AP - Opening night at the Metropolitan Opera: The costumes! The singing! The costumes. The costumes.

AP - Soldiers might be clamoring to re-enlist if they all saw as much action in their homecoming as the threesome in "The Lucky Ones." Returning to combat could seem like a picnic in comparison with the tumult these three endure once back on U.S. soil.

AP - Plain White T's, "Big Bad World" (Hollywood)

AP - Buckcherry, "Black Butterfly" (Atlantic)

Reuters - With a huge sense of irony, Beck kicked off his triumphant homecoming show Saturday at the Hollywood Bowl with his 1993 slacker anthem "Loser." A decade and half after gaining notice with that breakthrough hit, he has the clout to handpick openers Spoon and MGMT and to share the stage with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra Strings, conducted by his father, David Campbell.

Reuters - Judging from the part of the ad that says, ". . . from the author of 'The Notebook,'" you might suspect that this particular Richard Gere-Diane Lane reunion isn't going to be the torrid affair that was 2002's "Unfaithful," and of course you'd be quite right.

Reuters - Dane Cook is never quite as convincing as when he's playing a total jerk, and the comedian gets to do so in spades in "My Best Friend's Girl."

Reuters - Let's get this one out of the way: You can put lipstick on a male chauvinist pig, but . . . he's still a pig.