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Valerie Harper – Kicking Cancer New York Style
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Valerie Harper – Kicking Cancer New York Style

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Valerie Harper – Kicking Cancer New York Style by Ronald Sklar The beloved Rhoda star helps launch The American Lung Association’s Lung Force initiative. On May 13, 2014 in Manhattan, actress and lung cancer survivor Valerie Harper, along with country music star Kellie Pickler, helped kick off of a new women’s health initiative for The … Continue reading →

Terri Nunn of Berlin – Embraces Her Animal Instincts
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Terri Nunn of Berlin – Embraces Her Animal Instincts

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Terri Nunn of Berlin – Embraces Her Animal Instincts by Jay S. Jacobs Berlin rode the synthesized new wave to pop stardom in the early 80s.  The band was formed in Santa Monica, California, in the late 70s when songwriter and producer John Crawford hooked up with former actress and model Terri Nunn to take … Continue reading →

John Turturro, Sofia Vergara and Vanessa Paradis Don’t Want To Fade Away
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John Turturro, Sofia Vergara and Vanessa Paradis Don’t Want To Fade Away

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John Turturro, Sofia Vergara and Vanessa Paradis Don’t Want To Fade Away by Jay S. Jacobs You can thank John Turturro’s barber for connecting him with Woody Allen. Turturro is a well-known character actor, who in a career that runs for well over 30 years has been in such varied projects as Do The Right Thing, Barton Fink, Quiz … Continue reading →

Jonatha Brooke – How We Met Her Mother
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Jonatha Brooke – How We Met Her Mother

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Jonatha Brooke – How We Met Her Mother by Jay S. Jacobs A few years ago, acclaimed singer/songwriter Jonatha Brooke had to put her career and life on hold when her mother was afflicted with Alzheimer’s and dementia.  For two years, Brooke, her husband and a cousin took on the full-time positions of caretaker and … Continue reading →

Vera Farmiga and Kerry Ehrin – Checking In To Bates Motel
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Vera Farmiga and Kerry Ehrin – Checking In To Bates Motel

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Vera Farmiga and Kerry Ehrin – Checking In To Bates Motel by Jay S. Jacobs It takes a certain amount of self-confidence to take on an iconic character and try to make it your own. Therefore, it must have given Vera Farmiga pause when she was offered the role of arguably the most infamous mom … Continue reading →

Joelle Carter – The Ends Justify The Means
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Joelle Carter – The Ends Justify The Means

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Joelle Carter – The Ends Justify The Means by Jay S. Jacobs Joelle Carter has certainly had a wild ride in the five seasons that she has been playing southern belle Ava Crowder on FX’s acclaimed modern western Justified. When you meet a character right as she is killing her abusive husband, you wouldn’t think there … Continue reading →

Lori Loughlin – When Calls the Heartfelt Role
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Lori Loughlin – When Calls the Heartfelt Role

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Lori Loughlin – When Calls the Heartfelt Role by Jay S. Jacobs It’s not easy to find nice, wholesome family friendly fare in such a cynical age. That was why Lori Loughlin signed on the dotted line to be a part of the new Hallmark Channel series When Calls the Heart, based on the popular … Continue reading →

The Wait (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
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The Wait (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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The Wait The Wait is both gorgeously filmed and acted and annoyingly artsy at the same time.  A very loose variation on Samuel Beckett’s classic play Waiting For Godot, the film mostly hovers around three adult children in differing stages of mourning four their mother, who dies of an unspecified-but-apparently-long-term illness as the film begins. Soon after … Continue reading →

Chloë Sevigny Is Totally Worth The Wait
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Chloë Sevigny Is Totally Worth The Wait

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Chloë Sevigny Is Totally Worth The Wait by Jay S. Jacobs We’ve been watching Chloë Sevigny since she was literally a kid: playing a standout role in Larry Clark’sKids, the hard-hitting 1995 cult drama about wasted youth.  Nearly twenty years later and the quirky actress still fascinates.  As an actress, she is an odd contradiction: pretty but not … Continue reading →

Billy Campbell and Jordan Hayes Take On a Pandemic in Helix
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Billy Campbell and Jordan Hayes Take On a Pandemic in Helix

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Billy Campbell and Jordan Hayes Take On a Pandemic in Helix by Jay S. Jacobs The Syfy Channel has high hopes for its new snowbound thriller series Helix. A shiny new variation of many science fiction nightmares has a mysterious and deadly disease – which may or may not be manmade – turning a bunch of scientists … Continue reading →