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Gene Hackman, born January 30, 1930 in San Bernardino, California, is one of Hollywood’s finest actors and he played a variety of characters in his 40-year movie career. He studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse with Dustin Hoffman, where they were voted “least likely to succeed”, then they both moved to New York in the early 1960s to work in the theater with their actor friend Robert Duvall.

The Paley Center for Media is presenting PaleyfFest at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater. Now in its 30th year, the annual showcase of screenings, panel discussions and wildly popular Q&A sessions with fans has grown into the year’s most prestigious TV appreciation event.

SXSW continues till March 15, in the meantime Film Awards were announced at the customarily informal Austin ceremony. The HFPA's Katherine Tulich was there and filed this report Fort Tilden by first time feature directors Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers is poised to be the next break out hit from SXSW Film Conference and Festival, picking up the Grand Jury Prize in the Narrative competition last night.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has always believed that preserving the world’s film heritage is a cultural mission of vital importance and film restoration efforts have always been a primary beneficiary of HFPA grants. That mission continued this year with a donation of $350,000 to the Film Foundation, which was accepted at the HFPA’s Installation and Grants lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel by Steven Spielberg.

I can't help but feel different once I'm cinched into that corset for Age of Innocence. I start to carry myself differently, I stand differently, I sit differently, I walk differently, and I present myself differently.

A costume is very important. Some mystical thing happens when you wear the right costume.

I lived in Bel Air for quite a long time. If you have a party and someone asks how to get to my house, I just say, "Buy a map.

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.

“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.