The Los Angeles Community Calendar
At the House of Blues on Sunset, Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi get treated politely, two shows Friday. A third performance added Saturday to penalize the staff for some stolen "Driving Miss Daisy" memorabilia.
Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. at Borders on La Cienega, Steve Gopnip signs his anthology of Atkins Protein Bar wrappers. Steve reads his own "Chocolate Mango Fudge Brownie" in the original Celtic.
On Friday, 70's icons the Little River Band reunite at the Staples Center with front row seats for Fleetwood Mac. Songs they sing along to include "Go Your Own Way" and "Rhiannon."
At the Actor's Workshop on Third and Crescent, "America's Funniest Home Videos" creator Vin Dibona reads from his latest network treatment "America's Funniest Snuff Films." As per Mr. Dibona's insistence, nobody will be seated during the second paragraph.
Susan Powter's personal assistant/daughter Emily picks up Susan's dry-cleaning at Mr. Mings Fluff and Fold at one p.m. on Saturday. Emily returns at four after Susan insists they didn't get all the pico de gallo stains out.
At the Jazz Bakery, Tony Danza taps his feet with the “Dave, Dave, Dave, & Dave” trio Thursday night. Tony also snaps his fingers, shows off a new karate kick and occasionally blurts, "Play it brother man!"
Friday morning at Dick Clark's 50's themed Museum of Tolerance in Simi Valley, Rosie Perez stands at the back of the auditorium popping Winterfresh during a performance of the "Vagina Monologues" starring Tim Conway and Harvey Korman.
Barbara Streisand's James Brolin sells a scratched bootleg "Best of Lee Greenwood" CD to the kid at Amoeba Music Thursday around closing time.
The UCLA Film and Television Archive on Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. presents part eight of a twelve part retrospective examining the cultural and social impact of CBS' "Yes Dear." Sold out.
Jeremy Snit's new work "Memento" opens at the Pasadena Playhouse. Howard Snod of the Pasadena Suns says, "Memento is a masterpiece that I look forward to seeing because the movie version didn't do it justice."
Opera under the stars as "La Traviata" is performed Thursday at the Hollywood Bowl. Enjoy Verdi the way he was meant to be heard, with feral dogs in heat barking, car alarms triggered by circling helicopters and the mellifluous sound of network development heads choking on buffalo wings. Due to a scheduling conflict, guest conductor Reba McEntire
is replaced by Zubin Mehta.
The Estelle Getty Museum presents an exhibition of anatomically incorrect drawings by Michelangelo and his 16th century Florentine contemporaries. Of special interest: "The Octagonal Testes" by Giovanni Jacobo as well as Leonardo's military blueprint for a nipple catapult.
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David Feldman maintains L.A. is a cornucopia of culture, you just have to be willing to hide from it.
