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A parade of actors and directors of different colors, genders, and ethnicities took the stage at this year's CinemaCon to add variety and glamour as studio executives promoted their upcoming releases to theater owners. At the annual convention of NATO (National Association of Theater Owners) which was held April 1 to 4 in Las Vegas, Diane Keaton, introduced Poms, a comedy about cheerleaders in a retirement home from STX, playfully lifting her billowy black skirt over white boots to prove how her skinny legs prevented her from cheerleading in high school.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors and filmmakers. The world's largest collection of its kind - over 10,000  items- is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

Amy Seimetz considers herself lucky- as an actress, writer, director and producer she can cathartically exorcize some of her demons. “Even in Pet Sematary or any of the horror work or genre work that I’ve done, there is the catharsis to exercising your existential dread.

Jack Lemmon holding the Cecil B. deMille trophy, awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for Outstanding Contributions to the World of Entertainment, at the 48th Golden Globes, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, January 19, 1991.

Disney's live-action remake of Dumbo made it out of the circus tent this weekend with a far from spectacular $45 million launch. Coming 78 years after the classic cartoon feature's 1941 release, Tim Burton's version is perhaps even more kid-friendly than the original, doing without thing's like the young elephant's psychedelic drinking experience and the not so subtly racist jive speaking Jim Crow crows.

If she had only made Cleo from 5 to 7, it would have been sufficient, if she had made only Le Bonheur, it would have been sufficient. Had she only made One Sings, the Other Doesn’t, it would have been sufficient.

Idris Elba, the Golden Globe-winning British actor known for the dark police series Luther, is showing his lighter and comedic side in the new Netflix series Turn Up Charlie, in which he plays an unsuccessful DJ, who is also a messy man-child. “I really wanted to do something funny, something that was just lighthearted,” Elba said in Los Angeles, “and this was a great opportunity to bring all of the things in my life that people would not see.

Henry Winkler has been acting since the 1960s, but it was his Arthur ‘Fonzie’ Fonzarelli - Happy Days' tough biker in a black leather jacket - that made him famous and brought him two Golden Globes in the 1970s.   Several TV shows-Children'ss Hospital, Royal Pains, Parks and Recreation, Arrested Development- followed, complemented with directing, producing and writing children’s books.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors and filmmakers. The world's largest collection of its kind - over 10,000  items- is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

It was an early start for the thousand plus press and VIPs who were invited to sit in the famed Steve Jobs Theatre at Apple headquarters in Cupertino on March 25 for a (not so)  mysterious ‘announcement’.  Shuttles from nearby hotels started at 7.