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Michael Douglas received the Honorary Palme d'Or at the opening ceremony of the 76th Cannes Film Festival. Later, he spoke to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association about his special relationship to foreign countries.

Thai-born makeup artist, Nick Barose began his formal training assisting icon Kevyn Aucoin. He has since risen to the top of his field and his client roster is a veritable who’s who in Hollywood including Lupita Nyong’o, Rachel Weisz, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Winona Ryder, Amandla Stenberg, Angela Bassett, Willow Smith, Holly Hunter, and can now add Lily Gladstone, who stars in Martin Scorsese’s latest film Killers of the Flower Moon opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

History illustrates for us, over and over, that the most imaginative innovations rarely emerge from comfortable centers of old, incumbent power. And if humankind is to survive and thrive deep into this millennium, a massive rethink of what constitutes sustainable action — particularly as it relates to our marine environment — is necessary.

Beauty, brains, sharp wit, and that iconic role is what defines her. At 90, two-time Golden Globe winner – the first one as Best Newcomer – Joan Collins is still a force of nature.

With Vin Diesel’s Fast X vrooming to the top on its debut, Universal Pictures became the first studio to hit the $1 billion domestic mark in the recent weekend. Diesel’s return as Dominic Toretto fueled a $67 million rally in the North American box office race.

Fast X, the tenth iteration of the Fast and Furious franchise, scored $18. 24 million on its first day of release last Wednesday.

Super Sunday, super weekend and grosses at the Italian box office for Universal’s Fast X, the latest incarnation of the Vin Diesel headlined blockbuster series. The Louis Leterrier-directed motor action movie earned €6.

“This is the highest number of female directors we have,” said Thierry Fremaux, director of the Cannes Film Festival, touting the record number of women-directed films in the main competition of the 76th edition of the world’s most prestigious film festival. Six out of 19 entries reflect a full 31.

The political and personal intermingled at a special Variety Golden Globes awards party on Friday, May 19, during the first weekend of the 76th annual Cannes Film Festival. Actors Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Tye Sheridan, Charles Melton and Shaunette Renée Wilson were all honored as breakthrough performers for their work in telling touching stories of individual reflection and triumph, alongside calls for greater solidarity in the artistic community.

What better place to publicize your film than the Cannes Film Festival where the world’s media gathers every May? More than 4,000 journalists and over 2,000 media outlets from 90 countries attend, according to the festival’s website. So making a splash in a creative, silly or tacky way is de rigueur on the Croisette, from the topless starlets of yesteryear like Simone Silva posing without her top in Robert Mitchum’s arms in 1954 (three paps fell over themselves into the ocean to take her picture; one broke his ankle, another his elbow) to Sacha Baron Cohen sporting a lime green mankini at the photocall for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan in 2006, splashing in the waves flanked by a bevy of bikini-clad beauties.