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Philip W. Berk (born February 13, 1933) is an American former film industry executive, journalist, and film critic. [1] He served for eight years as president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and served as an influential member of the organization for several decades. Berk was accused of sexually assaulting actor Brendan Fraser in 2003.
Former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Philip Berk has been expelled after the outcry over a leaked email recently sent to members with a post describing Black Lives Matter as a ...
Hollywood Foreign Press Association building facade in West Hollywood, Ca. The association was founded in 1943, [9] by Los Angeles-based foreign journalists who wanted a more organized distributing process for cinema news to non-U.S. markets.
In 2018, Fraser said publicly that, at a luncheon in 2003, he had been sexually assaulted by Philip Berk, the then-president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the nonprofit organization that votes for the Golden Globe Awards. Berk described Fraser's account as a "total fabrication", but in his 2014 memoir, he acknowledged ...
In 2018, Fraser revealed to GQ that he had allegedly been groped by former HFPA president, Philip Berk, years earlier in 2003. (Berk denied Fraser's allegations.) ... "I have more history with the ...
Last year’s award show was made a ‘private event’ at the last minute by organisers, following heavy criticism over its lack of black members.
In 2011, three days before the Golden Globe Awards telecast, publicist Michael Russell filed a $2 million lawsuit alleging that HFPA President Philip Berk terminated Russell and his partner's contract after the 2010 broadcast because they raised ethical concerns over payola with him, including allegations that HFPA members took bribes for ...
To stay quiet just isn't an option -- "I can't not speak up," she said -- but she's well aware that other Hollywood figures keep mum about their politics. "I think they're afraid," she said.