This week: Jonah Hill’s search for the perfect coupling … Skip Lievsay explains how movies should sound … Life imitates board games imitating life (but not The Game of Life) … One mother’s love-hate relationship with a thousand plastic blocks … Getting what you pay for with luxury toast … The creator of “House of Cards” tells us how politics is like jazz … Woods to the left (to the left) … How to flirt with a Viking … And when to politely drink up and move on.