HUGH DILLON WALKS LINE BETWEEN MUSIC AND ACTING"Carefully." That's how Hugh Dillon insists he chooses his TV and film roles. The career actor and former lead singer of the punk rock band The Headstones has pulled off a rare double in recent weeks, shuffling back and forth between recurring roles in Vancouver-set sci-fi thriller Continuum and the critically divisive thriller The Killing.
http://www.canada.com/entertainment/Hugh+Dillon+walks+line+between+music+acting/8536747/story.htmlJAMES GANDOLFINI DIED OF CARDIAC ARREST
Sopranos star James Gandolfini died of a heart attack, hospital officials confirmed Friday at a press conference hosted by Gandolfini's family in Rome's Boscolo Hotel Exedra, where the family had been staying.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/autopsy-james-gandolfini-died-cardiac-572980BC FILM INDUSTRY TALKING ABOUT HOW TO LURE PRODUCTIONSBC's film industry is wondering what it can do to these days to give itself an advantage in a bottom-line business. Industry leaders are meeting to try to close the gap with their competition.
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RETURN ON INVESTMENT FROM ART, CULTURE MORE THAN JUST MONEYWe already know that investing in arts and culture is good for the economy. The numbers prove it: thousands of jobs, and a vast economic generator, with estimates of a spinoff factor of more than tenfold returns on what we invest.
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/Return+investment+from+culture+more+than+just+money/8533873/story.htmlBC FILM AND GAME INDUSTRY LOOKS FOR LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
British Columbia's creative industry, largely centred in Vancouver, has been taking it on the chin of late because of interprovincial competition for digital business. But when new Vancouver digital effects firm Gener8 held a public party to show off its new studio earlier this month, it marked a renewal of sorts.
http://business.financialpost.com/2013/06/20/b-c-film-and-game-industry-looks-for-level-playing-field-after-toronto-montreal-poach-jobs/10 TOP TECH TERMS ACTORS MUST KNOWYou will enhance your standing as a serious player if you show some awareness of the lingo. The following definitions are not comprehensive; they are designed to be of practical use to actors.
http://www.backstage.com/advice-for-actors/backstage-experts/10-top-tech-terms-actors-must-know/THE ROLE OF JONATHAN YOUNG'S LIFEIf you share a stage with Jonathon Young, tour de force and co-founder of Vancouver's Electric Company Theatre, you might come to regret it - for all the right reasons.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/the-role-of-jonathon-youngs-life/article12754565/STUDY AIMS TO BOOST ARTS, CULTUREAssessment, at a cost of $20,000, is expected to dovetail with the city's latest cultural plan
http://www.canada.com/Study+aims+boost+arts+culture/8521258/story.html 
