DO THE JINGLE BELL ROCK (AND POP AND DANCE AND FILM AND THEATER AND ...).It's beginning to look a lot like there's an awful lot to do for the holidays - besides the annual free-for-all wrestling match called shopping, that is. Our cracked, er, crack staff checked their lists and then checked them twice to find films, stage productions, concerts and other events suitable for good little boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. - not to mention seniors, middle-age men and women, and even some people who may not be so nice. (But hey, it's the holiday, so we'll be nice.) So whether you're a mensch mensch or mensh n. pl. mensch·es or mensch·en Informal A person having admirable characteristics, such as fortitude and firmness of purpose: or a grinch, you might want to head off to see the Dixie Chicks at the Staples Center This article has multiple issues: * Its neutrality is disputed. * It may contain original research or unverifiable claims. * It does not cite any references or sources. or Ang Lee's extraordinary new film ``Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' or Disney's latest animation epic, ``The Emperor's New Groove'' or the Boys' Choir of Harlem performing its holiday program at UCLA's Royce Hall Royce Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Designed by the Los Angeles firm of Allison & Allison (James Edward Allison, 1870-1955, and his brother David Clark Allison, 1881-1962) in the Italian Romanesque Revival style and completed or one of the many versions of ``The Nutcracker'' around town. So get in the holiday spirit and go out on the town. You know, we may even have a new president by New Year's. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1) EVENTS The 69th annual Hollywood Christmas Parade The Hollywood Christmas Parade took place every year for 75 years on the weekend after Thanksgiving in the Hollywood community in Los Angeles, California, United States. The parade's 3. gets started at 6 p.m. Nov. 26 in front of Mann's Chinese Theater and follows a two-mile route through Tinseltown. For more holiday events, see Page 13. (2) STAGE The Venice-born comedian Ennio Marchetto Ennio Marchetto is a world renowned and awarded comedian who created his own theatrical language mixing mime, dance, music and quick change costumes made out of card-board and paper. In 18 years Ennio has performed in over 70 countries for more than a million people. , who, via fanciful origami The code name for Microsoft's Ultra-Mobile PC. See Ultra-Mobile PC. , transforms himself onto everything from the Three Tenors to the Spice Girls, appears at the Geffen Playhouse Nov. 29-Dec. 31. For more holiday theater, see Page 11. (3) MUSIC Before hanging up her stilettos, r&b legend Tina Turner struts her stuff Friday at the Staples Center and Dec.6 at the Pond. For more holiday music, turn to Page 9. (4) MOVIES Set in a mythical, Inca-like mountain kingdom, Disney's latest animated film, ``The Emperor's New Groove,'' opens Dec. 15. For more holiday movies, turn to Page 14. |
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