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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 4 august 2017
Golden Globes group gives away $2.8M in show proceeds

By SANDY COHEN the 94-year-old Marvel
AP Entertainment Writer mastermind said as he took
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. the stage. “Chad is gonna
(AP) — As the host of the be my crutch, so be kind to
Hollywood Foreign Press him. I need the guy.”
Association’s annual grants They accepted a grant on
dinner, Chelsea Handler behalf of California Institute
said she relished the of the Arts and introduced
chance to leave political a video about how the
talk aside for an evening of funds would support
good news. aspiring filmmakers there.
“Let’s celebrate the three “The best thing about it
things Donald Trump hates is I’m going to get every
the most: Foreigners, the single one of them to leave
press and actually giving a space for a cameo
money to charity,” Handler for me,” said Lee, who
said Wednesday at the famously appears in every
Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Marvel movie.
where more than a dozen “The Big Sick” star Kumail
film and TV stars helped the Nanjiani and “I Love Dick”
group behind the Golden star Kathryn Hahn bantered
Globe Awards share about mashing up their
proceeds from the show projects’ titles before
with some 55 film schools presenting grants to the
and arts organizations. Zimmer Children’s Museum
Dustin Hoffman, Patrick and the Los Angeles LGBT Chelsea Handler speaks at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Grants Banquet at the Beverly
Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Center’s young filmmaker’s Wilshire Hotel on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Ava DuVernay, Elizabeth program. Associated Press
Moss, Chrissy Metz, Bob “This is the worst segue of
Odenkirk, Anthony Mackie all time,” Nanjiani said. “A
and Mark Hamill were bunch of penis jokes and of 90 films. Stewart, who $200,000 donation to the laude alumna.
among the entertainers then here’s...” presented a gift to Film Committee to Protect Other beneficiaries of HFPA
who appeared to discuss “Children,” Hahn said, Aid, which screens movies Journalists, which Meryl grants include Ghetto
the various charities that laughing. in refugee camps, said Streep mentioned in Film School, the Lollipop
benefit from HFPA grants. Hoffman announced he was unaware of the her Golden Globes Theater Network, Global
Stan Lee seemed to enjoy a grant to the Film HFPA’s philanthropy until acceptance speech Girl Media, American Film
the spotlight, playfully going Foundation, Martin he was asked to appear earlier this year. Hamill Institute, Inner City Arts and
off-script as he appeared Scorsese’s film restoration Wednesday. The group has announced a $2 million the Sundance Institute.
alongside “Black Panther” and preservation effort. given more than $30 million endowment for University The celebrity presenters
star Chadwick Boseman. Hoffman said HFPA has over the past 25 years. of Southern California’s handed out $2.8 million in
“I got news for you: I’m given more than $5 million “It is truly remarkable, and I School of Cinematic Arts, grants during the hourlong
half deaf and half blind, to the organization to date, commend it,” Stewart said. adding that his daughter ceremony; each onstage
so forgive whatever I say,” financing the restoration Pattinson presented a Chelsea is a magna cum for less than two minutes.q

Gore wants ‘Inconvenient Sequel’

ideas to follow people home

By MARCELA ISAZA vehicles and Donald Trump the climate crisis is tempt-
Associated Press in the White House. ed in some dark moments
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) Gore, 69, has championed to despair but it doesn’t last
— Al Gore is back in the- environmental causes for long for me. Despair is just
aters talking about climate more than 40 years. In an another form of denial,”
change, and he’s hoping interview last week with The said Gore. “We don’t have
some of his ideas will make Associated Press, he said time for it, we have work to
it into people’s homes as he’s felt hopeless and disil- do and the basis for hope
well. lusioned about reversing is real and authentic. The This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Al Gore in “An
The former vice president climate change at times, solutions are here. Electric- Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.”
stars in “An Inconvenient but never for very long. ity from solar and wind is Associated Press
Sequel: Truth to Power,” One of those moments now getting cheaper than difference when you look to check out solutions
which is a follow-up to the came recently when Trump electricity from fossil fuels at the world’s overall crisis, on “An Inconvenient Se-
2006 Oscar-winning docu- announced the U.S. would and we are seeing a huge but Gore assures it helps. quel’s” website , which in-
mentary about his efforts to pull out of the Paris Climate switch in that direction.” “Well somebody once cludes tips on items to buy
combat climate change. Accord, a cause Gore Small adjustments at home said, we don’t have a silver at the grocery store that
Gore was a few years re- championed. Throughout include switching to LED bullet but we do have silver are more climate friendly,
moved from narrowly los- his promotion of “An Incon- light bulbs, or keeping the buckshot. All of these solu- home energy-saving tips
ing the presidency at the venient Sequel,” Gore has thermostat slightly warmer tions add up. Actually they and links to carbon-cutting
time. The sequel arrives in a said he feels more optimis- in the summer and cool- are beginning to,” said projects worldwide that
new world of smart homes, tic now. er in the winter might not Gore. people can invest in for as
mass-produced electric “Anybody who works on seem like it makes a big He encouraged people little as $6.q