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Avi Arad, left, and Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee talk on the set of the movie Spider-Man. Zade Rosenthal

Movie Marvel switches gears

If Stan Lee is the father of the modern comic book superhero, then Avi Arad is the godfather of the modern superhero movie. But after The Incredible Hulk, 'I'm done,' he tells Richard Siklos


Classical music review

An altogether stirring Elijah

Rilling's Mendelssohn shows wonderful flow, with constant pulse, instrumental crispness and musical vitality


A little boy's Stallone-sized dreams

After seeing First Blood at age 12, director Garth Jennings began his first shoot


Madonna tour to include three Canadian shows

Sticky and Sweet tour plays Toronto on Oct. 18, Montreal on Oct. 22 and Vancouver on Oct. 30


Media firms reject federal rules

Cable and satellite companies say the government has no place telling them which TV channels to carry


CSI co-star charged

Gary Dourdan charged charged with felony possession of heroin, cocaine and ecstasy


Carey and Cannon confirm that they're married

38-year-old singer and 27-year-old actor tied the knot at Carey's Bahamian estate


After 26 years, Playmate of Year is a Canadian again

22-year-old Jayde Nicole wins honour

Speed Racer

Speed Racer twostar

Great fun, if you like watching video games


The Stone Angel 2.5stars

Despite steamy sex, film is tamer than the book


What Happens in Vegas 1.5stars

It's better if you turn the sound down


Prom Wars one star

If it's lame, derivative and doesn't make you laugh, is it really a comedy?


Son of Rambow threestar

Growing up with Rambo and Depeche Mode


The Babysitters threestar

The hand that rocks the husband


My Blueberry Nights twostar

Wong's American road trip goes nowhere


Redbelt 2.5stars

Mamet's martial-arts bout ends with no decision


A Previous Engagement 1.5stars

Farce goes on holiday


The Unknown Woman twostar

An ugly view through the nanny cam

 

Essential tracks

Coldplay

Violet Hill by Coldplay

Film & Theatre 

Hagar from heaven

Christine Horne had never been in a movie, but her striking resemblance to Ellen Burstyn helped her land the role of the young heroine in The Stone Angel

Clash of Toronto's theatre titans

Impresario Aubrey Dan is seeking an injunction to block the sale of the Canon and Panasonic Theatres to rival David Mirvish; Mirvish says action is ‘without merit'

Buddies unveils plans for its 30th season

Headlined by a pair of world premieres starring artists emerging from company's youth initiatives

Page set to don the bodice for Jane Eyre

Role would mark the first period piece for the Haligonian actress

Cast is a gift – the set, an obstacle

Review: Pelléas et Mélisande by the Canadian Opera Company at Four Seasons Centre in Toronto

Forbidden Kingdom a box office hit in China

Script of script Jackie Chan and Jet Li's first movie together geared toward American audiences

This wheel is on fire

From little-seen indies to the acclaimed Into the Wild, Hirsch pulls ahead of his peers with Speed Racer

Sony Classics snags rights to Egoyan's Adoration

U.S. boutique studio to distribute film in the United States, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand

Canuck shorts at Cannes

Villeneuve short picked for Cannes competition


Books & Magazines 

'I don't care' if it sells soap

Acclaimed playwright Judith Thompson jumped at cosmetics giant Dove's commission to write a script validating the stories of aging women

Leacock medalist gets last laugh

Self-published winner of prize joins the big leagues


Visual Arts 

Monet fetches more than $41-million

Auction price 'Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil ' beats previous record for artist by almost $5-million

The Haida ember in full flame

Ten years after his death, a gallery devoted to Haida artist Bill Reid and Northwest Coast art opens its doors

Vancouver to close Maritime Museum in '09

Date is long before a new National Maritime Centre is to be built in North Vancouver

Muniz's work: goopy, glib, and serious art

Brazilian-born, internationally lauded bad boy of contemporary art has always taken humour very seriously


Television & Radio 

Pinsent, Vogels tapped for CBC Radio summer shows

Pinsent to host an unusual take on obituaries on The Late Show, which profiles the lives of extraordinary but largely unknown Canadians

CTV summer season has The Hills, Mad Men

schedule kicks off May 22 with the return of So You Think You Can Dance

Timber! Men in Trees gets the axe

U.S. television series shot in British Columbia cancelled by ABC

NBC tears up script for selling new shows

Reaches an agreement to sell several new shows to CanWest Global Communications Corp. ahead of the traditional annual spring screenings


Music & Art 

Obituary: Eddy Arnold, 89

Mellow baritone, singer of 'Make the World Go Away,' one of most successful country singers in history

Architects honoured for excellence

12 Governor General's Medals for excellence in architecture were announced Wednesday in Ottawa

Meat Loaf does not like to be served cold

'I'm not coming back to Canada in the winter, I can for sure tell you that,' singer says

Latest mash-up: COC and hip hop

Star-crossed genres come together in a performance called The Hip Hopera

Big names – jazzy and not – coming to fest

29th annual Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, includes Steely Dan, Woody Allen

Badu mixes the new with the old-school

Self-declared analog girl in a digital world continues connecting dots between genres and eras


Entertainment features 

NFB wins Webby for best online doc

Filmmaker-in-Residence gets nod


Celebrities 

Alec Baldwin wants to get into politics

Actor tells 60 Minutes that he is thinking about pursuing his long-time dream of becoming an elected official

Amy Winehouse questioned over drug video

Video allegedly shows Grammy winner doing drugs at a party

Rowling wins privacy case over photo of son

Appeal judge says child of famous parent should have same rights as that of ‘ordinary' parents


50 Greatest Books 

They're the greatest

Each week in 2008, Globe Books presents the latest instalment in the series, the 50 Greatest Books.

Submit your thoughts on the 50 greatest books

King Lear: Very much like life

Magnificent, appalling, soaring, banal, cruel, tender, funny and complex.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

It's one of the most important books in the world

Gulliver's Travels

It's one of the most important books in the world

The great mysteries of the human mind

Freud's most important book

The Wealth of Nations

Wealth, health and wisdom

A magnificent book . . . with all its imperfections

"One of the few English novels written for grown-up people" — Virginia Woolf.

The Great Gatsby

It really is great

Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince

Prince among men

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