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Show THE LAST DANCE HERE COMES KOGAN As the 1999 Sundance Film Festival winds down, movie loversstill have time to see Utah Symphonyguest conductor Now on homevideo, all the fun of “The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss,” from the Jim Henson Company pre-school show weekend for performances featur. ing symphonyconcertmaster Ralph Matson soloing in Bruch’s Violin someof the picturesthat audi- ences loved best. There are regular screenings today and Saturday, plus special showings Sundayof the winners Concerto No. 1, plus Mendelssohn’: Symphony No. 2 (“Hymn ofPraise”) with the Utah SymphonyChorus, announcedat Saturdaynight’s and other works. Shows tonight and awards ceremony.Forthe best of Sundance, seestories and schedule on page F-12. THE CAT COMES BACK Pavel Koganis back in townthis Animation and muppetry combine with the wonderful characters Saturday begin at 8 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Tickets are $13 to $32 through “Three Seasons” of the Cat in the Hat. Yertle the Turtle, Sam I Am and Sue Snue, and more, for loads of friendly fun. In i two volumes, each videois about 50 minutes long. They are from Columbia Tristar Home Video. Art Tix, 355-ARTS. CALENDAR DheSalt LakeTribune YOuR GUIDE ANN LANDERS, F-7 ® COMICS,F-8 TO 7 KOM, ENTERTAINMENT @ TELEVISION LISTINGS, F-9 FRIBAY m RESTAURANT REVIEW, F-11 JANUARY29, 1999 LLING STON ACTING UP ON THE INSIDE BY LORI BUTTARS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE No fire-breathing serpent. No inflatable dolls. But the Rolling Stones will be there. Pure Stones is what fans can expect when they cometo the Delta Center on Thursday to see the Stones’ “No Security” tour. The 28-city trek, which opened in Sacramento on Tuesday, is the band’s first indoor showin nearly 20 & E VULTURE BY BRANDON GRIGGS things up a bit. You know, after 30 years, they’ve got a helluva repertoire to work from.” This is Berry’s third tour with the Stones. His first was the “Voodoo Lounge” tour that stopped in Salt Lake City at Rice Stadium in 1994. He has also worked production for Metallica and AC/DC. Downsizing the Stones show wasno small challenge. “It wasn’t just a matterof cutting out all the flash and the toys and what-have-you to makeit years. “There's no doubt the emphasis is on the Sundance Gets ‘Happy’ music and the band this time out,” says So far the 1999 Sundance Film Festival’s biggest success story is “Happy, Texas,” a wacky comedy about two escaped convicts who masquerade as gay pageant consultants while hiding out in a Texas Jake Berry, the Stones’ production manager. “It's given them reason to change fit into an arena,” he says. “We could have done something really elaborate, like the ‘Voodoo Lounge’ or See ROLLING STONES, Page F-6 town. The film drew belly laughs and a heated bidding war won by Miramax, aes paid $2.5 million for distribution its 's all heady stuff for first-time direc- tor Mark Illsley. Although he shot the movie on a shoestring,Illsley attracted a cast of film vets, including Jeremy Northam (“Emma”), Illeana Douglas (“To Die For”), William H. Macy (“Fargo”) and Ron Perlman (TV's “Beauty and the Beast"). To show his gratitude, the director brought two dozen cast and crew members onstage after Sunday's debut screening. “All these people worked for pennies,” flsley told the overflow crowd. “They probably paid more for their condos up here then they got for this film.” Illsley’s parents bankrolled the movie after nobody else would give him financing — which led one cheeky audience memberto ask him, “Could I get your mom and dad to read my script?” a Guess They Flunked Geography Sunday's Sundance screening of “SLC Punk!” at Trolley Square drew laughs of recognition from the hometown crowd — especially for a scene in which three Salt Lake punks drive to Wyoming to buy beer. After leaving Salt Lake,the trio are shown speeding past the Salt Flats, causing filmgoers to holler, “You're going the wrong way!” Oo Series profiles musician Quincy Jones, above, dancerBill T. Jones. Now the Truth Comes Out PBS TRIBUTE TO BLACK ARTISTS COVERS A CENTURY OF CULTURE ZHOFER Screenwriter Hampton Fancheris probably best-known for writing the 1982 Harrison Ford sci-fi classic, “Blade Runner.” Now Fancherhas directed his first feature, a Sundance drama called “The Minus Man.” Fancher adapted the film from KE TRIBUNE Should art exist for art's sake, even if it sheds an unflattering light on a culture, or should art have an agenda? Responsibility to race is a con- a little-known 1991 novel by Lew stant themethrough theenlighten McCreary, who attended the film’s first screening Saturday and received a back- ing and entertaining ‘I'll Make Me a World: A Century of AfricanAmerican Arts.” The six-hour series airs Monday through Wednesday at 8 p.m. on KUED (Ch. 7). In conjunction with the program and Black History handed compliment from the filmmaker. atve done adaptations before,” Fancher “I just never used the book.” 0 Puff, Lola, Puff Month, the Utah Humanities Council, 202 W. 300 North, Salt LakeCity, has beenselectedto dis: In the breathlessly paced German im- port, “Run Lola Run,” actress Franka Potente spends most of the film sprinting through thestreets of Berlin to save her boyfriend'slife. For her, filming the scenes wasn't much fun. “T hate .” she said after Tues- “One Night Stand (of the Blues),” by Romare Bearden, from “I'll Make Me a World.” son at the beginning of the century was to consider the meaning of your success and its impact on race,” said museum director Barry Gaither. “Many people took the posturethat our job wastolift the race, to defend the race, to put for- ward the best view of it and to make our lives the wedges that would open a larger space for those who camebehindus.” “I'll Make Me a World” cele- brates the rich range of AfricanAmerican writers, actors, film- makers, dancers and visualartists who have helped shape American culture in the 20th century. What is seen by mainstream tribute videos and books that go America as a “monolithic” culture reveals itself as diverse, stimulat- with theseries. ing and hopeful “To be a progressiveblack per- timistic at times,” said co-execu- tive producer Sam Pollard, who won an Emmyfor his work on “Eyes on the Prize II.” “Wetried to point out that people, when they create, try to be optimistic with their own inner feelings about whatthe world should look like.” Even so, Pollard also expects criticism. “You always need dialogue,” he said. “If audiences, whiteor black, wholeheartedly accept everything [in the film], then we haven't done our job. It is important to get some things out on thetable.” The series is produced by Black- side Inc., in association with Thir- teen/WNET. Pollard and awardwinning executive producer “Weneedto have something op- See PBS SERIES, Page F-6 day's debut screening. “I never jog. And I'm a really hard-core smoker.” Oo Rosebudd, Meet Redfordd Perhaps the most colorful — and unlikely — film star in Park City this week is Rosebudd, anin-the-flesh lovebroker from the Hughes Brothers’ popular Sundance documentary, “American Pimp. “That's Rosebudd with two D's,” he told Saturday's screening audience, “for a dou- ble dose of this pimpin’. " Oo Premature Anticipation F §THE SHY HAG'S MAGIC SHOW BY HELEN FORSBERG THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ‘The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company calls its upcoming production "a fanciful family show At the center of “The Shy Hag's Magic peared in 1987 @ Capitol Theatre The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company’s ‘’The Shy Hag’s Mag ic Shadow Show” will be present- ed at the Capitol Theatre, 50 W. “The Shy Hag's Magic Shadow Show" was written and designed by Lorrie Sue Keller, then a University of Utah mod. ern-dance graduate student, in 1979. Choreography is by co-artistie directors Shirley Ririe and Joan Woodbury and companydancers at that time. Shadow Show” is the Hag, herself a fan. 200 South, Salt Lake City, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m, and Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. keepsrainbows in her pockets, grants se Tickets are adults $25 and $12; children 12 and under, $12.50 and $6. A family packageis $36. was originally created by Ririe and Woodbury, but neither felt she now had guessed the correct five-digit combination ly appear from her caldron. If she sounds familiar, she is. Shejust hasn't been seen in a while, Next week, lows both performances. Cost is tumeweighing around 35 pounds to run for eight weeks. Capitol Theatre, where she last ap- ‘Twodays after launching its cheeky “Olympic Bribery Scandal” contest, Salt ciful figure. She is a teller of tales who Lake City country station KKAT (FM 101.9) awarded the $1 million prize Tues- cret wishes and makes children magical- day to a Pleasant Grove woman who of numbers. Ooops! Thestation expected the contest the Hag comes back to Salt Lake City's Call 355-ARTS. A pizza party fol- Oneof those dancers, Gigi Arrington, will portray the Hag this time. Therole the wherewithal tocarryaroundthe cos: See SHY HAG, Page F-12 Salt Lake Tribune Gigi Aries as the Hag |
