Emmy Rossum Can’t Slow Her Down by Jay S. Jacobs When you’ve spent most of your life working to make a name in one field, it takes a certain leap of faith to put it on hold to try something different, just when your career has taken off. Emmy Rossum has taken that leap. At … Continue reading
PlayRadioPlay! Breaking Through the Confines By Abraham Kuranga Growing up in Aledo, Texas, young Daniel Hunter didn’t have much for which to look forward. His father passed away at an early age and his mother wasn’t around due to her alcohol addiction, leaving Hunter on his own. This led to an early drug problem, forcing … 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
NEIL GAIMAN THE AUTHOR IS BLESSED WITH STARDUST by Brad Balfour For author Neil Gaiman, seeing his expansive graphic novel Stardust made into a film that is getting the full-press treatment is a triumph in and of itself – though he initially approached the whole experience with anxiety, if not dread. No wonder he felt this way … Continue reading
ROSARIO DAWSON ACTRESS DESCENDING by Jay S. Jacobs You have to give it up to Rosario Dawson. She has some real guts. A lot of actresses in her position – in her late twenties, well-respected, attractive, hip and working on a near-constant basis – might just sit back and collect scripts and residuals. It certainly … Continue reading
Gail O’Grady Roles of a Lifetime by Ronald Sklar “I did Celebrity Poker, and it was the first time I ever played,” actress Gail O’Grady tells me, and this should surprise me, shouldn’t it. You would think that the beauty and the brains were enough to get her by in life, that those heavy doors swing … 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
Nico Muhly Speaks Volumes by Ronald Sklar What type of person do you imagine when you conjure up someone writing and arranging compositions for the likes of The Boston Pops, the American Symphony Orchestra, The Julliard Orchestra and The American Ballet Theater (if you think about this at all)? Perhaps some crusty old geezer who farts dust? … Continue reading
Dale Watson Lone Star State of Mind by Ronald Sklar How’s this for irony: Dale Watson – who embodies both the past and the promise (but possibly not the future) of country music – is talking to me on his cell phone. Forget about me – I’m about as far away from country as you … 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
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