Judy Sloane has worked as an entertainment journalist for over 20 years and is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America and the TV Critics Association.
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD-In 1967 at the height of the Civil Rights movement in America, a thoughtful movie about the volatile relationship between a black homicide detective, Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) and a white bigoted police chief, Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) swept the [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD-CBS’s popular sitcom “The Neighborhood” premiered on October 1, 2018, spotlighting a friendly white Midwestern family, Dave and Gemma Johnson (Max Greenfield and Beth Behrs) and their young son Grover (Hank Greenspan) moving into a predominantly [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD-CBS’ new action comedy “True Lies” is inspired by James Cameron’s 1994 motion picture of the same name starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis which, in turn, was based on the 1991 French comedy “La Totale!” In CBS’ version, Steve How [...]
BY JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features PASADENA,CA-After portraying doting husband and father Jack Pearson on “This is Us” for six seasons, Milo Ventimiglia has chosen a very different role for his new series. He plays Charlie Nicoletti, a professional conman, in ABC’s “The Company You Keep.” Based o [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features PASADENA, CA-Based on the book of the same name by Ann Napolitano, “Dear Edward” tells the heartbreaking and uplifting story of Edward Adler (Colin O’Brien, “Wonka,”) a 12-year-old boy who is the only survivor of a commercial airline crash that kills his f [...]