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This is the second in an occasional look at emerging artists, their struggle for the big break, and how they make the most of it. The first dispatch was the unlikely road Beulah Koale took to star in Thank You For Your Service and Hawaii 5-0. EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood’s biggest grossing films cast brawny-looking actors…

Clint Eastwood’s The 15:17 To Paris is the next film from the director to deal with the story of real-life heroes — and this time he’s got the actual men playing themselves. On August 21, 2015, Anthony Sadler, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, and U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone thwarted a…

EXCLUSIVE: McKeon/Myones Entertainment has brought aboard author and American hero Alek Skarlatos for representation. Skarlatos, along with his childhood friends Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler, thwarted a terrorist attack aboard a train bound for Paris from Amsterdam in August of 2015. The three later wrote a book Th…

EXCLUSIVE: Clint Eastwood has firmed the next film he will direct. He’ll helm a drama based on the book The 15:17 To Paris: The True Story Of A Terrorist, A Train, And Three American Heroes. The book was written by Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone and Jeffrey E. Stern; the life rights of the heroes…

Expect increased ratings for Dancing With The Stars this coming Monday. A source says competitor Alek Skarlatos is planning to return to the series in time for Monday’s broadcast, despite his abrupt departure from rehearsal Thursday after learning of the mass shooting at the community college where he’d been enrolled…

Politics, controversy and headlines have been cast into the next edition of Dancing With The Stars when it returns to ABC’s primetime on September 14.  Next season’s biggest “get” is Alex Skarlatos, the Army National Guard specialist who just made headlines when he and his pals overpowered a man suspected of being a…