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Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesLong ago, about a year ago to be exact, when COVID-19 first reared its ugly head and the United States was not yet the fiery petri dish of percolating viral plague it would soon come to be, friends and I gathered in our Los Angeles area homes, expecting lockdown to last three, four weeks, at most.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesWhen it comes to the estimable career of Glenn Close, there are myriad stunning scenes that come to mind: sobbing in the shower in “The Big Chill,” the bathroom brawl in “Fatal Attraction,” those final wordless moments in “Dangerous Liaisons” in which she smears the makeup off her face and leaks tears as the screen fades to black.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesIn 1970, Ali MacGraw, then a relatively unknown model-turned-actress fresh off her debut role in “Goodbye, Columbus,” sat on the front steps of a Cambridge, Mass., duplex in deep winter, sobbing and shivering and blubbering the line, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”It was the non-apology heard ’round the world.While MacGraw, around 30 years old at the time, didn’t exactly agree with its sentiment, or even her delivery — “I had no acting

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesIn a bright, white auditorium on the rolling campus of a rehab center on the East Coast, I learned that addiction is a disease. The giant room was filled with addicts and alcoholics, including my then-husband, who’d checked in for a monthlong stay to get sober after decades of drinking and drugging.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesOver 170 Black and Jewish leaders from all over the entertainment industry have banded together to launch the Black-Jewish Entertainment Alliance (BJEA), a joint initiative devoted to countering racism and antisemitism, and release a unity statement.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesWhen Bryan Fogel set out to make “The Dissident,” his intrepid and arresting exposé on the assassination of Saudi Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018, he knew there were myriad security risks involved.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesIf 2020 was the year of COVID-19 and the deaths of more than 300,000 Americans at the hands of a ravaging virus and a negligent White House, it was also the year the entertainment industry went virtual. Film festivals, once the domain of buzzy celebrities, caffeinated movie critics and charcuterie boards, were now relegated to online interviews and panel discussions.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesIn Boston we call it a “cucum-BAH.” This was my gut-check response to the Hilaria Baldwin drama that unfolded this past week, an event comprising themes ranging from cultural appropriation to canned phony accents and lingual disparities—“How do you say in English…cucumber?”—to blatant, old-fashioned mendacity. Pandemic lockdown ennui aside, it might seem pointless to unpack this social media soap opera any more than we collectively already have.

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Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesThere’s a pivotal scene in Phyllida Lloyd’s keenly observed domestic abuse drama “Herself” in which Sandra, a battered single mother of two little girls, is pitted opposite a judge in a Dublin courtroom. Sandra — played by Irish actor Clare Dunne, who also co-wrote the film — has only recently managed to escape Gary, her abusive husband, within inches of her life.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesOriginal“Da 5 Bloods” (Netflix) Written by: Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee Lee and Willmott won the Oscar for adapted screenplay for 2018’s “BlacKkKlansman” and their examination of PTSD and the aftermath of the fallen from Vietnam in “Da 5 Bloods,” encompassing the final performance of Chadwick Boseman, was deeply felt.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesEach year, Variety celebrates heroes in the military space, from the troops on active duty to veterans who have thrown their lives on the line in service of our country.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesFrom his work on the iconic, Golden Globe-winning 1980s cop drama “Hill Street Blues” to creating such TV series as “NYPD Blue,” “Deadwood” and “Luck,” four-time Emmy Award-winning David Milich has been an iconic figure in the biz. Milch is battling Alzheimer’s, a ravaging brain disease for which there is no cure.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesFounded 25 years ago, the CAA Foundation was the first philanthropic arm of a major Hollywood talent agency, created with the pointed mission of leveraging the power and reach of high-profile individuals in the entertainment, media and sports industries to bring about positive systemic change.“It started in 1995 with a very specific idea about what our company should stand for,” says CAA president Richard Lovett, who helped create the foundation.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesIt was 2003 and Maria Shriver had begun her tenure as first lady of California when her father, Sargent Shriver — U.S. ambassador to France, 1972 vice presidential candidate and the first director and co-founder of the Peace Corps — was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a ravaging brain disease that, according to statistics procured from the Alzheimer’s Assn., affects some 5.8 million Americans and 50 million individuals globalwide.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesBy her own admission, Christine Vachon is not a nostalgic person. This would normally make a conversation about the 25th anniversary of her pioneering independent film company Killer Films a challenge but, luckily, recent events have changed her perspective.Vachon attended September’s Venice Intl.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesThe 43rd iteration of the Mill Valley Film Festival may not look as it has in previous years due to COVID-19 with many of its sections navigating online, but that in no way detracts from what the fest, running Oct. 8-18, will and already has accomplished on the artistic front.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesThough born and raised in Haifa, Israel, filmmaker Amos Gitai (“Kadosh,” “Rabin: The Last Day”) had never heard of Fattoush, a popular restaurant-cum-club located in the port city.“I discovered this club through one of the actresses from one of my previous films.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesSeven years after the release of her 2013 debut feature “Palo Alto,” which was nominated for the Horizons Award at the Venice Film Festival, Gia Coppola is back with her sophomore drama, “Mainstream.” The film, which centers on a trio of young, fledgling Angelenos—Maya Hawke, Andrew Garfield and Nat Wolff—who rise to Internet fame, world premieres Saturday as part of Venice’s Horizons section.For Coppola, who holds Italian citizenship, the film, which also

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesRowan Blanchard was about six months into her Vancouver-based shoot for Season 2 of TNT’s dystopian thriller “Snowpiercer” when COVID-19 struck North America.“We were so close to finishing. They had two episodes left on Season 2 and they immediately sent everyone home,” says Rowan’s mother, Elizabeth Blanchard.The sudden pivot from working nonstop to a complete shutdown of the biz came as somewhat of an emotional shock to Rowan.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesIn 2011, Byron Lane was working the midnight to 7 a.m.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesThe coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the global economy, dramatically changing the way entertainment lawyers have conducted their business in Hollywood, New York and everywhere in between since March.Power lunches at the Palm have been replaced with marathon Zoom calls and negotiating contracts has gone from in-person meetings in Manhattan skyscrapers to FaceTime sessions from at-home offices and kitchens with children scurrying around.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesThe 1970s were a pivotal period in both American and global pop culture. It was the decade that witnessed the birth of the “American New Wave,” with helmers including Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola establishing a new filmmaking vernacular and making their indelible marks on cinematic history.