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Tuesday, June 27, 2000
Ajoy Chakrabarty Home page
Ajoy Chakrabarty is featured on the Web at
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Chakrabarty, whose range spans nearly four octaves, sings in the classical genres as well as the lyrical Thumri and devotional Bhajans styles. Thumri is a light classical form that allows the artist creative freedom in interpretation, according to "Music of North India." Bhajans is always in praise of deities and also considered light music.
Chakrabarty will be assisted by his daughter, singer Kaushiki Chakrabarty, his wife Chandana Chakrabarty on the tamboura (stringed instrument), and by tabla drum master Yogesh Samsi.
Tickets are $12 at the Academy Theatre box office. Information: 532-8700.
A free lecture-demonstration will be offered at 2 p.m. Thursday at Kuykendall Hall 101, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Applications will be available beginning Friday for the "Look Who's a Star" contest, which will have one male and one female winner in two age groups: kids 8 to 12 and teens 13 to 18.
The applications will be available in the LH Kids, Young Men's and Generation departments at all LH stores on Oahu. The deadline to enter is July 10.
Final judging will take place Aug. 5 at LH Pearlridge, with contestants strutting their stuff as their famous "twin."
For information, call 941-2345.
The society is a Pacific War roundtable group organized to have discussions and make presentations on subjects related to Pacific military history. The subject of the first meeting is the Japanese film "I Bombed Pearl Harbor."
Meetings are free and open to the public, and generally take place the last Thursday of every month, either at the USS Arizona or at the USS Bowfin museum next door, courtesy the National Park Service and the USS Bowfin organization.
Information: 422-2771, ext. 136, or online at http://www.pacifichistory.com/KIMMEL.HTML.
Scheduled to open tomorrow on Oahu:
The Patriot
Rated R
Mel Gibson portrays Benjamin Martin, a respected South Carolina landowner and widower with seven children. Martin is unswayed by the call to arms sparked by the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. His teen-age son, played by Heath Ledger, is eager to join the Continental Army, but his father forbids him. British troops invade Gibson's plantation. After helplessly watching his family brutalized and his son carried off to be hanged, Gibson organizes a ragtag militia and starts a guerrilla campaign that thwarts the Brits' plans for an easy victory in the South.
Scheduled to begin their Oahu runs on Friday:
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
Rated G
Based on Jay Ward's popular cartoon characters, the story mixes animation and live action in a tale that pits the flying squirrel and moose against Boris (Jason Alexander), Natasha (Rene Russo), and their boss, the evil Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro). See story on Page B-4.
The Perfect Storm
Rated PG-13
George Clooney stars as ship captain Billy Tyne, and Mark Wahlberg as fisherman Bobby Shatford. Based on the best selling book by Sebastian Junger about what happened in 1991 when three storm systems collided off the coast of New England, creating a "perfect storm," or a storm that could not have been worse. Somewhere in the maelstrom of 100-mph winds and 90-foot waves, a 72-foot fishing boat out of Gloucester, Mass., called the Andrea Gail went down with her crew of six.
There will also be Sunday sneak previews of one movie.
The Kid
Rated G
Bruce Willis plays Russ Duritz, a high-powered, successful image consultant whose life is suddenly turned upside down when he magically meets Rusty (Spencer Breslin), himself as an 8-year-old child.
