A STAR WAS BORN HERE
ENTERTAINMENT: Actor Martin Donovan, mainly known for art-house type movies is a Reseda native. He's in a film being screened at the Sundance Film Festival called "The United States of Leland" (link takes you to schedule, click on the title--2nd down-- for info.) Variety (subscription needed) didn't care for it much:
Wearing its earnestness and studied sensitivity on its sleeve with self-righteous conviction, Matthew Ryan Hoge’s “The United States of Leland” is as maudlin and monotone as the whiny alt-rock that drenches its overly articulated emotional disclosures.
In '97, Donovan was featured (in the travel section) in the New York Times. It recounts some early travails:
Mr. Donovan's road as an actor has not been easy. Growing up in Reseda, Calif., as one of four children in a middle-class Irish Catholic family, he went for two years to Los Angeles Pierce College before deciding to attend American Theater Arts, a combined conservatory and theater company in Los Angeles. He soon acquired an agent and began to go on film auditions. Invariably, they proved fruitless.
ENTERTAINMENT: Actor Martin Donovan, mainly known for art-house type movies is a Reseda native. He's in a film being screened at the Sundance Film Festival called "The United States of Leland" (link takes you to schedule, click on the title--2nd down-- for info.) Variety (subscription needed) didn't care for it much:
Wearing its earnestness and studied sensitivity on its sleeve with self-righteous conviction, Matthew Ryan Hoge’s “The United States of Leland” is as maudlin and monotone as the whiny alt-rock that drenches its overly articulated emotional disclosures.
In '97, Donovan was featured (in the travel section) in the New York Times. It recounts some early travails:
Mr. Donovan's road as an actor has not been easy. Growing up in Reseda, Calif., as one of four children in a middle-class Irish Catholic family, he went for two years to Los Angeles Pierce College before deciding to attend American Theater Arts, a combined conservatory and theater company in Los Angeles. He soon acquired an agent and began to go on film auditions. Invariably, they proved fruitless.
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