By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—It’s been 15 years since media titan Oprah Winfrey starred in a film. She was nominated for a NAACP award for her performance in “Beloved,” a post-Civil War drama in which she played an ex-slave determined to make a better life for her children. Since  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Harrison Ford doesn’t want to be “Liked.” As in, he doesn’t want complete strangers—or even his friends—to “Like” him on Facebook or any other social media websites. “I don’t want to be (electronically) connected to my friends,” says the 71-year [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s hard to believe now but there was a time when someone actually told Sharon Stone she wasn’t sexy. Even her manager would warn her that she couldn’t get roles in Hollywood because she was too bookish and dressed too frumpy to be seriously consider [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Cast members of the hit British TV series “Downton Abbey” were on hand here for the Television Critics Association Summer Tour. Among them were Michelle Dockery, who plays the impossibly proper Lady Mary Crawley, the eldest daughter of the Earl of Dow [...]