Columbia Pictures Will Smith, playing a troubled superhero, rescues a police officer before going after the bad guys in Columbia Pictures’ “Hancock.”

'Hancock” is a stultifying stew cooked to a pulp by seven producers, two credited screenwriters, a director who signed on after a couple of others reportedly dropped out and a July Fourth holiday box office superstar.

When Frank Sinatra Jr. sang “New York, New York” at downtown's Embarcadero Marina Park South, the orchestra sizzled and fireworks lit up the sky.

Swingtown” (10 p.m. Thursdays) swings with some of this summer's best acting. In particular, there's Molly Parker as Susan Miller, a naive, suburban Chicago housewife enticed by the sexual revolution and women's liberation of the '70s.