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AN SPF of eight sounds a little low for your sun screen, but it's fine for the SPF -- the Summer Play Festival, hosted by the Public Theater.

Itching to catch The Answer Man before it hits theaters?? Now you can catch the film on The Answer Man on Amazon, Xbox and VOD.

Yet Short Hills native David Levithan hasn't just written 11 young adult novels, contributed to 11 anthologies, and appeared in a cameo in a film based on one of those novels .

Remember Gary Coleman? Little Arnold from Different Strokes? The little kid who, like Peter Pan, always stayed the same age because of a kidney disease, and even now in his 40s, could pass off as a kid with some make-up? Well, I have been wondering - is Michael Cera the teenage Gary Coleman? I am a big fan of Michael Cera.

Actor Michael Cera is one of 134 new members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Four years on and self-re-elected for another term, apparently -- think of it as the benign island dictatorship of romantic comedy -- Living the RomCom refuses to die.

BRINGING Jodi Picoult's challenging novel to the big screen was always going to be a tough task, but director Nick Cassavetes just about pulls it off.

Year One, the latest farce by Harold Ramis , is a tremendous waste. For one, Ramis - when filming his tale of two cavemen, Zed and Oh , searching for their enslaved lovers in the Biblical Middle East - could easily shoot his actors from the waist down and not lose an ounce of meaning.

Olivia Wilde and Jack Black cana t move past silly humor in "Year One," a comedy about hunter-gatherers after theya re banished by their village for transgressions large and small.

There are people who are skeptical of Michael Cera, who think he has been playing very slight variations on himself since his Arrested Development days.

I almost walked out of Year One about five minutes into it. Five minutes, no kidding.

Judd Apatow didn't coin the term "bromance," but he might as well have. Nor did he write or direct "Year One," the new comedy starring Jack Black and Michael Cera, but the comedy auteur's "brotherly" template definitely laid the groundwork.

The original king of wax-on, wax-off is awesomely humble . First Karate Kid Ralph Macchio offers Will Smith 's son, Jaden Smith , his best as he prepares to start shooting the remake, and then he takes it a step further by making a My Cousin Vinny joke.

From weedy leads to retro junk food, here's how to spot if you're watching another twee-hugging tic flick Next week sees the release of Gigantic, in which Paul Dano plays a lank-haired mattress manufacturer keen to adopt a Chinese baby in order to overcome his chronic shyness.

The trailer for Days of Summer , our generation's LA Story , has arrived on YouTube .

By Anne McElvoy FOR MY pound, the best New York songwriter is Steve Merritt, who sings: "I'm the ugliest boy/on the Lower East Side." Merritt started my fascination with that shambolic, fast-changing part of the city, between the Bowery and the "alphabet" streets towards the old docks.

WYCKOFF a ' Author Phil Bildner fairly blended in with his audience of seventh-graders in Eisenhower Middle School's auditorium, as he bounced, gesticulated and name-checked the movie "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," which brought a titter of recognition.

Call me crazy, but I would think Miley's been too popular for too long to be considered for "breakthrough" performance... Report This Comment REDAWN from Wilton Manors - May 28, 2009 at 1:37 PM Kat Dennings, "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" - great film.

The disappointment lightning bolt is streaking its way through Hollywood today following the California Supreme Court's ruling to uphold Proposition 8. Gay marriage will remain outlawed, and the stars remain outraged.

The knock -- OK, one of the knocks -- on Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is its portrayal of the Lower East Side as a relentlessly precocious, shiny, happy fantasy-land where beautiful people prance about listening to Bishop Allen and saying impossibly witty things and finding themselves and whatnot.