I'm hearing multiple reports from diverse sources that the Writers Guild of America, NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions are close to striking a deal that will permit the Golden Globes telecast to proceed on Jan. 13 without picketing. Thus, celebs may attend and the bubbly may flow, after all. More details to come soon . . . .

Up until now HFPA made it clear that it plans to proceed with the ceremony and nix the telecast, forfeiting its $5 million license fee, if the threat of WGA picketing continued. That way the guild would have nothing to picket.