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 ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ashley Greene soared to international fame as part of the “Twilight” cast. She has played the likable Alice in all three vampire films that have become a pop culture phenomenon and reprises her role one more time in the upcoming “The Twilight Saga: Br [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Joseph Gordon-Levitt is having quite a summer. He appeared as police officer John Blake in the box office hit “The Dark Knight Rises.” He now stars as Wilee, a bike messenger in the real Gotham who winds up in the crosshairs of a crooked cop while del [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—At the finale of the ninth season of “American Idol” in 2010, its supercilious judge Simon Cowell bid the franchise farewell, in order to import another of his success shows to America, “The X Factor,” which premiered last year to less than stellar rati [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—”ParaNorman” writer Chris Butler, who co-directed the 3D animated zombie-adventure comedy with “Flushed Away” and “The Tale of Despereaux” director Sam Fell, says his inspiration for the story came from “watchi [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actress Anna Kendrick, who voices 11-year-old Norman’s self-absorbed big sister Courtney in the animated zombie adventure “ParaNorman,” was shown a picture of her blond, beautiful but very big-bottomed character when she was hired for [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Whitney Houston was on the minds of the cast and filmmakers as they promoted their new movie “Sparkle,” the story of a young singer-songwriter living in the shadow of her more glamorous sister and under the ever-watchful eye of her overprotective moth [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Jennifer Garner knows a little something about the specialness of being a parent, having given birth to three children with husband actor Ben Affleck. But she knows many couples who have trouble conceiving and having their own biological children, whi [...]