On the red carpet and Backstage at the Golden Globes (AP)

BEVERLY HILLS, California – peers Michael Douglas were as happy to see you at the Golden Globes on Sunday as Douglas, who announced last week he beat cancer, had to be there.

"We have just got to be an easier way to get a standing ovation," the actor said after receiving a reply exhilarating when he walked onstage to present the final night, award for best dramatic film.

"It's been a quiet year. Catherine is doing a show on Broadway and six months of cancer, "the silver haired actor he had joked earlier as he walked the red carpet with his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Douglas, who announced last week that its malignant tumor is gone, it seemed appropriate as he arrived for his first major public appearance since the completion of treatment.

"After going through this, you have a greater appreciation of your fans. I feel good. I'm pacing myself and I'm enjoying it. I feel very happy to be here, "he said, turning serious.

How those fans screamed his name from the stair, turned to wave and smile.

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Brad Pitt hung back, leaving his partner Angelina Jolie, working on the challenge of media at the Golden Globes this year.

Under hair slicked-back and behind sunglasses, Pitt surveyed the scene from the middle of the red carpet, chat friends as Jolie replied to the questions.

"My girls are always happy about me getting dressed," said the actress, plated in a Emerald dress.

Another Hollywood power couple, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, held hands while Kidman fielded the most questions.

"When I make a movie, I always say that our film collection," said, nodding in the direction of Urban. "We share each other accolades."

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Aron Ralston, the hiker who was trapped under a boulder to "127 hours," discovered a completely different atmosphere at the Golden Globes.

"If only there were crowds of screaming women cheering me on," he said of his experience desperate in a desolate canyons Utah that resulted in his right arm to save his life of cut.

Ralston, whose real-life story has earned three nominations, proclaimed "best film ever made."

"They get the award of Aron Ralston if nothing else," he quipped on the carpet.

It was clear that he was thoroughly enjoying his moment in the limelight of Hollywood.

"Is my first time and unless amputate my other hand, I doubt that I will be back here," he said.

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Robert De Niro has decided to accept his Cecil b. DeMille lifetime achievement award with an intentional comic touch.

It has produced a mixed reaction on the Internet, where tweeters and bloggers you loved or hated it.

"There are so many ways that you can go with it and thought this would be more fun to this type of night" De Niro said backstage. "That's why I chose to do it this way."

De Niro had his trophy with him.

"The top fell off," he said. "I have to solder it back on."

De Niro optimized announcers of the award, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and many others, in his acceptance speech.

"The important thing is that we are all in this together — the filmmakers who make movies and members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which in turn pose for pictures with movie stars," he said.

"I'm sorry that most foreign press members are not with us tonight," he continued, "but many of them were deported right before the show, with most waiters and Javier Bardem.

"For the rest of you, I hope that the documents are in order for Homeland Security will be checking them once they're through with full body scans of Megan Fox."

De Niro also joked that he was hawking boxed-set of all his films, including such acclaimed as "less than" and "jacknife Little fockers."

"And I will sell them in the lobby just after the pose for pictures with the remaining members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association," he said.

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Publicist Ronni Chasen, whose killing brazen stunned the entertainment industry, was recalled by veteran songwriter Diane Warren, who has dedicated his Golden Globe Award for best original song of motion picture to you.

Chasen was shot to death in November, as she drove home from a premiere and party for "Burlesque.

Warren winning song, "You haven't seen the last of Me" was featured in the film, which he had spoken Chasen for hours before his death.

"I want to dedicate this someone knew a lot of you and all of us loved, Ronni Chasen," Warren said on stage Sunday night.

It was the first Golden Globe of the singer.

Police believe that Chasen was killed as part of a lame attempt robbery when he stopped his car in an intersection of Beverly Hills.

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