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Simple elegance dominated the first red carpet of the 74th Venice Film Festival. Patterns and subtle European style were on display.

“After Sideways I had hoped this would be my next movie” says multi Golden Globe nominated and winner Alexander Payne – visibly elated to be in Venice and exhibiting his flawless accents in the Italian and Spanish words he interspersed liberally in the talk he had with HFPA journalists in the Excelsior hotel’s beautiful Sala Stucchi. As Hollywood would have it that was not to be, as development purgatory (and the shooting of The Descendants and Nebraska) pushed back the completion of Downsizing for more than ten years.

Paul Schrader’s singular path to becoming one of American cinema’s enduring original voices was unusual to say the least. The writer or co-writer of films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull (both screenplays were nominated for Golden Globes) and the Last Temptation of Christ and director of American Gigolo, Cat People and Auto Focus, he had never seen a film before the age of seventeen, being more occupied by a strict Calvinist upbringing and college studies with a minor in theology.

Despite the several books she wrote, Diane Keaton doesn’t kiss-and-tell. Born Diane Hall in California in 1946, she became the ultimate New Yorker thanks to movies like The Godfather, Annie Hall or Manhattan.

Clooney. Damon.

With summer officially over, Hollywood closed its last weekend box office with the lowest single weekend earnings in more than three years. Total receipts in the US and Canada were just $67 million, the lowest they’ve been since September 5, 2014.

Body text: As summer winds down, fashion is taking a breath. The Venice Film Festival is about to start followed shortly by the HFPA/InStyle Party at the Toronto Film Festival,and fresh trends should begin to surface.

Drummer, DJ, producer, culinary entrepreneur, New York Times best-selling author, and member of The Roots, Questlove is the unmistakable heartbeat of Philadelphia’s most influential hip-hop group. He is the Musical Director for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where his beloved Roots crew serves as the house band and joined Fallon on the Golden Globes stage last year lending his inimitable beat stylings to the proceedings before leading The Roots in a performance at the Amazon after party which has since become a legend.

Boys are still blue, and embracing patterns like never before, while women are black and white. In California temperatures will continue to soar despite August’s end, but almost like a beat on the drum, heralding fall, fashion became sophisticated and edgy.

After another sluggish peak summer weekend Lionsgate and Millennium Films’ The Hitman’s Bodyguard shot to the top of the domestic chart with a $21 million opening. This highly explosive comedy stars Samuel L.