By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Joseph Gordon-Levitt is having quite a summer. He appeared as police officer John Blake in the box office hit “The Dark Knight Rises.” He now stars as Wilee, a bike messenger in the real Gotham who winds up in the crosshairs of a crooked cop while del [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—At the finale of the ninth season of “American Idol” in 2010, its supercilious judge Simon Cowell bid the franchise farewell, in order to import another of his success shows to America, “The X Factor,” which premiered last year to less than stellar rati [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Twilight” heartthrob Robert Pattinson takes a short, strange trip in the fitfully interesting if often gridlock-slow “Cosmopolis,” spending most of the movie in the back of a luxurious Manhattan-traversing limo. Director Davi [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—”ParaNorman” writer Chris Butler, who co-directed the 3D animated zombie-adventure comedy with “Flushed Away” and “The Tale of Despereaux” director Sam Fell, says his inspiration for the story came from “watchi [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actress Anna Kendrick, who voices 11-year-old Norman’s self-absorbed big sister Courtney in the animated zombie adventure “ParaNorman,” was shown a picture of her blond, beautiful but very big-bottomed character when she was hired for [...]