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Weekend To-Do List: Keeping Cool Edition

Jul 21, 2006, 04:51 PM | by Gary Susman

Categories: Weekend To-Do List

154812__monster_l Lots you can do this weekend to counter the 100-degree heat. Most of it involves staying indoors and watching TV.

In anticipation of next week's theatrical release of the Miami Vice movie, NBC is running the original series pilot (Saturday, 8 p.m.).

 Project Runway fans will want to watch Sunday's Miss Universe pageant (NBC, 9 p.m.) to see Miss USA wearing this week's winning evening gown.

On a not-so-light note, Iraq Uploaded features the viral videos filmed by deployed soldiers; it's on MTV of all places (Friday, 8 p.m.).

How cool would it be to take a time machine back 100 years? That's the effect of Electric Edwardians, a DVD consisting of nothing but archival footage of everyday life from the early 20th century.

Get the shivers from Scott Smith's bone-chilling new novel of horror on a Mexican vacation, The Ruins.

You'll get more than just an hour and a half of multiplex air conditioning if you see Monster House (pictured). The horror 'toon is a fright and a delight for kids and grown-ups alike, says EW critic Lisa Schwarzbaum.

Blot out the sun with Golden Smog. The alt-country supergroup returns for the first time in eight years with the solidly crafted Another Fine Day.

Finally, your weekend will not be compete without a visit to Fabio's Kitchen of Love. (It seems to adjoin Siegfried and Roy's Living Room of Love, judging by the white tiger with the wagging tail lounging in front of the fireplace.) The hunky spokesmodel will read you poetry and offer recipes, hoping to get you to associate margarine with romance, but without jumping to icky thoughts of You, Me and Dupree or Last Tango in Paris.

MeNY Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 03:25 PM EST

Steph - From Wikipedia;

While The Polar Express was produced for the 3D IMAX 70mm giant film format, Monster House will be released in approximately 200 theaters equipped for new REAL D Cinema digital 3D stereoscopic projection. The process is not based on film, but is purely digital. Since the original source material was "built" in virtual 3d, it creates a very rich stereoscopic environment, and with many months of lead time, it might surpass the 3D effect of even The Polar Express. For the film's release, the studio nicknamed it Imageworks 3D.

Steph Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 01:34 PM EST

I think that the 3D is only happening only at Imax theaters. I loved Monster House. I thought it weas weird for a movie about Halloween to be shown in the Summer, but it was enjoybale nevertheless.

MeNY Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:51 PM EST

I saw Monster House this weekend and it was in the new 3-D technology: you have to wear glasses, but they're not those old red and blue ones. None of the reviews mention 3-D. Is it only playing in 3-D at some theaters?

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