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Teen ‘Voice’ Winner Chevel Shepherd is a Country Tinkerbell

Features TV Features By Lynn Barker|December 21, 2018 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features ALBUQUERQUE—From the small town of Farmington, N.M., 2018’s winner of NBC’s “The Voice” is Chevel Shepherd. (She pronounces her first name “Chevelle”) The 16-year-old credits the popular TV talent show with helping her grow as a confident performer comfortable on [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning Documentarian Sets her Lens on Jane Fonda

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|September 21, 2018 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Susan Lacy has profiled numerous luminaries over the years in her documentaries, including conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein, filmmaker Steven Spielberg, musician/singer Joni Mitchell and actress/singer Judy Garland. She created the “American Maste [...]

Jane Fonda Revealed in ‘Five Acts’ Documentary

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|September 19, 2018 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In her 80-plus years on this planet, Jane Fonda has lived many lives—ingenue, sex symbol (“Barbarella”), Oscar winner (for her performances in “Coming Home” and “Klute”), fitness guru and activist, being labeled “Hanoi Jane” when she visited communist N [...]

John Stamos Plays Shrink on Lifetime’s ‘You’

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|September 6, 2018 |0

By JUDY SLOANE and ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—John Stamos, who began his career as teenage bad boy/heartthrob Blackie Parrish on the daytime drama “General Hospital,” is now the one treating patients in Lifetime’s upcoming psychological thriller “You.” The cable TV series, premier [...]

EXCLUSIVE: From a ‘Liar’ to a ‘Truth’ Seeker, Lucy Hale is on a Roll

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|April 9, 2018 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—After seven seasons of playing artsy Aria Montgomery on the hit TV series “Pretty Little Liars,” Lucy Hale is headlining another show, “Life Sentence,” in which she plays Stella Abbott, a young woman who has survived terminal cancer and has to learn t [...]

A Double Dose of J.K. Simmons in Starz Series ‘Counterpart’

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|January 20, 2018 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—J.K. Simmons had a recurring role on the “Law & Order” franchise, co-starred in the prison drama “Oz” and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of an abusive band instructor in “Whiplash,” but he probably is still best kn [...]

‘Waco’ Miniseries Recalls Tragic Standoff, Premieres on Paramount Network

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|January 20, 2018 |0

By JUDY SLOANE and ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—February 28 marks the 25th anniversary of the beginning of an infamous standoff between a religious cult known as the Branch Davidians who clashed with federal and state law enforcement agencies in Waco, Texas. For the next 51 days, th [...]

Jane Seymour & Co. Revisit the Eighties in Pop’s ‘Let’s Get Physical’ Comedy Series

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|January 15, 2018 |0

By JUDY SLOANE and ANGELA DAWSON HOLLYWOOD—Actress and former “Dancing with the Stars” celebrity contestant Jane Seymour returns to the small screen in the ‘80s flashback comedy series “Let’s Get Physical.” The perennial British beauty plays a new widow thrust into taking over the operations of h [...]

Actresses Delighted to Join Cast of ‘Marvel’s Runaways’

Features TV Features By Peter Gonzaga|November 17, 2017 |1

By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Life for young actresses Lyrica Okano and Virginia Gardner changed once they knew they were going to be part of the Marvel family. Along with the other cast members, Okano and Gardner were so excited about the news of being part of a successful fra [...]

Stephen Moyer Joins X-Men Universe on ‘The Gifted’

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|October 1, 2017 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Set in Marvel’s X-Men universe, Fox’s new drama “The Gifted” stars Stephen Moyer (“True Blood”) as District Attorney Reed Strucker, who is in charge of capturing and prosecuting mutants that commit crimes. But when he discovers his teenage children, Lau [...]