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Sometimes, the apple does fall far from the tree. Tommy Tedesco, one of the most prominent and prolific studio session musicians ever, was named by Guitar Player magazine as the most recorded guitarist in history.

What actor Russell Crowe – Golden Globe winner for A Beautiful Mind ( 2002) and Oscar winner for Gladiator (2001) – really wants to be is a rock star. And the 59-year-old New Zealand-born Australian is proving it by touring Italy with his band, Indoor Garden Party, at times with his acoustic guitar strapped to his shoulder.

Adriana Barraza, nominada al Globo de Oro como Mejor Actriz de Reparto por Babel (2006), está lista para continuar con una nueva etapa como actriz, arte y oficio en el que también se le considera maestra en su natal México al formar a más de una generación.   A sus 67 años, Barraza acaba de estrenar su cortometraje El tesoro (2023) que apunta directo a un tema de derechos humanos al personificar a Clemencia, una madre que carga con una pérdida personal producto de la violencia en México.

In an unusual feat, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse swung back to the top on its fourth weekend with a robust $19. 3 million.

The 17th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF, www. lagff.

An unlikely duo going on a rambunctious colorful ride seeking truth and vindication is at the heart of the new animated film Nimona out in select US theaters this weekend and streaming on Netflix on June 30 – just in time to wrap up Pride month with themes of inclusivity and acceptance. Based on the New York Times bestselling webcomic character created a little over a decade ago by non-binary and transmasculine graphic artist ND Stevenson, Nimona is a mischievous teenage shapeshifter perceived as a villainous threat to be feared in a futuristic medieval world, when all she actually wants is to be accepted for who she really is while having fun creating chaos by transforming herself into various living beings.

Emmy Award-winning Producer Director Jeffrey Schwarz has amassed an extraordinary résumé of documenting remarkable LGBTQ+ pioneers and crucial moments in queer history. His latest feature documentary Commitment to Life, which journals the city of Los Angeles' reaction to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, premiered earlier this year at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and will also be presented at Outfest 2023.

Zeberiah Newman, born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, has worked for more than a decade as a supervising producer on The Late Late Show with James Corden and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. In 2021, he got his feet wet as a documentary filmmaker with the short doc Right to Try, which examines the issues around trying to find a cure for HIV through the intimate lens of a long-term survivor.

Although he began his career by filming Concursante (The Contestant) in Spanish with Leonardo Sbaraglia, Rodrigo Cortés changed the rules of the game when he convinced Ryan Reynolds to travel to Barcelona to film Buried in English. The film became a sensation at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

The evening was young when people started gathering outside the Palm Springs Cultural Center and Camelot Theaters for the Gayla evening at the annual ShortFest. On screen, the stories spoke of love and identity, humor, longing, and so much more.