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■ New this week.
Stars are by World-Herald critics,
four stars being the best.
RATED G
Rio 2 It’s a jungle out there for Blu,
Jewel and their three kids after
they’re hurtled to the wilds of the
Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he
goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful
Nigel and meets the most fearsome
adversary of all: his father-in-law.
RATED PG
Belle An illegitimate mixed race
daughter of a Royal Navy admiral
is raised by her aristocratic greatuncle.
Heaven Is for Real Based on the
best-selling book by the Rev. Todd
Burpo of Imperial, Nebraska. Greg
Kinnear plays Burpo, whose 4-yearold son has a near-death experience
and then tells his parents all about
his visit to heaven. A well-made,
unpreachy Christian-themed movie.
Randall Wallace (“Secretariat”)
directs. ★★★
Maleficent Disney gives a backstory
to “Sleeping Beauty,” updating
its 1959 animated classic with a
live-action rewrite. Angelina Jolie
impresses as the wicked fairy, bitter
over the loss of her wings. She
curses the daughter (Elle Fanning)
of the king (Sharlto Copley) who
stole those wings, but comes to
regret it. Fine family storytelling.
★★★
Million Dollar Arm A sports
agent stages an unconventional
recruitment strategy to get talented
Indian cricket players to play Major
League Baseball.
RATED PG-13
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Andrew
Garfield (Spider-Man), Emma
Stone (Gwen Stacy) and Sally
Field (Aunt May) score, making us
care. Spidey’s web-swings through
skyscraper canyons work great, too.
But three villains are a bit much
(Jamie Foxx overacts), and multiple
plot lines feel a bit muddled. ★★½
Blended After a bad blind date, a
man and woman find themselves
stuck at a resort for families, where
their attraction grows as their
respective kids benefit from the
burgeoning relationship.
Captain America: The Winter
Soldier Government surveillance
of its own citizens beefs up the
relevance of this superhero movie
starring Chris Evans, Scarlett
Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson and
Anthony Mackie. Robert Redford
is effective as the head of the
surveillance program. Loads of
digital effects, violence. ★★★
■ Edge of Tomorrow An officer finds
himself caught in a time loop in a
war with an alien race. His skills
increase as he faces the same
brutal combat scenarios, and his
union with a Special Forces warrior
gets him closer and closer to
defeating the enemy.
■ The Fault in Our Stars Two teens
share an acerbic wit, a disdain
for the conventional and a love
that sweeps them on a journey.
Their relationship is all the more
miraculous given that Hazel’s other
constant companion is an oxygen
tank, Gus jokes about his prosthetic
leg, and they met and fell in love at
a cancer support group.
Godzilla Director Gareth Edwards’
update of the 1954 monster classic
works because audiences connect
emotionally to the humans in the
film. Bryan Cranston and Aaron
Taylor-Johnson play a father and son
affected by Godzilla’s history. Strong
digital effects make the monsters
and their destruction of skylines
effective, too. ★★★
Ida Anna, a young nun in 1960s
Poland, is on the verge of taking
her vows when she discovers a
dark family secret dating back to
the years of the Nazi occupation.
English subtitles.
The Other Woman A hard-driving
lawyer (Cameron Diaz) discovers her
boyfriend is married, then must deal
with the needy, daffy wife (Leslie
Mann) and a second mistress (Kate
Upton). The three join to get even in
this female buddy pic. Mann’s funny
business is inspired. The movie is
just OK. ★★½
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Combining casts of the original
“X-Men” and the most recent
“X-Men: First Class” makes for a
lot of star power and storylines,
but director Bryan Singer makes it
work with action, humor and strong
acting. ★★★
RATED R
Chef A chef who loses his
restaurant job starts up a food
truck in an effort to reclaim his
creative promise.
■ The Immigrant On the mean
streets of Manhattan, Ewa (Marion
Cotillard) falls prey to Bruno
(Joaquin Phoenix), a charming but
wicked man who takes her in and
forces her into prostitution.
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Seth MacFarlane directed, co-wrote
and stars in this profane, gross-out
satire of westerns, and the humor
is more hit than miss. Charlize
Theron is the girl he falls for, and
Liam Neeson is her abusive outlaw
husband. Lots of surprise cameos
boost the laugh quota. ★★★
Neighbors This gross-out comedy
from director Nicholas Stoller
stretches the envelope for
outrageousness but is missing the
sweetly sentimental undertone of
his earlier adult comedies. ★★½
The Railway Man A former British
Army officer who was tormented
at a Japanese labor camp during
World War II discovers that the
man responsible for much of his
treatment is still alive, and he sets
out to confront him.
SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014
THE CHARTS
Tracy Morgan hurt in fatal crash
Comedian Jimmy Mack
is killed after semitrailer
rams into limousine bus
on New Jersey Turnpike
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.
(AP) — Actor and comedian
Tracy Morgan was critically
injured Saturday after a semitrailer truck rammed into his
chauffeured limousine bus, setting off a chain-reaction crash
that left a fellow comedian dead
and other people seriously hurt,
authorities said.
A truck driver from Georgia
was charged with death by auto
in the crash that killed a man
described as a mentor to the
former “Saturday Night Live”
and “30 Rock” cast member as
the group traveled home from
a stand-up comedy show in
Tracy Morgan
The actor was
returning from
a stand-up
comedy show
in Delaware
with other
comedians.
Delaware, officials said.
James McNair, 62, of Peekskill, New York, who performed
as Jimmy Mack, died after the
Mercedes limo bus carrying
seven people overturned on
the New Jersey Turnpike near
Cranbury Township about 1
a.m., State Police Sgt. 1st Class
Greg Williams said.
Morgan, 45, and Jeffrey Millea, 36, of Shelton, Connecticut,
were flown from the accident
scene to Robert Wood Johnson
Hospital in New Brunswick,
where they were in critical
condition, hospital spokesman
Peter Haigney said.
Morgan remained in the intensive care unit at the hospital
Saturday night.
A fourth passenger, comedian Ardie Fuqua Jr., was also in
critical condition, while a fifth
passenger, comic Harris Stanton, was treated and released,
Haigney said. Two others in the
limo were unhurt, including the
driver.
Middlesex County prosecutors said Kevin Roper, 35, of
Jonesboro, Georgia, also faces
four counts of assault by auto.
His bail was set at $50,000 and
he was expected to turn himself
in later Saturday. It wasn’t
immediately clear if he had an
attorney.
Williams said the semitrailer
driver apparently failed to slow
for traffic ahead and swerved
at the last minute to try to avoid
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a crash. But the semi smashed
into the back of the limo, setting off a chain-reaction crash
with a second semi, an SUV and
two cars.
McNair was a close friend
and mentor to Morgan, said
Morgan’s former wife, Sabina Morgan. “He was one of
the first comedians that took
Tracy under his wing,” she said.
“They were very close.”
Royale Watkins, a Los Angeles-based comedian who said
he had performed in New York
clubs with Morgan and McNair,
described McNair as having a
big personality.
“There may be guys like
Tracy who get the fame and notoriety, but you have people like
Jimmy Mack who have kind of
energized and fueled cats like
Tracy and kept them going on
the road,” Watkins said.
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THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
LOS ANGELES — It’s hard
to think of someone in public
life who has had more disparate
phases and identities than Jane
Fonda.
There’s the brilliant actress
(and daughter of a Hollywood
legend and Nebraska native
Henry Fonda), the polarizing
political activist, the exercise
maven, the rich celebrity wife
and now, once again, the working actress. Fonda admits that
this last phase — what she calls
her “third act” — has taken her
by surprise.
“It’s much more than I ever
expected,” she said. “There are
a lot of firsts in my third act.”
Whatever the role, Fonda
invests it with fierce determination, so it’s not surprising
that the age-defying 76-year-old
hit the ground running when
she returned to acting, after a
15-year sabbatical, in the 2005
comedy hit “Monster-in-Law”
and hasn’t looked back.
After wowing the red carpet
at the recent Cannes Film
Festival as an ambassador for
L’Oreal, she went to Switzerland
to play an 80-year-old diva in
“Youth,” for Paolo Sorrentino,
who directed the Oscar-winning
Italian film “The Great Beauty.”
Earlier this year, Fonda made
“Fathers and Daughters” with
Russell Crowe and will be seen
this fall with Tina Fey and Jason Bateman in “This Is Where
I Leave You.”
In August, she and her
“9 to 5” co-star Lily Tomlin
begin filming the new Netflix
series “Grace and Frankie,”
and she is returning for at least
one episode as the powerful
owner of a cable news network
in HBO’s “The Newsroom,” for
which she received an Emmy
nomination.
On Thursday, Fonda received one of her hometown’s
most prestigious honors — the
American Film Institute’s Life
Achievement Award — at the
Dolby Theatre. She is only the
eighth actress to receive the
award. Her father won it in
1978.
An edited version of the show
will air Saturday on TNT and in
August on TCM. Among those
paying tribute will be brother
Peter Fonda, Michael Douglas, Meryl Streep, Catherine
Keener, Sally Field and Penny
Marshall.
Even after a lifetime of
honors, Fonda is thrilled about
the AFI salute. “If you had
asked me three years ago if I
thought this was in my future, I
would say I can’t even hope for
such a thing,” she said. In fact,
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Jane Fonda accepted the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award on Thursday. Michael Douglas was the presenter.
she said, when she learned of
the honor last fall, “I burst into
tears.”
The award, she said, “is not
for one film. It’s for a body of
work. It’s very competitive and
very important, serious longtime heavyweights in the industry make the decision about
who gets it. It’s like a major
stamp of approval and respect
from your industry peers.”
Ironically, Fonda never
really wanted to follow in her
father’s footsteps. And if not
for landmark acting teacher
Lee Strasberg, she probably
wouldn’t have.
It was Strasberg who told
her she was talented. “I needed
someone who was not a parent
or an employee of a parent to
say, which he did, ‘Wow, you
have got something.’ My life
changed. That was a big deal.
That was when I committed
myself.”
That commitment led to her
becoming perhaps the leading
American actress of her generation. She won Oscars for 1971’s
“Klute” and 1978’s “Coming
Home,” as well as nominations
for 1969’s “They Shoot Horses,
Don’t They?,” 1977’s “Julia,”
1979’s “The China Syndrome,”
1981’s “On Golden Pond” and
1986’s “The Morning After.”
But she wasn’t happy.
“I didn’t know who I was or
where I was going,” Fonda said.
“I’d really kind of gone off the
track and I can’t act when I feel
that way. So I left.”
She was divorced from
second husband Tom Hayden
in 1990 and moved to Atlanta in
1991 when she married media
mogul Ted Turner.
“That was an important thing
for me,” she said. “Ted taught
me how to laugh. I come from
a family that is very serious, so
Ted was a very important part
of my healing.”
So was writing her candid
2005 memoir, “My Life So Far,”
in which she talked about her
three-decade struggle with bulimia, her failed marriages, her
mother Frances’ suicide when
the actress was just 12, her famous father who was often cold
and distant, and her anti-Vietnam War activities that nearly
derailed her career in 1972
when she was photographed in
Hanoi on an anti-aircraft gun —
an action for which some still
can’t forgive her.
“She has all of this energy
and she puts it out all the time
for everything she is in to,” said
Peter Fonda, adding that his
sister doesn’t dwell on the past
but is “in the now, really.”
A major philanthropist,
Fonda has been an advocate for
the welfare of teenagers. She
founded what is now known
as the Georgia Campaign for
Adolescent Power and Potential
in 1994 and recently published
“Being a Teen,” a bestseller that
discusses all aspects of being
an adolescent including body
image, sex and bullying.
Fonda also is a popular presence on Twitter — she has over
600,000 followers — and reports
that she has had “tremendous
feedback” from her website, at
www.janefonda.com, and her
blog posts on subjects including
a butternut squash recipe, her
music producer boyfriend Richard Perry’s battle with Parkinson’s disease and the infamous
“Hanoi Jane” photo that she
“will regret to my dying day.”
Fonda knows she has defied
the odds in a youth-obsessed
Hollywood that is especially
unkind to actresses over 40,
let alone over 70. “I feel very
blessed,” she said. “I did not
think my third act would be
as rich professionally, and as
varied.”
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