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...Monday, NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), Globes producer Dick Clark Productions and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) feverishly tried to cut a deal that would have allowed the Globes to go forward without forcing actors to cross picket lines to make their acceptance speeches. But talks broke down over NBC's plan to supplement the press conference with a clips reel, a special episode of Dateline using already taped actors' interviews and an Access Hollywood-style broadcast from the after-parties with casual acceptance speeches from the revelers...
...Hermanson said that writers won't picket the shrunken Globes if the press conference goes off without a red carpet, presentations or acceptance speeches. However the Guild is in the process of procuring a permit to picket the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the Globes take place, and advising its members to be ready to walk...
...Public Relations, a firm that represents a long list of nominees including Ellen Page, Casey Affleck, Tim Burton, America Ferrera, Mary-Louise Parker and Kyra Sedgwick, said, "I will certainly encourage our nominees to attend and hope other? publicists do the same." The announcement of the press conference format changed Bush's plans...
...Even if the writers don't picket, the press conference format raises all sorts of questions for the nominees, say their publicists. Do you attend a press conference for an award you may lose? What do you wear to a press conference? Isn't it tacky to borrow tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewels when people have lost their jobs? Part of the fun of the Golden Globes in the past has been the spontaneity of an event put on by journalists rather than producers, but this Golden Globes may be just too unscripted for actors to handle...
...began the political career of the 19-year-old chairman of Pakistan's main opposition party, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). In his first full press conference since the Dec. 27 assassination of his mother, Benazir Bhutto, Bhutto Zardari laid out his plan to finish his three-year history degree at Christ Church College, Oxford and then enter politics, asserting that his lineage makes him a natural future leader of Pakistan...