Academy Awards

Your picks for best and worst dressed

We tallied your votes on who glittered and who flopped

'I'm trying to make a film that stands out in the marketplace, a very crowded marketplace.'
On the set of a hockey film

They shoot! They score!

Imagine we’ll put Nelly Furtado, Olivia Newton-John and George Stroumboulopoulos in this deck

A 1970 image of Smith and Mapplethorpe in the room they shared at the Chelsea Hotel.
Music

Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe

The poet and musician has written an autobiography about her early years with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe

Matt Damon plays Ray Miller, a rogue U.S. Army officer in charge of finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq: Little here makes any logical sense.
Film Friday

Green Zone

2 Stars

Long on action, short on reality

Artists of the ballet in Swan Lake.
Dance

Radical Swan Lake gets fifth revival

Purists may hate James Kudelka’s rethink, but dancers are intrigued

Question & Answer

Bruce Cockburn: Thoughts on O Canada

Joe Strummer snarls through the Clash's first Toronto gig.
Photography

Dispatches from the punk front

The images at a Toronto photography exhibit aren't professional, but their impact may be greater because of it

The series features brutal battle scenes and a cast of thousands, but also individual stories: Jon Seda, above, plays real-life hero John Basilone.

Television: The Pacific

‘A war of racism and terror’

Spielberg and Hanks deliver the first Second World War miniseries set in the Pacific theatre

Books

Karl Rove takes New York

The Republican strategist launches his memoir of the Bush years in hostile territory

Opera

Tricky Dick, operatic Everyman

A new production of Nixon in China opens tonight

Video Games

Online phenom comes up from the basement

As it moves to television, a hit Canadian web series will have to balance its existing fan base with a more mainstream audience

No illegal drugs found in Haim case

Authorities recovered four prescription bottles but nothing illegal during initial investigation surrounding actor’s death

In Concert

Talk about working the climax

Alicia Keys’s dazzling finale caps show that was a multimedia muddle

Avatar may get second wind with new scenes, summer re-release

Guessing began early Thursday when Imax leaked director James Cameron had about 40 minutes of unused additional material

Digital Music

Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales

Contract, negotiated a decade ago, prohibits selling individual tracks

Three Canadian stops planned on Conan O'Brien's tour

Former Tonight Show host announces 30-city tour, including tops in Vancouver, Toronto and Enoch, Alta.

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Bring on the Greek gods

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Video
Liam Lacey in 60 seconds

Globe film critic Liam Lacey discusses what's up on screen, at the festivals, and at the box office. This week: From Paris With Love and J'ai tue ma mere (I Killed my Mother).

Xavier Dolan, left, and François Arnaud star in Dolan’s autobiographical debut J’ai tué ma mère, in which a young gay man comes of age.


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