One of the most brilliant directors of our time, Ken Russell, is here to shoot his segment of a four-part horror/supernatural anthology entitled Trapped Ashes.

He nabbed Twiggy, the hot, new London model who made anorexia groovy for his 1971 musical, The Boy Friend, and signed up most of Britain's rock stars, including Elton John, Eric Clapton and The Who for his 1975 musical, Tommy, based on that group's hit tune of the same name.

Also working on the anthology -- Joe Dante (who recently wrapped his film for another locally shot anthology, Masters of Horror in Vancouver); 73-year-old Monte Hellman, who directed Robert Blake in his 1970s TV series, Baretta, and earlier scared the pants off audiences with his films Back Door to Hell and The Cockfighter; John Gaeta, whose visual effects work on The Matrix movies is about as good as it gets and Sean S. Cunningham, who produced Freddy vs. Jason here a couple of years ago. Producers are Michael Frislev, Dennis Bartok (he's also the writer) and husband-and-wife team Yoshifumi Hosoya and Yuko Yoshikawa.

Director of photography for Russell is Zoran Popovic. Cunningham's segment, Jibaku, we hear, will be shot in mid-December in Japan, Hellman takes on the third segment, Kubrick's Girlfriend, and Gaeta's segment is My Twin The Worm.

Dante will direct the non-segment portions of the film which is described as a homage to classic anthologies like The House that Dripped Blood and Tales From the Crypt, with effects by Robert Skotak (Terminator 2, Aliens) and from what we've heard and read, enough sex, gore, bodily function-related details, including intestinal parasites, to make you squirm.

Anthony Criss, better known as Treach, the Naughty by Nature rapper, is in town shooting the film, Eyes. It's directed by writer/helmer Nick Castle, son of the legendary vaudeville dancer and movie choreographer of the same name who began his career in early 1930s Hollywood musicals and worked in the movies and TV until his death in 1968.

Treach, who works for the Out Da Gutta record label and was good pals with late rapper Tupac Shakur, is joined on screen by Los Angeles's hardworking, ambitious, talented and articulate Nia Peeples, of Fame fame, who was once Liberace's opening act in Las Vegas.

And Vancouver's Blu Mankuma, who's been in many movies shot here over the past 25 years, including Fierce People, with Diane Lane, which opens in limited release in the U.S. in April, also has a role.

Most recently, she shot a part in the last episode of the upcoming series, Alice I Think, directed by Gary Harvey, and booked a supporting role on Godiva's, also to be directed by Harvey.

She's also booked a supporting lead in the TV movie, The Killing of a Stranger, with Kristopher Tabori, who directed her in one of her first-ever gigs, Sleepwalkers. And, of course, she continues her recurring role as Kurtz on Da Vinci's City Hall.

And just so she doesn't get bored, Redmond is co-producing a documentary for which she's actually going through the process of getting her pilot's licence, and is putting together a play for next year with Sara Botsford directing and local actress Linda Darlow also starring.

The locally shot pilot for a new show, Manhattan Matchmaker, aired a few weeks ago and was a big hit. Now the W Network has ordered a season and that's where you come in. The show's local producers, Force Four Entertainment, are looking for 12 single guys and gals to work with New York shadchen (Yiddish for matchmaker), Lisa Ronis (www.lisaronismatchmaking.com) who'll be here to work her magic with West Coast singles.

She's a full-time matchmaker who's been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, Marie Claire, New York Magazine, New York Daily News, the New York Post, and has appeared on Good Morning America, Dateline NBC and National Public Radio.

You could be chosen to benefit from Lisa's expertise if you're single and between 25 and 40, want a relationship and are willing to share your experience and story on television.

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