THE BEST OF THE WEEKEND.DON'T MISS THIS Jimmy Angel is among a brace of Elvis impersonators gathering Sunday at the House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically for a birthday tribute to the rock 'n' roll rock 'n' roll: see rock music. great who would've turned 67 two days later. Info: (323) 848-5100. STAGE AGATHA CHRISTI: Nuns, divas, old mystery spoofs ... yeah, sounds like a match to us. The play is `` ... And Then There Was Nun,'' which opens at the Knightsbridge Theatre's Silverlake location this weekend. Characters include Sister Bette, Sister Marilyn, Sister Joan, Sister Judy (and Toto, too). The plot has something to do with farce and mayhem on Grauman's Chinese Island. Audience members can get into the act as well. Anyone dressed as his or her favorite Hollywood diva gets in for half price during opening weekend. Tickets are $16 to 22. Performances are at 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. The Knightsbridge is at 1944 Riverside Drive. Call (626) 440-0821. - Evan Henerson AT LONG LAST: Back after a holiday break is ``Names,'' Mark Kemble's drama about the Group Theatre and the House Un-American Activities Committee House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a committee (1938–75) of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Its first chairman, Martin Dies, set the pattern for its anti-Communist investigations. . The production, produced by the Group at Strasberg, reopens tonight at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre in West Hollywood. ``Names'' is a semi-fictional account of a meeting between stage and screen legends Clifford Odets, Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg and John Garfield on the night before Elia Kazan is scheduled to testify before Sen. Joe McCarthy and the HUAC HUAC abbr. House Un-American Activities Committee . The production's director is Adam Davidson, an Oscar winner for the short film ``The Lunch Date'' and the son of L.A. theater impresario Gordon Davidson. ``Names'' plays at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, through Jan. 27, at 7936 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood. Tickets are $15 to $19. Call (323) 650-7777. Also returning to the boards is WriteAct Repertory Company's adaptation of Charles Dickens' ``Bleak House,'' at St. Stephen's in Hollywood. ``Bleak House,'' based on Dickens' panoramic novel of mystery and the legal system, was adapted by Gene Franklin Smith and directed by Larry McCallister. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday, through Feb. 3, at 6128 Yucca St. in Hollywood. Tickets are $20. Call (323) 860-8894. - Evan Henerson COS IN THE HOUSE: Bill Cosby can be counted on to deliver an evening of entertainment suitable for all ages. Appearing Sunday in two performances at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts The Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (or CCPA) is a 154,000 square-foot entertainment and music venue located in the Cerritos Towne Center of Cerritos, California. , Cosby offers warm observations on childhood, marriage, aging and all that lies between. He's currently producing the popular Saturday morning cartoon Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming which was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American television networks from the 1960s to the 1990s. ``Fat Albert'' as a live-action movie, based on his stand-up stand·up or stand-up adj. 1. Standing erect; upright: a standup collar. 2. Taken, done, or used while standing: a standup supper; a standup bar. routines about growing up in Philadelphia. The Cerritos Center is at 12700 Center Court Drive, Cerritos. Show times are 2 and 6 p.m., and tickets are $55 to $65. Info: (800) 300-4345 or online at www.cerritoscenter.com. - Fred Shuster FILM MIND AT WORK: ``A Beautiful Mind'' is a very cleverly conceived gloss on the fascinating true-life story of John Forbes Nash John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13 1928) is an American mathematician who works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations, serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University. Jr. A brilliant mathematician who eventually won a Nobel Prize in economics The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, commonly called the Nobel Prize in Economics, is a prize awarded each year for outstanding intellectual contributions in the field of economics. , Nash has also suffered from paranoid schizophrenia paranoid schizophrenia n. Schizophrenia characterized predominantly by megalomania and delusions of persecution. paranoid schizophrenia DSM 295. his whole life. The movie concentrates on the world as seen through Nash's deceptive eyes, mostly in the 1950s when his condition became apparent - and when, steeped in its own Cold War paranoia, the country had trouble noticing that something was off. Russell Crowe returns to the complex work of ``The Insider'' with his portrayal of the Princeton prof's many moods, delusions and dogged determination to lose neither his grip nor his genius. Jennifer Connelly does some of her best work ever as Nash's conflicted but committed wife. Perhaps the real surprise here is director Ron Howard. Long one of Hollywood's best slicksters, he made an impressive move toward serious storytelling with ``Apollo 13.'' With this one, he handles tricky narrative spins and subjective viewpoints with extraordinary dexterity. There was quite a mind at work behind the camera, too. - Bob Strauss PRODIGAL PRODIGAL, civil law, persons. Prodigals were persons who, though of full age, were incapable of managing their affairs, and of the obligations which attended them, in consequence of their bad conduct, and for whom a curator was therefore appointed. 2. SEAN n. 1. A seine. See Seine. : Sean Penn doesn't mince words when it comes to his disdain for Hollywood, but Hollywood still loves Penn. The actor-director, one of the most volatile personalities in filmdom, gets his first major U.S. retrospective beginning tonight when the American Cinematheque opens ``Spontaneous Combustion: A Tribute to Sean Penn in Person.'' Tonight's program is a double feature, with a 7:30 showing of the 1985 spy thriller ``The Falcon and the Snowman,'' followed by Nick Cassavetes' 1997 drama ``She's So Lovely,'' co-starring Penn's wife, Robin Wright Penn. Saturday's selections highlight his directing work. Penn is set to talk to the audience between a double bill of ``The Indian Runner'' and ``The Pledge.'' He'll return Sunday for a double feature of ``Dead Man Walking'' and ``Sweet and Lowdown low·down n. Slang The whole truth: gave us the lowdown on what happened at the party. lowdown low (inf) n he gave me the lowdown on it → ,'' both of them Oscar-nominated performances. Other films showing through Tuesday are ``At Close Range,'' ``Carlito's Way'' and ``Hurlyburly.'' All screenings are at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. For more information, call (323) 466-3456 or look up www.egyptiantheatre.com on the Web. Penn receives additional recognition for his body of work on March 2, when he will accept the Modern Master Award at the 17th annual Santa Barbara Film Festival. - Valerie Kuklenski ACCEPT IT: The awards season officially kicks off Saturday when the American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase honors excellence in film and television at the AFI AFI American Film Institute AFI Awaiting Further Instructions AFI Armed Forces Insurance AFI A Fire Inside (band) AFI Air Force Instruction AFI Australian Film Institute AFI Agencia Federal de Investigación Awards, a three-hour star-studded event to be televised from the Beverly Hills Hotel The Beverly Hills Hotel is a hotel in Beverly Hills, CA, at 9641 Sunset Boulevard. It was opened on May 12, 1912 and started by Margaret J. Anderson and her son, Stanley S. Anderson, who had been managing the Hollywood Hotel. . Winners will be named in 19 categories. Nominations include male actor of the year nods for Russell Crowe (``A Beautiful Mind''), Billy Bob Thornton (``The Man Who Wasn't There''), Denzel Washington (``Training Day'') and Tom Wilkinson (``In the Bedroom''). And drama series of the year nominees include UPN's ``Buffy the Vampire Slayer,'' HBO's ``Six Feet Under,'' HBO's ``The Sopranos'' and NBC's ``The West Wing.'' The ceremony airs at 8 p.m. on CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. (Channel 2). - Sandra Barrera CONCERTS IN GOOD VOICE: Looks like he made it - so to speak. Severe bronchitis forced Barry Manilow to reschedule his first three sold-out shows last weekend at Hollywood's new Kodak Theatre. But after several days of doctor-prescribed mandatory silence broken for a New Year's Eve show, Manilow is now making up for lost time. He performs the first of his previously scheduled Dec. 28 through 30 concerts tonight. Tickets will be honored on their respective nights through Sunday. Concert time is 8:15 p.m. The Kodak Theatre is at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. For more information, call (213) 480-3232. - Sandra Barrera CAPTION(S): 6 photos Photo: (1) no caption (``... And Then There Was Nun'') (2) ``NAMES'' (3) no caption (Bill Cosby) (4) no caption (Russell Crowe) (5) no caption (Sean Penn) (6) no caption (Barry Manilow) |
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