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    Over 92 ago on September 11th, 1928 The Queen's Messenger was the first television drama aired over an experimental television system on General Electric’s station W2XAD in Schenectady, New York. Radio station WGY that owned W2XAD broadcasted audio of the production.

In 1957, John Cassavetes corralled a few students from the acting workshop he started in New York City to make a film as an exercise. There was no script, no permits for locations, just a 16mm camera and an idea for a theme on which the actors were to improvise.

With the holiday season kicking off, so are the first sighting of Christmas movies. The Hallmark Channel, which first began showing Christmas films in 2000, has now produced more than 135 of them and their latest, A Christmas Waltz, stars Lacey Chabert (Party of Five, Mean Girls) as a woman who signs herself and her fiancé up for dance lessons.

It may be difficult, from the United States, to fully appreciate the stature of Diego Armando Maradona as an athlete and a world figure. The Argentine footballer who died suddenly aged 60 in Buenos Aires was, simply put, the biggest superstar to ever grace a soccer pitch.

The instrumental strains of “Harbor Lights,” the popular song from 1937, sound over the opening prologue: “With their hates and desires men are changing the face of the earth – but they cannot change the sea. Men who live on the sea never change – for they live in a lonely world apart as they drift from one rusty tramp steamer to the next, forging the life-lines of Nations.

Aubrey Plaza knows how complicated it is to work with your partner. She has filmed multiple projects, like Life After Beth, Joshy and The Little Hours, with her partner, filmmaker Jeff Baena.

Between 1948 and 1983 Golden Globes were awarded in a special category of “New Star of the Year” conceived to recognize young actors making a mark in their early roles. In this series, the HFPA’s Phil Berk highlights those that would follow their auspicious starts with distinguished careers.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press will be able to provide pro bono legal support and resources for a greater number of journalists and newsrooms, particularly those covering the coronavirus pandemic, nationwide protests against systemic racism and police brutality, and the aftermath of the 2020 election, thanks to more than $1. 2 million in combined grants from the Ford Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Abrams Foundation, The Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation and TEGNA Foundation.

Amanda Seyfried was all set to start classes at Fordham University when she got the call. The then 18-year-old had been cast in an upcoming feature, Mean Girls, which required her to postpone her college career to co-star in the Tina Fey penned comedy.

Julianne Moore plays feminist icon Gloria Steinem in The Glorias, directed by Julie Taymor. When HFPA journalists interviewed her, Ruth Bader Ginsburg had just passed, two months before the presidential election, and she wore a tee-shirt that said, “Vote like a mother.