Rachel Mcadams

Late Show With David Letterman (11:35 p.m., CBS3) - Actor David Spade; Betty Wright performs. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (11:35 p.m., NBC10) - Rachel McAdams; Cee Lo Green performs with Vicci Martinez. The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (12:35 a.m., CBS3) - Chelsea Handler; biologist Dan Riskin. Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (12:35 a.m., NBC10)- Dwayne Johnson; singer Katharine McPhee; comic Neal Brennan

Beginners This charming journey through the tunnel of grief into the sunshine of connectedness stars Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, and the cutest Jack Russell terrier imaginable as a father, son, and dog who lose partners and find love. R Midnight in Paris What's Owen Wilson doing in a Woody Allen movie? Ingratiating himself in this convivial fantasy about a hack writer who time-travels to Paris' Left Bank of the 1920s and is inspired by American and Spanish expatriates.

The Hot Chick stars Rob Schneider as a deadbeat dude transformed into an 18-year-old girl who, unfortunately, still looks like Rob Schneider. Twinning the body-switching genre (Vice Versa, Like Father, Like Son) with the gender-switching genre (Mrs. Doubtfire, Some Like It Hot - they wish!), this unabashedly stupid comedy is, well, unabashedly stupid. Thanks to a curse - lamely established in a prologue set in Abyssinia, circa 50 B.C. - Schneider's sleazebucket Clive gets magically transgenderfied into a high school hottie named Jessica.

Old characters, new box-office record! After colossal, gargantuan, elephantine (the thesaurus is so cool!) ticket sales, The Avengers is the first movie ever to collect $200 million in a single weekend — worldwide, it's made $641.8 million in barely a week and a half. To give some context: The Harry Potter finale made $169.2 million in its debut weekend. The SEPTA workers won $173 million. And it would take a SideShow writer at least 250 years to bring in that kind of dough.

Rachel McAdams streaks across Morning Glory , a diverting comedy about the three-ring circus of morning TV, like dimples shot from a cannon. She's sharp, sexy, and funny. Too bad the script does not permit her to be all three at the same time. After Becky Fuller (McAdams) is fired as assistant producer of Good Morning, New Jersey , she gets hired as producer/ringmaster of Daybreak , a morning show with ratings in the cellar and staff morale in the subbasement. Can Becky revive the moribund show?

The Notebook is about the sunrise and sunset - but not the intervening day - of what aspires to be the epic romantic drama of a rich girl beloved by a poor boy, kind of a Carolina Wuthering Heights. The source material is a novel by Nicholas Sparks, whom I have never read but whom I imagine, having seen films based on his novels Message in a Bottle and A Walk on the Moon, is kind of a Carolina Robert James Waller. Sparks' tearjerkers are dedicated to the proposition that perfect love transcends all obstacles, including death and dementia.

It's a good thing the Wedding Crashers DVD wasn't planned for a spring release. Imagine a couple of blokes traveling around to weddings, hoping to score by employing the same comical set of rules used by Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn in this film. No wedding would be safe. These are slow days for matrimonial ceremonies, however, so it's pretty safe to set loose this hilarious film now. New Line Home Entertainment released two versions of the film on DVD, the R-rated theatrical release and the Uncorked version, which contains a couple of featurettes and eight extra minutes of footage.

Obnoxious kids scream down the aisles, smelly people sit close by, some guy snaps gum loudly, and everyone chatters through the movie. Yup, a multiplex can be a scary place. No, wait: I mean an airplane can be a scary place. That's where Rachel McAdams, playing a perky hotel employee named Lisa, finds herself in Red Eye, Wes Craven's in-flight nightmare thriller. Trapped inside a big metal tube speeding 500 miles per hour at 30,000 feet, Lisa must contend with the usual air travel pains - turbulence, testy flight attendants, and lines for the toilet.

The slapstick weeper The Family Stone is a lump of coal brightened by four diamond-sharp performances. Would you pay to see a home-for-the-holidays family reunion where siblings snark at big bro's girlfriend, when for free you can play this interactive game at Mom and Dad's? The clan in The Family Stone - the title of which refers both to their surname and to Granny's solitaire - is a judgmental tribe that one should suspend judgment of until more facts are known. Alas for Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker)

This week's new DVD options include a romance, classic Westerns, and a religion-meets-science offering. The Vow, Grade B: A woman (Rachel McAdams) wakes up from a coma with no memory of her marriage. The romance film is loosely based on a true story. Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum are the film's biggest assets. She has the kind of angelic face and sweet personality that make it easy to fall in love with her. Tatum brings both a rough physicality and surprising vulnerability to the role.

Old characters, new box-office record! After colossal, gargantuan, elephantine (the thesaurus is so cool!) ticket sales, The Avengers is the first movie ever to collect $200 million in a single weekend — worldwide, it's made $641.8 million in barely a week and a half. To give some context: The Harry Potter finale made $169.2 million in its debut weekend. The SEPTA workers won $173 million. And it would take a SideShow writer at least 250 years to bring in that kind of dough.

Sinead O'Connor didn't come across in the most flattering light last month when she pleaded for psychiatric help on Twitter. But the Irish singer is in control in a new chat with USA Today to plug her first album in four years, How About I Be Me (And You Be You) , out Tuesday. The title is pure O'Connor - lyrical and confrontational. "I've spent all my life as an artist being told what I should be and what I shouldn't be - basically, why don't you just be somebody else," she explains.

Late Show With David Letterman (11:35 p.m., CBS3) - Actor David Spade; Betty Wright performs. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (11:35 p.m., NBC10) - Rachel McAdams; Cee Lo Green performs with Vicci Martinez. The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (12:35 a.m., CBS3) - Chelsea Handler; biologist Dan Riskin. Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (12:35 a.m., NBC10)- Dwayne Johnson; singer Katharine McPhee; comic Neal Brennan

THERE IS AN expanding genre of movies about women who can't remember the men who can't forget them. "Away From Her," "The Notebook," "Fifty First Dates," and now "The Vow," starring Channing Tatum as Leo, a man whose crash-victim wife Paige (Rachel McAdams) can't remember their four years of marriage - in fact, can't remember him at all. Her mnemonic clock has been reset to law school, when she was single, dating a rich guy (Scott Speedman), living happily as a pampered sorority girl.

Prince Philip , 90, made his first public appearance Sunday at Sandringham estate after undergoing an emergency coronary procedure two days before Christmas. The estate, in rural Norfolk, housed Philip, wife Queen Elizabeth II , and the rest of the royal family during the holidays. The otherwise quiet area was swarmed with media Tuesday after news broke that a woman's body was found Sunday in a remote part of the estate. Police are treating the case as a murder, but had yet to reveal any details.

Movies The Descendants See Steven Rea's preview on H2 . Happy Feet Two See Steven Rea's preview on H2 . Into the Abyss Director Werner Herzog's latest documentary looks at the facts surrounding a Texas murder and what happens to one of those convicted and sentenced to death for the crime. Revenge of the Electric Car Tim Robbins narrates this documentary on the increasing popularity of electric cars. Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 See Steven Rea's preview on H2 . Reviewed by critics Carrie Rickey (C.R.)