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A Quarter-Century of Cinema: A Look at the Palm Springs International Film Festival by Someone Who’s Watched It Grow

Twenty years ago, I covered my first Palm Springs International Film Festival. The PSIFF was a much more modest event back then, and that year, the star of the festival was Sophia Loren. I remember it well—since she kissed me before a sea of cameras! She did it after I publicly asked her to send […]

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