By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—For three years, Bella Thorne was best known for her role as CeCe on Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up!” in which she played a dyslexic dancer. Dyslexic in real life, playing the character wasn’t too much of a stretch. Yet the determined 16-year-old hasn’ [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Steve Carell fans must feel like pigs in mud. Not only did they get their wish and see him return as Michael Scott this past spring in the series finale of the “The Office,” they also saw him as a Siegfried-like Las Vegas magician in the big screen co [...]
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 LAS VEGAS—When Jim Carrey was still just a young stand up comic, he got a chance to open for Rodney Dangerfield at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. With a desire to do more than put on the same act every night, the young Canadian would try out some mighty
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