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(If you missed yesterday's profile of Mr. Seymour Hoffman in The Times, you missed a darn fine portrait, btw. ) Terrence Howard, a Globe best actor dude and one of the bright spots in this year's swanning about, claimed space on the dance floor during "Funkytown," spending some quality time with fellow actor Gabrielle Union.

Form: For Mystic River: best actor (drama), Golden Globes; best actor nomination, Baftas.

In the Globes' best director category, nominations went to Peter Jackson for "King Kong," and to Mr. Allen, Mr. Clooney, Mr. Lee, Mr. Meirelles and Mr. Spielberg for their films.

The movie about two cowboys who find an unexpected and enduring love, which had seven nominations, ended up with four Golden Globes: best picture, best director for Ang Lee, best screenplay and best original song for A Love That Will Never Grow Old.

"I go to more parties this week than I do all year," Jack Black, a Globes best actor nominee for the dark comedy "Bernie," said at a brunch on Saturday in honor of the Independent Spirit Awards (where he is also a nominee).

"It's really lousy," said Scott Rudin, a producer who has credits on "There Will Be Blood" and "No Country for Old Men," both of which have been nominated for the Golden Globes' best drama award.

The Globes' best drama and best director nomination for Affleck also represents a vindication: his Hollywood career looked disastrously derailed after his widely ridiculed celebrity romance with Jennifer Lopez in the early noughties, but he since re-established himself as a serious-minded film-maker with Gone Baby Gone and The Town.

Elsewhere, in the Globes' best picture (drama) list, there is the quasi-Fritzl drama Room, and also the rather worthy and for my money rather overvalued Spotlight, the story of investigative journalists tackling the issue of paedophilia in the Catholic church.

Mr. Spielberg received a nomination for directing "Munich," and Ziyi Zhang was nominated for her role in "Memoirs of a Geisha," but neither film was nominated in the Globes' best-picture categories.

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