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Jane Seymour Spoofs Regency Period in ‘Austenland’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 14, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—One-time Bond girl Jane Seymour has a list of accomplishments to her credit: actress, producer, children’s book author, self-help guru, jewelry and home décor designer, mother and (believe it or not) grandmother. She reveals during a recent exclusive [...]

Oprah Winfrey Talks on ‘The Butler’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 14, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—It’s been 15 years since media titan Oprah Winfrey starred in a film. She was nominated for a NAACP award for her performance in “Beloved,” a post-Civil War drama in which she played an ex-slave determined to make a better life for her children. Since [...]

Ford Steps Out of Hero Role in ‘Paranoia’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 14, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Harrison Ford doesn’t want to be “Liked.” As in, he doesn’t want complete strangers—or even his friends—to “Like” him on Facebook or any other social media websites. “I don’t want to be (electronically) connected to my friends,” says the 71-year [...]

Stone Takes Off For ‘Lovelace’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 14, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s hard to believe now but there was a time when someone actually told Sharon Stone she wasn’t sexy. Even her manager would warn her that she couldn’t get roles in Hollywood because she was too bookish and dressed too frumpy to be seriously consider [...]

‘Downton Abbey’ Actresses Talk on Upcoming Season

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|August 14, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Cast members of the hit British TV series “Downton Abbey” were on hand here for the Television Critics Association Summer Tour. Among them were Michelle Dockery, who plays the impossibly proper Lady Mary Crawley, the eldest daughter of the Earl of Dow [...]

Emile Hirsch and David Gordon Green Talk ‘Avalanche’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 10, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—No one would imagine the mundane occupation of striping roads would serve as the backdrop of a poignant dramedy about the relationship between two very different coworkers, and yet that is precisely the setting for filmmaker David Gordon Green’s whims [...]

Dane Cook Meets His Destiny in ‘Planes’

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

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features SANTA MONICA, Calif.—Comedian Dane Cook is known for his edgy adult humor that he has been delivering in his stand up act for more than two decades. So it may come as a surprise that the Massachusetts native provides the voice of the heroic lead character in th [...]

Teri Hatcher Onboard as Role Model in ‘Planes’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 5, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON SANTA MONICA, Calif.—As she arrives for an interview at the Museum of Flying, actress Teri Hatcher can’t help but stop for a moment to admire the vintage flight attendant apparel on display. “I love that,” she squeals to her publicist pointing to a ‘50s-era salmon colored c [...]

A Stripped-Down Jennifer Aniston in ‘Millers’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 5, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON NEW YORK—Biologically, Jennifer Aniston is 44 but you’d never guess it from watching her play a smokin’ hot stripper who joins a drug dealer’s clandestine plot to pose as a normal family on vacation in Mexico to smuggle drugs across the border. The former “Friends” star recently [...]

A ‘Spectacular’ Follow Up for Shailene Woodley

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 31, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—After a star-making turn playing George Clooney’s surly daughter in “The Descendants,” Shailene Woodley delivers another noteworthy performance as a teenage “nice girl” who befriends a charming but troubled classmate in “The Spectacular Now.” The dram [...]