The Friday File

Peter Howell argues that films screened in the Special Presentations programme at TIFF are often better than those that screen as glitzy Galas and I agree. U.K. scientists have linked personality traits to the type of music a person likes to listen to. And the New York Times spent a night out with Elisabeth Shue. Why is that interesting? Because she engendered lifelong goodwill for her role in the teen classic Adventures in Babysitting and she did it in the first two minutes of the film, dancing around her bedroom to The Crystals' And Then He Kissed Me. The babysitting blues are way more fun than they're entitled to be.