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If an actor is fortunate, they may have a career replete with memorable ‘Hollywood’ moments. The Australian actor Samara Weaving (28) recalls her first: “I was filming The Babysitter on the Warner Bros lot.

Elle Fanning stars in and produces Hulu’s TV series The Great. It is a satirical spin on Catherine the Great’s rise to become the longest-reigning female ruler in Russia's history.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again – Lady Gaga can teach anyone the tricks of owning their space. Whether in soft feathers, rubber, or plastic, she is never the fawn, always the feline playing tamed.

Nobody’s perfect but Billy Wilder, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon achieve near perfection with Some Like It Hot, a masterpiece of effervescent comedy than can be seen and seen again with no moderation. The best prescription in our confined times.

In October 2018, when she was only 19, Amandla Stenberg was featured on the cover of TIME magazine as a Next Generation Leader. At the time she had just starred in The Hate U Give, directed by George Tillman Jr.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B.  deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.

Fatma Begum, star of silent films in Indian cinema, is credited as having been the first woman director in the country, starting her career on the Urdu stage and later on setting up her own company, Fatma Films, after she had she segued into a career in film. Her first film as a director was the 1926 Bulbul-e-Paristan, the print of which is unfortunately lost; her last film was Goddess Of Luck, which she directed in 1929.

Remember the word or phrase of the year that is revealed at the end of every twelve months? It has never been easier to bet on what it will be this time at the end of 2020. “Social Distancing” is a term born out of a pandemic that most of us could have never anticipated.

“June 15, 1964: I just got a request from America to publish my diaries. But I never wrote them with any literary ambition, and since I do not consider myself a writer, I had no wish to publish them.

Irrfan Khan (53) was that rare cross-over star who made a career in both Bollywood and Hollywood, making almost a hundred films in both sectors. Best known in the US for films like Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire, Inferno, and Jurassic Park, Khan also had supporting roles in The Amazing Spiderman, Darjeeling Limited, and the HBO show In Treatment.