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With Thanksgiving and the holiday season approaching, most Americans are planning parties and celebrations. But not Janet Jackson.

Actress Rachel McAdams, whose latest film Morning Glory was screened for the HFPA this week, has revealed how she was told to stop making 'stupid movies' by an immigration official as she tried to enter America. The 31-year-old Canadian born star, who will be meeting HFPA members in New York this weekend, was also criticised for her pink hair colour by the abusive agent.

Previous recipient Barbra Streisand On Tuesday, November 9, Golden Globe Award nominated actor, Kevin Spacey will announce the recipient of the Cecil B. deMille Award.

  Martin Scorsese has flown from London where he is filming the 3D mystery movie Hugo Cabret to unveil the digitally restored copy of Federico Fellini’s La dolce vita at the Rome film festival. The restoration of the 1960 classic movie, which starred Anita Ekberg, was made possible by Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, to which the HFPA has contributed nearly two million dollars.

When former Friends star Courtney Cox decided to talk for the first time about her struggle to deal with her recent separation from her husband of 11 years David Arquette, she chose to meet and discuss it with the Hollywood Foreign Press. “He’s a kook,” she said of her husband, who revealed to Howard Stern that he had cried after he had sex with another woman after separating from Cox.

Now filming has wrapped on the last of the Harry Potter films and with Part One of The Deathly Hallows due for release on the 19th of this month, Daniel Radcliffe has talked of the cast's tearful farewells on the last day of shooting. “I was devastated and so upset that I cried,” he told HFPA members.

Dexter star Michael C. Hall has revealed that being nominated for a Golden Globe award prompted him to announce that he was suffering from cancer.

Trademark Films and The Weinstein Company have announced that principal photography has started on My Week with Marilyn for seven weeks at Pinewood Studios and on location in and around London. Michelle Williams who got a Golden Globe nomination for her supporting role in Brokeback Mountain (2006) plays Marilyn Monroe.

The Golden Globes on HiIary Swank's bookshelf remind her daily of her good fortune in being offered such powerful, award-winning roles. "I look at my Golden Globes and other awards on my bookshelf as I walk by them every day and I'm in awe of the fact that I get the opportunities to play such rich, deep emotional people," she told HFPA members when she met them at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills recently.

The Kennedy Center will present its 13th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Tina Fey on Nov. 8 in Washington.