Brothers

Director Jim Sheridan sets the table early on for everything that will unfold in "Brothers." It's a last supper of sorts for the Cahill family, featuring Tobey Maguire as older brother Sam, a Marine captain returning to Afghanistan, and Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal), younger by a few years, a roguish reprobate just out of jail. Though it is Sam's experiences on the frontlines that will ultimately sear and shred the Cahills, dinner turns out to be not a bad starting point. As is often the case in Sheridan's movies, family dynamics will actually be the main course with old fights and simmering resentments served alongside rolls and the rest.

ESPN reporter Erin Andrews is dating "Gossip Girl" actor Chace Crawford, US Weekly is reporting. Andrews and Crawford are "getting to know each other," according to the report. Chace Crawford is the brother of Candice Crawford, who married Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo in 2011. That should make sideline interviews on the Dallas Cowboys side of the field interesting for Andrews. Now some may be wondering, "What is this doing on a sports blog?"

"The good luck of having a brother," Tobias Wolff writes, "is partly the luck of having stories to tell." "Brothers: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry," is chock full of them. Culled from essays, short fiction and excerpts from longer works, they describe the mysterious and bedeviling ties that bind male siblings together. The personal essays work the best because they are quick to establish the parameters that govern fraternal relationships: younger vs. older, close in age vs.

Robin Gibb, a singer and songwriter who joined two of his brothers in forming the Bee Gees pop group that helped define the sound of the disco era with the best-selling 1977 soundtrack to"Saturday Night Fever," has died. He was 62. Gibb died Sunday after battling cancer and while recuperating from intestinal surgery, family spokesman Doug Wright announced. This spring Gibb had been hospitalized in London with advanced colorectal cancer. He had intestinal surgery in March and, after contracting pneumonia, was unable to attend the April 10 premiere in London of "The Titanic Requiem," a classical composition he wrote with his son, Robin-John, to coincide with the 100th anniversary observance of the luxury ocean liner's sinking.

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Before his world turned upside down nearly eight years ago, Daryl "Chill" Mitchell was on the move, a young actor winning praise with a steady streak of scene-stealing turns in movies and television. But in November 2001, that momentum was derailed. The 44-year-old actor was injured in a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Although he quickly adapted to life in a wheelchair, his status raised doubts about his acting future. These days, Mitchell is back and he's rolling with the punch lines -- literally and figuratively.

Currahee , a Cherokee word meaning "we stand alone together," is the name of a rugged, small mountain in Georgia where soldiers during World War II trudged their way uphill as they trained to become paratroopers . The word also fittingly served as the title for the opening episode of "Band of Brothers," the groundbreaking HBO miniseries that aired a decade ago Friday. The Emmy-winning, 10-part series, which was produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, continues to resonate with audiences who view the work as a much-needed historical tribute to the soldiers who helped defeat Nazism in Europe.

'30 for 30: Once Brothers' Where: ESPN When: 5 p.m. Tuesday Where: ESPN2 When: 5 p.m. Wednesday Rating: Not rated

MUSIC Chris Thile's adventurous Americana group Punch Brothers further refined its sound on its latest album, produced by the pop-rock savant Jacquire King. "Who's Feeling Young Now" is an implicit funny allusion to Thile's past as a childhood mandolin prodigy, but its rich and evocative tracks capture a white-hot musical mind coming into his own and collaborating with stellar peers. The El Rey, 5515 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. 8 p.m. Sat. $22, theelrey.com.

Matty Alou, the middle brother in one of baseball's greatest playing families and a slap hitter who won the National League batting title in 1966, died Thursday in the Dominican Republic. He was 72. His former team in the Dominican, Leones del Escogido, said he died of complications from diabetes. A speedy 5-foot-9, 160-pound center fielder, Alou was a lifetime .307 hitter who had 1,777 hits over 15 seasons with six different teams, breaking in with the San Francisco Giants in 1960 and enjoying his best years with the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1966 to 1970.

Members of the International Submarine Band chose a name for their new group that practically ensured it would never rise above cult status, and sure enough, that band disappeared with barely a trace after making a handful of recordings in the mid-1960s. But after ISB members Gram Parsons and Chris Ethridge teamed up with ex-Byrds singer and songwriter Chris Hillman and steel guitarist Pete Kleinow, the pioneering country-rock group the Flying Burrito Brothers was born and the ISB won permanent footnote status in the history of pop music.

Jennifer Hudson, whose voice and upbeat persona paved her way to fame on television, in the movies and even as a spokeswoman fighting excess weight, reportedly broke down in tears Monday as she took the stand in the trial of a man accused of killing three of her relatives. Dressed in black with hair pulled demurely back, Hudson, who has won a Grammy for her singing, spoke so softly that Judge Charles Burns at one point gently asked her to speak up, according to media accounts.

It sounded far-fetched — a "stock-picking robot" that could identify penny stocks poised to double in price. Turns out, it was. Federal regulators filed a civil complaint Friday against 20-year-old twin brothers in Britain, claiming that they duped 75,000 people — mostly Americans — into paying $47 each to get stock tips from a robot dubbed Marl. They told investors that Marl ran on a computer code written partly by a onetime Goldman Sachs programmer who didn't exist, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.

Whenever he hunkered over the football, as he did for 12 seasons as center for the Los Angeles Rams, Rich Saul had a way of being not only ferocious but folksy. "Rich would get down over the ball, and there's the nose guard, and Rich is talking to him, wanting to know how his family and kids are doing," recalled former Rams guard Dennis Harrah with a laugh. "Next thing you know, Rich would be holding them up in the air, and I'd be cutting their legs out from under them. "This guy's wanting to kill us, and Rich comes up on the next play and he's wanting to talk to the guy about his family again.

There is an appealing nyuk, nyuk nostalgic spirit to"The Three Stooges. "To fully appreciate this paean to slapstick and silly nonsense simply requires that cynicism be temporarily shelved and the thinking side of the brain shut down. Starring Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamantopoulos as Larry, Curly and Moe, this affectionate update is a love letter to the Stooges from the filmmaking Farrelly brothers, Peter and Bobby. Though they may be best known for the R-rated "There's Something About Mary," there is a Stooge streak a mile long running through their work - the bumbling misfits with a heart of gold in their first film, "Dumb & Dumber," for starters.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — If you write about golf, the two biggest days at a major tournament are Tiger Tuesday and Whomever Sunday. This is Masters week, a cherished time in the sport. Tuesday was Tiger Tuesday, when he met the media to keynote his current state. It was a time not so much to be cherished as dissected. To be clear, there are other stories here, many worth expanding on. Young Rory McIlroy returns to a place where, a year ago, he imploded on Sunday, turning a four-shot lead into an 80 and a 15th-place finish.

Tobey Maguire is armed with a bemused smile and perhaps the tallest espresso ever. But it turns out that's a ruse: It's actually the usual amount of espresso in a very tall cup. The youthful-looking Maguire is back to the usual amount of himself too after dropping more than 20 pounds to play a Marine officer captured in Afghanistan, who then faces a difficult homecoming in Jim Sheridan's "Brothers." The remake of the Danish "Brødre" also stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Sam Shepard.

In 2002, LeBron James first appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, which dubbed him "The Chosen One." He was compared to Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. Talk about hype: James was all of 17 and a junior in high school. Now 24, James is the NBA's reigning MVP and the best hoops player on the planet not named Kobe Bryant. Today, he views that SI cover as a symbol of the outsized celebrity he attained at a young age. "Now that I look back on it, I'm like, 'wow, that was huge,' " he says.

The Federal Trade Commission, stepping confidently into the murky waters of online privacy and personal data mining, has released an amended series of best practices and recommendations for government and technology leaders alike. The new report, “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change,” builds on the framework established in a 2010 report, addressing concerns that have arisen from the public and private sectors over the practices outlined and language previously used.

Patience Abbe was only 11 when the memoir she wrote with her two brothers, "Around the World in Eleven Years," climbed onto the bestseller lists for grown-ups in 1936. As the siblings recounted their nomadic childhood in Europe and subsequent move to America, their exuberant behavior and unaffected observations charmed readers. Patience observed that a woman with children could always get a seat on a Paris bus "no matter how first the others were. " Her career as an author peaked at age 15 after the young globe-trotters published two more books.