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Show Looking for something different to do this weekend? Here are a few suggestions, compiled by Park Record entertainment critic Rick Brough. MOVIES -"My Brilliant Career," may be the most popular recent Australian film, plays at the Down Under Festival of the Salt Lake City Library. Judy Davis gamed international recognition as Sybilla, a rebellious young Victorian girl. The film plays on Nov. 10, with a $2.50 admission, at 209 E. 500 South. Did you miss these movies when they recently appeared ap-peared at your local theaters? See them at the Mouse! "Say Amen, Somebody," the lively documentary about gospel music, appeared last winter at the Park City Film Festival. "The Hunger" stars Catherine Deneuve as an ancient vampire, David Bowie as her old lover, and Susan Sarandon as her new one, in an overwrought horror film. Finally ... "All families have their troubles." But nothing like King Henry (Peter O'Toole), Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katherine Hepburn) and their kin in "Lion in Winter." The Mouse is located at 260 E. 100 South. The Jennifer Jones Festival continues at the Salt Lake City Library, as Jones stars with Gregory Peck in 1946's "Duel In the Sun," one of Filmland's most overdone Westerns. When cattle baron Lionel Barrymore calls for a shoot-out, every cowboy extra in Hollywood shows up! With Joseph Cotten, Lillian Gish, and Orson Welles speaking the prologue. Shows are Friday, Nov. 11, at 2 p.m. (for 25) and 7 p.m. (for 50') at 209 E. 500 So. The Utah Media Center continues two series playing on Saturday, Nov. 12 and Sunday, Nov. 13. Cary Grant stars in "Only Angels Have Wings," a story about tough flyers in South America. Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth co-star. MUSIC He may be the musical equivalent of good, warm mile. The mellow-toned Roger Whit-taker Whit-taker sings at Symphony Hall in a 8 p.m. show on Thursday. The Kenya-born artist is known for songs like "Last Farewll" and "Mammy Blue." Tickets are $16, $14, and $12.50, available at Datatix outlets and the Capitol box office. Presented by KSFI-FM. Get set to boogie "all night long" with Lionel Richie, when he plays the Salt Palace on Monday, Nov. 14. Opening act will be the Pointer Sisters. Reserved seats (selling for $13.50) are on sale at the Salt Palace box office and Datatix outlets. Show begins at 7 : 30 p.m. Presented by J.C. McNeil and KBUG. Classical funnyman Victor Borge will have to conduct con-duct himself like a gentleman, since he's going to conduct con-duct the Utah Symphony in a Symphony Hall performance perfor-mance on Tuesday Nov. 15. Concert time is 8 p.m. Virtuoso Vir-tuoso Victor has promised he will "shape up" the symphony, sym-phony, with a program including works from Leonard Bernstein's "Candide," Rossini's "Barber of Seville" and music by Smetana, Strauss, and Sibelius. Soprano Marylyn Mulvey will also appear. Ticket prices range from $8 to $50. The $50 is tax-deductible, and includes a receptionbuffet afterwards at the Marriott Hotel. THEATRE You'll never guess where the next surprise is coming from in Ira Levin's "Death Trap," opening Friday at the Egyptian Theatre. Ira Levin's play runs Nov. 11-13 and 17-18. Tickets are $5.50 general admission, ad-mission, and $4.50 for members of Park City Performances. Perfor-mances. "The Fantasticks" will be presented by Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Actors' Ensemble at the Kimball Art Center, Nov. 10-12. Showtime is at 8 p.m. Tickets are $6 for general admission, $5 for KAC members, senior citizens and kids under 12. They're tough! They're mad! They're "Women Behind Bars," an absurdist farce that copies the plot and the fuzzy B-movie look of those old prison pictures. Tom Eyen's play is presented by the Salt Lake Acting Company. Through Dec. 3, it plays on Thursdays and Fridays (at 8 p.m.) and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. A Sunday performance (Nov. 27) is at 7 p.m. 168 West 500 North. Park City Performances isn't the only company planning to do "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." The Clark Gesner musical, based on the Charles Schultz strip, will be presented at the University of Utah's Union Auditorium on Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. A dinner theatre show on Saturday starts at 6:30 p.m. ' "All the Way from America, an Evening of Ruth Draper," stars Marcia Hepps as Draper, a famous Broadway actress of the mid-20th Century. Draper specialized in the dramatic monologue, so Hepps plays everything from an elderly Irish lady to a New York society matron. It plays Wednesday through Sunday through Nov. 13 at the Art Barn (Reservoir Park and Finch Lane) . Showtime is 8 p.m. Promised Valley Playhouse will present the slapstick slap-stick comedy "See How They Run" by Phillip King. It runs Tuesday to Saturday. Shows are 7:30 p.m., 132 So. State. MISCELLANEOUS -The Kimball Art Center is showing "The Desert Revisited," a multi-media exhibit of seven artists, in its Main Gallery. The Western themes of oil painter Joan Arnold Milligan will be displayed in the Lower Gallery. The show runs through Nov. 15. The Salt Palace hosts a closed-circuit TV boxing match on Nov. 10. Live from Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Roberto Duran takes on Marvelous Marvin Hagler. Starts at 7 p.m. -The Dee Events Center at Weber State welcomes 330 years of history as a Nov. 11 program features the Regimental Band of her Majesty's Scots Guards, featuring the pipes, drums and dancers of the Black Watch. The Utah Jazz play Portland on Nov. 12 and Boston on Nov. 16. The Salt Lake Eagles hockey team meets the Canadian Olympic team on the ice, Nov. 15. All games at 7:30 p.m. 4 -The laser light show "Close Encounters with John Williams" plays at the Hansen Planetarium on Sunday at 3 p.m. and Saturdays at 3 and 7 p.m. i |