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GOLDEN GLOBES GIVES AWAY $2.8 MILLION IN SHOW PROCEEDS

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As the
host of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual grants dinner, Chelsea
Handler said she relished the chance to leave political talk aside for an
evening of good news.

“Let’s celebrate the three things Donald Trump
hates the most: Foreigners, the press and actually giving money to charity,”
Handler said Wednesday at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where more than a dozen
film and TV stars helped the group behind the Golden Globe Awards share
proceeds from the show with some 55 film schools and arts organizations.
Dustin Hoffman, Patrick Stewart, Robert
Pattinson, Ava DuVernay, Elizabeth Moss, Chrissy Metz, Bob Odenkirk, Anthony
Mackie and Mark Hamill were among the entertainers who appeared to discuss the
various charities that benefit from HFPA grants.
Stan Lee seemed to enjoy the spotlight,
playfully going off-script as he appeared alongside “Black Panther” star
Chadwick Boseman.
“I got news for you: I’m half deaf and half
blind, so forgive whatever I say,” the 94-year-old Marvel mastermind said as he
took the stage. “Chad is gonna be my crutch, so be kind to him. I need the
guy.”
They accepted a grant on behalf of California
Institute of the Arts and introduced a video about how the funds would support
aspiring filmmakers there.
“The best thing about it is I’m going to get
every single one of them to leave a space for a cameo for me,” said Lee, who
famously appears in every Marvel movie.
“The Big Sick” star Kumail Nanjiani and “I
Love Dick” star Kathryn Hahn bantered about mashing up their projects’ titles
before presenting grants to the Zimmer Children’s Museum and the Los Angeles
LGBT Center’s young filmmaker’s program.
“This is the worst segue of all time,”
Nanjiani said. “A bunch of penis jokes and then here’s…”
“Children,” Hahn said, laughing.
Hoffman announced a grant to the Film
Foundation, Martin Scorsese’s film restoration and preservation effort. Hoffman
said HFPA has given more than $5 million to the organization to date, financing
the restoration of 90 films.
Stewart, who presented a gift to Film Aid,
which screens movies in refugee camps, said he was unaware of the HFPA’s
philanthropy until he was asked to appear Wednesday. The group has given more
than $30 million over the past 25 years.
“It is truly remarkable, and I commend it,”
Stewart said.
Pattinson presented a $200,000 donation to the
Committee to Protect Journalists, which Meryl Streep mentioned in her Golden
Globes acceptance speech earlier this year. Hamill announced a $2 million
endowment for University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts,
adding that his daughter Chelsea is a magna cum laude alumna.
Other beneficiaries of HFPA grants include
Ghetto Film School, the Lollipop Theater Network, Global Girl Media, American
Film Institute, Inner City Arts and the Sundance Institute.
The celebrity presenters handed out $2.8
million in grants during the hourlong ceremony; each onstage for less than two
minutes.

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