Kevin Alejandro Acting Chose Him by Jay S. Jacobs Copyright ©2007 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: September 23, 2007. During the past year, Kevin Alejandro’s career has blown wide open. After years of toiling in the television trenches, he finally has picked up the white-hot interest that has casting directors looking his way as … Continue reading
Fabian About This Thing Called Luck by Ronald Sklar Fabian was born under a lucky star, and that star first shone its light above the ancient, sooty row-house streets of South Philadelphia. Although we think of 1950s America as a world of suburbs, tailfins and sparkling new appliances, most of this country still lived in … Continue reading
VIGGO MORTENSEN MAKES HIS EASTERN PROMISES by Brad Balfour It’s entirely understandable why director David Cronenberg has recently cast Viggo Mortensen as his lead in two complementary but very different films (2005’s excellent A History of Violence and the new Eastern Promises). Mortensen inhabits these characters and the characters inhabit him. It is said that when he played Aragorn in Lord … Continue reading
AMAURY NOLASCO BREAKING OUT by Jay S. Jacobs Had things broken a little differently, Amaury Nolasco might still be living in his native Puerto Rico telling patients to turn and cough. After all, that was always the plan. His family was made up almost exclusively of doctors, and when he was growing up in an upscale area … Continue reading
DAN FOGLER AND GEORGE LOPEZ GIVE IT TO US IN THE BALLS by Jay S. Jacobs Usually, when a movie studio makes stars available to the press to promote their latest film, they summon us to a suite in one of the finest hotels in New York City. However, it somehow makes a certain amount … Continue reading
Alan Alda On His Many Careers by Brad Balfour Copyright ©2007 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: August 24, 2007. Whatever Alan Alda has done as an actor, author, playwright, or director – whether it be on television, in film or on stage – it has been imbued with a fundamental sense of humanity. Certainly, with his … Continue reading
Nikki Blonsky and Zac Efron Hair Raising Success in Hairspray by Brad Balfour What a way to kick off a career. From high school student to major motion picture lead, 17-year-old Nikki Blonsky’s star turn as Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray, (the film version of the Broadway musical), deserves all the accolades the film has been garnering. In … Continue reading
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart Show No Reservations For Fine Cuisine by Brad Balfour Copyright ©2007 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: July 27, 2007. By cooking up some serious chemistry between Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago) and Aaron Eckhart (Thank You for Smoking), veteran Australian director Scott Hicks (Shine) stirred up a satisfying romantic comedy with No Reservations. But … Continue reading
Shadoe Stevens Voice on the Air by Ronald Sklar When asked if he was indeed the world’s youngest DJ, at age 11, in Jamestown, North Dakota, Shadoe Stevens answers like a true native. “Yah,” he says, in that clipped Midwestern drawl, like a character out of the flick Fargo. The answer is true, but the “yah” … Continue reading
Claire Danes, Hugh Dancy and Mamie Gummer – Some Enchanted Evening by Jay S. Jacobs Originally posted on June 29, 2007. Susan Minot’s novel Evening was embraced by a huge readership upon being released. The novel is about the choices people make and how they are formed by them. A woman at the end of … Continue reading
