By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Hunky actor Bradley Cooper is self-confident, self-deprecating and can handle almost any question thrown at him except one: What’s it like to be called ‘The Sexiest Man Alive,’ as he was designated in 2011 by People magazine. The typically quick-witte [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Report Move over Justin Bieber. The newest teen hearthrob is 16-year-old Austin Mahone. The rising young pop singer is the first music artist on Chase Records, which has entered a deal with Universal Music. Chase Records, founded by Rocco Valdes, Michael Blumstein, [...]
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 JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Dark Knight Rises” costars Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman never appear onscreen together in “Lawless,” Oldman shows up in only three scenes of the Prohibition-era drama and their characters couldn’t be more different. Bu [...]
By A Front Row Features Staff Report Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce the 85th Academy Awards, Academy President Hawk Koch announced today. This will be the duo’s first involvement with the Oscars. The 85th Academy Awards will air live on Oscar Sunday, February 24, 2013. “Craig and N [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The lightweight, nimble and fast-moving “Premium Rush” is a fun ride that’s a cool end-of-summer treat. Its flashback-and-forth plot is more silly than smart, but nobody goes to an amusement park looking for mental stimulation. Some [...]
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 [...]