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  Screen gems: What’s ahead in movies and on TV for the week of June 23

  The week ahead at the movies and on TV
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  Television review

  Promising pilot suggests CBS’ ‘Dome’ could live up to Stephen King’s novel

  ‘Under The Dome.’ 10-11 p.m. Monday. WFOR-CBS 4.
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  MIAMI BEACH

  Hundreds of aspiring chefs want a chance at ‘Hell’s Kitchen’

  Producers for cooking-centered reality television show ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ held a casting call at the Eden Roc on Saturday, looking for South Florida’s ‘big personalities.’
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  Once her kindergarten art teacher, animator casts young actress in his first film

  They’ve come a long way from the days of making clay snowmen in the kindergarten art class at Christ Church School in Fort Lauderdale.
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  Movies

  Joss Whedon makes a Shakespeare film in 12 days

  If man is indeed a giddy thing — as William Shakespeare suggests in Much Ado About Nothing, insinuating we are impulsive beyond all reason — then Joss Whedon may be the giddiest man of all. After all, he’s the director who decided to make a quick movie in his down time between shooting his first big-budget film and editing it; the screenwriter who dared to adapt a play from the greatest wordsmith in the English language; the optimist who thought: Hey, yeah, let’s shoot a Shakespearean comedy at my house; it’ll be fun.
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  Screen gems: What’s ahead in movies and on TV for the week of June 16

  The week ahead at the movies and on TV
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  television

  TV’s evolving ‘Justified’ star keeps it low key

  Justified just finished a typically terrific fourth season that featured the Detroit Mafia invading Kentucky, a marriage proposal from antihero Boyd Crowder to his love Ava and Patton Oswalt playing a constable who takes it (and takes it) on the chin before turning into an unlikely hero and saving the day. In the middle of this chaos, as always, stood Timothy Olyphant’s Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, laid-back and laconic, glaring and growling, one of television’s most fully realized lawmen.
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  Television Review: ‘Vice.’ 11-11:30 p.m. Friday. HBO

  In revealing report, ‘Vice’ reporters make virtue of North Korean control

  ‘Vice.’ 11-11:30 p.m. Friday. HBO.
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  Out in the Tropics has evolved along with gay rights

  Once a bigoted epithet, “queer” was reclaimed by the gay-rights movement as a proudly defiant self-description. But theater artist Taylor Mac, who will perform in the annual Out in the Tropics festival this week, prefers another definition: “Someone who was ostracized by society at an early age to such a degree they could never ostracize anyone else.”
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  Theater Review

  A stylish ‘Summer Shorts’ is off and running

  Todd Allen Durkin emerges as the star of the mixed-bag 18th edition of the popular festival.
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  Appreciation

  Mack Emerman turned recording hobby into thriving South Florida industry

  A jazz buff from Pennsylvania turned his recording hobby into a thriving South Florida industry
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  television

  ‘Magic City,’ Mitch Glazer’s ode to Miami Beach, returns Friday on Starz

  Mitch Glazer and half a dozen of his buddies were sitting in a booth at Wolfie’s Restaurant in Miami Beach one afternoon in the late 1960s, chattering and laughing and generally being teenage loudmouths, when a waitress walked over to ask them to keep it down. They did, for a moment, but soon the volume dialed back up. The waitress returned. Nodding to a white-haired man a few tables away, she amended her request: “Mr. Lansky would appreciate it if you could be a little quieter.”
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  Screen gems: What’s ahead in movies and on TV for the week of June 9

  The week ahead at the movies and on TV
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  Movies

  ‘Man of Steel’ reimagines Superman for a new generation

  Director Zack Snyder and producer Christopher Nolan collaborated to revive the iconic figure.
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  Author Blume and director-son turn her ‘Tiger Eyes’ into feature film

  Judy Blume and her director-son finally turn one of her bestselling novels into a feature film
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  Television reviews

  ‘Graceland,’ ‘In the Flesh’ make compelling fare of familiar premises

  ‘Graceland.’ 10-11 p.m. Thursday. USA Network.‘In The Flesh.’ 10-11 p.m. Thursday. BBC America.
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  Theater Review

  Stage Door winningly revisits ‘Brighton Beach’

  Neil Simon’s coming-of-age play turns on resonant family relationships.
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  Pole dancing contestants in Miami Beach vie for big bucks

  The two-day Southern Pole Championships drew some 66 contestants from around the country to the Deauville Beach Resort in Miami Beach.
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  books

  Soman Chainani hits jackpot with novel ‘School for Good and Evil’

  The story of Soman Chainani’s first book, The School for Good and Evil, sounds like a kind of modern fairytale: Young writer lands on the bestseller lists with his first novel, which is promptly sold to a major movie studio for an enormous sum. And Chainani, born in Miami and raised in Key Biscayne, sounds like a creative golden boy, a driven, prize-winning student who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard and racked up fellowships and awards.
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  Screen gems: What’s ahead in movies and on TV for the week of June 2

  The week ahead at the movies and on TV

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