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Show SAY, THAT’S QUITE AN HONOR PARK THE ART HERE Never hez d of Allen Say Day? Chane are good thathe Allen Say. winner Caldecott medal for Gran rs Journ hasn't heardof it either. But itis hap ng Saturday as part of “Kids Day All at the annual 15th East Festival in the 1500 South block of 1500 East in Salt ‘Thefree summerlunch and matineeseriesstarts Tuesdayat noon in Murray Park. Folk group Enoch Train performs its mix of contemporary-acoustic music ‘The lunch series hap: LakeCity Say, who was born in Japan and moved pens each Tuesday at noon 4 as a teen-ager, is well Known by r r his beautifully illustrated sto ries about living between two cultures. Since he will be at the King’s English Bookshop from noon to 1:30 to meet fans through Aug. 3 in Pavilion No. 5, south of the swim ‘MIRROR’ MIRROR ming pool. AndonFridays, the children’s matineese. ries In theIranianfilm “TheMirror,”Little Mina (played by Mina Mohammad-Khani)getsleft behindat school and mustfind her own sat 2 p.m. in the gazebo: first andsignhis books,includinghis new Tea up, modern withMilk, the day has become his. Otherauthors, including Gloria Skurzynski and Margaret Godfrey, also are dance demoby Dancer's Theater Companyon June way home. Her fascinating adventurebenefits froma surprise twist of acalibernot seen since “The Crying Game.” See the review by SeanP. Means,page B-3, scheduledforSaturday book signings;the festival continues through Sunday i, Che Salt Lake Tribune CALENDAR r efOMOy, YOUR GUIDE TO WEEKLY ENTERTAINMENT FRIBAY MANN LANDERS, B-4 @ COMICS, B-8 MI TELEVISION, B-9 i CLUBS & CONCERTS, B-10 & DINING OUT, B-11 » VULTURE BY BRANDON GRIGGS / Rocking Chair Rock June must be Geezer Rock Music Month in Salt LakeCity. It starts Johnny Mathis crooning Sundaynight at Abravanel Hall. The same night three blocks Dylan and Paul Simon, writing and bersareintheir late 40s play the Zephyr Club. Next Wednesday brings Bob Dylz and PaulSimon, 57, to the Delta Center. A bevy of bygoneartists includingex: surfers Jan & Dean, Peter Nooneof Her: man’s Hermits, Davey Jones of the Monkees and PaulRevere& the Raiders hobble s into FranklinQgovey Field for an Oldies Fest June 12. Ten ee: later. 50-year-old Kddie Money and 46-year-old Benatar rock the E Center. Ard on June 5 the Zephyr pla host to former Aniina frontmanEric Bur don, whose st hit, “House of the Rising singing the music of the aDIa Bob Dylan has beentouringfor nearly 40 years, in betweenaccidents arid illnesses. Paul Simonis onhis first tour in nearly 10 years, after seeing his Broadway musicalfail Sun,” wasin 1964. JST PLAIN But hey, we Utahns value older folks Take the Utah Jazz. Please. Read a Book Instead The good news is that by now, three weeks after ils opening, we can finally get seatsfor “Star Wats: Fpisude | tom Menace.” filmstudio: JUNE 4, 1999 — ‘Whe Phen _ - “ / — ‘I'he bad news is that rival id to compete head to head with “Star s,” released almost no mov ies during thepast three weeks. Or at least no good movies. So instead of lots of in: triguing new films to choose from, we get sacrificial lambslike “The Love Letter,” “TheThirteenthFloor” and “Instinct.” Videorentals, anyone? It’s Him — Honest! Speaking of “Star Wars,” the Salt Palace will host a sci-fi convention Saturday from 10a.m. to 6p.m., featuring Anthony Daniels, the British actor who supplies the voice of C-3PO. Admission is $40. Thisraises three nagging questions 1. Is it truethat C-8PO is the first gay “Star Wars" character? 2. Since nobody knows what he looks like, how do we knowit’s really Anthony Daniels? 3. Fortydollars!? No, Not THAT Moab Britishactor Stephen Fry ("Wilde,” “Pe te ends”) has written a new memoir called MoabIs My Washpot. It’s a compan: ion volumeto Delicate Arch Is My Towel Rack. Hee. OK, we madethat last part up. The titleof the book, which has been a best BY BRANDON GRIG THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Considering howalike they are, how have Bob Dy- Jan and Paul Simon avoided performing togetheruntil now? The folk music icons rose to fame from the New York coffechouse circuit of the 1960s. Both havesus tained critical and commercial success over four de: cades, even though they are better known fortheir songwriting prowess than theirsinging. And both are longtime admirers of each other's work !sut on Wednesday night at the Delta Center in Salt (ake City, Dylan and Simon will share a stage for only the third time in their careers. The first two time: haven't happened yet: The pair kick off a 30-city American concert tour Sunday in Colorado Springs, their respective bands before teaming onstage for a four-songencore. Theconcerts will be Simon’sfirst since his 1991 “Rhythm of the Saints” tour, which brought him to the Salt Palace that January for a memorable concert on the eveof the Persian Gulf War. Although Dylan has toured constantly in recent years, he has not played Utahsince a summer1989 show at Park West of popularity sincethe release of his acclaimed “Time Out of Mind” album in 1997. It drewcritical raves, won three Grammys including Album of the Year, and be came Dylan's biggest-selling record in two decades other's work.” And what a body of work it is: Blowin’ in the Wind,” “The Sounds of Silence,” “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” “Mrs. Robinson,” “Mr. ‘Tambourine Man,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Like a Rolling Stor “Mother and Child Reunion,” “All Along the “They do not remember over the last 30 years ever playing together,” says a spokesman for Columbia Records, Dylan’s label. “So this will mark the first brought a confessional, introspective emphasis to Dylan, 58, and Simon,57, are taking turns headlin. ing throughout the tour and have not decided which will open the Salt Lake City show. The grizzled folkies are expected to play separate, hour-plus sets with “Kodachrome,” “Knockin’ On Heaven's Doo ) Ways to Leave Your Lover.” Their music expanded the boundaries of folk. Dylan songwriting and polarized the acoustic-dominated folk world in the mid-’60s by adding electric guitar to his records and concerts. Simon introduced world music to the masses in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s through his groundbreaking, African-influenced Since the album's release, Dylan survived a neat fatal heart condition, performed for Pope John received a Kennedy Center award and was noming for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan's “To Make You Feel My Love,” a ballad from “Time Out of Mind. becamea No. 1 country hit for Garth Brooks last year Simon, on the other hand, suffered a setback when his much-anticipated Broadway musical, “The Cape man," closed in March 1998after 68 performances, Si mon spent six years writing the $11 million musical, based on thetrue story ofa Puerto Rican gang member who was convicted of murder in 1959 and became a See DYLAN & SIMON, Pape B-5 ON THE SMOOTHER SIDE. . . Utah but to the Bible. Sold-out hall fo welcome Johnny Mathis = Al Frescoin the Altogether The weekof July 5-11 is the 24th annual Nude Recreation Week, according to the American Association for Nude Recreation friends, But no big parties. Mathis BY HELEN FORSBERG his is the perfect opportunity for some- one who hasnever experienced a clothing optional club to visit one, AANRpresi dent Gregory Smith, They've given us some of thegreatest songs of out generation,” says John Florence, DJ at KRCL radio (90.9 FM) in Salt Lake City. “Dylan is in a league by himself. And Paul Simon can stand on the songwriting mountain with anybody.” The nasal-voiced Dylan has been riding a new wave “We have been great fansof each other for years,” then play the next night in Denver time in anyone's memory “Graceland” albumand its Brazilian-flavored follow Rhythm of the Saints.” y the two singer-songwriters ina joint statement “This tourwill give us the opportunity to honor each Watchtower,” seller in England, refers not to Southern is reclusive by nature. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE “I spend a lot of time by myself Chances are Johnny Mathis is “Everyone can find more likely to be out on the golf something they enjoy For more information, contact theAANR at 1-800-TRY-NUDE, coursethan heis onthe stage these days In between, heis probably in the Start planning now! kitchen. Since he was 20, when he and it’s sort of a natural phenome. non. | remember my voice teacher told me the more time I could spend singingon stage since the age of 13 people do it out of necessity and lot of John Royce Mathis grew up in San Francisco, studied voice as a child, and by an early age was singing in church, at school func tions, or wherever he could. An outstanding high school and col lege athlete (he set a then-record for went out on the road in Europe, the famed American has others do it because that’s their Lewin. The book, a study of feces, includes done all his own cooking. “I spent months and months touring Great personality, and I'm of the latfer,’ said Mathis Still, for a solitary sort of fellow Physical Features; Colors and Textures Defecation Attitudes, Human and Animal Smells and Other Chemical Components, Including Uses as tilizers Uses for Construction and Decoration ‘Today, chicken with a “sort of Vera Cruz sauce” bakesin his ov en. He cooks for himself ‘L like BookTitle of the Week Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural andSocio-Historical Coprology, by Ralph A balladeer Britain and the food was horrible, so I learned to accommodate myself by cooking,” said Mathis fromhis West Hollywood home thefollowing chapters: Johnny Mathis, still singing songs of love. spicy food" and maybe a few (His benefit concert at Salt Li City’s Abravanel Hall Wednesi night is all but sold out.) As to why the 63-year-old crooner has curtailed his musical career, Mathis says, “I've been not talking, the better off | would be later on, saving my voic called Mathis. But he wasnot deliberately protecting that silky sound. "Some COPY | -9- , Mathis is as warm and spontane ous on the phone as he is on the stage. He has plenty to say in the ultrasmooth voice that made him a pop-music phenomenon in the and ‘60s and a still-soughtafter performer today and I've done sort of everything I ever hoped for. Now I balance it out by singinga little bit and playing a golf.” (He reportedly has a 9.5 handicap.) the high jump at San Francisco See MATHIS, Page B-5 |
