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Tomorrow
"The Wash" -- This comedy marks rapper Snoop Dogg's third movie this year, following "Training Day" and "Bones," in which two buddies/roommates (Dr. Dre co-stars) try to scrape up cash by working at a car wash. Tensions flare when one suspects the other of getting into side hustles in the parking lot and with ladies in the locker room (R).
Friday
"Amélie" -- A box office and critical hit in France, this film is getting a bit of U.S. buzz. It's a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discreetly orchestrates the lives of the people around her, playing matchmaker, purveyor of hope, restorer of dreams and patron saint of getting even. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Alien Resurrection," "Delicatessen" and "The City of Lost Children") (R)."Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" -- The first of what's projected to be a total of SEVEN movies about the British boy wizard with the lightning-bolt scar. What will likely be the year's top grossing film (reportedly preserving much of J.K. Rowling's original plot and characters), "Sorcerer's Stone" tells of how Harry becomes a student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (PG).
"The Man Who Wasn't There" -- Joel and Ethan Coen's black-and-white ode to existential dread is an elliptical tale of a meditative small-town barber (Billy Bob Thornton) who gets involved in a blackmail scheme involving his wife (Frances McDormand), her boss (James Gandolfini) and a shifty venture capitalist (Jon Polito) (R).
"Novocaine" -- Steve Martin and Helena Bonham Carter star in this edgy and unpredictable crime thriller about a prosperous dentist whose well-ordered existence is thrown into turmoil when an alluring new patient draws him into a seedy underworld of sex, drugs and murder (R).
Schickele birthday mix
The multiple Grammy Award winner and Public Radio International host of the "Schickele Mix," Peter Schickele, brings his newest touring show, "P.D.Q. Bach and Peter Schickele: The Jekyll and Hyde Tour," to the Hawaii Theatre at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow as a part of Hawaii Public Radio's 20th Birthday celebrations.This is the first time Schickele has combined his "civilian" persona with his peculiar P.D.Q. Bach in one presentation. Schickele, a Grammy-award winner known for classical music parody and satire, has appeared with the Honolulu Symphony as P.D.Q. Bach several times.
Tickets are $25 and $30. Call the box office at 528-0506.
Schickele will also perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center's Castle Theater. Tickets are $10, $18 and $25. Call (808) 242-7469.
"Schickele Mix" is heard Saturdays 11 a.m. to noon on KHPR 88.1, KKUA 90.7 and KANO 91.1.
In addition, veteran National Public Radio newsman Carl Kasell, heard on NPR's "Morning Edition" for many years, and now also one of the featured stars of NPR's newest entertainment show about current events, "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," will appear at 5 p.m. tonight at 738 Kaheka St. as the featured guest during a "Live From the Atherton" broadcast of "Talk of the Islands," hosted by HPR newsroom director Kayla Rosenfeld. It is free to attend, but reservations must be made by calling 955-8821.
Kasell's radio career spans more than 50 years. Before his work with "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," Kasell hosted NPR's "Early Morning Edition," a one-hour news program created in 1997. In 1996, Kasell was honored with the Leo C. Lee Friend of Public Radio News Award for lasting commitment to public radio journalism.
Kasell, official judge and scorekeeper on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," is heard Saturdays 1 to 2 p.m. on KIPO 89.3 as well as on "Morning Edition" on both HPR program streams.
Swingin' evening
In anticipation of visiting jazz legend Rosemary Clooney, the Honolulu Symphony Pops invites local swing dancers to compete at 8 p.m. tomorrow night at Kapono's in the Aloha Tower Marketplace, in a preview big band concert featuring conductor Matt Catingub's Big Kahuna & the Copa Cat Pack. Clooney may sit in.Catingub's band recently cut a CD with Clooney and will appear with her in concert with the Honolulu Pops on Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $15 to $55 for the concert, available by calling 792-2000.
The winners of the swing dance competition will perform in front of the concert hall before each performance. There is no entry fee to compete.
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