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Japanese comedian Nozomu Sato can relate. The unlikely Obama impersonator has become a star in his own right, despite not knowing who Obama was 10 months ago. "I thought he was a pro wrestler or a fighter or something," Sato told TIME last month...
...year later the new group bestowed its first set of awards. During an informal ceremony at 20th Century Fox, The Song of Bernadette was named "Best Film," and its star, Jennifer Jones, "Best Actress." The following year marked the group's first gala social event, when Leo McCarey's Going My Way was named the best film of 1944. In 1950, the organization split momentarily into two competing groups - the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association and the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood. By the time these factions reunited as the HFPA in 1955, the Golden Globes looked very much as they...
...other observers who - glitz and glamour of the Globes aside - question the veracity of the HFPA. Numerous entertainment writers have challenged the group's diversity, its members' qualifications as journalists, and their attentiveness in screening every major contender. There's also the charge that the group votes based on star caliber, and not film quality - celebrating the A-list more than encouraging the B-list. The journalists may be foreign, but the agenda seems strictly Hollywood...
While the Harvard women’s ice hockey team may be experiencing some unexpected struggles out of the gates, with a 4-4-3 record to start this season, a star and team leader has quietly emerged in junior defenseman Cori Bassett. The Anchorage, Alaska native ranks fourth for the Crimson with eight points so far this season (three goals, five assists) in 11 games played, already surpassing her six-point output (three goals, three assists) in 34 games played all of last year...
...John F. Kennedy's daughter, of course, would bring considerable star power to the job at a time when Paterson needs all the help in Washington he can get to win federal funds for the state's beleaguered budget. But whoever takes Clinton's seat would have to face voters in 2010, to fill out Clinton's term, and again in 2012, for re-election. And Kennedy, who has never run for office, may not be the strongest candidate against a tough Republican challenger. A Caroline Kennedy appointment "is fifty-fifty at best," says political consultant Hank Sheinkopf, a spokesman...