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Show WDoaut's gnnimg im Looking for something different to do this weekend? Here are a few suggestions, compiled by Park Record entertainment critic Rick Brough. Unless otherwise noted, events listed below will take place in Salt L -ke City. MOVIES This week's Robert Mitchum movie at the Salt Lake City Library is "River of No Return," scheduled for June i; In this iK4 movie. Mitchum is a farmer forced to sail down the treacherous river with his son (Tommy Rettig, then of TV's "Lassie") and a dance-hall girl played by Marilyn Monroe. The film plays at 2 p.m. (for 25 cents) and 7 p.m. (for 50 cents). The library is at 209 East 500 South. The Blue Mouse leads off with the Spanish "Blood Wedding," Carlos Saura's film ballet of a bride who flees her wedding. But the rest is more familiar fare: "Broadway Danny Rose" stars Woody Allen as a hapless show-biz agent, and Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" is for you Mount Rushmore fans. The Mouse is at 260 East 100 South. The Media Center continues its series of film classics that have been remade. This week, it features "The Big Sleep" with Bogart as Phillip Marlowe, Lauren Bacall, and a plot so complicated even the writers couldn't figure it out. It plays on June 16 (at 5:30 p.m.) and June 17 (5:30 and 9:30 p.m.). Also appearing is another Film That Never Made it to Salt Lake until now. "Hammett" is a fictionalized biography of author Dashiell Hammett' s life, with Fredric Forrest in the title role. It plays June 15 (at 9:30) and June 16-17 (at 7:30 p.m.) Admission is $2.50 for adults. The Center is at 20 South West Temple. MUSIC The Seventh Gina Bach-auer Bach-auer International Piano Competition Com-petition will bring together 70 fine pianists in Salt Lake. A $25 price gets you 18 recital . r i i e: i - it" 1 programs anu eacn ui uie iwu iiuoia. rui cumjjieie schedule of prices, see newspaper ads or contact the Utah Symphony box office. The extravaganza takes place June 20-30 at Symphony Hall, 123 West South Temple. The jazz rock group Spyro Gyra returns by popular demand to the Snowbird Resort Saturday, June 16. Admission is $10 advance, $12 at the door for the 7 p.m. concert. Tickets are available at Datatix outlets, Smokey's Records and Audioworks. Johnny Paycheck, famous for taking that job and shoving it, will play June 15 at Lagoon's Pioneer Village. Shows are 7 and 9 p.m. Jazz from Trolley Square features the Alan Weight Quintet, playing at 8 p.m. from the Sixth South Amphitheatre. It will be broadcast live on KUER FM-90. John and Donald Mills, of the Mills Brothers, will play at the Celebrity Showroom with a full orchestra, June 14-16. Shows are 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., with reservations. The Showroom is located at 139 East South Temple. THEATRE "Pippin" by Roger Hirson and Stephen Schwarts opens at the Sundance Resort in Provo Canyon on Friday and Saturday, Satur-day, then plays Monday-Satur- aay tnrougn July 6. Showtime is 8:30 p.m. Dress warmly. "Murder at Howard Johnson's" plays at Theatre 138, 138 South Second East. It plays Thursday-Saturday through July 7 at 8 p.m. The musical comedy "Once Upon a Mattress" opens this week and plays June 15-16 at the Lagoon Opera House. It then plays Wednesday-Saturday through July, and Tuesday-Saturday through August 25. Showtime is 8:30 p.m. "Jonah in Jeopardy" is the first presentation of Plum Alley, a puppet children's theater at Promised Valley Playhouse, 132 South State Street. The production plays Tuesday-Friday through June 29. Shows are at 2 and 3:30 p.m. Tickets are $1.50. -Harry Segal's "Heaven Can Wait," the popular story of Joe Pendleton, called to Heaven before his time, plays at the Little Bowery Theater of Promised Valley Playhouse, 132 South State. It plays Thursday-Saturday Thursday-Saturday through June 16 at 7 p.m. A June 16 matinee is at 2 p.m. ETCETERA The Kimball Art Center reopens with painter Woodward Payne in the Main Gallery and photographer Kent Miles downstairs. down-stairs. The exhibit appears through June 28. The third annual Hispanic Festival will play June 15-17 at the Utah State Fairgrounds. The festival expects 30,000 people this year to sample folk dancing, exhibits and food. -Star Search '84, set for June 15 at Kingsbury Hall, will bring together talent from the city's rich ethnic mix. The show features singers, comics and break dancers. Tickets are $3 and showtime is 8 p.m. -The Hansen Planetarium, 15 South State, hopes to attract billions and billions of people to "Cosmos: The Voyage to the Stars," written and narrated by Carl Sagan. It plays weekdays (11 a.m., 2 p.m., 4:30 and 7 p.m.) Saturdays (2 p.m., 4:30 and 7 p.m.) and Sunday (2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.). The Hansen also features the children's star show "Circus of the Stars and Planets," Saturday at 11 a.m. "Close Encounters with John Williams" continues at the planetarium on Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m. |