In the July 9/July 16, 2010 issue of Entertainment Weekly (which hits newsstands July 2),they present readers with their Ultimate Summer List – 116 things you can’t miss this summer. They picked the season’s hottest movies, TV, music, books, games, apps, stage and more.
Must Movies
- Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, The Other Guys (Best Comedy Team)
- Marisa Tomei, Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World (Best Summer Script)
- Viola Davis, Inception (Summer’s Biggest Buzz Movie)
- Julianne Moore, Angelina’s hot Salt stunts, Emma Stone, Tom Cruise (Best Icon)
- Drew Barrymore and Justin Long (Best Chemistry)
- Toy Story 3 (Summer’s Biggest Buzz (and Woody) Movie)
- Paul Rudd and Steve Carell, and Ryan Murphy for Eat Pray Love
More Summer Musts below…
Must TV
- Best Guilty Pleasure Jersey Shore
- Characters We Love Mad Men
- TV’s Perfect Pair Laura Linney and Gabourey Sidibe (The Big C)
- Best Actor With A Bite Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood)
- Our Summer Crush Matt Bomer (White Collar)
Must Books, Stage, And
Author Terry McMillan gives her picks for summer reads:
Glorious Bernice L. McFadden “I’m a big fan of hers and love how she blends reality with fiction.”
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez “I read it in college, and the impact and power of magic realism is unsurpassed. I try to read this at least every five years.”
The Prince of Frogtown Rick Bragg “I don’t like a lot of memoirs, but Bragg writes them like a novelist. I love his southern voice and relate to the folks in his life. They could’ve been my family.”
Some of Stephen King’s picks for summer reads:
The Millennium Trilogy, by Steig Larsson
“Lisbeth Salander is one of the great female characters in fiction, dangerous as hell in spite of her waiflike appearance; she karate-kicks as well as computer-hacks. The best thing about the late Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy is that the three books form one long, interconnected tale. And like Jo Rowling’s Harry Potter series, it’s a relentless, unputdownable narrative.”
The Passage, by Justin Cronin
“You’ve heard about this ripping (literally) yarn; summer’s the perfect time to read it. Zombie vampires called “virals” overwhelm the world, and mankind’s only hope rests with an immortal little girl from Iowa. The book’s white-hot center is a rousing chase set on a train racing-balls-to-the-wall through the Nevada desert. If it doesn’t raise your pulse, you’re probably a viral yourself.”
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
“In this melancholy follow-up to Then We Came to the End, a lawyer named Tim suffers from a disease so rare it’s never been classified: He can’t stop walking. The novel is sometimes funny and often grim, but what makes it shine is the love story of Tim and his wife, Jane. That love is strained when Tim descends into an ambulatory hell, but it never quite breaks. This is a heart wrencher.
Other books we’re excited about include Julie Orringer’s The Invisible Bridge, Brady Udall’s The Lonely Polygamist, Karin Slaughter’s Broken, Lee Child’s 61 Hours, David Nicholls One Day. New in paperback include John Irving’s Last Night in Twisted Rover, James Hannaham’s God Says No, Mary Karr’s Lit, Richard Rayner’s A Bright and Guilty Place.
Theater is heating up this summer with top notch talent like Kelsey Grammer and Douglas Hodge from the Broadway production of La Cage Aux Folles. Stanley Tucci’s -directed revival of Lend Me a Tenor. Tyler Ferguson and Jesse L. Martin star in The Merchant of Venice and The Winter’s Tale, the Public Theaters free alfresco productions in Central Park.
Also Off Broadway’s newest comedy partnership Jerry Seinfeld and Colin Quinn for Colin Quinn Long Story Short: Jerry on how he met Colin: “New York in the 80’s. I was there, he was there. That’s my answer to everything.”
In the Tech & Toys section, EW has your guide to gadgets, games, apps and more.
Must Music
Best Summer Gurl Katy Perry has a huge hit with “California Gurls,” a fiancé in the angular shape of comedian Russell Brand, and a whipped-cream-squirting bra that she models in her latest video. Is this her greatest summer ever? “It’s a moment in life to really take in,” says the 25-year old singer. “It’s true, I am having a blast!” Perry isn’t celebrating too hard at the moment because of her schedule – “I can’t get wasted and end up in an alley,” she says – although she did recently need 17 stitches after she danced into a table following her appearance at the Much Music Video Awards. Up next is a new album, Teenage Dream (out August 24), and a big tour…which will include that now-famous undergarment. “I’ll be spraying my fans all over the world next year.” she says. “They’ll be getting a mouthful!”
Other music musts of the summer include Summer Crush Drake and Best Comeback the Lilith Fair summer concert.
EW’s picks for the perfect summer playlist:
1) Maroon 5, “Misery”
2) Sally Seltmann, “Dream About Changing”
3) The Roots, “Right On”
4) Dierks Bentley, “Bad Angel”
5) Lena, Satellite”
6) Robyn, “Dancing on My Own”
7) Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, “Round and Round”
Bog Boi, “Be Still”
9) The Gaslight Anthem, “Boxer”
10) Miniature Tigers, “Gold Skull”
Celebrity musts coming up…
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