Globe film writer Liam Lacey.
Short takes

Liam Lacey in 60 seconds

Globe film critic Liam Lacey discusses what's up on screen, at the festivals, and at the box office

Nigel Dickson's photograph of the late jazz giant Oscar Peterson, part of a show on view at the Royal Ontario Museum until March.
Portraiture

Putting together 'our nation's photo album'

Ian Brown considers what a government that nixes a national portrait gallery is hiding from

Werner Herzog, director/screenwriter of The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, poses at the premiere of the film at AFI Fest 2009 in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009.
Film

A short chat – and a long journey – with Werner Herzog

The director opens up to Rick Groen about his latest film, his dark sense of humour and how he tames the wildest of actors

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Fame Game

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When the world's most powerful media goddess blesses a little film, as Oprah did with Precious, a miracle of attention follows. Just a hug from this deity, who's just announced she's ending her talk show, can be a religious experience too

Hunted and haunted by the Twi-Hard hordes

Vancouver gossip blogger Lainey recalls the hormonal hurricane surrounding the making of The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Tutankhamun: gambling on the bling king's golden touch

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Agony and ecstasy: the art of the castrati

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Jimmy Buffet's Parrot Heads hail their antihero

Barefooted Buffett lulls fans into a logy state of beach-based hypnosis

Michael Jackson moonwalk glove sells for $350,000

The left-hand, sequined white glove Jackson wore for his moonwalk on Motown's 25th anniversary TV special was the top item among the memorabilia auctioned at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square

Michel Marc Bouchard: ‘My next play will be about big lies'

The Quebec playwright discusses fear, lies, the church and the Spanish flu

Colbert may be heading north after all

Funnyman sponsor of the U.S. speed skating team says ‘I hope so' when David Letterman asks him whether he wants to watch his team compete in Vancouver

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We have a strange obsession with glamorous pop-culture prostitutes when the reality is quite different

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Word Play
To ‘unfriend' is not as new as it may seem

“Unfriend” has been around since the 17th century

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Q&A
A calm Cage channels a monstrous Lieutenant

Working with Werner Herzog, the Oscar-winning actor gives one of his best performances in years

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Television
Weekend TV picks

Stay tuned for an ominous outing of a popular cop drama, a music awards hoedown and a new JFK profile

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Pop Rocks
I sort of like this pageant girl gone wild

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