"What an incredible morning!  I'm so honored and appreciative to the Hollywood Foreign Press for recognizing my performance in Covert Affairs.  Im so thankful to Doug Liman, Matt Corman and Chris Ord for creating such a strong and incredible character.