Interviews

Exclusive Interview: Violinist – composer Edvin Marton on new Southland concerts

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/03/2014
Violinist Edvin Marton | photo courtesy Edvin Marton

Emmy Award-winning Edvin Marton is a virtuoso violinist/composer whose musical style combines classical and rock.  Coming to Southern California between international appearances, Marton will be performing this coming weekend with his Prince of the Violin tour at the San Fernando Valley Performing Arts Center on Saturday, December 6, and in San Diego at the Contemporary Arts Museum in the Sherwood Auditorium on Sunday, December 7. He brings with him two rare, valuable violins, one an antique and one inlaid with 201 diamonds. Speaking by phone, the Hungary-born Marton talks about his career and his musical style. ASSIGNMENT X: Did you […]Read On »


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BLACK-ISH creator Kenya Barris on his new ABC comedy – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
Anthony Anderson as Andre "Dre" Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross as Rainbow Johnson, Yara Shahidi as Zoey Johnson, Miles Brown as Jack Johnson, special guest star, Laurence Fishburne as Pops Johnson, Marcus Scribner as Andre Johnson, Jr., and Marsai Martin as Diane Johnson in BLACK-ISH | ©2014 ABC/Bob D'Amico

Kenya Barris created the new ABC comedy BLACK-ISH, Wednesdays at 9:30 PM, with an eye to putting something like his own family life on television. BLACK-ISH stars Barris’ fellow executive producers Anthony Anderson and Laurence Fishburne.  Anderson plays Andre “Dre” Johnson, a successful, self-made man with a wife and three children, plus an opinionated father, portrayed by Fishburne. Dre is trying to balance wanting his children to grow up with a sense of racial inclusiveness while still maintaining their cultural roots. These issues are germane to both Barris and Anderson in their real lives. As Barris tells members of the […]Read On »


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Donal Logue walks the GOTHAM beat – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/01/2014
Ben McKenzie and Donal Logue in GOTHAM - Season 1 | ©2014 Fox/Michael Lavine

On Fox’s GOTHAM, Monday nights at 8 PM, we are in DC’s BATMAN universe. However, right now, Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) is still a youth who is only beginning to contemplate how he may fight crime in the city of his birth. For now, trying to uphold the law falls to Gotham City police detective Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie), an upright soul in the midst of profound corruption. A prime – albeit likable – example of this corruption can be found right at Gordon’s side in the person of his police partner Harvey Bullock, played by Donal Logue. Harvey has […]Read On »


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MADAM SECRETARY producer Lori McCreary hails to the chief – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/30/2014
Tea Leoni in MADAM SECRETARY - Season 1 | ©2014 CBS/Craig Blankenhorn

On CBS’ MADAM SECRETARY, Sundays at 8 PM, Tea Leoni stars as Elizabeth McCord, a CIA analyst who is promoted to U.S. Secretary of State when the previous occupant of that position dies under suspicious circumstances. The freshman series is a success; it is also the first scripted television series from Revelations Entertainment, the production company headed up by Morgan Freeman (yes, the Oscar-winning actor) and Lori McCreary, both of whom are executive producers on MADAM SECRETARY, along with series creator Barbara Hall. McCreary opens a Q&A session that CBS holds with the executive producers and cast for the Television […]Read On »


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CONSTANTINE actor Charles Halford raises hell – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/28/2014
Charles Halford as Chas in CONSTANTINE - Season 1 | ©2014 NBC/Paul Drinkwater

In NBC’s new Friday-night 10 PM series CONSTANTINE, based on DC Comics’ HELLBLAZER, the title character (Matt Ryan) battles demons in the hope of possibly saving his own soul. One of Constantine’s few allies is his friend Chas Chandler, played by Charles Halford. Halford recently tangled with demons of a different sort as the unnerving Reggie Ledoux in TRUE DETECTIVE. The Utah-born actor has also appeared in features including DARLING COMPANION and FLUTTER and has had recurring roles on THE EVENT and AGENTS OF SHIELD. At an event held by NBC for the Television Critics Association, Halford talks about what […]Read On »


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TV Review: DANCING WITH THE STARS – Season 19 – Week 11 – Season Finale – Alfonso Ribeiro wins

By PAMELA HARLAND 11/26/2014
Alfonoso Ribeiro and his partner Witney Carson win DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 19 | ©2014 ABC/Kelsey McNeal

Stars: Janel Parrish, Alfonso Ribeiro, Sadie Robertson, Network: ABC Original Telecast: Nov. 25th, 2014 He waited 10 years to be on the show and he was worth the wait! DANCING WITH THE STARS: Season 19 ended with Alfonso Ribeiro & Witney Carson winning the mirror ball trophy. DUCK DYNASTY star Sadie Robertson & Mark Ballas came in second, while PRETTY LITTLE LIARS‘ Janel Parrish & Val Chmerkovskiy ended the season in third. Ironically, last night’s eliminated couple, internet sensation Bethany Mota & Derek Hough, received the most votes for the encore, which they happily performed before we were treated to […]Read On »


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FOREVER creator Matthew Miller on Season 1 of the ABC series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/25/2014
Ioan Gruffudd in FOREVER - Season 1 | ©2014 ABC/Bob D'Amico

In ABC’s freshman series FOREVER, Tuesdays at 10 PM, Ioan Gruffudd plays Dr. Henry Morgan, a medical examiner attached to the NYPD who sometimes seems similarities to older cases – because Henry is actually 250 years old. He can be killed, but always resurrects nearby, naked and in water; he’s spent his existence trying to figure out why. Having had his heart broken repeatedly by outliving the women he loves, Henry is reluctantly drawn to the NYPD homicide detective (Alana de la Garza) he works with; he’s also worried about the health of his long-ago adopted son (Judd Hirsch), who […]Read On »


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TV Review: DANCING WITH THE STARS – Season 19 – Week 11 – Finals Night – Bethany Mota eliminated

By PAMELA HARLAND
Bethany Mota and Derek Hough in DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 10 | ©2014 ABC/Craig Sjodin

Stars: Bethany Mota, Janel Parrish, Alfonso Ribeiro, Sadie Robertson, Network: ABC, airs Mondays Original Telecast: Nov. 24th, 2014 Wow! I can’t remember the last time Derek Hough came in anything other than second or first place, until now. Hough’s partner, internet sensation Bethany Mota, and he finished fourth on DANCING WITH THE STARS: Season 19, leaving just three couples to fend for the mirror ball trophy Tuesday night. Ending the night in first place with a perfect 80 is Alfonso Ribeiro & Witney Carson. Landing in second with 78 points is Sadie Robertson &, Hough’s best pal, Mark Ballas. And […]Read On »


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AUTOMATA composer Zacarias M. de la Riva finds the musical ghost in the machines – Interview

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 11/24/2014
AUTOMATA soundtrack | ©2014 Movie Score Media Records

More than ever in science fiction, humans are being proven to inferior, doomed species in the face of the infinitely more compassionate creations they now want to destroy. It’s a message that science fiction cinema has increasingly hammered in, whether the lab-born synthetics were virtually indistinguishable from us (BLADE RUNNER, A.I., THE MACHINE) or had an artificial appearance that led us to think it was impossible for them to have a soul (“I, Robot”). But now, even the most pathetically abused, humanoid-shaped machines are given the grace of God in AUTOMATA, no more so than in the gorgeous spirituality of […]Read On »


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TV Review: BONES – Season 10 – “The Money Maker on the Merry-Go-Round”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF
Emily Deschanel in BONES - Season 10 - "The Money on the Merry-Go-Round" | © 2014 Fox/Patrick McElhenney

Stars: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, TJ Thyne, Tamara Taylor, John Boyd, Brian Klugman, Gil Bellows, LaMonica Garrett, Charlene Amoia, Adam Bartley, Lisa Datz, Jamison Haase, Drew Wicks Writer: Keith Foglesong, series created by Hart Hanson, based on the life and writings of Kathy Reichs Director: Michael Lange Network: Fox, Thursdays @ 8 PM Airdate: November 13, 2014 The title of the BONES episode “The Money Maker on the Merry-Go-Round” turns out to refer to a murdered hedge fund manager whose head is found under a piece of playground equipment. One’s first thought may be of something else entirely […]Read On »


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