TV picks for Aug. 27: 'Life of Pi,' 'Nine for IX,' Macklemore on Leno

August 26, 2013 at 8:58PM
Suraj Sharma stars as the title character in "Life of Pi." (Fox 2000 Pictures/MCT) ORG XMIT: 1131343 ORG XMIT: MIN1211182301050921
Suraj Sharma stars as the title character in “Life of Pi.” (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Slice of Pi

Ang Lee's cinematic adaptation of the novel "Life of Pi" (6:45 p.m., HBOe) was both a critical and commercial hit in 2012. Will the special effects in this 3D film — about a shipwrecked teenager on a lifeboat with a tiger — translate to the small screen?

Sexy and successful

Is it a double standard to ask female athletes to be both successful in their sport and sexy off the field? Directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady explore the question on "Nine for IX" (7 p.m., ESPN).

Name that rapper

Post-VMAs and pre-Minnesota State Fair, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis visit "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" (10:35 p.m., KARE, Ch. 11). Mackle­more asks the other guests, Josh Duhamel and J.B. Smoove, whose surname he can adopt.

about the writer

about the writer

Jon Bream

Critic / Reporter

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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