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Barely three years old, Elle Fanning was already acting in front of the camera in the film I Am Sam and the mini-series, Taken. Twenty years later, Fanning is a full-fledged actress, with numerous films and television shows to her credit.

Let's go back to the Golden Globe Awards of February 24, 1955, at the Ambassador Hotel’s Cocoanut Grove, in Los Angeles, when Marlon Brando received a Golden Globe as Best Actor of 1954 for Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront. The following year Brando would be presented with a special award as World Film Favorite-Male.

When the nominees for the Golden Globe walk down the red carpet January 10, they'll pose for some 50 veteran event photographers posted on the line. At 13 years old, Ace Tombolini -Campbell will be, by far, the youngest photographer there, but she stands tallest.

Keanu Reeves reprises his iconic role as Neo in The Matrix Resurrections (2021), the much-awaited follow-up to The Matrix (1999) directed by Lana Wachowski. Keanu launched his Neo in the first movie of the franchise, The Matrix in 1999, and its two sequels released six months apart in 2003, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, written and directed by the Wachowskis, costarring Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity and Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus.

Good comic timing and a sense of humor are highly personal traits. But in the grand debate of nature-versus-nurture, it surely doesn’t hurt to grow up in a whip-smart environment where rejoinders and impressions are part of one’s daily diet, every bit as much as food and water.

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As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, films become bigger, cameras become smaller, digital overtakes celluloid and what used to be “television” shatters into a multitude of platforms, mobile and otherwise. International markets take over domestic in box office receipts, with China leading the way as the world's top market.

Souad follows the life of a 19-year-old teenager, Souad (portrayed by Bassant Ahmed), in Zagazig, a small city on the Nile Delta in Egypt. She leads a double life as she remains conservative with her family but projects a completely different life on social media as she engages in several secret virtual relationships with men like Ahmed (Hussein Ghanem).

Jane Fonda and John Travolta receive a special Golden Globe as World Film Favorites at the 36th Golden Globes, January 27, 1979, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.  This award, discontinued in 1980, was determined according to the results of a worldwide survey by the Reuters News Bureau.

What is so exciting today in American cinema is that everything seems possible, all the barriers have been broken, rules don’t or rarely apply anymore. Yes, in 2002, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington made their mark in Hollywood history, like Sidney Poitier had done before them to make black actors as preeminent as others.