The newcomers are, in a word, gross. They showed up, a million of them, on South Africa’s doorstep 20 years ago. And they won’t go home.

Spread is a skin-deep glance askance at the City of Skin Deep — Los Angeles, “where all the beautiful little heartbreakers go to live and dream,” narrates its hero.

For travel authors Julie and Mike Neal, the key to creating a comprehensive Walt Disney World guidebook was an act of God — literally.

Singer Hayley Williams and the band premiere the video for “Ignorance.”

Will it change the movies as we know them? We may get a hint when the long sampling/introduction to James Cameron’s motion-capture sci-fi opus Avatar is previewed at select IMAX 3D cinemas across the country on Friday, Aug. Tickets are free, but you’ll have to go online to get them.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival. Some overseas studios were interested then, but no U.S. distributor of the film had come forth to see that Heath Ledger’s final film made it to U.S. theaters. But Sony Classics is about to change that.

Arnold Breman is a veteran arts administrator

Arnold Breman, a longtime theater administrator from Chicago, will join Orlando Shakespeare Theater in late August as the company’s new managing director. Breman replaces Donna Law, who left Orlando in June after a two-year stint in order to move closer to family in Utah.

The Jacksonville swamp rockers will team with Shooter Jennings on Sept. 25.

It’s the Steve Carell career path, and if it worked for the 40 Year Old Virgin Maxwell Smart Evan Almighty, it just might click for the edgier Ed Helms. He started with The Daily Show, moved to the Office, and thanks to The Hangover and The Goods, he’s a full-fledged movie star.

The playwright famed for his macho and his profane dialogue will get a shot at a new version of the story of Anne Frank, using her diary and the earlier play based on that disary as jumping off points.