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Controversial director moves forward – one scandal at a time

Catherine Breillat is probably better known in mainstream media for the controversies that surround her often sexually explicit films


Summer theatre offers up frivolous fun

Defying theatre's highbrow culture are We Will Rock You, Dirty Dancing and Evil Dead: The Musical - three frothy shows that, however mawkish, deliver a rip-roaring good time. (The beer helps)


Interview: Robert Englund

'If I want a payday once or twice a year, I go for the horror'


Can Mick Jagger get satisfaction from pension?

Lead singer of the Rolling Stones turns 65 on Saturday


Radio

Push to shove, a revolutionary

He was instrumental in adding two formats to the dial, and in developing a system that will change the way ratings in Canada are calculated. But, to most, John Hayes is known as one thing: The Man Who Fired Howard Stern - twice

Now playing

Gillian Anderson in  The X-Files: I Want to Believe

The X-Files: I Want to Believe twostar

You'll want to believe the plot was better


The Last Mistress 3.5stars

Exquisite dialogue – and lots of gravity-defying sex


Brideshead Revisited threestar

Another visit, this time with more love, less opulence


Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired threestar

Polanski's judge goes on trial


Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer 2.5stars

A good, old-fashioned, gross-out monster mash


Just Buried 2.5stars

An amusing black comedy – with a fatal flaw


Step Brothers twostar

Ferrell and Reilly are off their game

 

Film & Theatre 

Hollywood actors union faces internal rift

A bloc of SAG members calling itself Unite for Strength unveils a slate of 31 candidates seeking to gain a majority on the national governing board in elections scheduled for Sept. 18

French filmmakers face off

Many gems both obscure and familiar in Cinematheque Ontario program

Scandals can't touch the box office

Don't worry, Warner Bros: You'll be fine, even if the apparently dysfunctional Bale family won't be

Midnight Madness scares up martyrs and manga

Toronto International Film Festival has a darker side of horror films, thrillers and generally off-balance flicks

Forbes.com: Will Smith is a poor investment

Hollywood's best-paid actors are not necessarily its best investments, according a payback ratio calculated by the magazine

Familiar storyline touches a chord

Against the Grain is one of the darkest plays the Blyth Festival has mounted

Film: Director's Bat-belt included an Imax camera

The Dark Knight marks the first time a Hollywood hit has been shot with firm's special cameras

Maria's main man

Andrew Lloyd Webber drops in on the CBC production earlier than planned to lend his expert opinion on who will be the next 'Maria'

Making a doc under China's watchful eye

Beijing's proclaimed openness to foreign media is being sorely tested, as a Canadian documentary film crew found in the heart of Hebei province

Gothic mystery delights in dichotomies

Shaw Festival's remount of Ann-Marie MacDonald play Belle Moral tries to make sense of science


Books & Magazines 

Writers' Trust increases value of prizes

More money added to awards that already were among the richest fiction and non-fiction prizes in Canada


Visual Arts 

Obituary: Helen Gardiner, 70

Philanthropist was co-founder of The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto

Few Canadians on list of top collectors

Three Torontonians and one Montreal couple on ARTNews magazine's annual survey


Television & Radio 

Flashpoint a success, moves to new night

Canadian-made cop show switches from Friday to Thursday, the most-watched night of the week

Ebert and Roeper exit stage left

Lyons and Mankiewicz will take over the movie review show when its new season begins in September

Obituary: Estelle Getty, 84

Actress played sarcastic mother to Bea Arthur on 'Golden Girls'

Fallon's 'Late Night' run to start online

Will take over NBC show when Conan O'Brien moves to reaplace Leno on 'Tonight' show

But is she mature?

An older Shannen Doherty comes back to 90210

Wait no more for ‘Mad Men'

Season 2 to air on A channel on same day it airs in U.S.


Music & Art 

Deadheads set to rock to violins

Tie-dye might be more appropriate for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Aug. 1, the day Jerry Garcia would have turned 66

Laplante brings new life to an old hall

It didn't take much of André Laplante's program to prove why what's now known as the Carlu was Glenn Gould's all-time favourite music room

Coldplay in the Coast Mountains

How a village in B.C. came to host one of the summer's hottest music festivals

A majority vote in favour of harmony

With current tour and album, the Eagles, after such a divisive history, possibly look to set things right

Whoop whoop whoop whoop

Helicopter String Quartet – hovering above the ground with strings attached

Costello pumps up the party

Festival Network's first year at Whistler was a success – if only modestly so at the box office

Where was all the new talent?

Greater Toronto's 2008 Rock the Bells festival blunted its edge by filling its bill from the bygone golden age of the late-eighties and early nineties

Concert brings harmony to Plains of Abraham

Sir Paul McCartney draws record crowd of 200,000 fans to concert for Quebec City's 400th anniversary

An intimate voice done violence by the piano

Review: Die schone Mullerin iIn Elora


Entertainment features 

He made an impression

A decade ago, a nervous, amateur comedian made Lorne Michaels laugh – and the rest, as they say, is SNL history. Michael Posner catches up with Jimmy Fallon as he gets back to the mic to prepare for his latest gig

'He came to Edmonton a private person and left famous'

Long before Manhattan and way before Berlin, Leonard Cohen took Edmonton

Reality check

Why would a Canadian comic darling like Sean Cullen risk a humiliating elimination on NBC's Last Comic Standing? It's all about exposure


Celebrities 

Batman star accused of assault

Christian Bale faces police questioning after complaint by mother and sister

Kid Rock gets fine, probation in Waffle House scuffle

Musician “not terribly unhappy” with the outcome, his lawyer says, but he maintains that he was not at fault in the suburban Atlanta scrap

Winehouse's husband sent to jail

Blake Fielder-Civil gets 27 months for assault and obstruction charges


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 Histories, by Herodotus

History, like poetry, began with war

Ficciones: Size doesn't matter

. . . at least not in terms of literary influence

The Koran: Words beyond worth

Like the Bible, it is one of the most widely read, revered and recited books in the world.

In darkest Dickens

It's a wise decision not to rush at Dickens's last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend

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