Charlize Theron's Influence, Anderson Cooper's Help BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Even to the most hedonistic Hollywood player, the party onslaught leading up the Golden Globes can seem a little, you know, excessive. Enter the Help Haiti Home benefit, now in its third year, which donated money to the J/P Haitian Relief Organization, as well as to typhoon relief efforts in the Philippines. Held on the evening before the Globes and organized by the superagent Bryan Lourd and Sean Penn, an activist in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake there, the party is full of high celeb wattage and unexpected, unscripted moments. The first year, Arcade Fire performed on a table. Last year, the Korean pop star Psy was a huge magnet. This year's event, which drew everyone from Julia Roberts to Goldie Hawn, Kathryn Bigelow to Sarah Silverman and Steve McQueen to Chris Hemsworth, did not disappoint. It raised nearly $6 million for Haiti, which is still in need of tremendous help. Some of that came courtesy of Anderson Cooper, the night's emcee, who bid $1.4 million for a commissioned sculpture by Jeff Koons, created out of Mr. Penn's collection of firearms. He had promised to disarm for art's sake and he said from the stage that his stance on guns had been softened by a certain South African - Charlize Theron, who blushed as he spoke about her, their first public outing as a couple. Ms. Theron and Chris Martin, the Coldplay frontman, got in a bidding war over a new Banksy artwork, "Balloon for Haiti;" Mr. Martin won it, for $650,000, as his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, looked on. Mr. Penn also auctioned off his El Camino, for $100,000. The evening ended with a mini-concert by U2, which performed hits like "Desire" as the well-heeled crowded the stage in the Montage Hotel ballroom here. Bono, the frontman, praised Hollywood as a place "where more people live off their imaginations than anywhere else." "What's extraordinary is what's happened here is not imaginary, it's real," he continued, effecting "real lives and real ways to help people." Perhaps the most moving moment came early in the evening, when he performed a version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" with Anaelle Jean-Pierre, a Haitian singer displaced after the quake. But amid the serious notes, the evening was loose and fun. Emma Thompson, on the awards circuit for her role in "Saving Mr. Banks," took the stage to help and was her usual outspoken, ribald self. After all the prize hobnobbery she'd engaged in, she said, "this is the first night I've been having a good time."