Wendell Pierce Doing God’s Will in New Orleans by Jay S. Jacobs Sometimes life can be going so well and suddenly almost everything you have ever known is completely torn apart. Take Wendell Pierce. He had long toiled to become a respected actor, appearing in films such as Waiting to Exhale, Sleepers, Get on the Bus, … Continue reading
Mix Master Mike Riding the Wheelz of Steel with the Beasties and Travis By Jay S. Jacobs It’s not the background you’d expect from a DJ. Mix Master Mike (born Michael Schwartz) was a half-German Jewish, half-Filipino kid from San Fran when he broke out in the world of DJ battles. However, even as a little boy, Michael Schwartz was … Continue reading
Paul Reiser Life is But a Show by Ronald Sklar “It was not something I was planning to do or looking to do, but I got a very nice invitation,” Paul Reiser tells me about the evolution of his new NBC series, The Paul Reiser Show. That friendly invite, from Warner Brothers Television, kindly requested Reiser … Continue reading
Eric Balfour Eye on the Skyline by Jay S. Jacobs Eric Balfour is one of those actors that you see all over the place. He started out as a child actor in the early 90s as a short-lived regular on the series Kids Incorporated. Since then, he has played a varied and interesting series of roles in TV and … Continue reading
Rachel Nichols Building Her Dreams with Criminal Minds by Jay S. Jacobs It’s always a particularly daunting adventure to join the cast of a well-known and established television series. By recently joining the hit CBS crime procedural Criminal Minds, Rachel Nichols has now achieved that twice. Pretty impressive for a woman who just about a decade ago was … Continue reading
Michael C. Hall Welcome to the Peep World by Jay S. Jacobs You have to wonder what it is like on Father’s Day at Michael C. Hall’s house. It certainly couldn’t be as bad as it is for his characters. Hall first burst into our consciousness when he played David Fisher, a gay funeral director … Continue reading
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Get High With Paul by Brad Balfour In Paul, screenwriters/actors Nick Frost and Simon Pegg crash the San Diego Comic-Con, forever endear themselves to the fanboys, mark off some of the talent they have on their “favorite stars to work with” list and get the girl… or alien. It was inevitable … Continue reading
Panic! at the Disco What Were Once Vices Are Now Virtues By Jay S. Jacobs It’s weird to be a bit of a grizzled veteran of the music wars when you’re still in your mid-twenties, but that is sort of where the band Panic! at the Disco finds themselves. Just seven years ago, the members of … Continue reading
Mia Wasikowska Walking on Jane Eyre by Jay S. Jacobs It’s really saying something when a young actress plays two iconic literary roles before she hits her 22nd birthday. However, Australia-born Mia Wasikowska isn’t just any young actress. In just the past year, she starred as the title character in Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, played the daughter … Continue reading
Kem Intimacy Never Sounded So Good by Abraham Kuranga In the crowded arena of R&B voices, the artist Kem seems to stand out. He wouldn’t have it any other way. This Detroit native came, unexpectedly, from the depths of poverty and hardship to become one of the most recognizable voices in Adult R&B/Jazz today. Bolstered … Continue reading
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