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COVER Danny McBride Takes On the Black Keys What happens when one of the world’s biggest rock bands meets comedy’s most badass heavy hitter? Taxidermy, chitchat, and a little light bondage, naturally.

Calendar The biggest tours, festivals, album releases, and TV performances.

Tours Gone Wild: Backstage Tales Crazy stuff happens when you're on the road. Seven musicians on tour this summer tell their stories.

Blondie: Stories Behind the Songs The immortally cool band celebrates its 40th anniversary this month with a double album, Blondie 4(0) Ever. Frontwoman Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein look back—and forward—at their work.

Summerfest: By the Numbers Milwaukee’s Summerfest is Guinness-record-book certified as the world’s largest music festival. So how big is it? Funny you should ask...

Know Your Summer-Festival Types Four of our favorite comedians—Emily Heller, Eugene Mirman, Reggie Watts, and Kyle Dunnigan—provide a helpful guide.

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Editor’s Note Feedback Sound Bites The Must List

News and Notes EW is on the set of Fox’s Batman prequel Gotham; First Look: Jason Bateman and Tina Fey in This Is Where I Leave You; Karen Valby on the summer-blockbuster boys’ club...

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Movies Godzilla is a disappoint- ing monster mash; Jon Hamm's Million Dollar Arm; Robert Duvall...

TV Gang Related is the latest cop drama to hit the streets; MADtv alums...

Music Michael Jackson’s posthumous Xscape sheds little new light on the King of Pop; TV Jukebox: finales edition...

Books The Shelf showcases reading discovery; the art of literary translations...

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MUSIC FOR THE MASSES Concertgoers at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., (top) and the Glastonbury Festival

in Somerset, England

“AFRIEND of mine told me I had to get to the other end of Grant Park immediately to see the Flaming Lips at Lollapalooza 2006. The heat was insane, but he had finagled a way to get us on stage: I wore a disgusting Santa Claus costume and danced while Wayne Coyne frolicked two feet away. I was drenched, but you couldn’t beat the view.” —KYLE ANDERSON, SENIOR WRITER

“SENIOR YEAR of high school we camped out next to the Eel River in Northern Califor- nia for the Reggae on the River Festival featuring the Wailers. Washing off the summer sweat by tubing the rapids and dancing under the star-filled sky felt like the best thing on earth.” —RACHEL ORVINO, SENIOR EDITOR

“BEYONCE WAS so good at the Made in America Festival last year in Philly that I actually cried.” —CHRIS RACKLIFFE, SENIOR EDITOR (SOCIAL MEDIA)

“| HAD one of those cuts-to-the-core moments watching LCD Soundsystem perform ‘All My Friends’ at the 2010 Pitch- fork Music Festival. It’s this triumphant celebration of something that’s probably ending soon, which hit me extra hard as a big life change—having a kid—lurked on the horizon.” —KYLE RYAN, EDITOR, EW.COM

Youre not afraid of a little rain, are you? Summer concerts can be messy affairs, after all, anda gambler’s mindset comes in handy when you're playing Mother Nature for the time of your life. We asked a handful of musicians to share their tour tales as part of our Summer Music Preview, and here, I asked our own crew to do the same. No rain, no gain, right?

“| WENT to the Tibetan Free- dom Concert, organized by the Beastie Boys in Alpine Valley, Wisconsin, in sum- mer 1999, and thought I was going to be crushed in a Rage Against the Machine stampede/mosh pit. It was awesome.” —TIM STACK, SENIOR WRITER

“THE LUMINEERS waded into the crowd at the Governors Ball in New York last year during the first hour of sun the festival had seen. We were standing in inches of fresh mud, covered in dirt and post-monsoon grime. It was just magical.” —MADISON VAIN, ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR

“EVER BEEN in a Kohler-sponsored, super- clean Porta Potti with an attendant?” —MICHELE ROMERO, PHOTO EDITOR™®

Sadly, Michele, you’ve gone where so few of us have. But the through-line’s clear: Summer shows invariably serve up the kinds of primordial, transcendent experi- ences that don’t just outweigh any of their inconveniences, they distort them gravita- tionally so that the bad stuff, in time, becomes part of the good.

And as festival organizers pile on ameni- ties, that bears remembering: Sublime though it may be to wash down charcute- rie, bulgogi tacos, and ricotta-and-artichoke sandwiches with fresh-pressed Thai young-coconut juices and single-origin coffees at Outside Lands this year, none of that really matters, does it?

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The Cost of Carnage

Brilliant story, EW, on the Game of Thrones effect on the TV body count (News and Notes). As a television addict, however,

| offer that it’s more of anew label than anew effect. Does anyone remember MA‘SH killing off Henry Blake? If kill- ing a main character is well planned to serve story growth, it can be a powerful emotional tool. If

it’s a blatant attempt to blow up social media and it doesn’t serve good storytell- ing, it could backfire. For me, the only character noted in the story that I'll miss is Joss Carter of Person of Interest. Unfortunately,

she was no longer necessary to the

story being told.

EMMA PEEL Nashville

In Memoriam: Surviving Jack and Enlisted

Sadly, two of Fox’s undersung bubble shows (plus Dads) have burst. On Twitter, Jack star Christopher Meloni was gracious in defeat (“I stand b4 U, waving my flag of surrender. The battle was lost but we must soldier on to greater victories!”), as was Enlisted Army man Chris Lowell (“So long, brothers. It was a great ride”). Readers pay their respects.

(March 27-May 8, 2014) Wow, | really liked it. It offered a look at a parenting style that is not exactly politically correct today, and that’s what made it so entertaining. | enjoyed every single interaction between Jack and his kids. —KewlDawg

My teen years were in the ’90s, so I’m kind of nostalgic for that time, and SJ got so much right about that era. —reader

Enlisted (Jan.10-March28, 2014)

Enlisted was a breath of fresh air from the usual sitcoms. It had me laughing at the antics of not only the brothers but their brothers in arms, too. And sometimes it even made

me cry over the stuff our soldiers deal with that we never know about.

Very disappointed with Fox for not giving it a fighting chance, which

it definitely deserved. —Aim

Hershel’s death on The Walking Dead had an emotional impact on both the viewers and the char- acters that will echo through the series for some time. Yet the death of another beloved character, True Blood's Terry Bellefleur, was quite the opposite experi- ence. Throughout the promotion of the season, the death of a character was men- tioned, sometimes with what seemed like ghoulish anticipa- tion. When it finally happened, Terry's death felt manipula- tive, desperate,

and hollow. The

show should have respected those who

invested in the story.

KAREN SAUCIER Arlington, Va.

How the West Was Fun

Loved Mel Brooks’ retrospective on Blazing Saddles’ AOth anniversary (DVD). And no immodesty on his part, as he’s 100 percent correct that AFI missed the mark: Saddles and Airplane! are the two funniest, laugh-till- you-cry movies ever, with Saddles having

an edge for its wit.

LIZ MONTAIGNE Coral Springs, Fla.

How could any discussion of Blaz- ing Saddles omit

a mention of the late Madeline Kahn's performance

as Lili Von Shtupp, for which she received an Oscar nomination? Her “Im Tired” send-up of Marlene Dietrich will be remembered after the fart jokes

have faded.

RON GEATZ Washington, D.C.

Shock and Oz When | was a kid, the terror of Dorothy trying to steal the Powder of Life and awakening the heads of Princess Mombi stayed with me long after renting Return to Oz (DVD). Horror films have nothing on this dark sequel. | be- lieve it was the inspi- ration for the phrase

“nightmares for days.”

STEFANIE POHL Okemos, Mich.

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because of “Looks like poor communication something a gay and poorness guy designed and sexy assistants

in alaboratory.” —Mazc (Seth Rogen),

and diminished returns and letting

marveling over Teddy (Zac Efron), yourself go and in Neighbors GMOs and HBO and Catherine

Zeta-Jones.”

—Dalia (Carly Chaikin) on Suburgatory

“How much will you be moving whena skate glides over your windpipe? It happened to Judy Muntz’s nephew and now he can only communicate | £ withaSpeak& | = —~ Spell he wears around his neck.”

—Beverly (Wendi

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“| love you. I’m all-in, babe.”

—Rayna (Connie Britton), to Luke (Will Chase), on Nashville

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—Betty (January Jones), to husband Henry (Christopher Stanley), on Mad Men

“Do | count the 200-pound Sailor Moon girl that Howard and | had a threesome with at Comic-Con?”

—Raj (Kunal Nayyar), recounting the 11 women he’s dated, on The Big Bang Theory

“For years | was flying all over the world dealing with some of the worst humanitarian crises, you know, but! suppose it’s also tough to makea chubby kid eat an apple.”

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in season 3, but its skewering of D.C.’s glass egos is fresher than ever. What more can we ask for, other | than a spin-off series for Sue? (HBO, Sundays, 10:30 p.m.)

THE SHELF, by Phyllis Rose In her surprisingly lively book, Rose reads her way through a single randomly chosen shelf in

the New York Society Library— from LEQ to LES—and reports on the : unexpected : riches (and | THE SERPENT & THE FILTH James McAvoy lives up to the rubbish) she SPHERE, Agalloch Oregon's title of this wildly perverse pic about a bad uncovers. heaviest headbangers grind out a gorgeous cop gone worse, which could only come from A delightful ode mix of black metal, epic prog, and woodsy folk the sickly dissident mind of Trainspotting to adventurous that's hard enough for boys to bang around author Irvine Welsh. (Rated R; also on VOD) reading. to but heady enough to get an NPR premiere.

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THE AMERICANS

When a series like this has a season finale, you know it’s going to pose more questions than it answers— but we’ll take as much confusion

as we can get from Elizabeth (Keri Russell), Philip (Matthew Rhys), and Agent Beeman (Noah Emmerich). (FX, Wednes- days, 10 p.m.)

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RED RIVER Criterion gives John Wayne and Montgomery Clift a lush digital restoration and offers both versions (with and without narration) of Howard Hawks’ early Western—the film that made Wayne a superstar. (Not Rated)

8 Sia’s “CHANDELIER” video Imagine Luc Besson directing Annie and you have the Aussie singer-songwriter’s sparse video for her first single off the up- coming 1000 Forms of Fear. Codirected by Sia herself, it’s weird but also wonderful.

LOUIE Few have mastered the art

of black comedy like Louis C.K, who is in top form as TV's most endearing sad sack and continues to deliver depressingly amusing truths about the absurdity of everyday life in season 4. (FX, Mondays, 10 and 10:30 p.m.)

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Be ; re) re Gotham City back to the small screen this fall, offering a gritty

portrayal of a once glorious American metropolis beset by

crime. Who will stop the increasingly bold gangs of evildoers

e re aS roaming the streets? Well, since Gotham’s version of Bruce

Wayne hasn’t even finished junior high yet, it’s up to the

eB idealistic and gadget-free Det. Jim Gordon (Southland’s Ben a iT} a i McKenzie), whom we first meet in the show’s pilot defusing a

eas , hostage crisis inside the Gotham PD bull pen. “He’s the last LS « Ape! 1S OFT) TH honest man in a city full of crooked people,” explains McKenzie : during a break in shooting. “He’s going to make wrong

: ; decisions and trust the wrong people, and he has no out. He NicS-1InSpired PrequeEl. can’t put ona cape and fly off.” (Of course, the character will BY JAMES HIBBERD 2° °" to become Commissioner Gordon, Batman’s defender

within the police department and wielder of the Bat-Signal;

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Where Does Gotham Go?

The characters on Fox's fall drama Gotham all grow up to play vital roles in the Batman universe. Here's a look at their comic-book destinies.

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behind the wheel of a 1970s-era Chrysler for a simple driving scene and thinking: “This is crazy! What am I doing? I'll never be able to pull this off.” Thankfully he overcame his initial qualms and embraced his role as Gotham’s moral compass, which he’ll need to be in order to solve the show’s central mystery of who killed young Wayne's parents. It’s a case Gordon’s brutally pragmatic part- ner Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue) would rather ignore. “I embody what you have to do psychologically to survive decades in this environment,” Logue says of his character. (Although Bullock is well- known to readers of DC Comics, he didn’t make the cut for the famous big- screen versions from Tim Burton or Christopher Nolan.) Their suspects include Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith), a Gotham original who disciplines her underlings with a baseball bat. “I wanted to create this mix of a very theatrical [person], kind of a gutter chick,” says Pinkett Smith. Also keep an eye on Mooney’s abused lackey Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor), who’s destined to become the Penguin (and remember what penguins eat?). The Gotham pilot has Cobblepot holding his future-trademark umbrella to protect Mooney from the rain and murdering a fisherman for his tuna sandwich. “When you're a kid playing Batman with your friends, nobody wants to be the Pen- guin,” admits Taylor, who wears a subtle prosthetic on his nose for the role. “But then you get older. As an actor, it’s the

(Left) Alfred Penny- worth (Sean Pert- wee) comforts Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) at his parents’ funeral; (below) baddies Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor)

best character ever—his story is fasci- nating.” To bring the world of Gotham City to life, Fox and the series’ studio, Warner Bros., tapped The Mentalist and Rome creator Bruno Heller, who then teamed with director Danny Cannon (CSI). Their inspiration is New York in the 1970s, and they reference films such as Serpico and The Warriors. “This is a corrupt, brutal, edgy, scary, sexy, and glamorous place,” Heller says. Even so, don’t expect to figure out the show’s exact time period. There’s ’40s architec- ture, ’70s fashion, 90s phones and com- puters. One thing you won’t see? Batman himself—and that makes Gotham a little tricky to sell for Fox, which is pairing the series with last year’s breakout hit Sleepy Hollow on Monday nights this fall. “When people say, ‘It’s a Batman show,’ I say, ‘It’s a Bruce Wayne show; it’s a Gordon show; it’s the world,” Heller says. “Most sto- ries that people tell don’t have Batman in them—you’ve just got to make the story you tell as compelling as it can be.” Fair enough, but maybe Gordon could at least get a utility belt?

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On Gotham, he’s a lowly detective (Ben McKenzie), but Gordon will one day become Bat- man’s inside guy.

THE RIDDLER Edward Nygma (Cory Michael Smith) morphs from police lab tech into criminal. He was never afraid to ask the tough questions.

THE PENGUIN Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor) goes from psychotic umbrella-toting underling to psy- chotic umbrella- toting supervillain.

CATWOMAN Young Selina Kyle (Camren Bicon- dova) is an or, and dangerofis master thie adept at navigating the labyrinthine city. Older Selina Kyle is a friend to all felines who's adept at navigating a leather catsuit.

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Wayne (David Mazouz) witnesses his parents’ murders. It'd give anyone a revenge complex (and a bat fetish).

POISON IVY

Ivy Pepper (Clare Foley) is the neglected child of criminal parents. She likes plants. Really, really

likes plants.

ALFRED PENNYWORTH A tough ex-marine from East London, Alfred (Sean Pert- wee) will grow into his role as butler and Bat-confidant.

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Jim Rash, Joel McHale, and Jonathan Banks on the dearly

Mixology’s Frankie Shaw and

departed Community Kate Simses

The Killing Season

BY LYNETTE RICE

MAY’S THE TIME for TV goodbyes, and not just because the broadcast networks are airing all their finales. It’s also when they cancel their low-rated shows to make way for new ones announced this week at the annual New York advertiser upfronts— and there was no shortage of dry timber ready to get the ax this spring. In a single week, 23 shows were yanked to make room for series such as Gotham at Fox, Constantine at NBC, Marvel’s Agent Carter at ABC, and CST and NCIS spin-offs (natch) at CBS this fall. Some cancellations were blissfully welcome (Fox’s Dads; NBC’s Dracula; ABC’s Mixology; CBS’ Friends With Better Lives and Bad Teacher; The CW’s Star-Crossed), but a few brought real regret, like NBC’s fatal blow to Community after five critically beloved seasons.

Even Surviving Jack (which was averaging 4.9 mil- lion viewers) with the terrific Christopher Meloni deserved a chance to survive— but then Fox needed a stronger crop of knee-slappers to relaunch its Sunday comedy block, which will now contain two live-action sitcoms. So much for Animation Domination: Stewie Griffin will have the colorful Andy Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and come- dian John Mulaney (Mulaney) flanking his series Family Guy, an attempt by Fox to revisit its roots,

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when real people like Peg and Al Bundy, not cartoon characters, entertained the kids at home. Moving Brooklyn Nine-Nine—and chopping the cute but forgettable Enlisted—also frees up Fox’s Tuesdays so it can debut the reality show Utopia, on which contestants try to build the perfect society.

The move echoes one made by NBC for the fall, when it will pretty much cede comedies to CBS on Thursdays: The Peacock’s two new half hours for the night—Bad Judge, starring Private Practice’s Kate Walsh, and A to Z, a romantic comedy that stars Mad Men’s Ben Feldman and How I Met Your Mother’s Cristin Milioti—will be sandwiched between The Biggest Loser and the final season of Parenthood. (The Blacklist, mean- while, will take over the comedies’ Thursday slot starting in February.) The only night left for sitcoms on NBC is Tuesdays, where the network will take a similar approach by bookending the new sitcom Marry Me and the returning About a Boy between The Voice and Chicago Fire. NBC Enter- tainment president Jennifer Salke insists that “comedy is very important to the network.” Just ask Leslie Knope: She'll be back for Parks and Recreation’s seventh and final season—but not until 2015.

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Trophy Wife

CBS Bad Teacher

The Crazy Ones

Friends With Better Lives

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Bringing Home Bernie

WHEN CONVICTED MURDERER Bernie ueyW(ey xm = Tiede—the real-life inspiration for Richard UMW OOM Linklater’s 2012 film Bernie, starring Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine—walked out of prison on May 6 after almost 17 years behind bars, there were strict conditions: He had to post a $10,000 bond, maintain employment, and...move into an apartment on Linklater’s prop- erty in Austin? “What people hear is that the judge ordered Bernie to live with me, like now we’re The Odd Couple or some- thing,” says Linklater with a laugh. “I have a garage apartment and I let friends and family stay there. Bernie is a friend. He’s getting [back] on his feet. To me, it’s not a big deal.”

In 1999, Tiede received a life sentence for killing his 81-year- old companion, Marjorie Nugent. But after Bernie brought the case back into the public eye, new lawyers joined his quest to be released. Both Tiede’s lawyers and the district attorney, Danny Buck Davidson, agreed that Nugent’s murder was a crime of passion—rather than a premeditated one—and they asked a judge for a lighter sentence. (His lawyers also dis- _ pichard covered that Tiede, now 55, had beena ___ Linklater victim of sexual abuse when he was younger.) Linklater is quick to deflect credit for springing Tiede and praises Tiede’s lawyers and Davidson instead. He also points out that there are plenty of folks behind bars who don’t deserve to be. “There’s a lot of people who didn’t have much money and got crappy law- yers,” says the director. “Most guys don’t have a movie made about them.” —Sara Vilkomerson

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© Jason Priestley says in memoir that he once came home to discover tall, skinny unknown actor named Brad Pitt in his bed; the two became pals You can read all about their adventures in a 44-year-old Tulsa woman's fan-fiction story titled “You Can’t Spell Brandon Without Brad: The Curious Case of Forbidden Bromance."

>) Oprah unveils her first audition tape for The Oprah: Winfrey Show from 1983 She just keeps pointing to her- self and shouting, “YOU get the job! And YOU get the job!”

© Backup dancer suing Britney Spears for allegedly breaking her nose during rehearsal for “Work Bitch” video Britney called the situation “distasteful,” her lawyer called it “meritless,” and Naomi Campbell said, “Why'd you go so easy onan employee?”

© Zoe Saldana eveas that not meee is she part of sie high club, she once had sex between two subway cars on train back from Coney Island At press time, there was a bidding war among Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, and Nicki Minaj to buy Zoe's sex-life rights for their next video.

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Met co-chair Anna Wintour called it “distasteful,” fellow co-chair Sarah Jessica Parker called it “shocking,” and Miley said, “Why so many clothes?”

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THIS PAST WEEKEND, $500,000 worth of moviegoers flocked to see Belle, a well-reviewed costume drama about a biracial woman raised in 18th-century British aristocracy, featuring a standout performance by Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Everyone involved in the film should be thrilled, but behind the scenes, outrage is building around whether the director of the movie, Amma Asante, should also be recognized as its screenwriter.

In January 2018, the Writers Guild of America ruled that sole writing credit on the film would go to Misan Sagay. Publicly, no one with direct knowledge of the ruling has spoken out against that decision, but according to information obtained by EW, Asante wrote 18 script drafts before she started directing the film—this after Sagay wrote several early versions. A source says that the production planned to submit both Asante and Sagay as co-writers, but Sagay was

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only interested in a solo credit. (The WGA, Sagay, and Fox Searchlight declined to com- ment on these claims.) Once she declined to share, that source says producer Damian Jones proposed to the WGA that Sagay should receive a “Story by...” credit while Asante would get a “Screenplay by...” credit. The WGA ruled solely in favor of Sagay, a decision that vexed Jones (who also wouldn’t comment) and prompted Asante to appeal. (She lost again.) Actor Tom Wilkinson told the Daily Mail last year, “I only saw and worked from a script by Amma. It’s outrageous that her work has not been recog- nized.” When asked about Sagay in a recent chat on EW’s SiriusXM channel, Asante said, “We never met. By the time the project came to me in 2009, Damian was very much looking for a director and a storyteller who could imprint their own vision.” —NICOLE SPERLING

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Is it cold in here? Blame ABC's fairy- tale mash-up, which ended its third season on May 11 with a glimpse at next season's Big Bad: Queen Elsa, of Disney's Frozen. And though they know how this looks, the series’ brass insist her royal arrival was a purely creative decision: “We did not get a call from Mickey Mouse saying, ‘We want Frozen in,” says co-showrunner Edward Kitsis. Like all the show's best villains, Elsa’s not capital-E Evil so much as misunder- stood, so she'll fit right in. But should we expect a talking snowman to pop up in Storybrooke? “There is potential for other Frozen characters on the horizon,” says Kitsis—but first producers have to cast this pivotal role. Any chance Adele Dazeem’s available? (Sorry, we can't let it go.) —Hillary Busis

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Misery loves company in the big-screen version of Jonathan Tropper’s best-seller.

BY ANTHONY BREZNICAN

REMEMBER THAT LINE from The Godfather: “Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking”? In This Is Where I Leave You, it’s probably best not to tell the family, either. The bitter- sweet comedy about troubled siblings who reunite for their father’s funeral is like a group hug crossed with a dramatic battle royal. “We need a new term for the tone. It’s not a dark comedy— because it’s not that dark. But it’s an emotional comedy,” says Tina Fey, who plays the pushy sister to three equally neurotic and combative brothers: Corey Stoll, Jason Bateman, and Adam Driver. Jane Fonda costars as their prying

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Didn’t read the book (or just need a refresher)? Here’s a handy guide to who's who

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| LINDA DEBRA MONK The Altmans’ neighbor and Hilary's longtime best friend

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TIMOTHY OLYPHANT Wendy's beau as a teen; lives with his mom after suffering a brain injury |

BARRY AARON LAZAR TINA FEY Wendy's wealthy but aloof A married mother of

two who’s still heart- broken over Horry

husband, who's always on the phone with work

HILARY ALTMAN JANE FONDA A child psychologist who wrote a parenting book about her troubled brood

JUDD JASON BATEMAN The middle son, who

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TRACY CONNIE BRITTON Phillip’s therapist/ girlfriend, who's eager to believe they have a future

PAUL ALICE COREY STOLL KATHRYN HAHN The oldest son, who stayed Paul's wife, who once behind to help run the dated Judd and now

family’s sporting-goods biz desperately wants a baby

psychologist mother, who will either unite her estranged family or destroy it trying. Based on the 2009 best- selling novel by Jonathan Tropper (who wrote the screenplay), the film became the passion project of director Shawn Levy (Date Night, the Night at the Museum movies), who saw it as a chance to explore more intimate and dramatic territory—with actors interested in the same. “Jason, Tina, me, we’ve done a lot of comedies, but we’re playing this a lot more natu- ralistically,’ Levy says. “Almost every day, someone from the crew says, ‘Jesus, that scene freaked me out. It’s exactly like me and my brother’ Or ‘That’s what I went through when my dad died’ or “... when my wife and I got separated.’”

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Bateman plays Judd, the middle child whose wife has just ditched him for his boss (costing him his job, too), while Fey portrays Wendy, a frustrated mom who still yearns for her childhood neighbor (Justified’s Timothy Olyphant). Stoll

(House of Cards) plays Paul, the cranky big brother who can’t give his wife (Kathryn Hahn) the child she wants, and Driver (Girls, the upcom- ing Star Wars: Episode VII) is Phillip, the spoiled baby of the family who brings his cougar therapist/girlfriend (Nashville’s Connie Britton) into the grieving process.

Tropper says his own vision of the characters began to shift while adapting the book. “With actors like this, who have very strong voices, you definitely find yourself in the last few drafts of the screenplay channeling them,” he says. When it opens Sept. 12, This Is Where I Leave You could become known as the movie where Tina Fey made people cry. “And not just with my on-set anger,” she adds.

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