The Next Best Thing News

Before we all get too caught up in holiday cheer and movies in which people gather around a table and beam at each other, let's take a look at something not so pretty: bad acting.

Every six months , it seems, actor Rupert Everett gives another interview , in which he warns of the dangers of being out in Hollywood.

NOW director ex-husband Guy Ritchie is out of the picture, Madonna has decided to launch herself as a serious filmmaker.

Billing it as The Next Best Thing to Being There, the province recently launched a series of online field trips designed to take students in Grade 1 though 6 on virtual journeys to Lesser Slave Lake, Writing-On-Stone, Cypress Hills and Dinosaur provincial parks.

The increasingly ubiquitous Rhys Darby has yet another role - this time as the voice of an animated short film Fot: The Next Best Thing by Auckland director Alex Dronn, which is is screening as part of the Show Me Shorts film festival next month.

When it comes to measuring carrier performance, the terms "last mile" and "last to know" can be a little too close for comfort.

Kudos that after 55 years of producing full-length animated features, Disney finally selected a story in which characters of color were its cartoon leads - even though Aladdin and Jasmine were voiced by Caucasians Scott Weinger and Linda Larkin respectively.

While he has shared the big screen with the likes of drag queens in To Wong Foo, Drew Barrymore in Never Been Kissed, Madonna in The Next Best Thing, as well as Jennifer Garner on the small screen in Alias, the sexy good looks of Michael Vartan are never overshadowed.

VH1 is set to launch four episodes of "Live and Loud Fridays," a series that captures performances from rock bands in concert around the country.

These days, however, the actor is focusing on a pair of dramatic roles that are showing he is much more than a pretty face.

Heat Index: 87 F One of Meridian's biggest Michael Jackson fans says he's been asked already about doing a tribute show to the international superstar.

Hollywood actor Jay Karnes, well known for his role as L.A.P.D. Det. Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach on the FX hit drama The Shield, will portray Brutus in Marin Shakespeare Company's 2009 outdoor summer production of Julius Caesar.