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• "The people who are afraid of books and music and stories, they're never the heroes in history," the star says in his Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement acceptance thewrap.com/">TheWrap.S1
• The Venice Film Festival kicked off on a defiantly humanist note on Wednesday with speeches from Life Achievement Awardee George Clooney and jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal championing the power of cinema as a unifier in divisive times. Praising the festival...S2