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EXCLUSIVE: Kantor spotlights Broadway’s Jewish Influence in Documentary

DVD Features By Angela Dawson|May 11, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Michael Kantor, who won an Emmy in 2005 for his “Broadway: The American Musical,” a six-part series hosted by Julie Andrews, is back with yet another look at the Great White Way with “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy.” Having explored the history of [...]

Eli Roth Shakes Things Up With ‘Aftershock’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 7, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—On February 27, 2010, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of central Chile. It was 3:34 a.m. Up and coming Chilean director Nicolas Lopez was at home in bed. Actress Lorenza Izzo was at a club in Valparaiso, a little buzzed from a night o [...]

‘Oranges’ Should Have Stayed on Shelf

DVD Features By Angela Dawson|May 4, 2013 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter After a lackluster performance in theaters last fall, “The Oranges” is rolling out on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, May 7. The problem with this so-called comedy that is so unappealing and flavorless it should have stayed on the shelf. What’s supposed to [...]

Hall and Pearce Join ‘Iron Man 3’ Cast

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 2, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Joining Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and the rest of the returning cast for the third installment of the box-office juggernaut “Iron Man” franchise, based on the Marvel comic book, are native Brits Guy Pearce and Rebecca Hall. Pearc [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Pierce Brosnan Finds ‘Love’ in Italy

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 30, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s hard to believe that former Bond-man Pierce Brosnan is turning 60. While his scruffy beard and salt-and-pepper hair may signal that pending milestone, the square-jawed Irish actor remains leading man handsome. He calls on a Friday afternoon from [...]

Michael Shannon’s ‘Iceman’ Cometh

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 30, 2013 |0

By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Workhorse actor Michael Shannon (“Take Shelter”) had an unusual path to his career. He made his professional debut a quarter-century ago in the music video “House of Pain” by heavy metal act Every Mother’s Nightmare. (He played a [...]

Paltrow’s Pepper Potts Gets Physical in ‘Iron Man 3’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 27, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Gwyneth Paltrow is 40 but you’d never know it to look at award-winning actress, mom and wife of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, as she arrives for a press conference to promote her new movie “Iron Man 3.” Perhaps there’s something to the vegetarian di [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Farm Drama a ‘Price’-Less Opportunity for Teen Star Maika Monroe

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 25, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As a kid, Maika Monroe watched all the “High School Musical” films, swooning over blue-eyed hunk Zac Efron like most other red-blooded American females. She never imagined a career as an actress, let alone starring in a movie opposite Efron, playing h [...]

Emily Blunt Gets Her Yank on in ‘Arthur Newman’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 24, 2013 |1

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As a youngster, Emily Blunt struggled to overcome a stammer, and with a teacher’s help eventually overcame it. So it’s quite a testament that the English actress would eventually make a career out of speaking, especially as the profession requires her [...]

Salman Rushdie Goes Hollywood

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 23, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Salman Rushdie is best known as a bestselling author, speaker and educator, but few might guess this intellectual chronicler of the human condition also is a movie buff. Hailing from Mumbai (formerly Bombay), where filmmaking and moviegoing is huge, i [...]