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| Snow White and the Seven Dwarves |
Juan Rodriguez, Gordon McCall
October 2009
Movie Entertainment
CD’s
The long-awaited album by Barbra Streisand will get boomer consumers back into stores; Canadian superstar Nelly Furtado consolidates her career plan. • Barbra Streisand, Love Is the Answer
• Nelly Furtado, Mi Plan
• Sean Diddy Combs, Last Train to Paris
• Air, Love 2
• The Raveonettes, In and Out of Control
• Pearl Jam, Backspacer
• David Gray, Draw the Line
• Pink Martini, Splendor in the Grass
• Alice in Chains, Black Gives Way to Blue
• Orchestre Métropolitain, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor, Bruckner 8
BOOKS
Letterman music man Paul Shaffer dishes fascinating behind-the-scenes patter. Michael Chabon offers a stylish, touching memoir of fatherhood.
• We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin’ Showbiz Saga, Paul Shaffer with David Ritz
• Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, Michael Chabon
• All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York, 1927–77, Tony Fletcher
• The Possibility of Everything, Hope Edelman
• NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
• I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon), Richard Polsky
• American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood, Marc Eliot
• Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne
• Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia, Robert Lacey
• Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, Bertrand M. Patenaude
THEATRE
• Rock ’n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard, Canadian Stage Company, Toronto, Sept. 28 Oct. 24
• The Drowning Girls by Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, Daniela Vlaskalic, Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, Oct. 6-Nov. 15
• BASH’d! by Chris Craddock, Nathan Cuckow, music by Aaron Macri, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, Oct. 12-30
• Dry Streak by Leeann Minogue, Grand Theatre, London, Ont., Oct. 20-Nov. 7
• Half Life by John Mighton, Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton, Ont., Oct. 20-Nov. 7
• The Drowsy Chaperone, music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert, Greg Morrison, book by Bob Martin, Don McKellar, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Oct. 14-31
• 5 O’Clock Bells by Pierre Brault, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg, Oct. 8 24
• A Beautiful View by Daniel MacIvor, Neptune Theatre, Halifax, Oct. 13-31
• 7 Stories by Morris Panych, Theatre Calgary, Calgary, Oct. 13-Nov. 1
• The Miracle Worker by William Gibson, Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, Oct. 10-31
DVD’S
What’s that, Mr. Ed? You can’t decide whether to watch Cobain or Carson? If you stop horsing around, you can watch them both.
• Heeere’s Johnny Holiday Edition, The Definitive DVD Collection from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
• Bruce Springsteen: DVD Jukebox
• Kurt Cobain: About A Son (Blu-ray)
• Mister Ed: The Complete First Season
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947) (Blu-Ray)
• Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics
• The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
• Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson: A Tribute to Ray Charles
• Ally McBeal: The Complete Series
• Natural Born Killers (Unrated Director’s Cut) (Blu-Ray)
KIDS DVD’S
Read the fairy tale, then watch Snow White all spruced up in Blu-ray. For cartoon choreography at its zaniest, try Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases.
• Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (Collector’s Book Set) (Blu-Ray)
• Tom And Jerry’s Greatest Chases, Vol. 3
• Horton Hears a Who!
• The Backyardigans: Robot Repairman
• Baby Einstein: My First Signs
• Franklin’s Halloween
• The Velveteen Rabbit
• Elmo’s Animal Adventure
• Kong: Return To The Jungle