Friday, July 18, 2014

Elaine Stritch: A toast to a stage legend, Jason Biggs talks 'Orange is the New Black' with real-life Larry, and more

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5 Great Things For This Weekend

1. Elaine Stritch: A toast to a stage legend "I'd like to propose a toast" to theater actress Elaine Stritch. 

  1. 'Brooklyn Girls' is the most hated song on the internet right now Two days after being posted to YouTube, singer-songwriter Catey Shaw’s 'Brooklyn Girls' music video has started to go viral.
  2.  Jason Biggs talks 'Orange is the New Black' with real-life Larry Though Jason Biggs’ portrayal doesn’t exactly always inspire sympathy, the real Larry doesn’t seem to have hard feelings.   
  3. The best and worst of Weird Al's one-word-title parody songs How often does a one-word pop song help Al, and how often does it hurt him? Let’s look.

  4. Inside the far-off world of 'Star Wars Workbooks' Many elementary school kids spend their days wishing school was more like 'Star Wars'. But what if 'Star Wars' was school?

 
TV: What To Watch
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The Real Housewives of New Jersey
9:00 Bravo    

Season 6 of the Garden State edition is off to an explosive start as Joe and Teresa Giudice confront their ongoing legal drama during (when else?) B -Nina Terrero

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IN THEATERS THIS WEEKEND
Magic in the Moonlight 

At 78, Allen seems to have decided to make only two kinds of movies: the profound and the placeholders. In the first group are deeper, more challenging films such as 'Match Point' and 'Blue Jasmine'. In the second are his conceptually slight gag pictures, which have a one-joke premise and agreeably spin their wheels for a while. 'Moonlight' falls squarely in that second category. Its wheels spin and spin until the tires are nearly bald. B- -Chris Nashaway

Sex Tape

Director Jake Kasdan, who also helmed 'Bad Teacher' and 'Friends With Kids', doesn't quite seem to know what tone he's going for, and the last half of the movie veers wildly between crude hard-R comedy and warm-hearted teachable moments. Blessedly, it's also short; roughly half the running time of the three hours Annie and Jay clock in their much-vaunted sexcapades. So everybody gets their happy ending. C+ -Leah Greenblatt

Wish I Was Here 

Braff, who co-wrote the film with his own brother, is clearly attached to the semi-autobiographical material here and still has a knack for sweet two-person scenes (Hudson and Patinkin have quite a lovely one). But the relentless cultural signifiers trap the film in an amber that already feels dated. And Braff's wholehearted embrace of weepie clichés — deathbed confessionals pop up as often as the indie tunes — clashes with the movie's more side-eyed and profane observations. It's a conundrum that fails to kick-start him out of his sophomore slump. C -Jason Clark



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