Entertainment

Lynn Whitfield stars in "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate."

(Photo of movie poster)

Naa Kahidi Dance Theatre

Sharon Kam, winner of the 1992 Munich International Clarinet Competition, will perform as soloist with the Spokane Symphony when the orchestra plays at North Idaho College's Boswell Hall in Coeur d'Alene Thursday night. This concert will be repeated April 19 at the Spokane Opera House. Kam will play Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto and Gioacchino Rossini's Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Small Orchestra. The symphony, conducted by music director Fabio Mechetti, will perform Heitor Villa Lobos' exotic tone poem "Dawn in a Tropical Forest" and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2.

Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller get plenty of laughs in "Flirting with Disaster."

Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon.

The other day I heard one of the most startling recordings of any musical or theatrical performance. It documented the premiere of Edgard Varese's "Deserts," a path-breaking composition for instrumental ensemble and electronics. Shortly after the work began, the audience erupted in shouts and whistles that intermittently continued for 20 minutes, at times becoming so loud they drowned out the performance, which nonetheless proceeded to completion. This took place in 1954 at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, the scene of another famous demonstration during the debut of Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring" more than 40 years earlier. To American ears, it seemed inconceivable that the decades in between had done so little to improve audience manners.

Nicole Kidman in "To Die For."

"Rashomon," playing at the Magic Lantern, will benefit KPBX.

Shun Chun, left, and Gong Li star in "Shanghai Triad."

(From For the Record of Saturday, April 13, 1996:) Jim Boyd and Rez Bound will perform tonight at The Met. Tickets cost $7 in advance, $10 at the door. The date was wrong in Friday's Weekend magazine. From left to right, Jim Boyd, drummer Alfonso Kolb and bass player Jerry Stensgar join sounds in Rez Bound.

A lonely boy named James finds some unusual new friends when he climbs inside an enormous peach.

The Apples in Stereo use bushels of instruments.

From the outside, Thadeus T. Thudpucker's looks like a hillbilly museum. Blame it on that goofy sign that lords over the southeast corner of Riverside and Browne. The three-dimensional still life looks like a scene out of "Grapes of Wrath," with the rusted-out vintage trucks parked in front of "endorsements" from Bonnie and Clyde and the Waltons.

Spokane audiences of classical music know Michael Faust. The German flutist has played baroque music in concerts at the Northwest Bach Festival since 1991. Sunday, Faust will take a turn into the 20th century with Spokane pianist Kendall Feeney. Faust and Feeney will perform works by Prokofiev, Messiaen, Verese and Reich in the Zephyr series. Feeney discovered Faust's interest in new music when he attended a Zephyr performance while in town for the Bach Festival two years ago.

1. Theodore Bikel has earned a place as one of the best Tevyes ever. 2. A young woman requests the matchmaker's advice in "Matchmaker, Matchmaker," one of the many well-known tunes from "Fiddler on the Roof."

The Spokane Visual Arts Tour, held the first Friday of the month through the winter, will be held tonight from 5 to 9 p.m. at area galleries. It's a free, self-guided tour coordinated by the Spokane Arts Commission. Nineteen locations are participating, exhibiting a wide variety of work by local and national artists. For those who don't want to drive themselves, the Spokane Transit Authority will run a bus to selected galleries throughout the evening. It's only $1 for the bus ride and tickets are available in advance at the STA Plaza. For information about the tour and specific gallery locations, call Spokane Arts Commission, 625-6050.

"Sgt. Bilko" stars Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd and Phil Hartman.

1. Cher plays a wealthy housewife who hits it off with the hitman (Chazz Palminteri) hired by her husband (Ryan O'Neal) to kill her. 2. Cher's character is truly pathetic.