Candid Interviews

Hollywood celebrities share with us how they celebrate Christmas. Some have long kept traditions while others are making their own, new ones.

Hollywood icons Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks collaborate on Sully, based on the autobiographical book, Highest Duty, about Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, the pilot who landed the US Airways flight 1549 on the Hudson River, in 2009. Against all odds, Captain Sully saved all 155 lives onboard.

Director John Landis came to the Lido with his wife, costume designer and curator Deborah Nadoolman to present the first ever look at the restored version of his 1981 beloved horror classic An American Werewolf in London at the Venice Film Festival. The film is the story of two American college students, Jack (Griffin Dunne) and David (David Naughton) backpacking through Britain when a large wolf attacks them.

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She has tackled subjects from AIDS to violence against women, from terrorism to war. She has won an Emmy for The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib and another six awards for her work.

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Since the publication of the first volume of her memoir last month, Anjelica Huston has been everywhere. This week, she re-joined the HFPA at our West Hollywood offices where she regaled us with stories of the overpowering influence of her larger-than-life father, John Huston and the family’s peripatetic life.

It’s difficult to imagine a time when Bob Dylan did not exist as a musician, much less when he did not dominate the New York folk scene, as hinted at so exquisitely at the ending of the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis. But the fact is that before Dylan became famous and swept all before him, including Dave Van Ronk, he was a huge fan of the Irish folk group the Clancy Brothers, who also did things on their own terms with a huge degree of success.

Daniel Brühl doesn’t know what time it is anymore. “I’m in Vienna, jumping up and down.

While she seems such a grand and welcome presence on our cinema screens these days, it is hard to believe that it wasn’t until 1997, after decades as the doyenne of British stage and TV, that Dame Judi Dench broke out to cinema audiences worldwide with her starring role in a movie playing Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown, for which she received her first Golden Globe nomination and subsequently won.