I don't know what the moral of this campus comedy-cum-murder mystery might be, except that you can never know too much about designer clothes and hair-care products. Elle Woods, played by the legally adorable Reese Witherspoon, is a blond cream puff at the fictional California University at Los Angeles. She thinks only of pedicures, pink outfits, her sorority sisters and marrying Warner Huntington (Matt Davis). So when Warner dumps Elle for the preppy, pearl-wearing Vivian Kensington (Selma Blair) and heads to Harvard Law School, Elle enrolls as well. She's smarter than she looks (a lesson the film belabors) and has the good sense to hire a Coppola to direct her admissions video.

First-time director Robert Luketic's heavy hand with sitcom farce strains credulity and patience, notably in a scene in which law student Elle plays Perry Mason. But the script, by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith (Ten Things I Hate About You), gets off a few zingers, and Witherspoon — though miles from the keen satire of Election — stays one sharp cookie even as her film crumbles.

“All Along the Watchtower”

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."