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Dreamers, Demons, a Jazz
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Beginners
FOR GROWNUPS
In the warmly funny new
film Beginners, Oliver
(Ewan McGregor) learns
two shocking things
about his dad (Christopher
Plummer): He’s dying of cancer…and
he’s gay. What follows is a voyage of
discovery as the young man strives
to learn about the father he thought
he knew. “I’ve always liked playing
diverse people,” says Oscar-nominee
Plummer, 82, who has tackled recent
roles ranging from Santa Claus to Leo
Tolstoy. “I thought, ‘Here’s a fascinat-
ing character, coming clean in his
70s.’ That’s ‘old’ to most people—but
not to me!” —Bill Newcott
Jeannie Out of the Bottle
Fearful of rubbing viewers the wrong
way, NBC censors ruled in 1964 that
I Dream of Jeannie star Barbara Eden’s
costume must hide her belly button.
But could Eden have used even more
coverage? In Jeannie Out of the Bottle
she recalls dodging advances from
JFK, Tom Jones, O. J. Simpson...and
Burl Ives. Eden mourns the 1971 stillbirth of her second son and her older
son’s 2001 fatal drug overdose. For
all her navel-gazing, Eden uncorked
is a bracing tonic. —Allan Fallow
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Midnight Sun
Dee Dee Bridgewater sings jazz stan-
dards as though they were written
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just for her, and Midnight Sun offers
a rich intro to her silken-alto stylings.
This set of newly recorded classics
includes music associated with
Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, and
Ella Fitzgerald, but Bridgewater’s
extroverted approach makes
each song her own. —Richard Gehr
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Stanley Kubrick
Limited Edition Collection
“I’m not a scary guy,” insists Malcolm
McDowell, who 40 years ago caused
nightmares as a gleefully ultraviolent
punk in director Stanley Kubrick’s A
Clockwork Orange. “Well, maybe I’m
scary to my children.” Warner Home
Video is unleashing a restored DVD
and Blu-ray Clockwork, along with
a DVD box set of Kubrick’s nine post-
1960 epics, including 2001: A Space
Odyssey and The Shining—which
immortalized Jack Nicholson’s stark
raving (and ad-libbed) pronouncement, “Heeere’s Johnny!” —B.N.
