Gordon McCall, Juan Rodriguez
November 2009
Movie Entertainment
CD’s
Michael Bublé continues crooning while Lil Wayne shows he’s arguably the cleverest rapper around and Bob Dylan croaks his way through a holiday album for all seasons.
• Michael Bublé, Crazy Love
• Lil Wayne, Rebirth
• Bob Dylan, Christmas in the Heart
• Sting, If On A Winter’s Night
• Weezer, Raditude
• R.E.M., Live at the Olympia
• Three 6 Mafia, Laws of Power
• Michelle Branch, Everything Comes and Goes
• Lyle Lovett, Natural Forces
• John Mayer, Battle Studies
• Do Make Say Think, Other Truths
BOOKS
Accessible books on China’s rise, Afghan politics, the environment and the women’s movement – not to mention Liz Taylor’s early years in Tinseltown.
• When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order, Martin Jacques
• A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice, Malalai Joya
• Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming, James Hoggan with Richard Littlemore
• Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, Stewart Brand
• When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, Gail Collins
• How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood, William J. Mann
• Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life, Carol Sklenicka
• Treating the Brain: What the Best Doctors Know, Walter G. Bradley
• Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, Ken Auletta
• Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth, and Power – A Dispatch from the Beach, Gerald Posner
DVD’S
Here’s everything you wanted to know about Michael Jackson and a dazzling refurbishing of a Hitchcock classic to add to your gift-giving selection.
• Michael Jackson: Mega Box
• North By Northwest: 50th Anniversary
• Food, Inc.
• Mission: Impossible — The Final TV Season
• Heat (Blu-ray)
• Star Trek: Two-Disc Special Edition
• Oscar Peterson: The Life of a Legend
• Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (Blu-ray)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (Blu-ray)
• Rolling Stones: In the 1960’s
KIDS DVD’S
There’s a lot to celebrate with Sesame Street’s anniversary, Disney’s first full-length animated feature and the inimitable Alastair Sim as Scrooge.
• Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
• A Christmas Carol (1951) (Blu-Ray)
• Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro — The Complete First Season
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
• Barbie as the Island Princess/Barbie Presents: Thumbelina
• Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
• Fraggle Rock: A Merry Fraggle Holiday
• Barney: We Love Our Family
• Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s (1956)
THEATRE
Go out on a ledge with Morris Panych’s 7 Stories or share in the horrors of a dictatorship revisited in Death and the Maiden at the Centaur Theatre.
•7 Stories by Morris Panych, Canadian Stage Company, Toronto, Nov. 9-Dec. 5
• Rocking the Cradle by Des Walsh, adapted from Lorca’s Yerma, Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, Nov. 4-Dec. 13
• Dry Streak by Leeann Minogue, Grand Theatre, London, Oct. 20-Nov. 7
• Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman, Centaur Theatre Company, Montreal, Nov. 3-Dec. 6
•The Children’s Republic by Hannah Moscovitch, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa, Nov. 3-22
•No Great Mischief by David S. Young from the novel by Alistair MacLeod, Neptune Theatre, Halifax, Oct. 27-Nov. 15
•Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers, adapted by Frances Limoncelli, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg, Oct. 22-Nov. 14
• Bordertown Café by Kelly Rebar, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg, Nov. 11-29
• Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Nov. 7-29
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, book by Jeffrey Lane, music and lyrics by David Yazbek, Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, Nov. 21-Dec. 27