In Tere Bin Laden, pop star Ali Zafar makes his debut as a Bollywood hero – a notable coup for a Pakistani actor. Photograph: Sebastian D’Souza/AFP/Getty Images “Somebody in this Pakistani government does know where Osama bin Laden is hiding,” Hillary Clinton, the US... 

Plastic Betrand as pictured on the original single of ‘Ça plane pour moi’. When he hit European television screens in 1977, pogoing across music stages with a glint in his eye and a flower in his buttonhole, Plastic Bertrand gave no reason for anyone to doubt him when he yelled... 

Totalitarian, ideologically motivated despot, or simply a fine American film-maker? Oliver Stone meets Hugo Chávez. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features Despite my many differences with Oliver Stone as an artist, I congratulate him on having managed both to present an unhysterical... 

The Jolly Boys: (from left) Joseph ‘Powda’ Bennett, 73; Albert Minott, 72; Derrick ‘Johnny’ Henry, 71; Allan Swymmer, 82, and Egbert Watson, 84. Photograph: William Richards A barbarously sticky afternoon in Jamaica and I’m in Kingston inside a windowless room... 

Do not adjust your computer: a typically psychedelic scene from ODDSAC. Not that he’d admit it, but there must have been times when Josh Dibb has wondered if he’s the butt of some cruel cosmic joke. As the rest of his band Animal Collective were making the leap from Pitchfork-approved...