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Actor, singer, and ex WWF fighter, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson will hit a major milestone this week when he turns 50. Johnson’s films have grossed over US $10.

Promising Young Woman is British filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s feature directorial debut and is a unique mixture of comedy, revenge, and horror with a twist of rom-com too. It has Carey Mulligan in the leading role as Cassie, a medical school dropout – and a promising young woman – whose life has taken a drastic turn as something dramatic happens to her best friend.

Eve’s Bayou is the film that introduced the then 36-year-old Kasi Lemmons to audiences as a director. It is also the film that Ebert once rated “number one on the forgotten list”.

Twice Golden Globe nominee Tobias Menzies discovered acting through his mother. “My mom has always been an avid theatergoer.

Although John Saxon, who passed away at the age of 83, won a Golden Globe as New Star of the Year in 1958, his career is best remembered not for his memorable performances but for his longevity as an actor.   Over a period of over 60 years he appeared in no less than 200 movies and remained active even right before his death, his last movie After the Thunderstorm delayed by the current pandemic.

In the pantheon of matinee idols of the silent film era in Hollywood was an unlikely star, Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa, who had legions of fans and earned $7,500 a week in his heyday for movies like Cecil B. deMille’s 1915 The Cheat, The Tong Man and An Arabian Knight.

When COVID-19 shut down entertainment venues across the globe, Welsh actor Tom Rhys Harries was only five performances into a three-month run of a new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull. Despite the postponement of the West End play, the 27-year-old is still in the spotlight as the star of the Netflix crime drama, White Lines.

The comedy-thriller Killing Eve revolves around the intense psychosexual relationship between two women: American-raised MI5 agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and the unpredictable but charming Russian assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer). Based on a series of novellas by Luke Jennings, the show is created by an all-female writing team.

Lena Waithe is so fly and so swaggy. That she also happens to be the first African-American woman to win an Emmy for outstanding writing for a comedy series, which she shared with Aziz Ansari for the Thanksgiving episode of Master of None, based on Lena’s real life when she came out to her family, is payoff for a life of stepping up.

You mention Golden Globe winner Eddie Murphy and Beverly Hills Cop immediately comes to mind. But very few people know that Eddie’s first love and interest rests with music.