By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features In 1979, the members of the irreverent Monty Python comedy troupe released their most outrageous and controversial movie, “The Life of Brian.” Loosely based on the life of Christ—it was ostensibly about another child born in Israel around the same time as Jesus [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Hunky actor Bradley Cooper is self-confident, self-deprecating and can handle almost any question thrown at him except one: What’s it like to be called ‘The Sexiest Man Alive,’ as he was designated in 2011 by People magazine. The typically quick-witte [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Report Move over Justin Bieber. The newest teen hearthrob is 16-year-old Austin Mahone. The rising young pop singer is the first music artist on Chase Records, which has entered a deal with Universal Music. Chase Records, founded by Rocco Valdes, Michael Blumstein, [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kenneth Branagh returns for a third season of “Wallander,” in which the acclaimed British actor and recently inducted knight plays a brooding Swedish police detective. The Oscar nominee recently spoke at the Television Critics Association Summer Press [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Musician/writer Nick Cave’s image may be that of a sometimes intensely grim performer who has fronted the Bad Seeds since the 1980s, released a 1996 album titled “Murder Ballads” and was described as a “harbinger of the gothic p [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Dark Knight Rises” costars Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman never appear onscreen together in “Lawless,” Oldman shows up in only three scenes of the Prohibition-era drama and their characters couldn’t be more different. Bu [...]
By A Front Row Features Staff Report Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce the 85th Academy Awards, Academy President Hawk Koch announced today. This will be the duo’s first involvement with the Oscars. The 85th Academy Awards will air live on Oscar Sunday, February 24, 2013. “Craig and N [...]