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English icon of theatre and cinema and twice Golden Globe winner Jeremy Irons shared with us his passionate love for music. “I try and travel always with a guitar so I have a way of making music if I don't have a piano about,” he told us when we met recently in London.

HFPA journalist Silvia Bizio met director-writer-producer Oliver Stone at his office in Los Angeles. In the middle of his busy day, the Golden Globe winner looked back to the late 60s when he returned home from the Vietnam War.

HFPA Grantee Kids In The Spotlight (KITS) is a non-profit organization that provides motivational training in film for foster children and youth (ages 11-19). KITS works with Foster Group Home Agencies around Los Angeles County and provides services to two-four group homes per year.

And on its second week, Ready Player One has turned into the second biggest Hollywood release of 2018, domestically and internationally, behind only Black Panther. The Steven Spielberg’s meditation on pop culture and virtual reality has been doing especially well in China, where it has earned $163 million so far, making it the top Warner release ever in the Middle Kingdom.

Ethnic trends are being celebrated in head gear that first appeared at the Golden Globes and later established their place at the Black Panther premieres. Patterns continue to add splashes of color, while men get adventurous in a very safe way.

Actor, producer, director, author of 37 children's books and twice Golden Globe winner, Henry Winkler is quick to credit the fortunate part of Fonzy, which he played in the 255 episodes of Happy Days, for his international success and fledging career. He can be seen now in the new TV series Barry, in which he plays a demanding acting teacher to a conflicted professional assassin (Bill Hader).

HFPA journalist Tina Jøhnk Christensen met filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and three-time Golden Globe nominee Barry Levinson in Beverly Hills.   They talked about his new HBO biopic, Paterno, the story of college football titan Joe Paterno, which Al Pacino brought to his longtime collaborator Levinson.

HFPA GranteeBeing a first-generation American himself and having been brought up by hard-working Hispanic immigrants, Cal State LA's President William Covino knows the tremendous value of education, not only for one’s own life but for society at large. Covino has worked relentlessly to help increase the number of students attending Cal State LA and to make sure that students get the best value possible out of their educational experience.

There’s something really cool going on off the red carpet. When the stars turn up for press conferences they are a little more them.

Just three months after he hit theaters with The Post, Steven Spielberg is back with Ready Player One, bringing to the screens the virtual universe created by Ernest Cline’s bestseller and its many references to the Reagan years, including Back to the Future, Saturday Night Fever, The Shining and the Atari 2600 gaming system. And it worked.