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It's a rite of Summer: if it's mid-July, fanboys and fangirls will be flocking to San Diego in a form of pilgrimage better known as Comic-Con International. The event, now a mandatory stop for stars and filmmakers of the pop/sci-fi/genre persuasion and a huge business for the city of San Diego, started out as an act of pure fan passion.

Jay Hernandez has experienced a pronounced change in his fashion sense recently. “My closet is basically all black (clothes), but when you get on an island it doesn’t feel right,” he told us with a laugh when he stopped by the HFPA Comic-Con lounge.

Lisa Henson is a television and movie producer and current CEO of her family enterprise, The Jim Henson Company. She is also the oldest daughter of puppeteering pioneer, Jim Henson.

HFPA Grantee Echo Park Film Center, the brainchild of cultural activists and filmmakers extraordinaire Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo, is a community-based outpost providing technical and critical film education to the youth of Los Angeles’ diverse Echo Park district. The HFPA supports filmmaking workshops at the Film Center, an annual program which provides free screenings and multi-week classes on creative and technical skills, teaching the lost art of actual 16 mm filmmaking to young people.

The Handmaid’s Tale Yvonne Strahovski tells why her character Serena Joy Waterford is like a can of worms to HFPA journalist Ana Maria Bahiana.   The Australian-born actress got her first Emmy nomination for the role  - a character she describes as 'an incredibly damaged person.

The Hollywood Foreign Press has announced a donation $250. 000 to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) to help in the organization’s efforts towards the reunification of children separated from their parents by immigration authorities.

He is considered to be the biggest star in the world. He has even been flirting with the idea of running for President some day.

A renaissance man, Pharrell Williams, actor, producer, singer, social advocate, designer has a style of his own. He is fearless with color, combinations and genres.

When we recently met Golden Globe winner Toni Collette for the release of two of her movies, Hereditary and Hearts Beat Loud, we made sure that she knew how much we loved her singing voice when she performs a sweet karaoke in Hearts. “Thank you.

Boots Riley, the longtime radical activist and frontman of the rap group Coup, makes his auspicious film directing debut with Sorry to Bother You, a trenchant send-up of the often unspoken undercurrents of race and class in American society, which opened at Sundance and has been called many things, from “bonkers” to “bizarre,” and labeled both a “comedy” and “satire”. “I don’t like the word satire, because what does satire actually mean?” says Boots Riley.