LIVING OMAHA WORLD-HERALD MOVIES ■ 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 • 3E TOP MUSIC DOWNLOADS Top 10 albums on iTunes’ charts for the week ending June 2: 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. 1. “Ghost Stories,” Coldplay 2. “Ultraviolence,” Lana Del Rey 3. “Me. I Am Mariah. 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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, 1. TwoDots, Betaworks One 2. Stay In The Line, Barry Wyckoff 3. Piano Tiles — Don’t Tap The White Tile, HU WEN ZENG 4. The Line!, Ketchapp 5. Traffic Racer, Soner Kara 6. Elevate — Brain Training, Elevate Inc. 7. Better Fonts Free — Cool New Text Styles & Emoji Font, Daneco Ltd. 8. Toilet Time — Mini Games to Play in the Bathroom, Tapps Tecnologia da Informação Ltda. 9. Infinity Blade II, Chair Entertainment Group LLC 10. 2048: The Game, Ketchapp T H E A S S O C I AT E D P R E S S 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.” TOP MOVIE RENTALS Top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks from May 26 through June 1: COLUMBIA PICTURES Matt Damon in “The Monuments Men.” 1. “The Monuments Men” 2. “Ride Along” 3. “Pompeii” 4. “About Last Night” 5. “The Nut Job” 6. “That Awkward Moment” 7. “Devil’s Due” 8. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” 9. “I, Frankenstein” 10. “Vampire Academy” Now through September 7 FREE ADMISSION FR Exhibition Presenting Sponsor Major Sponsor Holland Foundation Contributing Sponsor Supporting Sponsor EE AD MI SS ION Thomas Moran (American, 1837–1926), The Castle Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin from The Yellowstone National Park, and the Mountain Regions of Portions of Idaho, Nevada, Colorado and Utah published by Louis Prang and Company, ca. 1876, chromolithograph on paper, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, Gift of Gail and Michael Yanney and Lisa and Bill Roskens Additional support provided by 2200 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE | (402) 342-3300 | joslyn.org
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