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TODAY contributor and registered dietitian Joy Bauer answers viewer questions about nutrition, such as the ideal weight lifting plan to get your body in shape for the beach.

TODAY contributor and registered dietitian Joy Bauer answers viewer questions about nutrition, such as the ideal weight lifting plan to get your body in shape for the beach.

Fancy -- A documentary in the style of a reality program, 'Fancy' reveals the evolution of the unlikely affectionate friendship of 2 coworkers at an ice cream stand: 38 year old 'Half a Bee' Eric Morder and 17 year old high school student Kendra Wilson. Their platonic relationship attests to an ideal of traditional 'humanity' now all but eradicated from the 'modern' mechanistic world in ever increasing pace. Brief appearances by Eric's cat Zeus. Original songs and soundtrack by Eric Morder.

TODAY contributor and registered dietitian Joy Bauer answers viewer questions about nutrition, such as the ideal weight lifting plan to get your body in shape for the beach.

Engaging, emotional and riveting, FAREWELL is an intricate and highly intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of history? about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Ronald Reagan called this piece of history -- largely unknown until now -- ?one of the most important espionage cases of the 20th century.? FAREWELL begins in 1981, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, (Guillaume Canet) makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev (Emir Kusturica), a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.

Academy Award winner Helen Mirren (Best Actress, The Queen, 2006) and Christopher Plummer star in this compelling look at the final days of literary icon Leo Tolstoy. Having renounced his title and property, Tolstoy makes plans to donate his royalties to the Russian people, supported by his trusted disciple Chertkov (Paul Giamatti). Tolstoy's outraged wife wages a one-woman war to challenge her husband's outrageous act of idealism. Co-starring Golden Globe nominee James McAvoy (Atonement) as the novelist's worshipful assistant whose romance with a free-spirited young woman puts Tolstoy ? s notion of ideal love to the ultimate test.

The first shot of Charade shows a pistol swinging ominously into a close-up - and Audrey Hepburn gets a squirt of water right in the eye. And so it goes: Charade is an elegant thriller that manages to spoof its genre while at the same time being uncommonly suspenseful. Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn are the ideal leads for keeping their cool under preposterous twists in a deadly chase through Parisian environs; the supporting heavies include James Coburn, George Kennedy and Walter Matthau; there are five corpses; the red-herrings are incalculable; the gowns are by Givenchy; the percussive score is by Henry Mancini; and the point of the whole thing is style and wit for their own sake, and what better sake is there? Charade, in its own way, is one of the most radical and experimental films of the '60s.

They called him Papillon, meaning 'butterfly.' If only he had wings to go with the name. Unable to fly, Henri Charriere virtually willed himself free. He persisted until he did the impossible: escape Devil's Island. Based on Charriere's bestseller and shot in Spain and Jamaica, Franklin J. Schaffner's film of Papillon united two stars at key career junctures. After a decade of fine work in The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles and Bullitt, Steve McQueen found in Charriere another ideal tough-guy role. Coming off The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy and Little Big Man, Dustin Hoffman again distinguished himself as Dega, Charriere's scruffy friend.

Swinging With The Finkels is the story of what happens after the honeymoon ends and couples get bored with married life. Having met in college, American born Ellie (MANDY MOORE) and her husband Alvin (MARTIN FREEMAN), are several years into their marriage. The heady sparks of lust and fun have sadly faded and they're left with the day to day normality of their everyday life. Advised by best friends Peter (JONATHAN SILVERMAN) and Janet (MELISSA GEORGE), who are having their own marital problems, Ellie and Alvin are desperate to 'spice things up'. Ellie hits upon the brilliant idea to mix things up with another couple - to have a 'consensual affair' within the confines of the marriage. Our couple embark on finding the ideal couple and begin to interview a plethora of perverse and quirky swingers. They finally settle on what seem to be the perfect couple and a night of insanity and hilarity follow.

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