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On screen: Hang loose with boys of 'Samoan Wedding' (Daily Breeze) - BY BOB STRAUSS RAVE! Sort of a morning-after "Wedding Crashers" with lame slapstick but good insight into arrested male development, "Samoan Wedding" also, almost offhandedly, paints a portrait of a vibrant ethnic community that -- at least outside of New Zealand -- has rarely been shown.

PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW: 'Blonde' Has More Fun (Playbill via Yahoo! News) - You could have knocked the theatre community over with a feather when they woke up the morn of Feb. 7 to read across-the-board raves for the new musical Legally Blonde, which opened its out-of-town tryout in San Francisco this week.

Review: The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer (Guardian Unlimited) - Norman Mailer's The Castle in the Forest is an electrifying inquiry into the nature of evil, says Beryl Bainbridge.

Review: 'Norbit' painfully one-note (AP via Yahoo! News) - Someday — someday very soon — he'll be Academy Award winner Eddie Murphy. And that's what he'll be for the rest of his life.

Readers Review: 'Because I Said So' (The Greenville News) - Sample comment: "I have great news to share with Greenville County and America. We have it within our power to put an end to recidivism in the male prison system."

Fast-Paised review: 'Norbit' (Metromix.com) - Timid geek Norbit suffers at the hand of his extremely large wife, Rasputia. But the dweeb perks up after reuniting with Kate (Thandie Newton), his childhood sweetheart from their days growing up at Mr. Wong's Golden Wonton and Orphanage.

Movie Review : 'Music and Lyrics' sings an appropriate pitch (State Press) - With a familiar cast, an entertaining storyline, and some surprisingly decent songs, Music and Lyrics proves itself to be a romantic comedy that nearly all can enjoy.

Review: 'Norbit' Painfully One-Note (AP via Yahoo! Asia News) - Someday _ someday very soon _ he'll be Academy Award winner Eddie Murphy.

Increase in NYPD stops draws criticism (AP via Yahoo! News) - The city's police department, tarnished in the past by charges of brutality and racism, is defending itself against fresh criticism over how officers decide whom to stop and search on the streets.

film review (kamera.co.uk) - (08/02/07) - Babel is the third feature film collaboration between screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro González Iñárritu. Anyone familiar with Amores Perros (2000) and 21 Grams (2003) will recognise the preoccupations in this new movie: non-linear narrative, multiple story strands, highly charged dramatic events, a particular use of coincidence and chance, and a murky, hard-won ...