Second writers' deal for Golden Globes?
LOS ANGELES -- The sponsor of Hollywood's Golden Globe film and television awards said Wednesday it has begun talks with TV writers aimed at allowing its honors to be broadcast as planned despite the ongoing screenwriters strike.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said it began discussions with the Writers Guild of America on Dec. 29 to get an "interim agreement" similar to the one David Letterman's company, Worldwide Pants, reached with the WGA to put "The Late Show With David Letterman" back on the air.
"We feel that the 'Late Show With David Letterman' agreement is very reasonable and hope and expect the WGA will agree to the same terms," association President Jorge Camara said in a statement.
Camara said an "interim agreement" would allow the Golden Globe Awards to be broadcast on the NBC TV network on Jan. 13, "as scheduled, without picket lines."
The Golden Globe Awards are one of Hollywood's biggest ceremonies leading up the world's top film honors, the Oscars, which are given out in February.
Top film and TV stars turn out for the Golden Globe Awards, but this year, with Hollywood's screenwriters on strike, many stars have been wavering on whether to appear and cross WGA picket lines. The WGA said last month it would not allow union members to write material for the ceremony.
The roughly 10,500 WGA members have been on strike against major film studios and U.S. TV networks since November over issues including fees paid to them for work that is distributed on DVD and potential profits made from work appearing on the Internet.
Eddie Murphy celebrated New Year's Day by tying the knot with film producer Tracey Edmonds. The pair exchanged vows Tuesday on a private island off Bora Bora in French Polynesia in front of a small group of family and friends, their representatives told People magazine. A call to Murphy's publicist, Arnold Robinson, wasn't immediately returned early Wednesday. Murphy and Edmonds began dating last year. They were engaged in July. Murphy, 46, has five children from his marriage to Nicole Mitchell Murphy, who filed for divorce in 2005. He also has a daughter with Spice Girls singer Melanie Brown. Edmonds, 40, has two sons from her 13-year marriage to Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.
Diane Keaton says she planned to wait until she was in a "strong and substantive" relationship before becoming a mother -- but that never happened for her. "Motherhood was not an urge I couldn't resist, it was more like a thought I'd been thinking for a very long time," says Keaton, who celebrates her 62nd birthday Saturday. "So I plunged in." The Oscar-winning actress, whose past romantic partners include Woody Allen and Warren Beatty, adopted daughter Dexter, now 12, and son Duke, 7. "I've had such an unusual life. Obviously career-oriented. I was happy to be a daughter well into my 40s. That was something that meant a lot to me," Keaton tells Ladies' Home Journal in its February issue, on newsstands next Tuesday. "I didn't think that I was ever going to be prepared to be a mother."