Abigail Breslin, now 21, says that she definitely felt the gravity of remaking a film as beloved as Dirty Dancing. Thirty years after the original film's release, the TV remake starring Abigail as Baby and Colt Prattes as Johnny (played originally by the late Patrick Swayze) will air on ABC tomorrow, May 24. And a lot of the pressure to get it ( Read more... )

The 89th Academy Awards ceremony will take place this Sunday, February 26, but before the big show starts, I'd like to take a stroll down memory lane to the 79th Academy Awards ten years ago in 2007, when Ellen DeGeneres was the host and Abigail Breslin was a nominee.


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Abigail Breslin, 20, received some backlash after posting a photo of herself and her friends, including Tiffany Trump, 23 (the daughter of Donald Trump and his second wife, Marla Maples), at pal Andrew Warren's birthday party on her Instagram account on January 17. Whyyy feature the spawn of Satan in your photos?! and Tiffany f*****g Trump really? ( Read more... )

A few young actresses who attended the 2016 San Diego Comic Con, from youngest to oldest...


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Film: My Sister's Keeper (2009). Young Actresses: Abigail Breslin, 12, and Sofia Vassilieva, 15.

Several young actresses have done a "girl dying from cancer" movie. There's Jenna Boyd in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Dakota Fanning in Now Is Good, or Shailene Woodley in The Fault in Our Stars, just to name a few. My Sister's Keeper puts its ( Read more... )

It's always been difficult for a former child star to transition from acting into a successful second career. Shirley Temple pulled it off when she went into politics as an adult, but she was one of the few. Young actress Abigail Breslin, soon to turn 19, now seems to be trying it, and you have to admire her for that. Abigail has been acting with ( Read more... )

Hailee Steinfeld turned 18 on December 11 and received a number of happy birthday messages on her Twitter page. There's nothing surprising about that, of course. What surprised me was that several of the messages came from fellow starlets who also seemed to be friends with Hailee. I was not even aware that she'd met some of these actresses.

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Film: Perfect Sisters (2014). Young Actresses: Abigail Breslin, 15, and Georgie Henley, 16.

Sisters Sandra and Beth are both straight-A high school students with big hopes for their futures, and they're as close as can be. But their alcoholic single mom (Mira Sorvino, Reservation Road) keeps losing her jobs, getting them evicted from apartments, ( Read more... )

Former child actress Skye McCole Bartusiak never reached the child-star celebrity status that some of her contemporaries did. (I imagine her career might've been very different if she hadn't started out at the same time as another precocious little blonde girl, Dakota Fanning. Dakota's career had a rather eclipsing effect in the young actress world ( Read more... )