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Anna Paquin plays a telepathic waitress, and Stephen Moyer, a 173-year-old vampire in True Blood. Prashant Gupta

Just a small-town girl with a taste for the undead

With her first major TV series role, Anna Paquin's transformation from child outsider into Hollywood starlet is now complete


Hunting up late-night laughs on daytime TV

Bonnie Hunt moves into the uncharted waters of daytime television with the most buzzed-over arrival of the fall syndication season


Jazz, with a little Japanese rock for good measure

Satoko Fujii is something of a late bloomer, but the 49-year-old pianist and composer has made up for lost time


Michael Moore to release new film online for free

Slacker Uprising, the first major film to be released in this way, follows documentary filmmaker's 62-city tour to rally young voters during the 2004 election


A well-connected dreamer

Canadian filmmaker Ingrid Veninger is connected. And with the debut of Only at TIFF, she's about to become even more so


TIFF isn't the only film fest in town this week

Brad Wheeler checks out the other offerings – and how they stack up against the big kahuna


Greek postmen beat zombies as oddest of the odd

Comprehensive record of rural Greek postal routes tops poll as weirdest-ever winner of oddest book title prize

2008 TIFF

Brad Pitt

Roll out the red carpet

Paul Gross leads off, and Brad Pitt and Co. turn up star power in Toronto


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Guy Pearce and Don Cheadle in Traitor. Rafy/Overture Films

Traitor Comment3

Terrorism thriller betrayed in the end


Outsourced threestarComment1

Frothily turning globalization on its head


Goal II: Living the Dream Comment1

If only the goal had been a decent movie


Babylon A.D. Comment

Babylon is a mess of biblical proportions


College one star

Comedy sets a new low that is sure to be exceeded in the future

 

Film & Theatre 

Bright lights, big expectations

He made his name as a film critic, TV host and champion of Third World cinema. Thursday, Cameron Bailey steps into the spotlight to host one of the world's most prestigious film festivals

Feeling the squeeze

Touring a play across the country can be a hard and lonely slog, even for 'a godlike figure' on the Fringe circuit

VIFF takes a cue from Cannes

Vancouver International Film Festival unveils its full bill

Fans hail Ledger's Joker

Heath Ledger's Joker voted best summer villain

Montreal picks winner

World Film Festival gives its top jury prize to Japanese director Yojiro Takita's Okuribito

For film paradise, put up a parking lot

A new drive-in festival showcases Vancouver, and homegrown talent

Voice of movie trailers dies

Don LaFontaine voiced more than 5,000 trailers in a career that spanned 33 years

Buzz Meter comments


Books & Magazines 

Vampire sequel squelched by online posting

Highly anticipated next instalment of Stephenie Meyer's bestselling series has been put on hold

The picaresque poet

The old David Berman was a mysterious figure, refusing to tour or even play live. But the Silver Jews front man has turned his life around


Visual Arts 

Vancouver hit by another heist of native art

Five works of aboriginal art taken from Fort Langley National Historic Site

Museum of Anthropology will re-launch for Olympics

Institution on campus of the University of British Columbia is expanding its size by 50 per cent in a $55-million plus renovation


Television & Radio 

New 90210 series scores big numbers on debut

Remake of seminal nineties series one of week's most-watched programs

Letterman wants to end gig on own terms

In interview, CBS host questions why NBC is proceeding with plan to remove Jay Leno, who consistently tops late-night ratings

Livin' the dream

Dustin Milligan was still playing in the sandbox when the teen soap 90210 made its debut in 1990. Now 23, the actor from Yellowknife is starring in the spinoff series

New TV anchor becomes France's cause c?l?bre

Laurence Ferrari took over the country's most-watched night news program last week, with a rock star's debut and a litany of criticism


Music & Art 

Heavy turbulence

The pains of a breakup, his mother's death and his poor health pushed Mikel Jollett to get Airborne Toxic Event off the ground

Obituary: Jerry Reed, 71

Singer turned to acting as Burt Reynolds's sidekick

The rhinestones glitter again

At age 72, Glen Campbell can still sing very well, which he does on a fascinating new album of richly arranged, country-dusted cover songs by contemporary artists Lou Reed, Green Day and U2

London museum buys Jagger's pout

Victoria and Albert Museum acquires original artwork for Rolling Stones' lips logo


Entertainment features 

Tough as nails, but sweet inside

Shirley MacLaine has seen it all, done it all and never – absolutely never – hesitates to speak her mind about things that irk her spiritual sensibilities

We're not posh, Cambridge says

British university, hoping to shed elitist image, asks producers of Eastenders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale soap operas for place in story lines


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

The poet as seer

Collected poems are one with works of Beethoven and Michelangelo

Newton's quest 'to understand all of nature'

A prophecy delivered from a mountaintop, not a textbook.

The King James Bible

A (very) Good Book

Kafka's The Complete Stories

A modernist for the ages

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