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...business on TV, with full-time factories like Nickelodeon, ABC Family and the Disney Channel churning out moppet entertainment. Nickelodeon has 14 scouts traveling the country trying to find the next young stars. But the show-biz sass that works on sitcoms may look grotesque on the big screen. Those reflexes anticipate what a director wants, when maybe what he wants is to be surprised. "You don't want some actor child who does everything perfectly and doesn't have a childlike aura," says Campbell Scott, who directed the then 13-year-old Valentina de Angelis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Acting Their Age | 2/28/2005 | See Source »

...then, to more mainstream projects. What about Steven Spielberg’s take on H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, awaiting a June 29 release, in which Robbins shares the screen with Tom Cruise, Miranda Otto, and Dakota Fanning? The residents of late-Victorian Britain felt the brute force of interplanetary colonialism in Wells’ classic science fiction novel, and Robbins is the first to admit that Spielberg’s contemporary update, set in America, might have some underlying relevance to the current geopolitical scene...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Robbins Takes on Pudding With Politics, Humor | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

Pinkett-Smith’s career spans a diversity of roles, ranging from Lena James on television’s “A Different World” to more recent feature roles on the big screen as Woo in “Woo,” Niobe in “The Matrix Reloaded” and “Matrix Revolutions,” and Annie in “Collateral...

Author: By Alicia Warlick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cultural Rhythms Chooses Honoree | 2/23/2005 | See Source »

...addition to her roles on the silver screen, she wrote and produced “All of Us,” a television series partly inspired by her relationship with her husband, Will Smith...

Author: By Alicia Warlick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cultural Rhythms Chooses Honoree | 2/23/2005 | See Source »

...screen and far from the limelight, Pinkett-Smith and her husband have quietly established The Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith Family Foundation, which serves at-risk and underprivileged American and South African families...

Author: By Alicia Warlick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cultural Rhythms Chooses Honoree | 2/23/2005 | See Source »

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