By JOHN BEIFUSS, Scripps Howard News Service

Craig Brewer's fingerprints are all over his repurposed remake of "Footloose."

So are his footprints.

Close to a dozen Hollywood actresses have plum parts in the film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's phenomenal best seller, "The Help," now opening nationwide.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The police mystery series "Memphis Beat" -- which returns at 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday for a second season on TNT -- is set in the home of blues and barbecue and shot primarily in LaPlace, La., a zydeco and Cajun music center that is the self-described "Andouille Capital of the World," in recognition of a popular spicy sausage.

Vampires are so 2010. This season, werewolves are hot as well as hairy, not just on "True Blood" and "Twilight," but also on MTV, where the new series "Teen Wolf" -- a sexed-up makeover of the 1985 Michael J. Fox movie -- just debuted, to remind us that some adolescents experience more profound body changes than others.

Craig Brewer is poised to swing from modest budgets and Southern themes into the exotic kingdom of the Hollywood blockbuster as the writer-director of a new movie about one of the most famous and popular heroes in fiction, Tarzan of the Apes.

Contrary to the secondhand emphasis of its title, "Something Borrowed" represents something new for the careers of the two women at its center, actress Ginnifer Goodwin and producer Molly Mickler Smith.

Hollywood stuntman-turned-movie director Hal Needham made millions of dollars and millions of fans with such Burt Reynolds car-crash crowd-pleasers as "Smokey and the Bandit," "Hooper" and "The Cannonball Run."

Friends are awaiting the release of "Better Than Something: Jay Reatard," with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation. The film is the first feature-length documentary about the frequently alienating yet oddly beloved Memphis, Tenn., rock 'n' roll musician, Jay Reatard.

Friends are awaiting the release of "Better Than Something: Jay Reatard," with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation. The film is the first feature-length documentary about the frequently alienating yet oddly beloved Memphis, Tenn., rock 'n' roll musician, Jay Reatard.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Representatives of "Memphis," the planned Universal Pictures movie about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. set to begin shooting in June, were in town this week scouting locations for the film in hopes of using the Lorraine Motel portion of the National Civil Rights Museum as a major setting.