Entertainment headlines from The Denver Post

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Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Ready to dance: This year's prom fashions run the gamut
A prom gown is the first formal dress a young woman buys and the process often is similar to shopping for a wedding dress. She visits a lot of stores. She takes her mom along. But unlike looking for a bridal gown, selecting a prom dress is all about pleasing herself, not about long-term commitment. The focus is on fun.  

• Movie review: "Chimpanzee" has adorable stars, remarkable footage, too-dramatic script
• Denver 4/20 pot celebration gets two-day events in Civic Center
• "Touchback" is a solid touchdown of a flick
• Unifying spirit of Bob Marley lives on in respectful documentary
• In "Deep Blue Sea," passion ebbs and flows in London

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Moms - Parenting

Mama Drama: Attention Anxiety – Is it ADHD?
Dear Mama Drama: (photo credit) My seven-year-old daughter is struggling in school. Her teachers say she daydreams and is off in her own world so she doesn't get her work done. At home she also needs lots of reminders and support to get things done. Someone suggested that she may have attention deficit disorder, but I'm  

• More Colorado districts on board with school-bus ads
• Toilet Paper Roll Décor #Green-n-Classy

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Today's Movies

Review: "Chimpanzees" has adorable stars, remarkable footage, too-dramatic script
Perhaps as only Homo sapiens can be, I am of two minds about "Chimpanzee." Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield ("Earth"), this Earth Day offering from Disneynature featuring a baby chimp named Oscar is an intimate and visually impressive saga.  

• "Touchback" is a solid touchdown of a flick
• Review: Unifying spirit of Bob Marley lives on in respectful documentary
• Review: In "Deep Blue Sea," passion ebbs and flows in London
• Review: Willem Dafoe intrigues, but "The Hunter" never quite captures its prey
• Review: Guys turn the tables on women by finding their love-tips book in "Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man"

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Reverb

Pop & Circumstance: Does Rita Ora have the song of the summer?
Rita Ora's "How We Do (Party)" may be the song of summer 2012. Read about Ora and watch the video here.

 

• Record Store Day party, Pictureplane interview, Chautauqua summer lineup, more music news
• The Naked and Famous at the Ogden Theatre, 4/18/12 (photos and review)
• Lacuna Coil at Summit Music Hall, 4/19/12 (photos)
• Ingrid Michaelson at the Boulder Theater, 4/18/12 (photos)
• Steal This Track: Amazing Twin and Lexigram

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Today's Style

Prom fashion 2012: This year's dresses, fashion trends run the gamut
A prom gown is the first formal dress a young woman buys and the process often is similar to shopping for a wedding dress. She visits a lot of stores. She takes her mom along. But unlike looking for a bridal gown, selecting a prom dress is all about pleasing herself, not about long-term commitment. The focus is on fun.  

• Al Fresco: Chervil Soup With Poached Eggs and Asparagus
• Denver Post Garden Center, 4/20/2012
• Denver Post Garden Calendar, 4/20/2012
• Colorado State University hires Blake Angelo as first urban agriculture extension agent
• The Gardening Punch List, 4/20/2012

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Television - Joanne Ostrow

Ostrow: Julia Louis Dreyfus is pitch-perfect in hilarious "Veep"
The running gag in Julia Louis-Dreyfus' stinging political comedy "Veep," premiering Sunday on HBO, has her character Selina Meyer, a former U.S. senator now the vice president, expectantly inquiring about a certain phone message.  

• Photos: Animal Planet is purring with "Cats 101"

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Theater

Theater review: Bewitching "Wicked" still stands strong
It's always a bit strange coming late to a popular-culture party. "The X-Files"? Had to play catch-up when the hit TV series' lesser big-screen spinoffs arrived in the multiplex. "Lost"? I was. The "American Pie" movie franchise? Still haven't taken a fork to that. The blockbuster musical "Wicked" is a slightly different matter. Rating: ***  

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