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TELEVISION 1.NBA Finals, Game 2, ABC 2.NBA Finals, Game 1, ABC 3.Two and a Half Men, CBS 4.60 Minutes, CBS 5.Million Dollar Password, CBS FILMS 1.Kung Fu Panda, DreamWorks 2.You Don't Mess With the Zohan, Sony 3.Indiana Jones and ... the Crystal Skull, Paramount 4.Sex and the City, Warner Bros. 5.The Strangers, Universal SINGLES 1.Lollipop, Lil' Wayne 2.Bleeding Love, Leona Lewis 3.Viva La Vida, Coldplay 4.Take a Bow, Rihanna 5.I Kissed a Girl, Katy Perry ALBUMS 1.Here I Stand, Usher 2.Sex and the City, soundtrack 3.3 Doors Down, 3 Doors Down 4.II Trill, Bun-B.

SHOOT 'EM UP New Line / $27.98 / Blu-Ray and HD $35.99 To understand Shoot 'Em Up, you should look at it as a collection of action set pieces and rituals stacked together and sent up, without concern for plot, believability or character development. THE TUDORS: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON Paramount / $42.99 Showtime has been criticized for slimming down King Henry VIII and for taking liberties with history, but the network may finally be seeing a return on its $38 million bid for HBO-style acclaim - The Tudors picked up two Golden Globe nominations this month: for best miniseries and for its star, Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

HOLLYWOOD studios are said to be in a backslide, grappling with unhappy realities. Well, boy, oh boy, that's not the picture I got of Paramount Pictures when I lunched with Brad Grey who now runs things there. Brad and I go way back to his days as a Young Turk agent/manager with the (Bernie) Brillstein-Grey Agency. Now, he's a movie tycoon in the creative manner of a starmaker. (Well, maybe not exactly because times have changed so much!) But with Brad, the talent still comes first. He and I sat down for a catch-up at Michael's popular watering spot.

HOLLYWOOD -- American presidents can serve only two terms. In baseball, even a great slugger is lucky to get a seven-year contract. But at Viacom, Sumner Redstone is apparently king for life. In recent days, the media have been roiling with a new round of eye-rolling tales about the cantankerous Viacom chairman's fights and feuds, from an ugly dispute with his daughter Shari over her succession, to reports that Dream- Works founders David Geffen and Steven Spielberg are still seething over perceived snubs since being acquired by Paramount, a Viacom subsidiary, in late 2005.

DIRECT FROM Hollywood -- Jill and Brad Grey will be seen at a wedding this very day in La-La Land; they aren't canceling although their own actual marriage is in an iffy state. They gave me this statement, "We are sad to say we are taking a trial separation from our marriage. We have been together since we were in college and it's our hope that we will be able to work things out for our sake and the sake of our three children." Brad is CEO of Paramount Pictures, helped found Brillstein-Grey Entertainment and helped create The Sopranos.

There are compelling reasons to build the Intercounty Connector and compelling reasons not to build it. I'm staying neutral on that issue. But let's assume the courts uphold the decision to complete the 18.8-mile toll road through the Washington suburbs. In that case, there is no excuse if Maryland officials fail to make it the safest, smartest, most speed-controlled road on this planet. Here's why: First, one of the justifications the Ehrlich administration gave for cutting down all those trees and pouring all that concrete was that the alternate routes were unsafe.

DEAN MARTIN & JERRY LEWIS COLLECTION Volume Two -- Paramount Home Entertainment / $34.99 To moviegoers of the 1950s, the young Jerry Lewis was a major comic, a pratfall-prone clown who would stop at nothing for a laugh. If his exuberant whining was sometimes hard to bear, his rough edges were smoothed out by his partner, the crooner Dean Martin, who was everything Lewis was not - composed, confident and cool. Their strange but oddly effective chemistry is given full range in a quintet of movies set for release Tuesday on DVD. The package, which has no bonus features, includes one of Martin and Lewis' top-grossing pictures, Living It Up (1954)

Michael Apted sits in a posh, sunlit Washington hotel room discussing his film Amazing Grace, which opened this weekend, anticipating what questions may arise out of his approach to the 19th-century abolitionist tale. Surely, he believes, some detractors are bound to ask: Why make a film about Britain's slave trade in Africa with virtually no slavery scenes and only one black main character? "I'll have to eat that," says Apted, who says he's also braced for those who will scoff at his nearly all-English cast, with few box-office notables.