Looking Back

I had once the great honor of meeting President Nelson Mandela and have a conversation with him. In 1995, the Hollywood Foreign Press presented Mandela with a glass plaque in appreciation for his relentless fight for freedom.

Arguably the greatest comedian of the sound era, the Hollywood Foreign Press again got it right when they awarded Danny Kaye a Golden Globe in 1951 as Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for On the Riviera. Seldom seen since its initial release, it is one of Twentieth Century Fox’s best musicals.

Ayn Rand once worked as a stenographer at Paramount Pictures where her mentors were no less than Cecil B. deMille and Hal Wallis.