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The man who loves mean streets

Emmy-nominated actor Nicholas Campbell, famous for his Dominic Da Vinci role and now with a new part in The Border, likes to play the bad boy in real life. But he's more complicated than that


‘It's horrifying – we have a $900,000 hole'

In recent years, hundreds of Canadian arts groups turned to the market to build up their endowments. Now comes the reckoning


Kiefer Sutherland: Jacked up to save ... himself?

Kiefer says returning to work on 24 after seven weeks in prison ‘was something I felt comfortable doing. It was a safe place.'


The eternal darkness of the writer's mind

Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche exhausts a reporter's capacity for film-related pain.


Screen Actors Guild to seek strike

Fails to reach agreement with Hollywood producers on issue of paying residuals on new media, such as the Internet


Vatican forgives John Lennon for Jesus quip

Remark that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ was ‘boast' by young man faced with unexpected success, Vatican newspaper says

Now playing

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in Twilight.

Twilight twostar

Sparks fly but there's no heat


Ballast threestar

A tone-poem of sorrow and endurance


Bolt threestar

The script is, bluntly, a dog


Growing Op twostar

The cannabis thrives, but the comedy doesn't


I Can't Think Straight one star

A feeble attempt at a same-sex chick flick


Repo! The Genetic Opera one star

Three words for this surgery saga: Do not resuscitate

 
 
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Film 

Robert Pattinson: Interview with the vampire

New teen heartthrob talks to The Globe about playing a vampire and about the swoons he inspires among his young fans.

Mickey Mouse hits 80

Walt Disney's most famous creation hit the screen in Steamboat Willie 80 years ago in New York.

Bond shatters franchise records

Daniel Craig's return as James Bond in Quantum of Solace pulls in $70.4-million at weekend box office

Mania greets cast of teen vampire movie ‘Twilight' in Toronto

Film based on the bestselling book series by Stephenie Meyer


Television & Radio 

CBC icon: Still happening after 40 years

CBC's 'As It Happens' winds up week-long anniversary retrospective with a selection of favourite memories from listeners

OUTtv urges Shaw to comply with ruling

CRTC has ordered Canada's second-largest cable operator to market and package channel as equitably as it does others

Halt lavish spending, CBC executives told

Warning comes after reports of heavy spending on theatre tickets, meals and travel

CBC helps to recast defunct orchestra

CBC offers support to new venture as house orchestra falls silent


Music 

Guns N'Roses: A middling effort after 14 years

The veteran band's new CD is less engaging than the story of how it came into being. More layers don't necessarily add up to epic.

McLachlan, Loverboy to be honoured at Junos

Awards to be presented in Vancouver in March

TSO finances in the black for third year running

Orchestra sold $9-million worth of tickets and raised $9.6-million in donations

Beyoncé backfires

Beyoncé debuts her alter-ego, Sasha Fierce

In this quartet, McCoy Tyner shows he's the real thing

An abrupt ending to an unsatisfying set at Vancouver's Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Beatles basement track?

Experimental Beatles track could be released

All hail the vivacious Queen of Rock 'n' Roll

Tina Turner showed Toronto the come-back queen has no limits


Theatre & Dance 

Survey predicts cancelled foreign shows

Absence of two cultural diplomacy programs and a stalling economy cited

Vancouver's PuSh unveils bill for 2009 festival

Three-week cultural extravaganza of Canadian and international works returns in January

Vancouver theatre listings

Vancouver theatre listings

In his house of dance

'Step back and shake it up': The motto animates Christopher House's career with Toronto Dance Theatre

Risks of dangerous adaptation pay off for National Ballet

Choreographer John Neumeier's 2002 adaptation of Chekhov's classic play The Seagull is a monumental achievement

Strindberg's pressure cooker delivers heat

Review: Miss Julie: Sheh'mah, a Kick Theatre production, at The Theatre Centre in Toronto


Books & Magazines 

For writer Hage, it's the same old story

Eerie parallels between what Montreal author experienced two years ago with Canadian book prizes and what has been happening this fall

Matthiessen wins U.S. fiction prize

Author gains second National Book Award for 'Shadow Country' – 29 years after his first honour

Globe writers win Governor-General's awards

Christie Blatchford and John Ibbitson honoured; Nino Ricci wins for second time in the English-language fiction category

Tony Curtis: Picture this

The Hollywood icon holds forth on acting, homosexuality, bedding Marilyn and inventing Elvis's haircut. With no shortage of tales of his wild days of carousing, the actor and painter tells all in a new book

Izzy'd be devastated, 'but most of it is his fault'

Peter C. Newman's biography of Izzy Asper comes out just as CanWest faces the music, Gayle MacDonald writes

A vampire comes out at Twilight

Montreal native Rachelle Lefevre hopes her role in the movie based on the bestseller by Stephenie Meyer will introduce her to a larger audience

'A very thorny place to be'

A former member of The Eagles and a long-time collaborator look back on their rocky times with the storied band

Murdoch upbeat about future of newspapers

Chides 'misguided cynics who are too busy writing their own obituary to be excited by the opportunity'


Visual Arts 

Ottawa to appoint new gallery head

Marc Mayer, passionate advocate for visual arts, expected to take reins

What slide? Heffel auction reaches $12.5-million

Third-biggest numbers in Canadian art-auction history refute those who expected drop in market similar to London, New York

Ottawa festivals' future hangs in balance

City councillors prepare to debate trimming municipal arts spending by more than half.

Art auctions: Will anyone pay these prices?

Six months ago, three tiny Tom Thomson sketches sold for more than $1-million each. As the fall auction season kicks off, James Adams reports, there's a new million-dollar question out there

Tranformation AGO: Gallery turns a new corner

Take an interactive tour of the renovated Art Gallery of Ontario

Cultural travellers won't warm to Winnipeg, survey finds

Many say they probably will view exhibits at the new $265-million Canadian Museum for Human Rights in the city online rather than in person

Unmasking art's dazzling pleasures
– and its dirty secrets, too

The Globe's visual-arts critic gets an early look at the resdesigned Art Gallery of Ontario and comes away impressed. Director Matthew Teitelbaum and the curators, she writes, have taken the AGO off auto-pilot, and the gamble has paid off.

Canadian artist hits the switch in Trafalgar Square

In London, a light show that makes people talk to each other. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Under Scan uses passersby to trigger videos projected onto the pavement.


Celebrity 

Madonna almost single again

London court grants singer and Guy Ritchie a preliminary decree of divorce

Michael Jackson to testify in court: lawyer

Reclusive singer is being sued in London by Bahrain prince

Vardalos a mom

Canadian star adopts a young daughter


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

50 Greatest Books: One form of immortality is hers

'We hear her voice and trace her influence even now among the living.'