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If you have worked with King Vidor and John Huston, shared the screen with Humphrey Bogart and Rock Hudson, Tyrone Power and Yul Brynner, Anthony Quinn, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Yves Montand, Marcello Mastroianni and Erroll Flynn, well, it’s pretty safe to assume that you are part of cinema history. If you have been the honored guest of presidents and heads of state and pursued for a dozen years by Howard Hughes, and scores of other men, dazzled by one of the world’s great beauties … in other words if you are Gina Lollobrigida, then the only surprising thing about receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is that it took so long.

For our second podcast, Italian journalist Alessandra Venezia sat down with Susan Sarandon on August 2017 at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. In this in-depth conversation, Sarandon reveals how a big family influenced her imagination, how she became an actress, what is the secret to her long career, what she feels when she is playing strong women, why she is seeking different kinds of roles and why social issues are important to her.

Dany Garcia’s philosophy is to change the way the game is played. As the CEO & founder of the Garcia Companies and co-founder of Seven Bucks Productions – producers of the box office hit Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and the HBO series Ballers, to name just few - the middle child of Cuban immigrants demonstrates how and why she is successfully creating the world she wants.

After three stand up specials, millennial comedian Bo Burnham has gracefully transitioned from the stage to the screen with his directorial debut, Eighth Grade, which premiered at Sundance 2018. In the film, Burnham channels his thoughts about today’s Internet culture and his own personal anxieties through Kayla (Elsie Fisher), a teenager finishing her final days at middle school.

Trends for this year are shaping up. Men are leading the way with a freshness we’ve been begging to see for a long time.

Fox’Maze Runner: The Death Cure finally unseated January Champ Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, taking $23. 5 million to beat the incumbent film’s $16.

Women left their mark on the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, taking the Grand Jury Prize - The Miseducation of Cameron Post, directed by Desiree Akhavan- and all directing awards on each category: U. S.

A champion of independent cinema, Golden Globe nominee Ethan Hawke is a regular at Sundance, but this year was special for him. He was in Park City with Juliet, Naked, Jesse Peretz's romantic comedy about a woman (Rose Byrne) who breaks up her long relationship with an obsessed fan of retired rocker Tucker Crowe, only to start a romance with the idol himself (played by Hawke).

Week one of Sundance 2018 comes to a close with stars of all magnitudes filling the snow-covered streets of Park City. And there's always room for, say, a snowman, a fluffy dog and, who knows, maybe a mini-pony.

With his salt and pepper beard and some lines of time on his still handsome face, British actor Rupert Everett, 58, still possesses a matinee idol look.   He's one of the first Hollywood stars to come out as a gay man and enjoying a sizable and durable career.