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Three’s the Charm for Keira Knightley

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 15, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Martin Scorsese has Leonardo DiCaprio. Ridley Scott has Russell Crowe. Director Joe Wright’s go-to actor is the lovely and versatile Keira Knightley. The director first cast Knightley as the Jane Austen heroine Elizabeth Bennet in his 2005 drama “Prid [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Greene Ponders ‘Breaking Dawn, Part 2’ Finale

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 13, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ashley Greene is stuck, literally. If only she had her “Twilight” character Alice’s precognition ability. She would have seen that she would get stuck in the Big Apple during hurricane Sandy, and then face a blizzard so she couldn’t fly to her a [...]

Danish Delight: Nikolaj Arcel Talks ‘A Royal Affair’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 12, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Every Danish schoolboy knows the story of the 18th century mad monarch Christian VII, his British-born queen Caroline and a court physician named Johann Struensee, who helped bring about social reforms in that small European country before getting cau [...]

Daniel Craig Reprises Bond in ‘Skyfall’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 8, 2012 |1

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Daniel Craig arrives for a press conference looking almost intimidatingly dapper in a dark suit, gray shirt and matching tie. He’s all smiles and seems absolutely jazzed. And why shouldn’t he be? His latest outing as secret agent James Bond in the Sam [...]

Spielberg, Day-Lewis Talk ‘Lincoln’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 7, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Steven Spielberg has had a passion for Abraham Lincoln since he was a youth. He was long interested in making a movie about the 16th president, but he wasn’t sure exactly how to tell the story of his personal hero until he met with Lincoln historian/a [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Ivanir Takes a Bow with ‘A Late Quartet’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 6, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Mark Ivanir had 10 days to become a violin virtuoso, or at least appear to be one onscreen, for the drama “A Late Quartet.” The Russia-born, Israel-raised former soldier and circus performer was a last minute replacement when another actor dropped out [...]

‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Swings Into Stores November 9

DVD Features Features By Angela Dawson|November 6, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Better in every way than the recent trilogy it reboots, “The Amazing Spider-Man” succeeds by boldly going forward into the comic-book character’s past. The epic-length 136-minute adventure not only updates the web-slinger’s origin but also [...]

Russell Brand Joins Fellow British Comics in ‘What About Dick?’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 6, 2012 |0

Note to editor: Brand uses the phrase “cocks and balls” and the word “tits” in one of his answers (all within the same paragraph). By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Dressed like a vested hippie biker adorned in necklaces, bracelets and tattoos, the hyper-animate [...]

Eddie Izzard Talks ‘Dick,’ ‘Munsters’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 6, 2012 |0

Note to editor: A few limited comments from other actors who were at the press conference with Izzard are included because they lead into Izzard’s answers. By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Comedian Eddie Izzard arrives for his new “What About Dick?” film’s pres [...]

‘What About Dick?’ Cast Discusses Comedy and Cross-Dressing

Features Film Features By James Dawson|November 3, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Writer and co-director Eric Idle says “there was a sense of chaos from start to finish” during the four onstage Los Angeles performances of his new comedy-mystery radio-drama “What About Dick?” A filmed version assembled from th [...]