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Dev Patel plays the eponymous David Copperfield in The Personal History of David Copperfield, directed by Armando Iannucci. It’s his second Golden Globe nomination – his first was in 2017 for Lion.

Hamburg-born director Eliza Schroeder makes her feature directorial debut with Love Sarah, (now available on VOD) an uplifting drama set in London about a young woman (Shannon Tarbet) who enlists the help of her mother’s best friend (Shelley Conn) and her eccentric grandmother (Celia Imrie) to fulfill her late mother’s dream of opening a bakery in Notting Hill. The film has garnered positive reviews and has been likened to the Golden Globe award-winning television series Fleabag.

In his autobiography “King of Comedy,” Mack Sennett writes about how he came up with the idea of his famous ‘Bathing Beauties’ in 1914. “One morning as I went through the Times, I noticed a three-column picture on Page One of a pretty girl who had been involved in a minor traffic accident.

Before the world was grappling with the medical mysteries of COVID, there was a whole generation devastated by the physical and emotional toll of AIDS. When the first cases were reported back in 1981, the new epidemic gave rise to paranoia and prejudice as science didn’t have enough information to properly explain it.

When The Laugh Factory named her their ‘Fresh Face’ and People magazine declared Sherry Cola as ‘One to Watch,’ this Shanghai-born, LA-raised standup comedienne-turned-actress knew she was onto something. Cola (30) reprises her role as Alice Kwan, first-generation Asian-American in the third season of Good Trouble, a critically acclaimed series that addresses such subjects as the Black Lives Matter movement, LGBTQ rights, and gender bias in the workplace.

In 1957, the State of California filed suit against the Confidential magazine. Its publisher, Robert Harrison (in his New York office in the photo), made a statement in the September issue, which read in part - “California has accused us of a crime --the crime of telling the truth! (.

Kate Hudson's new film in a major role has immediately found critical recognition: she has been nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her turn in the musical fantasy drama Music, Australian pop star Sia’s feature-length debut as a director. It is the second Golden Globe nomination for Hudson: her first was 20 years ago, in 2001, for Almost Famous, the film that made her totally famous.

At 43, Liz Feldman is one of the youngest veterans of TV comedy writing. The creator of the hit TV show, Dead to Me, starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini started working as a writer on Nickelodeon when she was just 18.

The late Chadwick Boseman received a posthumous Best Actor award for his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Following a major surge in his career in the last years of his life, in the hugely iconic roles such as Black Panther, Avengers and Da Five Bloods, Boseman succumbed to cancer in August of last year at the age of 43, after a four-year battle.

When anti-racism demonstrations erupted last summer in the US and beyond, following the killing of George Floyd by the police, Hollywood was quick to offer support, but soon faced a moral dilemma when the demonstrators demanded wiping out symbols and traces of racism from America’s history and culture, including the films that featured racial stereotypes. Warner Bros.