Peter Dinklage Shouts Out Dwarf-Tossing Victim In Golden Globes Speech

Aspiring actor Martin Henderson was partially paralyzed after drunk stranger picked him up and threw him in U.K.
By Terri Schwartz


Peter Dinklage at the 2012 Golden Globes
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Peter Dinklage might have started off his Golden Globes acceptance speech Sunday night (January 15) with a charming anecdote about his mother telling him Guy Pearce was going to beat him for the best supporting TV actor award, but he ended it on a serious note. The "Game of Thrones" star gave a shout-out to fellow dwarf Martin Henderson but, rather then elaborating, he just said "Google him."

Within minutes, Henderson's name was a trending topic on Twitter. The aspiring actor was partially paralyzed on his birthday after a drunk stranger picked him up and threw him while he was having a cigarette outside a pub in the U.K. Henderson blames the English rugby team players who recently attended a dwarf-tossing contest during the rugby World Cup in New Zealand for inspiring the attack.

The Daily Mail reports that he now faces life in a wheelchair after the incident. Henderson was recovering from a 2010 back injury but has said that this injury has set him back in his recuperation. He went on to tell The Daily Mail that he believes this will affect his acting career.

"Every time I stand up I don't know if I'm going to fall over. I will have to use a wheelchair and I won't get any acting jobs," said Henderson, who has appeared in U.K. TV series "10th Kingdom" and "Bigger Breakfast."

British authorities are currently looking for the man who assaulted Henderson. The incident occurred on October 7, but Henderson's condition has reportedly worsened as the months have passed. He said that his legs became numb following the attack and that he now keeps falling over, even resulting in a recent fractured arm.

"I guess I was an easy target and the only reason I was picked on was because I am small," Henderson said in the interview. "People's attitudes to me when I go out can be pretty cruel. Most are OK but you get the odd idiot who will make fun and start laughing at me. You just have to ignore it, but this is the first time I have been picked up and thrown about."

Both Dinklage and Henderson suffer from achondroplasia, which causes dwarfirsm. Dinklage was likely trying to raise awareness for a cause that's close to his heart with the shout-out.

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Beyonce And Jay-Z Didn't Pay $1 Million For Hospital Floor

New York's Lenox Hill Hospital releases a statement denying reports that the couple rented an entire maternity floor.
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<P>Despite the many rumors about the lengths Beyoncé and Jay-Z went to for security and secrecy around the birth of daughter Blue Ivy Carter, New York hospital Lenox Hill says the superstar couple was treated with just as much care as all their patients. In a statement released Monday (January 9), hospital spokesman Frank Danza said he was "troubled by the misinformation being circulated in some news media reports" and denied the rumor that Bey and Jay paid more than $1 million to rent a floor of the hospital for the birth. "The suggestion that the couple paid $1.3 million to rent an entire maternity floor is simply not true. The family is housed in an executive suite at the hospital and is being billed the standard rate for those accommodations," Danza said in the statement. "Our executive suites are available for any patient, including the food service and amenities provided to the Carter family." <CENTER></CENTER> Speaking to the concerns over beefed-up security and whether the celebrity baby disturbed other patients, Danza insisted that although Beyoncé and Jay-Z had personal bodyguards, the hospital maintained control over the situation. "We have made every effort to ensure minimal disruption to other families experiencing the births of their own children over the past three days. No security plan that we or the Carters' security team put in place would have prevented or delayed families from gaining access to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit," Danza continued in the statement. "Lenox Hill Hospital takes patient privacy and safety very seriously. And while we congratulate the Carter family on the birth of their child, we value the loyalty of ALL our patients and always strive to ensure a positive experience, knowing that the birth of a child is a wonderful moment producing memories of a lifetime." While the baby was reportedly born late Saturday night, the couple just released an official birth announcement Monday. "Hello Hello Baby Blue," the Carters said in a statement to MTV News. "We are happy to announce the arrival of our beautiful daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, born on Saturday, January 7, 2012. Her birth was emotional and extremely peaceful, we are in heaven. She was delivered naturally at a healthy 7 lbs and it was the best experience of both of our lives."</p>

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Rihanna, Usher Added To Grammy Nominations Concert

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Golden Globes 2012 Predictions: Best Picture

'The Artist' and 'The Descendants' seem poised to take home top prizes, but MTV News has some different suggestions.
By Eric Ditzian


Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo in "The Artist"
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MTV News has already made its pick for the Best Movie of 2011. But "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," for some bizarre and troubling reason, didn't make the cut for the folks in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, even though 10 films were nominated across two categories.

Thus, tonight's Golden Globes celebration will not bestow its ultimate prize upon David Fincher's sizzling exploration of Swedish sex, psychology and sadism. But there remain many worthy contenders facing off on Globe night. Which films will triumph? Check out our picks and our unrealistic wishes below:

Best Picture - Musical or Comedy
We remain baffled by the adulation for "Midnight in Paris," a film whose fantastical exploration of Paris in the 1920s is more cliché-ridden than your average GOP primary stump speech. And how "My Week With Marilyn," despite an admirably imitative performance from Michelle Williams, snuck into this category would be a question we'd ask if the extent of HFPA's corruption weren't a matter of public record. We've got no beef with the rest of the nominees, especially considering "50/50" and "Bridesmaids" both ended up on MTV's year-end list. Alas, neither is likely to win.

Who Will Win: For anyone who thought "The Hurt Locker" and its sub-$20 million box-office haul made for too populist an awards-season darling, meet "The Artist," a silent, black-and-white film that has so far reeled in less than $8 million domestically.

Who Should Win: Any human who tells you "Bridesmaids" wasn't the funniest movie of 2011 is either a liar or dead inside. Or a producer of "The Artist." Kristen Wiig drunkenly romping around an airplane? Maya Rudolph pooping in the street while clad in a wedding dress? Jon Hamm offering up the most lovably hateable douche bag in recent cinematic memory? That's a whole lot of win. Too bad HFPA won't agree.

Best Picture - Drama
This category could turn any which way Sunday. A surging "Help" took home the most prizes at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards on Thursday. Not that the CCMAs are a terribly good predictor of the Globes. What's more, "The Help" is likely going to triumph in the acting categories rather than Best Picture. When George Clooney is in the mix, you can never count out one of his films, so "The Descendants" could pull off an eyebrow-raising win. The same can be said for legends like Martin Scorsese ("Hugo") and Steven Spielberg ("War Horse"). Anything. Can. Happen.

Who Will Win: People love Clooney. And movies about families dealing with grief. And Clooney. Why people don't love Matt Damon and his similarly themed "We Bought a Zoo" as much remains a mystery. "Descendants" will take this one home.

Who Should Win: Um, "Dragon Tattoo"? Or "Drive"? Right, those films didn't get nominations. "Moneyball" is an exceedingly ordinary baseball movie, "War Horse" is just too silly at its core to take seriously (even though it did reduce us to tears before the credits rolled), and "Help," as stellar as its individual performances were, just didn't wow us as a whole. Scorsese's "Hugo" is the last film remaining standing. We're cool with that.

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Tim Burton Had To 'Find The Tone' For 'Dark Shadows'

Director talks to MTV News about time travel, 3-D and skipping his homework to watch the melodramatic vampire soap.
By John Mitchell


Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer in "Dark Shadows"
Photo: Warner Bros.

Director Tim Burton has kept such a tight lid on his forthcoming big-screen adaptation of the late-'60s soap opera "Dark Shadows" that last week we were forced to imagine things we'd want to see in a trailer for the film because one hasn't even dropped yet.

News on the film has been scarce — until now! Last week, MTV's resident movie guru Josh Horowitz talked to Burton about his busy 2012, and the director was forced to dish on his biggest project of the year. Burton told MTV News he was busy "editing and doing effects" for the film now. Though the film will not be "an effects-heavy picture, it's still got stuff in there," he said.

At the BAFTA Britannia Awards late last year, MTV News talked to Burton's partner Helena Bonham Carter, who appears frequently in his films, including "Alice in Wonderland," "Sweeney Todd" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," and she told us that "Shadows" was a childhood obsession of Burton's. "This was a thing that he raced home to see when he was about age 10," she said. "So it was returning to his childhood roots of what he loved watching."

Burton echoed her comments, telling MTV, "People like Michelle [Pfeiffer] grew up watching it. Some of the cast knew about it, some didn't, but they were all game for it — getting into the weird spirit of what 'Dark Shadows' was. There was a generation of us who would run home from school to watch it. That's probably why we were such bad students. We should have been doing homework; we were watching 'Dark Shadows' instead."

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For the director, the most difficult thing in bringing "Shadows" to the big screen has been mastering the tone of the melodramatic soap. "It was hard to put into words the tone it was. It had a weird seriousness, but it was funny in a way that wasn't really funny. We just had to feel our way through it to find the tone," Burton said. "We didn't do any real rehearsals, because the cast all came in at different times. But there was an old photo of the [original] cast which I always remembered, so a couple days before shooting, we got the whole cast together to take a similar shot so everyone could see each other and get that vibe from doing a group photo. That helped set the tone more than anything."

Burton didn't reveal much about the vampire flick's plot but did (somewhat) resolve a few lingering questions we've had about the film. Asked if the film's story — like that of the show — would include time travel, the director admitted that, while audiences will get to see the Collins family in the late-1700s, most of the film is set "in 1972, which to the era of 'Dark Shadows' is the modern era."

Elaborating further on time travel, Burton added, "For me, that's when the show kind of made me want to do homework. I was like, 'Wait a minute!' That came near the end of the trail of the series."

So it seems unlikely that the main story line resurrected for the early '90s remake of the series, which had Victoria Winters traveling through time to Collinwood circa Barnabas' (Johnny Depp) transformation into a vampire, will be incorporated here. Perhaps the trip back Burton refers to here is instead a flashback to show audiences how Angelique (Eva Green) used her evil magic to turn Barnabas into a creature of the night?

Burton also confirmed that the film will not be released in 3-D, as his version of "Alice" was. "No. It's the '70s, man. Only 'Frankenstein's Bloody Terror' was in 3-D," the director tells MTV News. "That's the only one I remember from that time."

Knowing that we won't have to wear a pair of funny glasses to get the full effect of "Dark Shadows" makes us even more excited for the May 11 release!

Are you excited that Burton and company are keeping the time-travel plot out of "Dark Shadows"? Sound off in the comments below and tweet me @JohnMitchell83 with your thoughts and suggestions for future columns!

Check out everything we've got on "Dark Shadows."

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