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Wednesday 12 December 2007

Please, no more

Mick Brown on why rarity made the Led Zeppelin reunion so precious.

Your reviews from the O2 Arena

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Video: The Ocean

BOOKS Trash = cash Sam Leith discovers exactly what makes a Christmas bestseller. Memory games	STAGE Much quarreling Zoë Wanamaker and Simon Russell Beale on tackling Shakespeare. Objects of desire?

STAGE Welcome back Charles Spencer reviews Alan Ayckbourn's new play. Great Britten	VISUAL ARTS Objects of desire? Richard Dorment takes stock of various museum shops. I Am a Mistake

ONLINE EXCLUSIVES

Reasons to be jolly

Our critics' choices of all things festive will leave you feeling Christmassy all over.

Saatchi for sale

Robert McHarg III and Trolley Books offer a chance to collect the collector.

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE

Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck on The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS

A whiff of danger

Blonde, curvaceous and Camilla-like... Rupert Everett plays the new headmistress of St Trinian's and he tells Justine Picardie about his latest scars and scrapes.

Watch the transformation

Artists under the influence

Tom Leonard reports from New York on a mentoring project that links up young hopefuls with established artists.

One that got away

Gwyneth Herbert's album of personal songs has been one of this year's word-of-mouth hits. She talks to Andrew Perry.

An invented world

A S Byatt loves the timeless detective fiction of Margery Allingham for more than just the charm of mysteries solved.

Dudes in the wood

As the Americans muscle in on panto, Alastair Smart asks: should we hiss or hurrah?

The best pantos

REGULARS

The arts column

Rupert Christiansen faces up to his music addiction.

On music

Julian Lloyd Webber on why practice makes perfect.

On radio

Gillian Reynolds on the twin poles of radio listening.

On film

Kirsten Sheridan talks about Walter Salles's The Motorcycle Diaries.

ARTS BLOGS

"Ever since he played a beardy-weirdy psychopath in Kalifornia back in 1993 I've suspected that there's more to Brad Pitt than just a pretty face. And his latest performance proves it: the man can act."

Rebecca Davies

Scary Spice Girl reunion: Ceri Radford, Nicolas Cage: National Treasure?: Iain Gray,
Mark Wallinger: art that makes you act: Lucy Davies, Tarantino's flop: David Gritten

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