Your Weekend: EW Recommends
Movies: This week’s newbies stink big: Nobody I trust likes “Cars 2” and “Bad Teacher” is unthinkable. Time to catch up with “Buck,” which even unhorsey folks say gallops along nicely. Television: It’s a premium weekend for premium cable: “True Blood” returns on HBO and “Weeds” and “The C Word” return on Showtime on Monday. Books: My imagination is swimming with things Indian: an early Paul Scott (he wrote the spectacularly absorbing “The Raj Quartet) novel, “Six Days in Marapore,” and a new, impassioned essay collection, “Broken Republic,” from Arundhati Roy, the author of “The God of Small Things.” Music: I’m listening to Jill Scott’s latest, “The Light of the Sun,” but more often strapping on the headset in tribute to the late Clarence Clemons. Sports: I’m getting a little tired of the media piling on Derek Jeter for having the audacity to get old and lose a split-second in his step. Let’s see how much they bitch when he returns from the DL and gets his 3,000th hit. Finally: It’s Gay Pride Weekend in New York and San Francisco. Fly that rainbow flag!
