UPDATE: First a correction: Dick Clark Prods. doesn’t own the People’s Choice Awards. And second: Dick Clark Productions is now owned by the same company as the Hollywood Reporter. I look forward to their coverage of DCP events.

EARLIER: This Friday, we get a new awards show on TV. It’s the Hollywood Film Awards, brainchild of former Hollywood Film Festival creator Carlos Abreu. Last year he sold the festival and made a deal for the awards with Dick Clark Productions. That company produces what you might call the ‘lesser’ awards of the season– the Golden Globes, the American Music Awards, the People’s Choice Awards. They aren’t exactly Oscars, Emmys or Grammys, but they’re useful for bringing in ad money and movie stars to the networks.

How many people decide who get the Hollywood Film Awards? Twelve. 12. A dozen. Their names are kept secret but I am assured none of them come from movie studios. Still, everyone knows everyone in the film world. It’s hard to be objective, to say the least.

The Hollywood Awards, an insider tells me, are supposed to be along the lines of the Kennedy Center Honors. They are really tributes. Nine of the “below the line” tech awards have already been announced. All the other honorees know who they are already. The audience is in the dark, but the players are not.

So who are the honorees? The announced stars who will appear follow. I’ve bolded the ones in current, Oscar- buzzed films. Steve Carell, Johnny Depp, Laura Dern, Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto, Jennifer Lopez, Mike Myers, Robert Pattinson, Eddie Redmayne, Chris Rock, Hilary Swank, Amy Adams, Gerard Butler, Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Jonah Hill, Keira Knightley, Michael Keaton, Julianne Moore, Jack O’Connell, Chris Pratt, Kristen Stewart, Channing Tatum, Jean-Marc Vallée, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley.

The categories are as follows. You can sort of figure it out. Angelina Jolie will get the director award. Breakout actor will be O’Connell, star of her movie. Maybe Redmayne and Cumberbatch will tie for Best Actor, Reese and Amy Adams will tie for Best Actress. Mike Myers will get Doc award for “Supermensch.” It will just be a big party on a Friday night, and why not? As a friend of mine says, it could be worse.

o Hollywood Career Achievement Award
o Hollywood Film Award
o Hollywood Director Award
o Hollywood Actor Award
o Hollywood Actress Award
o Hollywood Supporting Actor Award
o Hollywood Supporting Actress Award
o Hollywood Ensemble Award
o Hollywood Breakout Performance Actress Award
o Hollywood Breakout Performance Actor Award
o Hollywood Breakthrough Director Award
o New Hollywood Award
o Hollywood Screenwriter Award
o Hollywood Song Award
o Hollywood Animation Award
o Hollywood Blockbuster Award
o Hollywood Documentary Award
o Hollywood Comedy Film Award

Right after poor Jett Travolta died in January 2009 at age 16, his parents established a tax free foundation in his memory. Jett died after falling, from a convulsion. He was autistic, and his manny was a wedding photographer named Jeff Kathrein. The Travoltas always said publicly that Jett suffered from Kawasaki Syndrome and denied the autism. But then in the Bahamian police report, Travolta admitted that his son was autistic.

The foundation doesn’t give money to autism charities. It also doesn’t specify how much money gives it to individual groups on its Form 990, just the total. For 2013, that amount was $172,728.31.

The Travoltas side step not detailing where their money goes in this official document by listing the groups it donates to on its website. Is it true? Who knows? They don’t commit to it on the federal filing. Three of the key groups they’ve given money to in 2014 are Scientology fronts– The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, GRODYSH International, and the Way to Happiness. They’re mixed in with a few “name” organizations that are used as camouflage for the foundation’s real agenda.

Do read this piece on the Doman family, who run the Human Potential foundation, labeled as “quacks” right here. They’re lifelong Scientologists: http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/22/Floridian/Anything_to_reach_Ryan.shtml

Here’s the full list:

2014
Mending Kids http://www.mendingkids.org
The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential http://www.iahp.org
Lifeflight Foundation http://www.lifeflightmaine.org
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation http://www.themmrf.org
Celebrity Fight Night Foundation http://www.celebrityfightnight.org
Never Say Never http://www.neversayneverfoundation.org
Jewish National Fund http://www.jnf.org/
The Smithsonian Institute http://www.si.edu
Futures Explored Inc http://www.futures-explored.org
BTCTE http://btcte.org
GRODYSH Int’l. Inc. http://www.grodysh.org/
BuildOn http://www.act.buildon.org/
Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation http://www.ripkenfoundation.org/
Surfers Healing http://www.ukrocharity.org
University Kidney Research Organization http://www.exploringthearts.org/
Way to Happiness Foundation http://www.thewaytohappiness.org
The Felix Organization http://www.thefelixorganization.org

Jerry Seinfeld says he thinks he’s on Autism spectrum. Brian Williams did an interview with him, maybe for NBC Nightly News (I’m not sure and the NBC website doesn’t help–it’s a disaster). The Williams piece was to promote “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” Seinfeld’s brilliant web series that starts again this week.

Jerry’s most revealing comment maybe ever in his life comes during this conversation. He tells Williams he thinks he’s on the Autism spectrum. Of course, he’s highly functional, but this is all without any testing. It may be a form of Asperger’s Syndrome. Or, as they used to say, he’s socially awkward.

He may be right. In person, Jerry is extremely polite. He also seems distracted. That’s the best way of putting it. When you’re talking to him, it always feels like he’s doing something else in his head.

Of course, I’ve never forgotten standing outside the Carlton Hotel in Cannes as Jerry propelled himself on a zip line across the Croisette dressing in a bee costume for “The Bee Movie.” Amazing.

Seinfeld also tells Williams that he tried to get Starbucks as a sponsor for “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” He called Howard Schultz personally and sent him the first 10 episodes. Schultz, he says, didn’t get it. “He didn’t see the connection.” Starbucks stockholders are gasping as they hear this. Acura picked up the show and has probably sold a lot of cars because of it. Sounds like Schultz may be “on the spectrum.”

Anyway, I love Jerry. He’s unfailingly loyal. He made a little film this season of him going to see the head of Crackle, the web company that produces “Comedians.” He’s got Michael Richards, who played Kramer, as the boss, and Jerry’s best friend, “Letters from a Nut” writer Barry Marder, playing a cop. The whole thing reads like a letter from a nut, very Marderish. But that’s Jerry.