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Tippi Hedren Reveals a Darker Side of Hitch in ‘The Girl’

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|October 15, 2012 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In the early ‘60s, Alfred Hitchcock spied Tippi Hedren, an unknown fashion model, on a TV commercial, and was immediately infatuated with her. He brought the gorgeous blonde to Universal Studios and offered her a seven-year contract. The first movie he [...]

‘Neil Young Journeys’ on DVD

DVD Features Features By Angela Dawson|October 15, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Some of the hometown landmarks Neil Young recalls during on-the-road segments of this concert documentary may be long gone, but the singer-songwriter himself remains enduringly iconic after nearly a half-century of rocking in the free world. “N [...]

Ben Affleck Wears Many Hats and a Beard for ‘Argo’

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

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ben Affleck has gone from leading man to a respected filmmaker the past decade or so. With the success of 2007’s “Gone Baby Gone” and 2010’s “The Town” under his belt, Affleck now tackles a historic drama involving a daring rescue in “Argo.” The 40-ye [...]

Sam Rockwell Plays Another Dangerous Mind in ‘Seven Psychopaths’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 11, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s difficult to steal scenes in a film that boasts famed scenery chewers Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson and Christopher Walken, yet Sam Rockwell manages to do just that in the dark comedy “Seven Psychopaths.” Rockwell, known for playing offbeat char [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Breaking From his TV Series, Bryan Cranston Goes Undercover in ‘Argo’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 9, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Bryan Cranston has mixed emotions about the upcoming fifth and final season of the critically acclaimed AMC series “Breaking Bad.” Though he will miss his colleagues and playing the drug-dealing schoolteacher Walter White, a role that has earned him t [...]

Mamie Gummer Scrubs Up for New TV Show

News TV Features By Judy Sloane|October 8, 2012 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Mamie Gummer has spent the last few years working constantly in featured roles on stage, screen and television. But in The CW’s new dramady “Emily Owens, M.D.,” which premieres on October 20, she gets to shine in the title role. If she [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Farrell Reteams With Martin McDonagh for ‘Seven Psychopaths’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 5, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Over the course of his career, Colin Farrell has played seven or so psychopaths, or at least characters that are unbalanced or on the verge of becoming unhinged. Extreme examples include the villainous Bullseye in “Daredevil,” the killer neighbor in 2 [...]

Tim Burton Reanimates his ‘Frankenweenie’ Classic

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 3, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features ANAHEIM, Calif.—Tim Burton has come a long way since he made his original “Frankenweenie,” short film about a boy named Victor who brings his dead dog back to life via a good jolt of electricity, an homage to Mary Shelley’s horror classic “Frankenstein” and the [...]

Anna Kendrick is Simply ‘Perfect’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 2, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Anna Kendrick got her start in musical theater, earning a Tony nomination at the tender age of 12 for her role as Dinah Lord in the 1997 Broadway musical production of “High Society.” One of her earliest film roles was playing a musical theater studen [...]

Winona Ryder: From ‘Beetlejuice’ to ‘Frankenweenie’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 1, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—At 13, Winona Ryder landed a plum role in Tim Burton’s horror comedy “Beetlejuice.” Young and relatively new to Hollywood at the time, she didn’t recognize the filmmaker when they first met on the Warner Bros lot. She simply assumed the gangly fellow [...]