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STEPHEN MACHT, G67, is evil incarnate as Trevor Lansing on ABC’s General Hospital. Lansing, an attorney for insane mob kingpin Anthony Zacchara, had been secretly running the guy’s business for years. But then Zacchara’s wife declared herself boss. Now Lansing must do whatever it takes to stop her, according to the soap’s website. “I’ve been playing this archvillain since August 2007,” Stephen tells Jumbotron. “I don’t know when they’re going to shoot me.” Meanwhile, he himself is pursuing rabbinical studies at UCLA. “My goal is to become a better person and a better grandfather,” he says.

SENDHIL RAMAMURTHY, A96, will return as the Indian geneticist Mohinder Suresh on the third season of the NBC sci-fi drama Heroes, starting September 22. The series’ creator, Tim Kring, tells TV.com: “People will be very surprised with who the villains actually are.” Sendhil will also appear in the indie film The Slammin’ Salmon, a comedy set in an upscale Miami restaurant owned by a former boxing champion. He plays a successful actor who dispenses career advice to one of the waiters, a less successful actor. So far, no release date has been set.

JESSICA BIEL, A04 (had her Tufts career not been interrupted by stardom), is the strip club dancer Rose-Johnny in Powder Blue, which hits theaters December 31. It’s about a group of strangers whose paths converge on Christmas Eve. Another recent project is A Hole in the Paper Sky, in which a misanthropic math genius struggles to save a doomed lab dog. Jessica plays the lab supervisor. The flick, out since January, has picked up laurels including the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film at the Beverly Hills Film Festival.