By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—American audiences were introduced to British comedian Russell Brand when he played hedonist rocker Aldous Snow in 2008’s “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” a character he reprised two years later in “Get Him to the Greek.” Controversial and outspoken, Brand [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Film icon Woody Allen continues his globe-trekking ways following the success of his films set in London (“Match Point,” “Scoop”), Barcelona (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”) and Paris (“Midnight in Paris”), with yet another beautiful old European city as [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features EMERYVILLE, CALIF.—The first thing you notice outside Pixar’s college campus-like headquarters here is a collection of oversized rocks strategically laid out in a circle. Is it some sort of holy place where offerings are made to the animation gods? Perhaps it’s [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Lynn Shelton had never stepped onto a movie set when she made her features film, “We Go Way Back,” in 2006. She found herself introducing herself to her crew. “Oh, hi. You’re the gaffer? What do you do?” she recalls innocently asking. From that inaus [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Grammy winning music artist Mary J. Blige was the first performer filmmaker Adam Shankman thought of when he was casting his newest big screen musical adaptation “Rock of Ages.” “I think I just wanted (her) to sing around me,” says Shankman, who previ [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Julianne Hough steps into the room sipping a tall glass of orange juice. Dressed in a black and white patterned jumpsuit, the stunning blond and former “Dancing with the Stars” performer looks perky and prepared for a full day of interviews. She stars [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Is Julianne Hough too hot for PG-13? That’s what director Adam Shankman explained at a press junket Sunday for the upcoming big screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical “Rock of Ages,” in which the former “Dancing With the Stars” performer turned [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones got his start in show business as so many actors have—by appearing in a school play. It was in tiny Rotan, Texas, some 60 miles from Abilene. “When I was in the second grade, my school performed ‘Snow White and the [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD— Would you like to get a glimpse of Clint Eastwood’s family life? Well … sort of. The new reality series “Mrs. Eastwood and Company” on E! takes cameras into the iconic star’s home, chronicling the lives of his wife, Dina Eastwood, his daugh [...]