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[ PREVIEW ]
A preview of movies opening this week:
Opens tomorrow
"Freaky Friday" >> In Disney's second remake of the 1976 film, Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis star as a daughter and widowed mother who have difficulty understanding each other, which is addressed when they switch bodies through some quirk of nature.But the duo face a deadline in becoming themselves again, as the mother is due to get remarried. The teen also finds herself stuck in her mom's guise as a doctor -- without the training! (PG)
Opens Friday
"S.W.A.T." >> Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Olivier Martinez, Michelle Rodriguez and LL Cool J star in this movie based on both the 1970s TV show and the real-life Los Angeles Police Department's Special Weapons and Tactics unit. A S.W.A.T. team cobbled together by a grizzled veteran is assigned to prevent a captured drug lord -- who publicly offers $100 million to anyone who can free him -- from eager and heavily armed mercenaries. (PG-13)
[ DA KINE ]
Virginia Lum performs
Former Hawaii resident Virginia Lum, a Juilliard-trained pianist currently residing in Maryland, returns to perform a benefit concert for Palolo Chinese Home.Lum will perform selections from Scarlatti, Haydn, Ravel, Chopin and Mussorgsky, beginning 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Orvis Auditorium.
Joining Lum on stage will be her three children, Collette, 14, on piano and flute; Marielle Christie, 12, on piano and violin; and Justin Robert, 9, on cello and piano.
Admission is $20 unreserved, and $100 reserved. For tickets, call Pat Chong at 538-1448, Diane Wong at 595-3134, or Muriel Lum-Pang at 949-1573.
Funds raised will benefit the capital campaign to enlarge, renovate and sustain the chinese home, which opened in 1896 as The Chinese Hospital.
Bradajo to read
Lizard Loft presents a "Haiku Pidgin" retrospective of original pidgin poet Bradajo, a k a Jozuf Hadley.Guitarist Orion Stanbro will provide music and Natalie Cross will present video images while Bradajo recites recent and classic pidgin works including "Yu Nao," "Soopa Hero Monsta" and "Chaloookyu Eensai." The event will take place at The ARTS at Marks Garage at 7 p.m. Aug. 15, 16, 22 and 23, and 3 p.m. Aug. 17 and 24.
Tickets are $10 general, $8 per person for groups of five or more, and $5 for students with I.D. For information, call 536-8047.
Rimes time
LeAnn Rimes, who earned two Grammy Awards for "Blue," her 1996 major-label debut, will perform at 8 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Blaisdell Arena. While no announcement has been made as to when tickets will go on sale, the tickets will be $45 to $65. (Rimes will also likely perform at the Castle Theatre of the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.) The 19-year-old has had a series of best-selling albums and hit singles, like the chart-topping "How Do I Live," the longest-running single on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Can't Fight the Moonlight," one of four songs Rimes contributed to the multiplatinum-selling soundtrack for "Coyote Ugly."
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