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Show What's f Snug m 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 m Salt Lake MOVIES The Fourth annual Utah Gravity Sports Film Festival runs Thursday. Nov. 15 through Saturday. Nov. 17 at the Behavioral Sciences Auditorium on the University of Utah campus. Shows are at 6:30 and 9 p.m. each ThP fpstival is a potpourri of films and slides on sports which dare gravity, or rely on gravity for a "free ride " Sports highlighted include rock climbing, kayaking, windsurfing (an eve-opening entry titled "Sailsurfing Hawaii: 83 Reality shows windsurfing at such famous spots as the Bonzai Pipeline and Diamond Head), ultralights, skiing, frisbee throwing, skateboarding and rafting Tickets are available at Park City Auto Parts, at most mountaineering shops in Salt Lake, or by calling 485-3702. -On Friday, Nov. 16 the Salt Lake Public Library continues its Friday Fri-day Film Series with "Anna Karenina" at 2 and 7 p.m. -The Films of Akira Kurosawa continue at the Salt Lake Public Library. Thursday's entry is a 1962 film entitled "Sanjuro. Tickets are $2.50 for the 7 p.m. show. . -On Friday Nov. 16 at the Salt Lake Art Center Auditorium (20 S. West Temple) the Utah Media Center Film Series presents Carlos Saura's "Blood Wedding" at 7:30 p.m., followed by the Hitchcock classic "Vertigo" at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $2.50. Both films run through Nov. 18. , L . . . The Blue Mouse covers those same dates with Shohei Imamura s "The Ballad of Narayama." It is a film about humanism, but has deeper insights into the ways we pass the laws to govern our deepest impulses, and then are driven to break those laws. Shows are at 7 p.m. and 9:15 p m At 5 :15 "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex" by Woody Allen will be shown. On Monday and Tuesday nights Dudley Moore and Racquel Welch share the screen in "Bedazzled," a 1968 film in which Moore sells his soul to Satan. The riotous satire will be screened at 7:15 and 9:15 p.m. Then on Wednesday "Another Country," a film based on the Guy BurgessDonald MacLean spy scandal, will play at 7 and 9:30 p.m. MUSIC On Saturday, Nov. 17 at 11 a.m. at Symphony Hall a youth concert will be conducted by Charles Ketcham. The theme will be "Humor in Music." Tickets can be ordered by phone at 533-6407. For bieeer kids the Utah Symphony will be conducted by Joseph Silverstein, and will feature pianist Andre-Michel Schub at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights. Then on Wednesday night Silverstein will conduct the annual "Salute to Youth Concert," featuring seven award-winning young soloists. All concerts will be at Symphony Hall. Kingsbury Hall at the U of U will present Dan Fogelberg Thursday night. Tickets are available at Datatix outlets. The Celebrity Room of the Salt Lake Dinner Theatre will welcome Rick Nelson through Saturday. The theater is located in the Elk's Building at 139 East South Temple. Reservations can be made by calling 521-6000. THEATRE Anton Chekhov's classic play "The Seagull" plays at the Babcock Theatre at the U of U tonight, Nov. 15, through Saturday at 8 p.m. There will be a matinee performance on Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. "Pacific Overtures" is present- ed by the Salt Lake Acting Company, (168 West Fifth North). It continues on various dates through Nov. 25. For information call 363-0525. "The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch" is a Western farce about the resurrection of the most unsavory character in Gopher Gulch. It plays Thursday through Sunday at 8 p.m. through Nov. 18. Admission is $5, general, and $4.50 students. It is presented by the No-Name Players at the Lincoln School, Eighth South and 945 East. Neil Simon's "Star Spangled Girl" looks at the romance between a conservative Olympic champion who moves in next to a radical writer. It plays through Nov. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Promised Valley Playhouse. J. Scott Branson's "Heartlight" will be performed at the Nelke Experimental Theatre in the Harris Fine Arts Center on the BYU campus Tuesdays through Saturdays through Nov. 24 at 8 p.m. A matinee is set for Nov. 19 at 4:30 p.m. A.R. Gurney's "The Dining Room" is at the Monson Theatre in the Browning Center of W eber State College in Ogden through Saturday at 8 p.m. ETCETERA Sixty-five one-of-a-kind quilts are on display at the Little America Hotel, 500 S. Main in Salt Lake. The quilts go up for auction Nov. 16 to benefit the IDS Hospital. The show is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. through Friday. Friday's auction will beein at 6 D.m. Admission is $2.50. You can hear the experiences of "Children of War" teenagers from Nicaragua, Uganda, West Germany and the Marshall Islands in discussions of how their lives have been affected by war and the threat of war. The session will begin at 7 p. m. Thursday night at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church parish hall, 174 E. 900 South. Timothy Leary will lecture on "The Evolution of Human Intelligence" Friday, Nov. 16 at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts auditorium on the U of U campus at 7 p.m. "Once Upon a Starry Night" at Hansen Planetarium, 15 South State, plays weekdays (11 a.m., 2, 4:30 and 7 p.m.), Saturdays (2, 4:30 and 7) and Sundays (2 and 4:30 p.m.). The children's show "Zoom a Little Zoom" plays at the Hansen at 11 a.m. Saturday, followed by "Science Sorcery" at 11:45 a.m. "Grace Under Pressure," a laser-light presentation of Rush's newest album, plays Thursday at 8 :30 p.m. and Friday-Saturday at 9 :45 and 1 1 p.m. General admission is $4, $3 for children under 12senior citizens. Laserium presents Pink Floyd in "Dark Side of the Moon." It plays Friday (8:30), Saturday (3 and 8:30), and Sunday (3 p.m.). The showdown of the year in local football takes place Saturday afternoon at Rice Stadium at the U of U. The highly touted BYU Cougars will face the Utes of the U of U. Call 581-6641 to see if there are any tickets left, or try your luck with the scalpers. -To make sure you know it is time to start thinking about Christinas, the Jaycee's Christmas Parade will march from the Brigham Young Monument Saturday, Nov. 17 beginning at 9 a.m. Not to be outdone, Santa Claus arrives at the ZCMI Center Mall at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, bringing with him candy canes for the kids. Still in that holiday frame of mind, the Sego Gallery, P-5 Triad Center, presents "Christmas Collectibles," porcelain by Pat Cluff and other work through Dec. 31. Hours are Monday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For skiers searching for mountains to conquer away from Park City, Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort is scheduled to open for the '84-'85 season Saturday. Call 521-6040 to make sure. Solitude Ski Resort plans to follow suit next Wednesday NoV 21 Call 534-1400 for the latest word. -If you prefer your sports indoors, the Utah Jazz will host the Phoenix Suns in the Salt Palace Saturday at 7 :30 p.m. -Finally, if you want to be "taken to the inner and outer reaches of your imagination with hypnotism" the astounding Reveen is just the ticket. Reveen will hypnotize at the Capitol Theatre nightly through Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. All seats go for $8.50 at the Capitol box office or Datatix outlets. |