2016 was a good year for Gilmore Girls' fans. Not only did streaming network giant Netflix revive the seres in the shape of Gilmore Gilrs: A Year in the Life, but also star Lauren Graham released her memoir Talking as Fast as I can - a compilation of essays from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls and everything in between. The star that plays the main role of Lorelai Gilmore in the beloved TV show gives fan the insight scoop of the series along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girl and she also talks about her fascinating personal life.

The book reveals lough-out-loud stories about Lauren Graham's life, including her childhood and how she made it to stardom. She reflects on the book about the time when she looks back in her life while sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asks herself, "Did you, un, make it?"

She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood, a world where everyone from the far and wide, either you know them or not, are interested in her love life and worried that about her being single.

Did you know that Kelly Bishop (Emily Gilmore) told Graham to date that "wonderful actor on Six Feet Under" also known as Peter Krause, who happens to be her current partner. Talk about motherly advice.

One of her hilarious stories about the time she auditioned her butt for a role and her experience being a judge on Project Runway ("It's like I had a fashion-induced blackout").

In "What it Was like, Part One," Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon, which she had never seen before. What's more, she confessed she had never stop to watch herself on the screen. There she reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay "What it was Like, Part Two" reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later, and what doing so has meant to her.

There is so much to learn about Lauren: She once tried to bond with Ellen DeGeneres by becoming vegan, she talks about the challenges of meeting guys at awards shows ("If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high"), and she's a card-carrying REI shopper ("My bungee cords now earn points!). Graham even gives you the ultimate Hollywood diet and saves thousands of dollars in the process.

There's no doubting she is unique. She invites you into her mind which is a fascinating roller coaster or as she said herself "my brain is a wild jungle, full of scary jibberish. I'm writing a letter. I can't write a letter. Why can't I write a letter? I'm wearing a green dress. I wish I was wearing a blue dress."

Find out who Graham met co-star Alexis Bledel in the lobby of a Canadian hotel. "We'd both been cast in the show without ever having met," Graham writes. "...there'd been no time for anyone to even see us standing side by side, just to make sure we looked related... I was overwhelmed, but I could tell I liked her right away."

She takes you into her world with an incredible sense of humor, original photos and excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. In other words, apart from laughing, get ready to shed some tears.

The film "Rogue One: A Star Wars story" has made over a billion dollar at the global box office on its 39th day in cinemas. The film crosses the billion mark becoming one of the only four films to do so in 2016, following Captain America: Civil War ($1.153 billion), Finding Dory ($1.028 billion) and Zootopia ($1.024). All four films were created by Disney.

Mexican actor Diego Luna - who plays Cassian Andor in the latest installment of the legendary sci-fi franchise, took to Twitter to share the story of a viewer who took his Mexican father to see the movie - and who was deeply moved by the actor not abandoning his Mexican roots.

"I took my father to see Rogue One today," wrote the fan. "I've wanted to take him for a while. I wanted my Mexican father, with his thick Mexican accent, to experience what it was like to see a hero in a blockbuster film speak the way he does. And although I wasn't sure if it was going to resonate with him, I took him anyway. When Diego Luna's character came onscreen and started speaking, my dad nudged me and said, ‘He has a heavy accent.‘ I was like, ‘Yup.'"

"When the film was over and we were walking to the car, he turns to me and says, "did you notice that he had an accent?" And I said, "Yeah dad, just like yours." Then my dad asked me if the film had made a lot of money. I told him it was the second highest grossing film of 2016 despite it only being out for 18 days in 2016 (since new year just came around). He then asked me if people liked the film, I told him that it had a huge following online and great reviews. He then asked me why Diego Luna hadn't changed his accent and I told him that Diego has openly talked about keeping his accent and how proud he is of it. And my dad was silent for a while and how proud he is of it. And my dad was silent for a while and then he said, "And he was a main character." And I said, "He was." And my dad was so happy."

He added: "As we drove home he started telling me about other Mexican actors that he thinks should be in movies in America. Representation matters."

Five members of the cast of The Lord of the Rings catch up in the 16th anniversary of The Fellowship of the Ring's premiere, a film that would go down in film History. Dominique Monaghan - who played the role of Meriadoc Brandybuck in the trilogy - shared pictures of himself hanging out at a restaurant with Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn), Billy Boyd (Peregrin Took) and Elijah Wood (Frodo Baggins).

The former cast mates picked up cutlery from the restaurant table to recreate a popular the Fellowship scene in which the group is attached by a horde of Orcs in the mines of Moria. "They have a cave troll," Monaghan captioned a photo on his Instagram account as the men posed with cutlery from a restaurant and prepared to fight off a nonexistent cave troll. With that caption, he was quoting Boromir, Sean Bean's character.

Monaghan also shared a few other adorable shots from the mini-reunion, including one photo with Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) with the caption: "My captain. My king."

Despite the trilogy's was released over a decade ago, its cast members and the fandom still make it to the news. A few weeks before the mini-reunion, it was reported that a great-grandmother from Brazil has accidentally been praying to a figurine of a Lord of the Rings character, having mistaken it for a figure of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lost things.

Last year, the Lord of the Rings‘ casting director revealed in December why David Bowie didn't play Gandalf, the part that earned McKellen an Oscar nomination. It would not be possible for such a busy singer like Bowie to give up two years of their lives to film the fantasy trilogy in New Zealand.

Casting director, Amy Hubbard, said: "He was unavailable. It was a very quick conversation with the legendary Chris Andrews at CAA. I do believe that (David Bowie) went over and played for everybody at the Millennium party. that would've been New Year's Eve in the year 1999, which was when the films were being shot. He went over and entertained everybody, but he never auditioned. That's for sure."

Mortensen, Monaghan, Wood, Boyd and Bloom last appeared on screen together in 2003's Return of the King, but it seems they've been feeling nostalgic: they've recently interviewed each other for an anniversary feature story in Empire, and Bloom posted more than a dozen behind-the-scenes photos from the Peter Jackson-directed trilogy.

If you are also feeling nostalgic, here are some of the most famous quotes from The Lord of the Rings:

"There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power." - Gandalf

"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for." -Sam

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." - Galadriel

"The time of the Elves... is over. Do we leave Middle-Earth to its fate? Do we let them stand alone?" - Lady of the Wood

"We swears to serve the master of the Precious. We will swear on... on the Precious!" - Gollum

"I am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now... at the turn of the tide." - Gandalf

"Oh, it's quite simple. If you are a friend, you speak the password, and the doors will open." - Gandalf

Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is known for using endless pop culture references in

Gilmore Girls

dialogue and the revival was certainly not an exception to this rule. From modern to classic to random references, there is a large array of pop culture references to choose from.

In the last episode, it is revealed that Rory's childhood crushes are Pee-Wee Herman, Edward Scissoorhands and Law & Order's Jerry Orbach.

Kirk's short film about the death of his pig is strange in every aspect, but what you don't expect is that it becomes even weirder when it uses the orchestral theme from the classic drama Terms of Endearment.

As part of her grieving process, Emily Marie Kondon's The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up. In the process, she throws away some of Rory's stored boxes and her dining room chairs because they don't bring her joy.

When Luke asks Lorelai what she is doing one night before bed, she informs him that she's arranging her magazines by Kardashian.

When Emily accidentally commissions a portrait of Richard that takes up the whole wall, Lorelai likens it to Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings by saying, "You shall not pass!"

While complaining about the Dragonfly being unable to attract A-listers, Lorelai complains to Rory: "Why can't we bag Jennifer Lawrence?"

When Emily claims she has a new boyfriend who is just as rich as she is, Lorelai twice quotes Kanye West's "Gold Digger."

After Logan takes Rory on an extravagant night around the countryside of New England, accompanied by some of his friends from the Life and Death Brigade, she thanks him for taking her on her own private Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, from The Wind in the Willows (and Disneyland).

While everyone is excited that the lead of the town musical (Sutton Foster0 played the character of Kinky Boots in the musical Kinky Boots, Lorelai tries to explain that there's no character of that name in that musical. She is right. There's an actual Kinky Boots musical, but there's no such character named Kinky Boots.

Lorelai tells Rory, "You should be singing 'I Dreamed a Dream' with a bad haircut while selling yourself to French dockworkers," in a reference to 2012's Les Misérables.

"You've been Gooped," Lorelai said, in a reference to a popular favorite lifestyle site.

They joke about Zoolander 2, a movie that really did come out.

In "Winter", Lorelai tells Rory "I just hit my steps," implying she either keeps track on her smart phone or has a FitBit.

Kirk lunches his own version of tech/ride sharing company Uber called "Ooober", but only worse than the original because instead of an app, you have to call his mom to hire the car.

Lorelai notices that a group of nuns is selling their Stars Hollow property. She stops by as she is interested in expanding the Dragonfly Inn. There the nuns tell her that Katy Perry is also interested and she carries cash around to buy it. This is a reference to when Perry won a legal battle to purchase a beautiful Los Feliz convent over some nuns' protest.