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Congratulations to HFPA member Juliette Michaud, whose magnificent coffee table book, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, has just been published in the U. S.

The 16th Film Noir Festival opened in Hollywood with a screening of the 1949 film Too Late for Tears, which was restored with the help of financial support from the HFPA. Eddie Muller, the FNF President, acknowledged the contribution of the HFPA in a brief talk before the screening at the historic Egyptian Theater.

Danish director Gabriel Axel, a Golden Globe nominee for his Babette's Feast, has died aged 95. His was one of seven Golden Globes nominations garnered by Denmark over the years, from The Word, the winner in 1956, to Susanne Bier's In a Better World, the 2011 winner.

Yoram Kahana (left) with Film Noir Foundation founder Eddie MullerBy Yoram Kahana The HFPA, which has been supporting film restoration for many years, last year gave a grant to a very specialized restoration-minded organization: the Film Noir Foundation, a San Francisco based non-profit dedicated to the research, restoration and showing of this most American of film genres. Film noir, in the words of one historian, is made of.

A Golden Globe winner 48 years ago, the prolific Italian soundtrack compose r Riz Ortolani has died at his villa outside Rome. He was 87.

Picture: AP. Golden Globe winner Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of an apparent drug overdose — in the bathroom with a hypodermic needle still in his arm — say New York police.

Two time Golden Globe winner Maximilian Schell has died at the age of 83. The Austrian actor, who died at a clinic in Innsbruck, was nominated four times and won twice, for best actor in the 1961 movie Judgement at Nuremberg and in 1963 for best supporting actor as Lenin in the TV miniseries Stalin.

One of the charities to which the HFPA regularly donates is the Pablove Foundation, whose Pablove Shutterbugs program teaches children living with cancer to develop their creative voice through the art of photography. This year Anthony, one of the students, was given a spot on the red carpet at the Golden Globes to get some close-up pictures of the stars.

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