By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Tab Hunter was the Channing Tatum of his day. A handsome hunk of an actor, he made teenage girls (and some teenage boys) swoon in the 1950s and early 1960s. Tall, athletic, blond-haired and blue-eyed, he looked the part of a California surfer. A New Y [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kristen Wiig is best known for the wacky characters she played as a cast member for eight years on “Saturday Night Live,” as well as the goofballs she has played on the big screen in comedies like ‘Knocked Up,” “Bridesmaids” and “The Heat.” Of late, t [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—What’s scarier than ghosts, goblins, monsters or zombies? Politicians, some might say. Just in time for Halloween, movie star turned award-winning producer George Clooney drops a political satire on unsuspecting moviegoers with “Our Brand is Crisis.” [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—There is an action-packed scene in the upcoming political satire “Our Brand in Crisis” where star Sandra Bullock is aboard a bus as it barrels dangerously along a highway. No, this is not another “Speed ” sequel and no, Keanu Reeves is nowhere in sigh [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features SANTA FE, N.M.—Before it was a very successful film, “The Martian” was a popular novel by Andy Weir, a computer programming techie who first posted the novel on his website, chapter by chapter. The snowball effect from that point can only be described as a modern [...]