By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—“Star Wars” fans discovered the backstory of Ben Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in “Episodes 4-6,” a sci-fi trilogy released 2005-09. Now, devotees of the long-running sci-fi space saga franchise are about to learn the origins of the ace pilot/smuggler-t [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—British actor Paul Bettany has had an eclectic career, with his amusing performance in 2001’s “A Knight’s Tale”, to his dramatic turns in “A Beautiful Mind” (2001) and” Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” (2003), not forgetting [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—What’s a family without the occasional feud? When the family happens to be a bunch of super-powered Avengers, things tend to get extremely messy when a question of relinquishing their autonomy to the world’s governments divides them into opposing side [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Stalwart British actor Paul Bettany has appeared in a more than two dozen films, mostly in a supporting capacity, over the past two decades. The tall, (he’s 6’3”) fair-haired actor has played opposite Russell Crowe twice (in “A Beautiful Mind” and “Ma [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It was a mini-“Avengers” reunion Monday at the Creative Artists Agency Century City headquarters. Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man), Anthony Mackie (Sam Wilson/Falcon) and Paul Bettany (the voice of J.A.R.V.I.S/The Vision) turned up in public to [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In the sci-fi epic “Transcendence,” Johnny Depp plays Will Caster, an artificial intelligence researcher whose consciousness is uploaded into his machinery after he is assassinated by an extremist. But Will’s thirst for knowledge soon evolves into a s [...]