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Degrassi The Next Generation: Alanis Morissette Working On Book, New Album
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At just 35 years of age, Alanis Morissette has released seven studio albums, starred in feature films and appeared on television shows like Degrassi: The Next Generation and Weeds, has won seven Grammy Awards and 12 Juno Awards and has been inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall Of Fame.
But that’s not enough for the ambitious singer/songwriter, who is set to add “author” to her c.v.
Morrissette recently told Rollingstone.com she’s halfway through writing a “non-linear book,” and it’s typically cerebral and personal.
“It’s about all the themes I obsess and pontificate over,” she told the website in typically Dawson’s Creek-esque language. “All this sort of body-dysmorphia-spirit humour, travelogues, photographs, articles I’ve written in magazines with a lot of touching on health and detoxing and retoxing and the importance of integrating it all.”
The book doesn’t yet have a title, release date or publisher. Morissette previously told Rolling Stone magazine she was working on a memoir in 2006, which was about women’s issues. Morissette said it was half done last year and it’s unclear if this is the same book.
As soon as she’s finished with her book, Morissette will launch herself right into working on the follow-up to last year’s Flavors Of Entanglement, which could end up being two albums.
“I have an idea for two records,” she told Rollingstone.com. “Usually two journals make a record and I have about 10 full right now. As soon as the book is finished I’ll dive into one of the two.”
Lauren Collins
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Lauren Collins |
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Lauren Felice Collins |
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August 29, 1986 |
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Thornhill, Ontario |
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5‘ 2“ |
Lauren is from the Toronto area. She started acting in community theater when she was 10, where the woman who ran the company was an agent and asked her if she wanted to do anything more professional. Her first job was an ABC-TV movie. She currently plays the role of Paige Michalchuk on Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Shane Kippel
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Birth Date: June 4, 1986 / Age: 22
Birth Place: Toronto, Ontario
Biography: Shane Kippel June 4, 1986, is a Canadian television actor who was born on in Toronto, Ontario. As of 2005, he appears as a regular cast member in the part of Spinner on Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is broadcast on CTV in Canada, ABC in Australia, and “The N” in the United States. He’s 5′10″, left handed, has a pierced tongue, and two tattoos.
He starred as Chad the Jock in Canada’s 2003 movie Todd and the Book of Pure Evil which was tagged as “A teenager’s guide to heavy metal, cheerleaders, true love, and Satan.”
Kippel is also currently the drummer for the band Two Left Feet, which has been described by some as being the next Kansas.
Miriam McDonald
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Birth Date: July 26, 1987 / Age: 20
Birth Place: Oakville, Ontario
Biography: Miriam Katherine McDonald (born July 26, 1987 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada), better known plainly as Miriam McDonald, is a actress who stars in the hit television show Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Miss McDonald, whose nickname is Billy, is also an accomplished dancer who has dedicated herself to the practice of ballet, hip hop, tap and jazz dancing. She has worked hard at her craft as an entertainer, taking acting classes with renowned television actor Dean Armstrong.
Miss McDonald, who has blonde hair, was awarded adancing scholarship at the prestigious school, the Toronto’s Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre academy.
Although she was happy to receive consideration for that academy, this was also what has been, so far, one of the hardest moments of her life, as she had to choose between her two passions: acting and dancing. McDonald decided on the former, landing a short time period job in the hit series, System Crash, in 1999.
McDonald found a niche as a voice-over actress, after she was cast in 2001 to participate in a cartoon series named Ripping Friends. The change from dancer to full time actress was easy for the young lady, and, soon enough, she found herself doing voice-overs in two other series. She has done a total of 39 voice-overing jobs.
Then came Degrassi: The Next Generation, a show that would change McDonald’s life: not only was she acting in front of the television cameras for the second time in her career, but she also happened to be participating in a show that became a major hit across Canada, thus her looks becoming known by a wide Canadian audience. The show, which is part of the successful Degrassi series, has lasted four seasons on the air, with McDonald present during each season. McDonald plays Emma Nelson in the series.
In 2004, she participated as “Dawn Gender” in the made for television film, She’s Too Young.
That same year, American children and teenager television network giant, Nickelodeon, bought over the rights to show Degrassi: The Next Generation in the United States. The show was placed in The N, a Nickelodeon channel geared towards teenagers, and McDonald found fame in the United States as well.
