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Chris Evans Concocts a More Down-to-Earth Hero in ‘Gifted’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 3, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Chris Evans steps out of superhero mode to play a more everyday hero in the heartwarming family drama “Gifted.” Evans plays a boat mechanic who ekes out a living in small, coastal Florida town with his seven-year-old niece. As Frank, he does what he c [...]

Tim McGraw Talks Faith and Forgiveness Themes in ‘The Shack’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 2, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Country singer/actor Tim McGraw has spoken at length about his troubled upbringing—being raised by a bipolar man whom he thought was his father and then accidentally discovering during his adolescence that his biological dad was former New York Mets p [...]

Photos: Octavia Spencer Tackles All-Powerful Role in ‘The Shack’

Film Features Photos Photo Gallery By Angela Dawson|February 27, 2017 |0

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Octavia Spencer Tackles All-Powerful Role in ‘The Shack’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|February 27, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Octavia Spencer took the stage of the Academy Awards ceremony this past Sunday with two of her “Hidden Figures” co-stars along with 98-year-old Katherine Johnson, one of the unsung NASA pioneers that helped put a man on the moon in 1969, depicted in t [...]

Kevin Costner Tackles Race Relations in ‘Black or White’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|January 26, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Oscar winning filmmaker and actor Kevin Costner (“Dances With Wolves,” “Field of Dreams”) grew up in ethnically diverse Compton and other Southern California communities, where simmering racial and ethnic tensions sometimes boiled to the surface. So w [...]