TV's Emmy-winning drama "24" is like the woods in the Robert Frost poem: "dark and deep." Well, dark, anyway, and deeply self-involved. Which makes Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese's "24: The Official CTU Operations Manual" (Quirk, hardback) a fitting companion piece. From the policy on "unstable superiors" ("any superior who is relieved of duty under Section 1.12 should still be treated with courtesy") to the how-to chapters ("G.5 If You are Taken Hostage"), this thing is so deadpan it makes Jack Bauer look extroverted. Best audience: the kind of people who got so into "Star Trek" that they mastered Klingon.

— Wanda A. Adams

EXTREME SPORTS SCREENING AT HDC

Get a piece of the action without getting wet at the Honolulu Design Center's screening of "The Windsurfing Movie" with riders Levi Siver, Jason Polakow, Kai Lenny and Robby Naish. It's an extreme sports documentary, says Maui Film Festival director Barry Rivers, "equal parts adrenaline, heart and soul."

Coming down the pipe in HDC's extreme sports movie series: "Brokedown Melody," a surfing movie with musical score by Jack Johnson, and "Klunkers," a history of mountain biking. "The Windsurfing Movie" is 5:30 p.m. Sunday at HDC's Cupola Theatre; $10, 237-5462.

— Chris Oliver

FINAL WORD

"I would (like to be a mother). But not to the savior of mankind. It's too stressful!"

Lena Heady | ("300"), who plays Sarah Connor in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," premiering Sunday on Fox