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Uncle Sam is grinning ear to ear. Last weekend’s patriotic thriller Captain America: The Winter Soldier surpassed expectations to set a record breaking April release of $96.

Issur Danielovitch was born in Amsterdam, New York, on December 9, 1916, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, the only boy in a poor family of six sisters. He grew up as Izzy Demsky and received a loan to attend St.

In honor of Earth Day we’re highlighting some Golden Globes nominated and/or winners that are either about the environment or have the word “earth” in the title. Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection.

He didn’t like it when people called him that, but in truth if there was ever a Hollywood legend, that was Mickey Rooney who passed away at the age of 93. Working into his nineties after an unparalleled career spanning nine decades and over 200 films, Rooney seemed immortal, a fixture who survived Hollywood’s Golden Age, and at times the two-time Golden Globe winner could seem like an ambassador from another time.

The 29th edition of the Guadalajara Film Festival concluded last week with Mexican director’s Nicolas Echeverria’s Echo of the Mountain and Argentine Matias Lucchesi’s Natural Sciences respectively winning the Mezcal Prize and best picture, screenplay and actress in the festival’s Latin-American Competition. The Brazilian A Wolf at the Door, by Fernando Coimbra took best director, Marcelo Gomes and Cao Guimaraes’ Man of the Crowd won the special jury prize and cinematography (for Ivo Lopes Araujo), and Daniel Ribeiro’s The Way He Looks took the audience award.

1913 was a momentous year in Los Angeles. The oil fields were booming, William Mulholland opened the Los Angeles Aqueduct that brought life-giving water to the sleepy hamlet from the faraway Eastern Sierras and in a modest barn-turned-film-studio Hollywood’s first feature-length film was being shot.