While best known as the founder, producer, and mastermind behind the Wu-Tang Clan, RZA has built an incredibly diverse and successful career as a musician, a composer of film scores, a producer, an actor, a businessman, a player and advocate of chess, and as the author of the best-selling The Tao of Wuand The Wu-Tang Manual. Here, he talks about his latest outing playing Mouss in The Next Three Days, an action-thriller directed by Academy Award-winner Paul Haggis and co-starring a couple of other Oscar-winners in Russell Crowe and Liam Neeson.

When Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks) met her husband (Russell Crowe) and in-laws for dinner after a particularly difficult day at work, she seized the opportunity to vent about how much she disliked her boss (Leslie Merrill). She was clearly still visibly agitated over an argument the two had earlier during which she had referred to Elizabeth as a "useless cow."

Weekly Previews for movies opening Nov. 19, 2010 ...

Kevin Carson (Bow Wow) wasn't even thinking about buying a lottery ticket that fateful Friday the jackpot had reached $370 million, even though folks on the long line were already talking about how they planned to spend the money on everything from a Versace suit to a mail order bride. But then a couple of events transpired which you might call divine intervention.

Soledad O'Brien is the daughter of immigrants, one from Australia, the other from Cuba, who met in this country while pursuing the proverbial American Dream. However because one was white, and the other was Black, they had to flee the South

Born in London on November 6, 1972, Thandie Newton is a consummate actress associated with riveting performances in everything from "Beloved" to "Besieged" to "Crash" ... Here, she talks about playing Tangie in Tyler Perry's screen adaptation of Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls," an ensemble drama co-starring Kerry Washington, Janet Jackson, Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine and Phylicia Rashad.

For three days this November, seven area high schools and the Portland Playhouse are bringing Shakespeare to town.For Brian Weaver, Shakespeare and the drama of high school are a perfect fit. They're both bawdy, they're both a little ....

Students of the Marshall High School Renaissance Arts Academy not only watched a live theater show about public education and the Civil Rights Movement late last month – they were actively inspired to build a protest movement of their own to keep open the doors of their school.

On Sunday, Nov. 7, the Northwest Film Center will be hosting the Portland premier of the documentary, "Guilty Except for Insanity" about the Oregon State Hospital for the criminally insane. The screening will be held at 3 p.m. at the Portland Art Museum's Whitsell Auditorium.

In "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench," Melancholy Madeline (Desiree Garcia) sits alone freezing on a park bench in Boston contemplating what just happened after being dumped by her boyfriend on a chilly, wintry day. Meanwhile, her equally-wistful ex (Jason Palmer) trudges home through the snow with his trumpet slung lazily over his shoulder.