Arts & Entertainment

Story: Don, meet Michael. Michael, meet Don. To an outsider, these two men seem like polar opposites. Don wants to win at all costs, while Michael -- and he prefers ‘Michael’ to ‘Mike’ or especially ‘Mikey’ – just desires the experience to be worthwhile. The experience in point here is a Little League baseball team managed by Don -- and don’t call him ‘Donald’ – for several years.

Story: Anna recently has returned from the funeral of one of her roommates, Robbie. He was a gifted dancer, and choreographer Anna is still angry that no one from his New Jersey family had ever seen him perform in New York City. Robbie was homosexual but never came ‘out’ to his family, or so she tells her other gay roommate, an advertising executive named Larry, as well as Burton, a wealthy writer who is also her lover.

I really don’t know what to say. I feel like I’m waking up/coming down from an absinthe- induced daydream. Either that or somebody made a live action version of SpongeBob SquarePants. I’m not a big follower of the grand tradition of French absurdist comedy, but I can see its value. Here, we have an endearing romance wrapped in a cloak of offbeat amusement.

Story: George and Winifred Banks have just seen their latest nanny depart in a huff from their London household, thanks to the incorrigible behavior of their children Jane and Michael. When George writes a job description for still another domestic, mysteriously arrives one Mary Poppins, an extremely self-confident nanny who promptly takes over the child-rearing chores before George even mails his note.