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I was born in Nevada, Missouri. My grandfather won the town in a poker game.

I was in a taxi with Woody (Allen) on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. The cab was stuck in traffic.

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“I woke up before dawn to watch on TV The Great Beauty winning at the Oscars," Sophia Loren tells us excitedly. She's on the phone from her house in Geneva, Switzerland, nine hours ahead of us here in Los Angeles.

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There was great news for film buffs last month in Los Angeles with the grand reopening of one of the city’s architectural movie treasures. The United Artists Theater on Broadway and 8th street experienced an auspicious rebirth as a venue for live performances when it hosted a three-day inaugural run by the Los Angeles Dance Project, a modern dance troupe that has taken up residence in the beautifully renovated UA.

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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association recently flew to a remote CIA operating base in an undisclosed location – ok, it was an ex-factory on the outskirsts of London and the “base” was an elaborate filming set for the extremely classified production of 24 – Live Another Day. That’s tight as everyone knows by now, after a five-year hiatus, Jack Bauer will be back next May in the highly anticipated reboot of the 24 series, trying once again to beat the clock and save the world in a new series of action-packed episodes.

The HFPA recently got a special treat: A sneak behind-the–scenes peak at the set of the upcoming animated film The Boxtrolls. The story, adapted from Here Be Monsters, the children’s book by Alan Snow, is coming to life at Laika studios, a 150,000-sq.