Veteran Sound Engineer Doris Perrolf Joins Film Thriller 'Vika'

Sound engineer Doris Perrolf  is joining the production of the upcoming film thriller "Vika" (handout photo).

LOS ANGELES – Veteran sound engineer Doris Perrolf is joining the new film thriller “Vika” from filmmaker Andres Di Bono (“Our Father”).

“It’s a great film with a great anti-bullying message that is especially timely in this day and age,” Perrolf said. “I’m extremely proud to be a part of a team that worked so hard on a film that has something special to say to everyone.”  

“Vika” is the tale of Jennifer Linna a normal 12-year-old girl, until the merciless Mary and Julie traumatically bullied her to the point her personality was split into two: One light. One dark. The film stars Crystal Franceschini (“Paint Night”), newcomers Tira Mansbacher and Heaven King, Anna Berezovskiy (“This Isn’t Real”), Vika Stubblebine (“Insecure”) and Marlene Garcia-King (“Staged”).

“When I first looked at the script I loved it and couldn’t wait to get started,” Perrolf said. “When you have these horror and suspense elements, sound plays a big role by accentuating common sounds like footsteps, the trees rustling and even a ticking clock. This film gave me a chance to be very creative while working with really talented people.”

Perrolf comes to the project from the upcoming film thriller “My Dead Selfie,” from director Joy Shannon starring Sharena Walker (“Torment: A Love Story”). Her past work includes the TV series “Film HQ,” “The Saints,” as well as the films “The Bus Stop,” “Together Again” and others.

‘Citizen Rose,’ Starring Rose McGowan, Returns to E! on May 17

Rose McGowan's limited series "Citizen Rose" is set to return at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacifici on Thursday, May 17 on E! (Photo by E!).

LOS ANGELES, Calif.  – Artist/activist Rose McGowan has gone from a world where she was maligned, discounted and disbelieved into one where women are using their voices to call out abuses of power. E!’s limited series “CITIZEN ROSE” returns for a three-part special beginning Thursday, May 17 at 10pm ET/PT and picks up where the two-hour documentary left off, with McGowan set to launch her now New York Times bestselling think piece BRAVE into a world in which she is at the center of a massive social and cultural change.

Viewers get unfiltered access as Rose laughs, cries, and fights to survive in a world where she finds it hard to know who she can trust. Rose learns how to be an activist whose activism is based on trauma as she navigates an extraordinarily unusual life path. We see, in almost-real time, as she deals with the emotional toll of having to constantly revisit her painful past, all the while launching a book that is one of her proudest achievements. Rose takes her social movement, #rosearmy, global to Berlin, Paris and Rome with friends like fellow survivor, Asia Argento. With the pressure on her at an all-time high, and a confrontation during a book signing, Rose reaches her breaking point and comes face-to-face with a lifetime’s worth of trauma that she’s never dealt with. With Hollywood behind her, Rose journeys to the beautiful place where she grew up as part of the Children of God cult and must find the courage to face the darkness of her past in order to smile brightly at her future.

“CITIZEN ROSE” is produced by Bunim/Murray Productions with Jonathan Murray, Gil Goldschein, Farnaz Farjam Chazan and Andrea Metz serving as Executive Producers. McGowan also serves as Executive Produce

Harry Anderson’s Cause of Death Is Revealed

LOS ANGELES, Calif.  – Actor Harry Anderson died from an apparent stroke, according to his death certificate sources say.

The 66-year-old actor who died on April 16 at the age of 65, suffered a cardioembolic cerebrovascular accident which is a kind of stroke. Anderson passed away at his home in Asheville, North Carolina.

Anderson is known for playing Judge Harry T. Stone in the NBC television series “Night Court,” which ran from 1984-92, earning the series seven Emmy Awards and 31 nominations. Anderson himself won three Emmys and made a number of television appearances including made cameos on “Saturday Night Live,” “Cheers,” “Dave’s World” and portrayed Richie Tozier in the 1990 television miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s thriller “It.”

Harry Anderson was born October 14, 1952 in Newport, Rhode Island, where he was drawn to the art of magic as a boy. After moving to Los Angeles, he practiced his skills often and eventually joined the Dante Magic Club in his teens while also earning money as a street magician in San Francisco when he was 17. He was class valedictorian when he graduated from North Hollywood High School in 1967. He would move to Ashland, Oregon in 1971, performing magic and working with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival before turning his attention to Hollywood where he landed the role of Harry "The Hat" Gittes on several seasons of “Cheers,” and eventually as Judge Harry Stone.

Anderson is survived by his wife Elizabeth Morgan and his children, Eva and Dashiell.