Movies opening today:
Jonah Hex, directed by Jimmy Hayward and starring Megan Fox, John Malkovich, Josh Brolin, and Will Arnett. It’s based on the DC Comics series, whose latest (by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, and Tony DeZuniga) is Jonah Hex: No Way Back (DC Comics, 978-1401225506, $19.99).
The Killer Inside Me (in limited release), directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, and Ned Beatty, and based on Jim Thompson’s 1952 classic noir novel (Vintage, 978-0679733973, $13.95).
Today on Good Morning America, Emeril Lagasse shared his new cookbook is Farm to Fork: Cooking Local, Cooking Fresh (HarperStudio, 978-0061742958, $24.99), which PW called “another of Lagasse's highly competent creations, full of flavorful recipes presented with simplicity and minimal chitchat.”
On The Leonard Lopate Show, biographer Lyndall Gordon discussed Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds (Viking, 978-0670021932, $32.95; Tantor unabridged CD, $39.99). PW starred its review: “Although deciphering Emily Dickinson's mysterious personality is like trying to catch a ghost, this startling biography explains quite a lot.”
Tonight, Tavis Smiley talks with Anthony Bourdain, whose latest is Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Ecco, 978-0061718946, $26.99).
Tomorrow, the Today show marks the 35th anniversary of the release of the movie Jaws in a conversation with Jaws screenwriter Carl Gottlieb, author of The Jaws Log (Newmarket Press, 978-1557046772, $15).
Due to the nature of live programming, scheduling is subject to change.
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