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E12 CALENDAR LOSANGELESTIMES ALLDIGITALPRESENTATION INDIANAJONESANDTHEKINGDOMOFTHE CRYSTALSKULL 7:00,9:50 CASPIAN SPEEDRACER WHATHAPPENSINVEGAS (10:50, 10:30 IRONMAN (10:45,1:00,1:45,4:00, BABYMAMA 9:55 HAROLDANDKUMARESCAPEFROM GUANTANAMOBAY 7:50,10:15 88MINUTES FORGETTINGSARAHMARSHALL (11:20, PROMNIGHT 7:20,10:10 (11:15,1:55,4:25) ALLDIGITALPRESENTATION THECRYSTALSKULL (10:30,11:10, 7:40,9:10,9:50,10:30 CASPIAN 7:30,9:55,10:40 SPEEDRACER 10:45 WHATHAPPENSINVEGAS (11:35, 10:40 IRONMAN (10:45,1:00,1:45,4:00, ALLDIGITALPRESENTATION THECRYSTALSKULL (10:30,11:10, CASPIAN 7:30 WHATHAPPENSINVEGAS (11:00, IRONMAN SANCLEMENTE SANCLEMENTECINEMA6 641-BCaminoDeLosMares 949-661-SHOW(7469) DOWNEY DOWNEYCINEMA10 562-622-3999 CHINO CHINOSPECTRUM MARKETPLACE12 3750GrandAvenue 909-628-1500 SEXANDTHECITY MADEOFHONOR (11:25,12:20,2:05, BABYMAMA (11:30,12:25,2:00,3:00, HAROLDANDKUMARESCAPEFROM GUANTANAMOBAY (11:05,11:50,1:35, 88MINUTES (11:15,12:00,1:55,2:40,4:40, SMARTPEOPLE 10:10 STREETKINGS (11:10,11:55,1:50,2:25, LEATHERHEADS 7:40,10:15 DR.SEUSS’HORTONHEARSAWHO! A MISSPETTIGREWLIVESFORADAY VANTAGEPOINT 7:00,9:20 ALLDIGITALPRESENTATION SEXANDTHECITY THECRYSTALSKULL (11:10,11:50, 6:20,7:00,7:40,8:20,9:10,9:50,10:30 CASPIAN (10:45,11:30,12:25,1:10,1:55, 9:00,9:55,10:40 SPEEDRACER WHATHAPPENSINVEGAS (10:50, IRONMAN (11:15,12:30,1:45,2:10, MADEOFHONOR 7:10,9:35 THESTRANGERS (35MM) BABYMAMA 9:50 (35MM) VISTA METROPLEX15 760-945-SHOW(7469) CORONA KRIKORIANTHEATRES15 ATDOSLAGOS 2710LakeshoreDrive ExitWeirickRoadofftheI-15 951-667-4242 ALLDIGITALPRESENTATION THECRYSTALSKULL 11:10,11:50, 12:40,1:20,2:00,2:40,3:30,4:10,4:50,5:30, 6:20,7:00,7:40,8:20,9:10,9:50,10:30 CASPIAN 11:30,12:25,1:10,1:55,2:40, 3:35,4:20,5:05,5:50,6:45,7:30,8:15,9:00, 10:00 SPEEDRACER 12:30,3:50,7:05,10:00 WHATHAPPENSINVEGAS 12:10,1:45, 2:35,5:15,7:35,9:55,10:30 IRONMAN 11:30,1:00,2:30,4:00,4:45, 5:30,7:10,7:45,8:30,10:00 BABYMAMA 11:35,2:25,5:10,7:50, 10:25 ALLDIGITALPRESENTATION SEXANDTHECITY THECRYSTALSKULL (10:30,11:10, 11:50,12:40,1:20,2:00,2:40,3:30,4:10,4:50, CASPIAN (10:45,11:30,12:25,1:10,1:55, 9:00,9:55 SPEEDRACER WHATHAPPENSINVEGAS (11:45, IRONMAN (10:40,1:00,1:45,4:00, MADEOFHONOR 7:50,10:25 BABYMAMA 10:05 REDLANDS REDLANDSCINEMA14 340N.EurekaSt. 909-793-6393 PICORIVERA PICORIVERAVILLAGEWALK15 8540WhittierBlvd. 562-205-FILM(3456) ALLDIGITALPRESENTATION SEXANDTHECITY THESTRANGERS THECRYSTALSKULL (10:30,11:10, 11:50,12:15,12:40,1:20,2:00,2:40,3:05,3:30, 8:45,9:10,9:50,10:30 CASPIAN (10:45,11:30,12:00,12:25,1:10, 7:30,8:15,9:00,9:55,10:40 SPEEDRACER 10:40 WHATHAPPENSINVEGAS (11:20, 10:05 IRONMAN (10:30,11:00,11:30,12:30, 7:30,8:00,8:30,9:30,10:30 MADEOFHONOR 7:25,9:55 FORGETTINGSARAHMARSHALL 7:50, 10:30 ALLDIGITALPRESENTATION THECRYSTALSKULL (10:30,11:10, 7:40,9:10,9:50,10:30 CASPIAN (10:45,12:25,1:10,1:55,3:35, SPEEDRACER 10:35 WHATHAPPENSINVEGAS (11:40, IRONMAN (10:50,11:20,1:00,1:45, MADEOFHONOR 7:15,10:10 MONROVIA MONROVIACINEMA12 410S.MyrtleAvenue 626-305-SHOW(7469) BUENAPARK METROPLEX18 8290LaPalmaAvenue 714-826-SHOW(7469) www exandthe ity ovie.com SpecialMidnightShowsTONIGHT TM Dear Amy: Ihave three friends withwhom I have associated for nearly a decade. We are a close-knit group and routinely hang out, cook meals together and are there for one another during times of happiness and drama. Recently, I discovered that they have been planning a summer trip and invited me.

Ifeel purposely excluded. They discuss their upcoming trip in veiled terms. I understand this because been getting along quite well. Ieven dropped a hint that I have enough frequent-flier miles for a free ticket, but no invitation was offered. Over the years, we have gone on several vacations together most of them road trips in my old vehicle, but apparently they want me around now.

like to confront them about it, but they would just turn the situation around and make me seem petty and immature. How should I handle this? Confused in Chicago Dear Confused: You should ask your friends about this, but it will help the dynamic if you think of this as a confrontation but as a clearing of the air. You say, seems planning a trip together, and I have to admit disappointed not to be included. What They may say, one can share a room with you because you or were worried want to take a road trip in your jalopy when we want to Whatever the reason for this slight, it is a slight and you deserve to know going on why. Dear Amy: Iwas widowed at 42 when my husband of 20 years passed away unexpectedly.

He was a wonderful husband and father. Now I am sort of involved with a man. At the beginning of our involvement, he wanted me to meet his family and friends. I felt guilty, so most of the time I declined. I felt as if I were cheating on my dead husband.

Then my friend backed off from the relationship. He tells me he dating anyone and that he thinks about me every day. Ihave told him that I miss him and feel we should start a new relationship. He keeps telling me that we will do this soon. It has been a year of this, and he asked me out.

He has told me I should date other people to see out there. not interested in dating. awaste of time. Should my friend get counseling, or is he just not into me? Wondering Widow Dear Wondering: Sometimes people genuinely need counseling, but sometimes a swift kick in the pants will do the job just as well. Dating is not a waste of time.

Spending a year pining for someone who is at best ambivalent about you is. Send questions to Amy Dickinson by e-mail to Ask Amy Ask friends why trip include her the Death House premiering tonight on the Independent Film Channel, tells the story of Presbyterian pastor Carroll Pickett, who for 15 years was chaplain at the Walls Unit prison in Huntsville, Texas, where he shepherded 95 condemned men to their execution. Made by Steve James and Peter Gilbert (director and director of photography, respectively, of the much-lau- reled it wanders a bit on the way but gathers power as it goes. Apart from the glimpse it affords into a closed world, a fine portrayal of religious temperament and the workings of conscience, and it captures both the ordinary and extraordinary, the practical and spiritual aspects of life. We see him as a fallible family man and as a determined professional, for whom a calling was also a job a job that came close to destroying him, but which he found difficult to quit.

Pickett would return to an empty home after each execution his marriage fell apart soon after he took the job and recount the details of the day, the day, into a cassette tape recorder. (Perhaps not surprisingly for a minister, his spontaneous spoken prose is quite elegant.) It was a sort of therapy for him, a man so unused to crying that when he did, says a daughter, it came out kind of a screechy tapes must be his says second wife, Jane. It was also a way to memorialize his charges. (In the prison graveyard, the unclaimed dead are marked not by name but number, with an for the executed.) He remembers the prisoner who wanted to die singing, the stroke victim he had to spoon-feed his last meal, the believer in reincarnation. if I believe him, he is now a tree in Tyler, says Pickett, not dismissively.

One of the prisoners to whom he ministered was Carlos De Luna, convicted of killing a gas station cashier in- deed, this project began when the Chicago Tribune approached James and Gilbert to make a film about a pair of Tribune reporters who were trying posthumously to prove De innocence; they make a compelling case. (The Tribune, which is a corporate cousin of the Los Angeles Times, funded their first shoot.) That story winds through as a kind of secondary but crucial counter-melody. Although the pastor met him, as was the custom, only on the day of the execution, he felt instinctively that De Luna was innocent. That feeling, and the 11 minutes it took the prisoner to die, signaled the beginning of the end of career in the penal system. not, to me, either Christian, or American, or he said of De protracted end.

Although this a film that any proponent of capital punishment would ever have made, neither is it overtly polemical. Pickett, who came to believe that, as moral, spiritual, biblical the death penalty is wrong, does voice the main practical points against it: never been shown to be a deterrent to crime; death sentences are racially disproportionate; police, judges and juries are not infallible. More philosophical questions are raised as well, though mainly to show how they grew urgent within Pickett himself. There is a passing ironic reference to his politics being somewhere to the right of Rush but the filmmakers otherwise leave that subject alone. beside their pointand potentially distracting from it.

This is a film about amoral journey as Pickett made sure to see his prisoners, we are allowed to see him as a person, with personal problems, on a personal journey, and not merely as a collection of positions with which we may agree or disagree. robert.lloyd@latimes.com The season finale of enabled Fox to end four-week winning streak in the prime-time television ratings race, according to figures released Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research. With the two broadcasts finishing in their customary 1-2 position, Fox averaged 12.48 million viewers for its 15 1 2 hours of prime-time programming between May 19 and Sunday. The week included the final three days of the official 2007-08 tele- vision season, in which Fox finished first in total viewers for the first time in its history. CBS finished second for the week overall and had seven of the 10 most-watched scripted programs.

But CBS fare as well in the news arena. Average viewership for the CBS Evening News With Katie sank to 5.33 million, its third record low in the last six weeks under Nielsen Media People Meter system, which began in September 1987. Fox wins with finale From City News Service ProgramNet- work Viewers ProgramNet- work Viewers 1 American Idol 2 American Idol 3 Dancing With the Stars 9 p.m.) ABC20.12 4 Dancing With the Stars (Mon.) ABC19.22 5 Anatomy ------------------------------------------6 NCISCBS16.52 7 HouseFOX16.36 8 CSI: MiamiCBS16.26 9 Two and a Half MenCBS14.70 10 Criminal MindsCBS13.15 ------------------------------------------11 Rules of EngagementCBS12.29 12 CSI: NYCBS11.83 13 KitchenFOX11.44 14 Deal or No Deal 15 BonesFOX10.30 ------------------------------------------16 SharkCBS10.27 17 Ugly BettyABC8.75 18 Dancing With the Stars 8 p.m.) ABC8.74 So You Think You Can Dance FOX8.74 20 Law Order 10 p.m.) NBC8.57 ------------------------------------------21 Cup Winners FOX8.39 22 The BacheloretteABC8.08 23 How I Met Your Mother (Mon.) CBS7.99 24 Without a TraceCBS7.72 25 Price Is Right Primetime CBS7.59 ------------------------------------------26 Sprint 27 The Big Bang Theory (Mon.) CBS7.34 28 60 MinutesCBS7.33 29 Numb3rsCBS7.03 30 CSICBS6.63 ------------------------------------------31 Cold Case (9 p.m.)CBS6.53 32 Boston LegalABC6.47 33 Cold Case (8 p.m.)CBS6.34 34 Law Order: SVU (Sun.) NBC6.16 35 Dateline: NBC ------------------------------------------36 Last Comic Standing (Thu.) NBC5.86 37 Dateline: NBC 38 Law Order: SVU 10 p.m.) NBC5.76 39 Ghost Whisperer (9 p.m.) CBS5.75 40 8:30 p.m.) ABC5.45 ------------------------------------------41 Law Order 8 p.m.) NBC5.40 42 48 Hours MysteryCBS5.39 43 Ghost Whisperer (8 p.m.) CBS5.13 44 Most Outrageous Moments 8:30 p.m.) NBC5.06 45 Law Order 9 p.m.) NBC5.05 ------------------------------------------46 Al Diablo con los Guapos (Mon.) UNI5.00 47 Al Diablo con los Guapos (Thu.) UNI4.98 48 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC4.96 Fuego en la Sangre (Mon.) UNI4.96 50 Al Diablo con los Guapos (Tue.) UNI4.83 ------------------------------------------51 52 Fuego en la Sangre (Tue.) UNI4.75 53 Al Diablo con los Guapos (Wed.) UNI4.73 54 Most Outrageous Moments 8 p.m.) NBC4.69 55 Al Diablo con los Guapos (Fri.) UNI4.64 ------------------------------------------56 Fuego en la Sangre (Wed.) UNI4.54 57 Funniest Home Videos ABC4.37 58 Fuego en la Sangre (Thu.) UNI4.35 59 Most WantedFOX4.33 60 How I Met Your Mother (Thu.) CBS4.25 ------------------------------------------61 Cops (8:30 p.m.)FOX4.21 62 Friday Night Smackdown CW4.17 63 The Big Bang 64 65 American GladiatorsNBC4.03 ------------------------------------------66 The UnitCBS4.01 By the 68 Most Outrageous 8:30 p.m.) NBC3.99 69 Law Order 70 Most Outrageous Moments 8 p.m.) NBC3.95 ------------------------------------------71 Anatomy Law Order: SVU 9 p.m.) NBC3.88 73 Dateline: NBC 74 Most Outrageous 9 p.m.) NBC3.78 75 Cops (8 p.m.)FOX3.49 Network averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Network Last week Season to date FOX12.4810.80 CBS8.5310.01 ABC8.428.83 NBC5.257.71 UNI3.353.53 CW2.222.45 Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (May 19-25) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish.

Nielsen estimates there are 286 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions. Prime-Time TV Rankings the Death House Where: IFC When: 9 tonight Rating: TV-MA (may be unsuitable for children under the age of 17) TELEVISION REVIEW A lonely journey Eddie Seal IFC TRANSFORMED: The Rev. Carroll Pickett presided over 95 executions at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville.

A documentary tells the story of a man who once ministered to condemned inmates and now opposes capital punishment. By Robert Lloyd Times Television Critic.