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Show (Bapfiimg (D)im .t!?!"g 0r Somethin different to do this weekend? Here are a few r - i CompiIed y p" cord entertainment critic Rick trough. Unless otherwise noted, events listed below will take place in Salt Lake MOVIES- -The 1986 United States Film Festival in Park City plays from Jan. 17 to 26, with seminars, special guests and more than 70 films. -A Carole Lombard festival continues at the Salt Lake City Library with "My Man Godfrey." Lombard is one of a rich family of loonies and William Powell is the Depression bum they hire as a butler. This is recommended for fans of '30s screwball comedy. The film plays Jan. 17 at 2 p.m. for 25 cents and 7 p.m. for 50 cents. The library is at 209 E. 500 South, ... -At the Blue Mouse: "The Coca-Cola Kid" is an acclaimed comedy about an evangelical Coke executive who sets out to sell all of Australia on the brew and encounters trouble from one stubborn bottler; in "The Home and the World" by Indian director Satyajit Ray, an Indian husband hus-band of the early 1900s introduces his shy wife to Western culture which she promptly finds more exciting than her placid husband; hus-band; and "Meetings With Remarkable Men" is an adaptation of the Gurdjieff book about his search for meaning through the Middle East and Central Asia. The Mouse is at 260 E. 100 South in Salt Lake, 364-3471. The Utah Media Center features two romantic classics. Fellini's "The White Sheik" is about a young woman who chases the man of her dreams while she's in Rome on her honeymoon. The film plays on Jan. 17 at 9:30 p.m., Jan. 18 at 7:30 p.m. and Jan. 19 at 5:30 p.m. The co-feature is Howard Hawks' "To Have and Have Not." The plot is about neutral tour-boat skipper Humphrey Bogart deciding to fight the Nazis, but the film's real excitement comes in his scenes with Lauren ("If you want me, just whistle ") Bacall. The film, co-starring Walter Brennan, will play on Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m., Jan. 18 at 9:30 p.m. and Jan. 19 at 7:30 p.m, The films play in the auditorium of the Salt Lake Art Center, 20 South West Temple. For more information, call 534-1 158. MUSIC VJ " ie Utah Symphony presents a program Jan. 17 and 18 at Symphony Sym-phony Hall ( 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City). The orchestra will be conducted by Yoel Levi and features violin soloist Miriam Fried. The program includes Tchaikovsky, Smetana and Sibelius. The concerts are at 8 p.m. Kenny Rogers plays the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. with special guests Lee Greenwood and Sawyer Brown. Tickets are on sale at all Datatix outlets. THEATRELjnJl -Promised Valley Playhouse (132 So. State) presents the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" Wednesday through Saturday through Jan. 25 at 7 :30 p.m. Oscar Wilde's comedy "The Importance of Being Earnest" is presented by the University of Utah's Pioneer Memorial Theatre in Salt Lake City nightly except Sundays through Jan. 29 at 8 p.m. "Talking With" presents the different voices of women in a play at Theatre 138 (138 S. 200 East). It will be performed Thursday through Saturday through Feb. 1 by Walk-Ons Inc. Curtain time is 8 p.m. The New Shakespeare Players present "Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean," a look at the 20-year reunion of a Texas fan club. It will show Thursday through Saturday through Jan. 25 at 8 p.m. It will play at Westminster College (1300 E. 1700 South, Salt Lake City) in the Courage Theatre (second floor, Converse Hall.) ETCETERA SS Salt Lake City artists Bonnie and Denis Phillips and Idahoan Lisa Holley will be featured in exhibits at the Kimball Art Center through Jan. 29. For more information, call 649-8882. The Hansen Planetarium ( 15 So. State. ) presents "A Comet Called Halley" and "The Last Time I Saw the Comet" Tuesday-Saturday at 4:30 arid 7 p.m. On Saturday, the planetarium presents the children's star program "The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket" at 11 a.m. "Question "Ques-tion the Answers" is at 2 p.m. "Ramses II: The Pharaoh and His Time" will run through April 25 at the Monte L. Bean Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for childrenstudentssenior citizens. Hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. GENERAL INFORMATION -DATATIX outlets are at all ZCMI stores, the Salt Palace, the BYU Marriott Center, the University of Utah Special Events Center, the Triad Center, Disc Jockey Records and Tapes in Salt Lake and at Budget Records in Logan. |