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The star of Friends and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is featured in the new film Numb; he plays a screenwriter plagued by feelings of anxiety, detachment and panic. The story is based on an autobiographical script by Harris Goldberg (Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo), who also made his directing debut with the film.

Elise Blackwell takes a gamble with her fine new novel, The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish. Blackwell's writing is lovely, but flashbacks in the plot and an incomplete inclusion of Hurricane Katrina get in her way.

At 141 minutes, Sam Raimi's latest supe-opera is seriously overextended, with four distinct subplots and way too much hand-wringing over things like the heroine's singing career.

In 1962, Marvel Comics introduced the character of Spider-Man — a teenager bitten by a radioactive spider who becomes a vigilante crime fighter. It took only a few years for the superhero, created by Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, to become a sensation in comic books and in a TV cartoon series. In 2002, director Sam Raimi brought him to the screen with blockbuster results. Now comes Spider-Man 3 — which, at $300 million to $350 million dollars, is reportedly the most expensive movie ever made.

Show business can be cutthroat, as this Broadway documentary proves. It follows four musicals (Wicked, Avenue Q, Taboo, and Caroline, Or Change) as they head for the Rialto — dodging mishaps, rewrites and critics at every turn.

A brilliant MIT student joins a professor and a group of mathematicians in a Las Vegas card-counting scheme. It's a sort of collegiate Ocean's 16, and it's sharp enough — even if the counting system, as explained (endlessly) in the film, is a bit complex.

Andrea Dezsö embroidered sayings picayune and punctilious — four dozen of them — onto white cotton squares. They're on display at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan as part of an exhibition of extreme embroidery called "Pricked."

British comedienne and actress Tracy Ullman returns to American television Sunday with the debut of her new Showtime series, Tracy Ullman's State of the Union. Ullman plays fictional characters as well as a host of notable personalities, including Cameron Diaz, David Beckham and Nancy Pelosi.

The Jackass star has been sharing videos of himself, looking insane, on the Web. It is clever entertainment or dangerous drug-addiction? TV critic Andrew Wallenstein takes issue with the self-destructing star.

A New England senior-citizens' choir that covers pop and rock tunes prepares for its next show in Stephen Walker's documentary; the geriatrock stylings are amusing — but also a testament to the singers' commitment to stayin' alive.