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Mionday Q & A
Let’s be clear about Delusions
Laurie Anderson reveals the private pain behind her new work
![The admiring Tremblay (Vincent Hoss-Desmarais, left) tries to get Kerouac (Alain Goulem) to lay off the booze in the Centaur production of George Rideout's Michel & ti-Jean.](https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20100215164011im_/http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00484/michel2_jpg_484361gm-c.jpg)
Theatre
Where Tremblay and Kerouac meet
Michael & ti-Jean really works, somehow drawing us into the imagined collision of these two formidable personalities and egos
![Guitarist Afie Jurvanen and his band Bahamas are opening for Wilco in four Canadian cities.](https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20100215164011im_/http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00484/openings_JPG_484149gm-c.jpg)
Music
They’re the band with the band
You have to hustle to become the opening act on big tours. And it helps to know the booking agent
![Comedian Stephen Colbert opens the show at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles January 31, 2010.](https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20100215164011im_/http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00484/colbert2_484561gm-c.jpg)
Vancouver 2010
Colbert goes for the cold
A proud sponsor – and honorary psychologist – of the U.S. speed-skating team, the late-night comedian is also heading to Canada to cover the Games, presumably with laughs
A whistleblower’s call to arms
The man who helped change the course of the Vietnam War hopes a new documentary inspires current U.S. bureaucrats to follow his lead
Vancouver 2010
Dion turned down opening ceremony spot
VANOC says other francophone artists also declined
Vancouver 2010
The Vancouver you won't find in the brochures
Among all the take-your-breath-away art at the Cultural Olympiad is work that artists hope will introduce visitors to a different, perhaps more realistic version of Vancouver
Love at first downbeat
Orchestras adore Montreal conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Next month he brings the Rotterdam Philharmonic to perform in Canada
Vancouver 2010
Where is George Clooney hiding?
Star keeps ultra-low profile, reportedly making quick appearances at private parties in Whistler and Vancouver
Television
Jason Priestley is still a teenager after all these years
Two decades after 90210, Jason Priestley is heading back to TV as a foul-mouthed lay-about used-car salesman who ‘has never really progressed past 15’
The Knack lead singer Doug Fieger, 57, dies
Co-writer of the 1979 hit song My Sharona had battled lung cancer for six years
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John Doyle: Olympic viewing
How about a little more childish delight?
Watching the first weekend of the Games was a bizarre experience
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Warren Clements: Puzzles and Charades
Many ways to skin a letter
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Russell Smith: On Language
Let me be clear: we can’t always banish tricky words
Phrases that make no sense are nothing if not annoying, but we're stuck with them
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Lynn Crosbie: Pop Rocks
The ugly truth about Betty’s braces and Super Bowl ads
A great show reinvented camp and tele-aesthetics
![America Ferrera in a scene from Ugly Betty.](https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20100215164011im_/http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00476/Ugly_Betty_Ameri_476601gm-d.jpg)
Warren Clements: DVDs
Original Ladykillers release features a new killer commentary
More classics from Blu-ray include Ran and Lola Montes
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Nestruck on Theatre
Wajdi Mouawad's Streetcar starring Isabelle Huppert leaves something to be desired
While in Las Vegas, Franco Dragone doesn't not disagree with Cirque du Soleil's current direction. Or something
![Playwright Lynne Nottage, author of Intimate Apparel.](https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20100215164011im_/http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00479/lynn_nottage_str_479824gm-d.jpg)
Video
Liam Lacey in 60 seconds
Globe film critic Liam Lacey discusses what's up on screen, at the festivals, and at the box office. This week: From Paris With Love and J'ai tue ma mere (I Killed my Mother).
![Xavier Dolan, left, and François Arnaud star in Dolan’s autobiographical debut J’ai tué ma mère, in which a young gay man comes of age.](https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20100215164011im_/http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00422/repwatch08rvt2_d_422081gm-d.jpg)
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