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The 20 best films to see this autumn

Daniel Craig as 007 in Quantum of Solace

Our pick of the new season’s crop, from Bush satire W to Bond's Quantum of Solace, Brideshead Revisited and beyond

David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction

In a case of life imitating art, Californication star David Duchovny has been admitted to a rehab clinic for sex addiction

Fiona Philips quits GMTV

The long-time presenter is leaving a £1.5 million contract on the breakfast show after admitting she 'can't have it all'

Crowds come out to see threatened Titians

Tourists and locals poured into Edinburgh to look at the £300 million masterpieces that could soon be lost to the nation

Wacko at 50: good, Bad and ugly. As Michael Jackson hits 50, we explore highs and lows from his extraordinary record-breaking career: plus video

Film 

Rupert Friend

One heil of a performance by Rupert Friend

He’s not just Keira Knightley’s squeeze... Rupert Friend has shown his mettle playing a fearsome Nazi, says Kevin Maher

Dial M for must-see crime movies

What makes the perfect crime movie? Crime writer Christopher Fowler goes beyond the usual suspects to find whodunnit

Clooney and Pitt kick off Venice

The Hollywood actors are in Venice to see their latest film, the Coen brothers' Burn After Reading, open the film festival

Time for Josh Peck to feed the hunger

The anti-hero of The Wackness has lost 120lb but still bears the lifelong scars of being the taunted, ridiculed, fat kid

Ten best crime movies

From The Usual Suspects to Fargo

Valery Gergiev conducts in the ruins of Tskhinvali

Times Recommends

Music in the ruins

Valery Gergiev conducts the Leningrad Symphony in South Ossetia

Music 

Pop singer Katy Perry poses at the W Hotel in San Diego, August 14, 2008

Katy Perry on I Kissed a Girl

Her lipgloss-lesbian anthem may have ruffled feathers but Katy Perry just wants to entertain, she tells Sophie Harris

Jacques Brel recording in 1967

Alastair Campbell on Jacques Brel

The former government spin doctor on the tumultuous life and legacy of the tortured Belgian musician Jacques Brel

Seasick Steve, hobo superstar

He's jumped trains and had spells in jail, but now, at 57, he has hit the big time and is to play the Royal Albert Hall

Joan Baez is back

Age has not wearied Joan Baez, the queen of protest, but it’s calmed her down ... a bit, Will Hodgkinson finds

Must-have pop CDs for summer 2008

TLS Poetry competition. Enter here for the chance to win £2,000. Runners-up prizes: £750, £500, £250. Closing date September 12

TV & Radio 

Lesley Sharp

Lesley Sharp's fiery performance in The Children

Few stage actresses are as good on TV as Lesley Sharp, says Andrew Billen - but few have been inspired by Dick Emery

Peter Purves, John Noakes and Lesley Judd are joined by David Cassidy to judge the 'Keep Britain Tidy' poster campaign of the early Seventies

The Blue Peter effect

Biddy Baxter on editing Blue Peter and the publishing of some of the thousands of letters the show received each week

Jane Austen goes time-travelling

Updating Pride and Prejudice could be ratings-winning genius - or is it just bonkers, wonders Hugo Rifkind

X Factor's Alan Turner refutes lying accusation

The contestant accused of lying by his father has revealed a more traumatic childhood than the one he supposedly fabricated

Lipstick Jungle

Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields returns to TV

Visual arts 

Francis Bacon Three Studies for a Self Portrait, 1979 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998. (1999.363.1a-c) Image The Metropolitan Museum of Art © Estate of Francis Bacon. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2007

A tribute to the many faces of Francis Bacon

As Tate Britain pays tribute to Francis Bacon, his friends and rivals tell Joanna Pitman about the artist they knew

Venice. The Fourth Bridge

No grand opening for blighted bridge

Plans for President Napolitano to open Venice's first new bridge for 70 years are scrapped after outcry from critics

200 unsold Hirsts looking for owner

Britain's most prolific major artist hopes to clear a mountainous backlog from his production line – and pocket £65m

Make a pompom for peace

Making a pompom may appear frivolous but it touches people in a profound way. Craft connects us to our human need to create

Modern Art Explained

Untitled by Mark Rothko, 1960. Copyright Christies/Corbis

What do you think of this painting?

Edinburgh festival 

Dancing on Your Grave/ The Blank Album

The dancing, while certainly adroit, seems supplementary to the music, which, written by Blake and Burch, dovetail perfectly

Kate Nash performing on the Main Stage during day one of the Glastonbury Festival, Somerset

Kate Nash shows the strain in Edinburgh

Just 20 minutes into her festival set, her voice began to crack up and her lyrics were becoming difficult to decipher

Comic awarded for ‘delightful’ Edinburgh show

David O'Doherty, a stand-up comedian from Ireland, won £8,000 and praise for 'utterly delightful' Fringe festival show

Król Roger

Szymanowski's music sucks you in, iridescent and mysterious, filled with the perfumes of east and west

Edinburgh highlights

Edinburgh: Jo Neary

News, features and video reviews from a rainy Auld Reekie

The battle of the Beatles. Death threats and chaos marred the Beatles' last world tour, captured in our access-all-areas photographs

Times Literary Supplement 

George Balanchine and Allegra Kent

The exiles who wowed America

How exiled European artists reacted to the energy and freedom of the US

Lawrence Durrell, 1980s

Lawrence Durrell in the ambiguous white metropolis

The poetry and music of the Alexandria Quartet

Housework at the workhouse

Casual brutality and fairy-tale endings in postwar London

The real Ice Age of the Amazon rainforest

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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Books 

Rushdie in court to settle libel case

Author will not claim damages despite false allegations made against him in book serialised by The Mail on Sunday newspaper

Meaghan Delahunt

Time and place: Meaghan Delahunt

The writer, 47, recalls the ‘glamorous’ tenement flat where she fell in love with Edinburgh and where, despite the cold and damp, she began her career

Being a Scot by Sean Connery and Murray Grigor

The Sunday Times review by Christopher Hart: a surprisingly engaging history of Scotland, Edinburgh's most celebrated former milkman

Crime writer taken too soon

Barry Forshaw recounts the swift rise and early death of Steig Larsson, author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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The Big Brother Blog. Our resident reality TV obsessives on the friendships, fights and flirting of Series Nine