https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JaGmaiKRLA During a 2017 interview with Berlinale Talents, 40-year-old writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, The Bad Batch) described the year after she had graduated from UCLA as disempowering. Amirpour was married at the time (i.e., 2009). She had written a script. She had landed an agent and a manager, both…
Dania wears a gown by GEORGES CHAKRA COUTURE. Dania Ramirez is living proof that hard work can lead to the life of your dreams. At age ten after growing up with relatives in the Dominican Republic while her parents worked in the United States, Dania and her sister immigrated to New York. Being separated from her…
Vincent Piazza went from hockey player to financier to theatre actor before he landed the role that would garner most of his current notoriety, as real-life prohibition-era New York City gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. The notoriously violent Luciano went down in history as "the father of organized crime," but in Boardwalk…
