"Two Ninas" marks a lively debut for writer-director Neil Turitz. The plot is boy-meets-babe basic — just double up on the babes. Dating loser Marty Sachs (a solid Ron Livingston) is ready to dump Gotham for less-competitive Maine when, boom, he meets two willing Ninas — Cohen (Cara Buono) and Harris (Amanda Peet) — and tries to juggle them both. Silly boy. Sassy movie. The performances are moonbeam-light. Peet is a scrappy pleasure, and "Law and Order" rerun freaks will be jazzed by Jill Hennessy as a Texas bartender. Turitz keeps it comic and romantic in just the right doses. Looking for a fun date flick? You found it.

“1999”

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.