GARY SINISE HELPS BROTHERS at WAR and GRAPPLES with IRAQ and ITS EFFECT on a FAMILY by Brad Balfour Presently known for playing Detective Mac Taylor on the hit TV series, CSI: NY, the talented Gary Sinise has done it all – acting, directing, making music and producing everything from plays to films. Now, Sinise plays … Continue reading
Patrick Warburton Always Challenging the Rules by Jay S. Jacobs Patrick Warburton isn’t all that manly. Hollywood thinks it has Warburton figured out. Because he cuts such an imposing figure – with his strong, impressive frame, his chiseled aging-model looks and his distinctive baritone voice – television and film has a tendency to cast him as funny, … Continue reading
Mickey Rourke A Requiem for Rourke — Battling His Way Back To Stardom and the Oscar Nom Through The Wrestler by Brad Balfour You got to hand it to roughhouse actor Mickey Rourke. When he makes a comeback, he makes a helluva comeback. For thirteen years, the now-aging actor — once the superstar who had made 9 … Continue reading
Tea Leoni and Kyle MacLachlan Have Fun Playing in Manure by Brad Balfour Don’t do it. Don’t let publicists put actress Tea Leoni together with any of her co-stars, because it prompts such an assault on serious answers. But there she was, with her co-star Kyle MacLachlan gabbing about their comic turns in the Polish … Continue reading
Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer With Valkyrie, They Illustrate That Slide Down the Slippery Slope to Fascism by Brad Balfour Though he totally missed the Oscar loop, you have to give some credit to media magnet Tom Cruise for releasing his World War II drama, Valkyrie at the end of 2008 despite the surge of … Continue reading
Bruce Campbell Giving His Burn Notice by Jay S. Jacobs It’s not easy to make a living in Hollywood as a cult celeb, but Bruce Campbell never believed in doing things the easy way. Campbell has become a God for throngs of fans for B-movies and genre work. Best known for his role in Sam … Continue reading
Viggo Mortensen and Jason Isaacs Address Good and Wax Philosophical about the Nazis by Brad Balfour Originally posted on January 12, 2009. During a snappy roundtable with a few journalists, actors Viggo Mortensen and Jason Isaacs double-teamed to express their thoughts about their disturbing new film, Good, based on the acclaimed British play by CP … Continue reading
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet Reuniting on Revolutionary Road by Brad Balfour At a recent press conference in New York preceding its premiere, the essential members of the Revolutionary Road cast (Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon and Kathy Bates) and director Sam Mendes answered questions before a small room of journalists. Of course, the big news – … Continue reading
Frank Langella Transforms in Frost/Nixon by Brad Balfour Few performances can rival veteran actor Frank Langella’s portrait of the late President Richard Nixon in the Ron Howard film, Frost/Nixon. Originally a stage play — based on the actual interviews conducted by British TV talk show host David Frost in 1977 — the cinematic version fleshes out … Continue reading
Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Alison Pill, Gus Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black Recruited by Harvey Milk by Jay S. Jacobs “I’m Harvey Milk, and I’m here to recruit you!” This was the battle cry of 1970s San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man voted into public office … Continue reading
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