Sky News - Artist, Descendants score top Globe wins, Jan 16, 2012

"Guy Pearce missed out on a Golden Globe, but he was one of the lucky few inside the Beverly Hilton Hotel who escaped the acid tongue of the award show's host, Ricky Gervais.
The British comedian, who caused a firestorm while hosting last year's Golden Globes ceremony with barbs aimed at the A-List audience, lived up to his vow to do a repeat performance on Sunday.
'Be honest. Are you on recreational drugs?' Gervais asked Johnny Depp early in the ceremony before targeting Madonna, Natalie Portman, Helen Mirren, Colin Firth, Elton John, Salma Hayek and many others."
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INDIE Wire - Top Awards at the 2012 Palm Springs Film Festival Include 'Starbuck' and 'The House', Jan 16, 2012

"At the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards, French-language sperm donor comedy "Starbuck" won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, while "The Girls in the Band" and "Wish Me Away" tied for the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Directed by Ken Scott, "Starbuck" is a Canadian production that centers on a class action suit filed by 142 adults against their prolific sperm donor dad.
Directed by Judy Chaikin, "The Girls in the Band" is about the hidden history of women jazz musicians, while Bobbi Birleffii and Beverly Kopf's "Wish Me Away" profiles singer-songwriter Chely Wright, a devout Christian who also happens to be a lesbian."
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Mildred Baena: Mother of MAIL Online - Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child divorces husband, Jan 16, 2012

"The mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger's illegitimate teenage son has finally divorced her husband of 14 years.
Mildred Patricia Baena, 50, was granted a divorce from Rogelio de Jesus Baena, nearly four years after she originally filed papers requesting their marriage be terminated.
According to TMZ.com the actor's former housekeeper filed for a default judgement on January 3 and it was granted the same day. "
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Financial Times - Veteran Spanish politician Fraga dies, Jan 16, 2012

"Manuel Fraga, a right-wing Spanish politician who successfully straddled the Franco era and the liberal democracy launched after the dictator’s death, died on Sunday night at the age of 89.
Fraga was best known in recent years as the éminence grise of the centre-right Popular party, the precursor of which he founded in 1976 during the political transition after Franco’s demise. The PP is now in power under Mariano Rajoy, prime minister, after defeating the Socialists in the November general election."
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LA Times - Charles Price II obituary: Reagan's ambassador to Belgium and Britain dies at 80, Jan 16, 2012

"Charles Price II, a banking executive who ran his family's Midwestern candy company before serving as U.S. ambassador to Belgium and then Britain, has died. He was 80.
Price died Thursday at his home in Indian Wells, Calif., family spokesman Michael Landes told the Associated Press. A cause was not released."
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