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Originally published March 17, 2022: ·  If you want to be in the know, avoid abbreviating the holiday to St. Patty’s Day.

Hard to believe it’s been 30 since Sharon Stone uncrossed her legs in Basic Instinct and created an unforgettable movie moment etched into cinema history. Paul Verhoeven directed the hit film also starring Michael Douglas, but the writer of the movie celebrating its 30th anniversary was Hungarian-American Joe Eszterhas, a former immigrant and refugee who started out as a Rolling Stone reporter and went on to become one of the highest-paid and most famous screenwriters in history.

Although never a contestant on The Price is Right, the Golden Globe Nominee Nancy Meyers, a Philadelphia transplant, got her professional start on the CBS game show as a production assistant. Needless to say, though she would not win living room furniture or even a new car, Meyers’s success at spinning the big wheel would eventually take her to write and direct such seminal Hollywood hits as What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday and It’s Complicated.

Pinar Toprak: The first woman ever to score a Marvel Cinematic Universe feature film   Ever since her childhood in Turkey in the mid- ‘90s, Toprak dreamed of one day getting to compose for the big screen. She started playing the violin at five at a conservatory in Istanbul and studied music full-time through grade school, eventually making her way to America for college at 17.

Geraldine Brianne Murphy was born in 1933 in London. While the family was living in the United Kingdom due to her father’s career, her parents were both middle-class Americans.

Nariman Aliev’s Homeward premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 in Un the Certain Regard series. It marked the debut of a gifted first-time director, who was only 26 years old.

If there was a soundtrack to Women’s History Month, one could easily fill it with songs created by the lyrical skills of Golden Globe Winner Carole Bayer Sager. Imagine a playlist made of anthemic tunes like "Come in from the Rain," Don't Cry Out Loud," “When I Need You," "Midnight Blue," "It's My Turn," "Everything Old Is New Again," “Break It to Me Gently," and "Heartlight.

Fatma Begum was born in 1892 into an Urdu-speaking Muslim family in India. As a young woman she trained in theater, acting in Urdu plays.

In the mid-70s, her father became the first Black general manager of a TV station in the country when the Federal Communications Commission suspended the local station at Jackson, Mississippi for racist practices and mandated that it be run by a Black group. It was there, growing up in Mississippi, that Erika Dilday understood the importance of having a “diversity of voices within the narrative.

The Russian invasion “shocked the world with images and stories telling of a truly horrific and heartbreaking situation,” as British Academy President Krishnendu Majumdar said at the start of BAFTA awards ceremony. On the red carpet, some stars wore badges or ribbons in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, including Golden Globe nominee Benedict Cumberbatch.