By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Chilean actress Cote de Pablo is best known for her role as former Mossad officer Ziva David in the long-running “N.C.I.S.” TV series. Headed to Broadway to star in the musical “The Mambo Kings” when she booked the role on the popular show, the [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features More than 65 years after Charles M. Schulz’s “Peanuts” debuted as a comic strip, which subsequently became a series of animated TV specials, Charlie Brown and the gang now make their big screen debut in the animated 3D adventure “The Peanuts Movie.” Peanuts fan [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actress Elle Fanning knew nothing about Dalton Trumbo or Hollywood’s infamous blacklist when she got word that she was in line for a part in the biopic “Trumbo.” Of course, it didn’t take long for the teenager to start researching the period (post-Wor [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Nobody did it better than actor Daniel Craig, director Sam Mendes and screenwriters John Logan, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade with 2012’s “Skyfall,” a strong contender for the best James Bond film ever made. That same team (plus write [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Though few outside of the Hollywood community know the name Dalton Trumbo, the two-time Academy Award winning screenwriter stands as an example of someone who stood up against censorship during the turbulent Cold War era, when paranoia ran rampant, an [...]