Kevin Pollak, Meta World Peace, Kate Flannery, & Adrienne Barbeau @Opening Night of The HollyShorts Film Festival Live From The Dolby Theatre

Now live from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, doing a great interview with the award winning Actor/ Comedian Kevin Pollak, on the Opening Night Gala of the HollyShorts Film Festival.

The interview was on the red carpet right in the first and best spot by the entrance of the Dolby Theatre- the exact same spot as where the Oscars are held every year, as you can see in the above and below photos: 

In the feature photo (L – R) is our Entertainment Today News Team of Doug Nolan: Editor, Cameraman, and Reporter, Steve Taylor: TV Producer, our interviewee: Actor Kevin Pollak, Margie Rey and Jacqueline Murphy(not in photo): our TV Show Host News Reporters: On the opening night of this film festival our Entertainment Today TV Show Host: Margie Rey interviewed Kevin Pollak, and afterwards he was nice enough to pose for photos with us (see above photo).

At this Film Festival you can see Kevin star in the hilarious Comedy “The GRIEVANCE “ with Rosie O’Donnell. It’s a very timely comedy about harassment in the work place- but this time it’s a robot that gets harassed by Kevin Pollak, and Rosie is the one who investigates the complaint! It is written by Comedian/Actress: Carol Leifer.

Stay tuned for great news coverage from our Entertainment Today news team, for the rest of this star-studded HollyShorts Film Festival.

Kevin Elliot Pollak (born October 30, 1957) is an American actor, comedian, impressionist and podcast host. He has appeared in over 90 films; his roles include Sam Weinberg in Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men, Jacob Goldman in Grumpy Old Men and its sequel Grumpier Old Men; Todd Hockney in The Usual Suspects, Phillip Green in Martin Scorsese’s Casino, and Bobby Chicago in End of Days. Our Entertainment Today News Reporter and Editor: Doug Nolan interviewed NBA All-Star and World Champion with the LA Lakers: Meta World Peace, who now is known as: Metta Sandiford-Artest (born Ronald William Artest Jr.; November 13, 1979), previously legally named Metta World Peace, is an American former professional basketball player who played 19 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Under the name Ron Artest, he played college basketball for the St. John’s Red Storm. He was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the 1999 NBA draft, and in 2010 helped the Los Angeles Lakers win the NBA World Championship, along with the NBA Legend: Kobe Bean Bryant, who was a shooting guard, who spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association. In the above and below photos you can see Steve and Margie posing for photos with Meta World Peace: Doug also interviewed Actress Kate Flannery who co-starred with Steve Carell in the award winning hit TV show “The Office.”  Kate Flannery (born June 10, 1964) is an American actress. Following her early theatre work, Flannery had her screen breakthrough playing Meredith Palmer on the NBC series The Office, which won her two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She went on to guest star on CBS shows Magnum P.I. and Young Sheldon. She competed on the 28th season of Dancing with the Stars and voiced Barb on the animated series Steven Universe:

Our Entertainment Today TV Show Host: Margie Rey also did a great interview with Adrienne  Barbeau who is an American actress and author. She came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway’s original Rizzo in the musical Grease, and as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Maude Findlay on the sitcom Maude (1972–1978). In 1980, she began appearing in horror and science fiction films, including The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), Creepshow (1982), and Swamp Thing (1982). She also appeared in the Burt Reynolds comedy The Cannonball Run (1981), and as the shrewish wife of Rodney Dangerfield’s character in Back to School (1986). She was cast in numerous television films and series such as The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Valentine Magic on Love Island, and Battle of the Network Stars: She also provided the voice of Catwoman in the DC Animated Universe. In the 2000s, she appeared on the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005) as Ruthie. Her Spouses were John  Carpenter: married 1979 and divorced in 1984, and Billy Van Zandt: married 1992 and divorced in 2018.  She was born on June 11, 1945, so she is now age 79, but at one time she was a major sex symbol, with the popularity of her 1978 cheesecake poster that confirmed her status as a sex symbol.

Below Photo L – R: Margie, Matt, Steve, and Jacqueline:  Our other Entertainment Today TV Show Host: Jacqueline Murphy also did some interviews on the red carpet for us, and will be doing reviews on the movies, and the panels and special events for us at this HollyShorts Film Festival: After all the interviews our news team did with the film’s Actors, Producers, Directors, and Writers, we watched the opening night’s excellent movie shorts at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre, and then attended an amazing party right by the red carpet, in the Hollywood Highland Complex. The party had live music with Bongos: excellent wines and drinks, with wood fire Pizza, and ice-cream- so everyone had a great time!

On this show you will see those interviews done by Margie, Doug, and Jacqueline. In the below photo you can see our Entertainment Today Show Host : Margie Rey interviewing from the short film:  “If I Die in America” – The Director on the left: Ward Kamel, and the Producer in the center: Adria’n Lausell Caban:

 Our Reporter Doug Nolan gets up close & personal with: Becca Brazil(Influencer):

The below photos are of Doug Nolan, right after his red carpet interview with ALBA RAMADANI from Albanian- client of Alta Global Media. ALBA RAMADANI received the Spotlight Award during the star-studded closing ceremony of the 7th Annual Filming in Italy Los Angeles Festival on March 3rd at the Harmony Gold Theater, an award given annually to a particularly promising rising star. ALBA RAMADANI: made her screen debut in director Alessio Della Valle’s film AMERICAN NIGHT. Alba just wrapped a supporting lead in Shira Piven’s directorial debut THE PERFORMANCE and can be seen in the feature film RIDO PERCHE TI AMO. Alba also has a supporting role in the upcoming feature film STOLEN. Alba is fluent in English, Spanish and German. She is represented by Steven Adams at Alta Global Media. IMDB  REEL  Password: ANRp!2  Below photo of Doug Nolan, right after his red carpet interview with Actress ALBA RAMADANI: 

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Last year Los Angeles’ premiere film festival HollyShorts became a quadruple OSCAR-qualifying festival with the welcome addition of the OSCAR-qualifying award for documentary shorts, alongside two for live action and one for animated shorts. Now in its 20th year, this well-loved festival will be back on August 4th with a twenty-foot red carpet at the foot of the steps of the Dolby Theatre, where the Academy Awards are held. OSCAR winners’ Riz Ahmed, Aniel Karia, Guy Nattiv, Ben Proudfoot, Travon Free, Ross White, Tom Berkley, Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton, Kim Magnusson are just some of this prestigious festival’s past winners.

Previous jury members include Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sam Worthington, Zoe Deutch, Bryan Cranston, Gemma Arterton and Blair Underwood.