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Dorothy Faye Dunaway was born in rural Bascom Florida on January 14, 1941. She studied theater at Boston University, majoring in Liberal Arts in 1962, joined the training program at New York’s Lincoln Center taught by Elia Kazan where she learned Method acting.

The Cocoanut Grove Nearly three decades after it opened, the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel was still the hottest night spot in Southern California in 1950, attracting the biggest stars in an endless celebration of the Golden Age of Hollywood. So naturally it was a perfect match for the 7th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

Golden Globe winner Bob Hoskins has died of pneumonia at the age of 71. The British actor, who won his Best Actor Globe in 1987, for his performance in Mona Lisa, had been nominated twice more, for Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Mrs.

The dismal performance of Johnny Depp’s starrer Transcendence at the U. S.

The 33rd edition of the Istanbul Film Festival showcased more than 200 films in over 20 different categories from April 5-20 in the Turkish city. Turkish Cinema is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and the festival paid tribute with a series of panels devoted to different genres including documentaries, drama, horror as well as Q&As with filmmakers and crews alongside production and distribution meetings such as the traditional “Meetings on the Bridge” panel.

Michael Caine was born Maurice Micklewhite on March 14, 1933 in South London, his father was a fish market porter, his mother a cleaning woman; he was drafted in the British Army at 18 and fought in the Korean War. He succeeded in his ambition of becoming an actor, a rich and famous movie star, despite his Cockney accent and lower class background.

There is only one Mrs. Robinson in movie history: Anne Bancroft.

There was no second coming for Johnny Depp’s status as the world’s biggest box office draw, as Transcendence opened on Easter weekend to a disappointing $11. 5 million in 3,455 North American theaters.

Ever since the screenplay’s leak on the internet, the ensuing lawsuit and blustery cancellation of the film by Quentin Tarantino, the director’s new western Hateful Eight, has generated more buzz than perhaps any other movie project in Hollywood. It’s no surprise therefore that Saturday’s live read of the script staged as a fundraiser by LACMA and Film Independent took place before an eager sold-out audience.

As we gear up for Cannes, the HFPA’s Elisabeth Sereda takes a look at previous festival misbehaviour and expects more to come. The line-up was announced by festival programmer Thierry Fremaux and Cannes president Gilles Jacob With Berlin and Sundance over and as we gear up for Cannes, the talk among the international press is not so much what films are going to be shown (we can look that up) as to who is going to misbehave in the most entertaining way.