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DIRECTOR EDITION

GOOD WEEK/ BAD WEEK

David Lynch

His creepy debut solo album, Crazy Clown Time, was released to positive reviews.

Brett Ratner

The Tower Heist helmer stepped down as Oscar producer after he used an anti-gay slur.

MOVIES

Oh, So There He Is

Waldo, that candy-cane-sweatered children’s-book character, will soon be easy to find–at your local movie theater. MGM has secured rights to the Where’s Waldo? series and plans to make a live-action family-adventure film. We presume the movie will include lots of crowd shots.

BOOKS

Roll Credits

Graphic designer Saul Bass created some of cinema’s greatest movie-credit sequences for directors Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, North by Northwest, Vertigo), Otto Preminger (Anatomy of a Murder, The Man with the Golden Arm) and Martin Scorsese (Casino, Cape Fear). The new book Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design shows off his playfully geometric sequences, movie-poster art and corporate logos.

MOVIES

Playing Princess

The mourning period has finally passed; Hollywood will make a Princess Diana movie. Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Caught in Flight, about Di’s two-year affair with a London heart surgeon, will go into production in 2012 and star Hollywood newcomer (and American) Jessica Chastain as Di. If Elton John appears on the sound track in any way, we’re done.

BIZARRE

Dentists

Michael Zuk

Beatles fans

One of John Lennon’s yellowed molars was recently sold at auction for more than $31,000. Who would want such a bizarre piece of memorabilia? A Canadian dentist.

SPORTS

Who Would You Rather See Play Detroit’s Thanksgiving Halftime Show?

Check one:

Nickelback

Mayer Hawthorne

Go to entertainment.time.com to vote

ONE AND DONE

While taking some 80,000 photos over the course of his career, Charles “Teenie” Harris (right) rarely needed to shoot the same scene twice–which is how he got the nickname One Shot. From 1936 to 1975, Harris chronicled the lives of African Americans in Pittsburgh for a local black newspaper and took photos of notables–including this 1962 one of JFK (above)–who happened to be passing through town. His work is on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art through April 7.

Q&A

Werner Herzog

In his new documentary, Into the Abyss, the German director takes a look at the American death-penalty system through the case of one man on Texas’ death row.

What’s the first thing you say when you sit down to talk to death-row inmates? I tell them, “Your crime is abominable and monstrous, but I will still treat you as a human being.” I wear my suit–which I hardly ever wear–out of respect.

You’ve talked about how your peers, people in your generation, could never support capital punishment because of having experienced the Nazis. We have seen the barbarism of a state-ordered, industrialized murder program. I’m not saying that’s an argument. It’s only a historical experience that we still sense within us. America has not had this experience.

In addition to being a feature-film director and documentarian, you seem to have become an amazing interviewer. I’m not an interviewer. I have conversations. And I know the heart of men. I know it because I have had fundamental experiences like traveling on foot. The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. I’ve walked from Munich to Paris, but I’ve also done longer walks. You’re unprotected and have to talk to people to ask them to fill your canteen because there’s no creek for dozens of miles. You really learn what men are all about.

How did that help with this movie? I wasn’t able to talk to any of these people for more than 60 minutes. You have to immediately dig deep into the recesses of their soul. That’s not something you learn in film school.

–GILBERT CRUZ

Food

Fendi’s Frozen Fare

As fashion brands branch out into everything from condoms to puppy sneakers, it’s not surprising to learn that Silvia Fendi, the leather-goods designer, has created four gelato flavors. Mozzarella, aspirin and Coca-Cola Light are self-explanatory, but the taste of Fan di Fendi (whose ingredients are not listed) remains a mystery.

3 THINGS YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS WEEK

1. Amazon’s digital book-lending service’s replacing your local library.

None of the six biggest publishers in the U.S. have yet agreed to participate.

2. The end of Claymation.

The video for Justin Bieber’s cover of “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” inserts a clay Biebs into scenes from the animated stop-motion 1970 TV special.

3. Patsy and Edina.

Absolutely Fabulous creator Jennifer Saunders has announced plans to make the British television series into a feature film. Sweetie darling, this is great news!