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What’s Going On? Everything, All at Once By Ben Fong-Torres

Posted by Suzanne Kai - on Sunday, 08 May 2022

What’s Going On? Everything, All at Once By Ben Fong-Torres
What’s Going On? Everything, All at Once By Ben Fong-Torres MAY 8, 2022 With “Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres” the documentary about me, now out today and streaming merrily along on Netflix, I’m officially in the film industry.  Actually, that’s been the case since last June, when the documentary, which stole its title from a popular column at Asian Connections created by director Suzanne Joe Kai's son Mike when he was 14, premiered at the...

Hollywood Interviews

StudioLA Talks Pirates with Johnny Depp

Posted by Mike Kai on Wednesday, 13 August 2003

Johnny Depp on Pirates of the Caribbean with Jim Ferguson.

Johnny Depp chats with StudioLA about his latest swashbuckling role as roguish Jack Sparrow in The Walt Disney Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

StudioLA's Mike Kai, Steve Joe and Marissa Becker joined lead Hollywood correspondent Jim Ferguson chatting with the stars of Pirates of the Caribbean on the world's largest red carpet premiere at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.

Read Jim's exclusive interview with Johnny Depp and watch the video by clicking Johnny Depp's image.

Directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the master of live action adventure blockbusters, this is Disney's first foray into PG-13 films. The film stars Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, and Keira Knightley.

Jim: Would you agree with me that this film kind of winks at the amusement park theme ride?

Johnny: Oh absolutely. There are a series of stories in the theme park ride. And I thought it was brilliant how the way the writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio gave a wink, a little nod to elements of the theme park ride.

Jim: As a kid, were you into these kinds of pirate movies? Did you always want to play a swashbuckling Errol Flynn-like pirate?

Troy Star Brad Pitt Chats with StudioLA

Posted by AC Team on Thursday, 13 May 2004

Jim Ferguson talks with Brad about his role as the legendary warrior Achilles in Warner Brother's summer's epic "Troy"

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Jim Ferguson talks with Brad Pitt about his role as the legendary warrior Achilles in Warner Brother's summer's epic

AC Interviews CAPE Lifetime Achievement Awared Honoree James Hong About The Progress of APA's in Hollywood

Posted by AC Team on Tuesday, 09 December 2008

At an elegant dinner party at the Cafe La Boheme in West Hollywood, CAPE honored actor James Hong with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Actor John Cho was presented with its New Horizon Award, and Tim Kring, creator and executive producer of Heroes, was presented with CAPE's Visionary Award.

Photos and video by AC's Codey May and Suzanne Kai.

Spider-Man 2's Tobey Maguire Chats with Jim Ferguson

Posted by AC Team on Friday, 25 June 2004

StudioLA's Jim Ferguson chats with Spider-Man 2's Tobey Maguire about what makes this sequel better than the original.

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Jim Ferguson talks with Tobey Maguire about his role as web-slinger Spider-Man in this summer's blockbuster

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