By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In “Despicable Me 2,” the highly anticipated sequel to the hit 2010 animated comedy, Benjamin Bratt voices the character of dance crazy restaurateur Eduardo, who also may be a nefarious supervillain named El Macho. At least, that’s what Gru (Steve Car [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—At 20, Miranda Cosgrove has been acting for more than half her life. But don’t confuse her with so many of the other child performers who have gone astray. You’re not likely to see Cosgrove, who most notably starred in the kid-friendly Nickelodeon ser [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Production on the fourth season of the wildly popular British period soap opera “Downton Abbey” is under way, but show creator Julian Fellowes and some of the stars stole some time away from the set to talk about what TV viewers can expect now that tw [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features SANTA FE, N.M.—In this dusty remote region of the U.S., you’d be very hard pressed to find anyone speaking with an English accent. And yet in a beige bungalow in the middle of this beautiful town in a state affectionately known as “Land of Enchantment” sits lov [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Pedro Almodovar is one of those rare directors whose Spanish-language films are warmly welcomed outside his home country, even in the subtitle-averse U.S. “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!” “All About My Mother,” “T [...]