1.  As a child, George Stevens Jr. loved to hang around the movie sets where his father, the celebrated director, was working.

2.  After college, he went to Leningrad to study and then work under the celebrated director Georgy Tolstonogov.

3.  The testimony from the celebrated director and actor drew media from across the country and several spectators, a handful of them veteran trial watchers.

4.  Amid growing restrictions on film-making, several celebrated directors and actors have either left the country or plan to do so.