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Friday September 5, 2008
Our pick of the new season’s crop, from Bush satire W to new Bond
Next week The Times is giving away Hitchcock DVDs. Here, our critics have a stab at choosing his unforgettable moments
Era of the high-kicking chorus girl may be at an end as renowned Berlin music hall tries to fend off financial collapse
War on the film festival circuit: after a quiet, star-free year, Venice goes head-to-head with Toronto, reports Wendy Ide
Oscar-winning actress says she does not feel the jailed boxer was a rapist, and admits that she used to love cocaine
The world’s most ruthlessly marketed guerrilla artist sets a high price on raffle tickets to a one night 'Extravaganza'
As Tate Britain pays tribute to Francis Bacon, his friends and rivals tell Joanna Pitman about the artist they knew
Painting: pah. It’s the flashy young pretender to the throne of the great god sculpture, says Waldemar Januszczak
Critics are unimpressed by attempts of the British artist to 'offload' sacred cow and other unsold works in India
She is starring in two of the autumn’s biggest bonnet dramas, but gives them a modern edge, says Stephen Armstrong
Few stage actresses are as good on TV as Lesley Sharp, says Andrew Billen - but few have been inspired by Dick Emery
Jack Tweed was sentenced to 18 months in prison despite telling the judge he needed to care for the ill reality star
Biddy Baxter on editing Blue Peter and the publishing of some of the thousands of letters the show received each week
The Kinks presiding genius has written Come Dancing, a musical inspired by his childhood memories. He talks to Mick Hume
As Caryl Churchill turns 70, her admirers and collaborators tell what it's like to work with this important playwright
The American mezzo is set to return to the stage where she met her fiercest critic. Hugh Canning meets her in Paris
The 58-year-old finds it easier to act alongside a dead horse than talk about his personal life, says Morgan Falconer
How exiled European artists reacted to the energy and freedom of the US
The poetry and music of the Alexandria Quartet
Casual brutality and fairy-tale endings in postwar London
We do not yet fully understand the rainforest's glacial past – but we may soon be dealing with the legacy of the warmer future
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