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Goodbye to all that

Comment: Renée Zellweger's face is her brand. A new look will change her career beyond recognition – though it didn't harm Mickey Rourke
Books

Michael Sandel webchat

Forthcoming Q&A: The Harvard professor whose philosophical lectures attract crowds of thousands is joining us on Friday. Post your questions for him here

Q awards: Wilko Johnson receives icon award following battle with cancer

22 Oct 2014: Dr Feelgood star receives Q icon award, while Kasabian beat Kate Bush to pick up trophy for best act in awards’ 25th year
Hubert de Givenchy needled by collapse of haute couture

22 Oct 2014: French designer bemoans today’s fashion culture, as first major retrospective of his four-decade career launches in Madrid
Joan Didion documentary to be funded by Kickstarter appeal

22 Oct 2014: Author’s nephew hopes to complete documentary about one of America’s most esteemed writers with help of crowdfunding site
Renée Zellweger new look due to 'happy, healthy lifestyle', not surgery

22 Oct 2014: The Oscar-winning actor has responded to online speculation that she’s had cosmetic surgery by ascribing her changed looks to an increased feeling of peace

CMJ's opening night: Amanda X, Dune Rats, J Fernandez, Charly Bliss, Roomrunner

22 Oct 2014: In his first report from New York’s music showcase, Brad Nelson sees some mammalian Australians, geometric indie rockers and experiences densely joined grooves from Baltimore
Zenith: Phase One review – the return of the 2000 AD superhero

22 Oct 2014: An iconic superhero is back in print in Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s satirical portrait of the 1980s. By James Smart
Peter Hill: Messiaen’s La Fauvette Passerinette, etc CD review – hugely rewarding

22 Oct 2014: In pianist Peter Hill hands, a long-lost work from 1961 is a rewarding glimpse rarely seen side of Messiaen, writes Andrew Clements
Jake Bugg review – minimum showmanship, maximum talent

22 Oct 2014: The 20-year-old Nottingham singer-songwriter barely acknowledged the crowd, but so hypnotic were his tumbling rhythms and wrong-side-of-the-tracks observations that it didn’t matter, writes Ian Gittins

- We took four New Yorkers to The Death of Klinghoffer: what was their verdict?
  
  On Monday night, hundreds of people protested outside the Met opera that Klinghoffer was antisemitic. So what was our panel's take?

I think it was André Breton who called the place Dauphine the "sex of Paris". So if nothing else it is clearly in the wrong place.
Harry Powell
commenting on Paul McCarthy 'butt plug' sculpture in Paris provokes rightwing backlash

Music blog

Mercury nominees 2014: Kate Tempest

22 Oct 2014: Tempest has awards for her poetry but with hip-hop album Everybody Down she has moved towards the mainstream – and the Mercury judges love a female MC …
TV and radio blog

How Grayson Perry has revolutionised art on television

22 Oct 2014: Mark Lawson: The artist’s new series Who Are You? combines talkshow with art documentary, and even adds investigation to the mix. It’s a mould-breaking combination
Film blog

Global box office: Middle East embrace of Gone Girl helps keep it on top

22 Oct 2014: In this week’s instalment of our series tracking cinema’s worldwide winners …
Fury tries to grind down US audience’s second-world-war apathy
Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mounts stealth attack on Europe
Robert Downey Jr fails to thrill outside of the Iron Man suit
Music blog

Suede: 10 of the best

22 Oct 2014: We remember when it was all council blocks and drug-addled crones having bad sex around here … to mark 20 years since Dog Man Star, here are 10 classics from Suede

Comedy 12min ago

Natasia Demetriou – comedy's most nervous standup?

22 Oct 2014: In a show inspired by men she met on Tinder, with supporting roles for her family and her dog, the Invisible Dot’s Natasia Demetriou elevates her anxieties to an art form, writes Ryan Gilbey
Photography 2hr 5min ago

Victims of Syrian regime honoured at DC's Holocaust museum

22 Oct 2014: A video installation of images smuggled out from Syria puts them in the context of the 20th century’s greatest atrocity, and the impact is profound, reports Raya Jalabi
Culture 2hr 15min ago

#Douchebag: from useless contraceptive to universal putdown

22 Oct 2014: It has become this year’s catch-all insult, powered by social media and broadcasters keen to avoid more sweary options. But where did it come from – and who really deserves the epithet?
Enid Blyton 3hr 37min ago

The Faraway Tree is getting closer to our cinemas – minus Dame Slap, Fanny and Dick

22 Oct 2014: Sam Mendes is turning Enid Blyton’s classic novels into a film. But certain characters will need to be reinvented
My best shot 4hr 52min ago

Paul Hill’s best photograph: the day troops arrived in Belfast, 1969

22 Oct 2014: ‘This man had gone to the pub for a drink. When he came out, there were troops and razorwire everywhere’