The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 15

The Beacon Journal Thursday, April 2, 1987 Country bash will be a hot time in the old hills KKXTUFE Mark Faris MS Former Ten Years After guitar hero Alvin Lee will be at the Agora Metropolitan Theatre in Cleveland for an 8 p.m. show Saturday. Tickets are $11 and $12. The 6-foot-6-inch, 400-pound comic Mark Rossi (when he tells a joke, you better laugh) headlines a special comedy night Tuesday at Peabody's Down-Under in the Geveland Flats. Warren McDonald and local favorite Keith Gis-ser open.

Show time is 9 p.m. Tickets are $5. Contemporary Christian rocker Rick Cua late of the Outlaws will be at the Christian Civic Auditorium in Parma for a 7:30 p.m. concert April 10. Admission is $8.50 in advance.

Blues legend Junior Wells will be in the Richfield Holiday Inn Ballroom for an 8:30 p.m. performance April 10. LiT Ed The Blues Imperials open. Tickets are $10. Vital Information, a jazz fusion group headed by former Journey drummer Steve Smith and ex-Santana keyboardist Tom Coster, makes its area debut with a 9 p.m.

performance April 15 at Peabody's DownUnder. Tickets are $10 in advance. Veteran bluesrock guitarist Lonnie Mack will.be at Barney Google's in the Richfield Holiday Inn for 9 p.m performances April 17 and 18. The Reverend Billy C. Wirtz opens.

Admission is free. The Celebate Rifles may be big Down Under, but so far the high-caliber Aussie rock ensemble is all but unknown in the United States. Mem For country music fans, the annual Jamboree in the Hills in St. Clairsville, Ohio, across the Ohio River from Wheeling, W.Va., is almost heaven. And this year's version of the all-star bash should be nothing short of a religious experience.

The July 18 and 19 festival showcases one of the hottest lineups in its 11-year history, including the likes of Merle Haggard, Tanya Tucker, Jerry Lee Lewis, Marie Osmond, Charley Pride, Mickey Gilley, Dwight Yoakam, Janie Fricke, Mayf Nutter, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, T. Graham Brown, Tom T. Hall, Earl Thomas Conley and Louise Mandrell. Show times are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m July 18 and 11 a.m to 6 p.m.

July 19. Tickets are $45 for both days and bers hope to change all that beginning April 20 with a 9 p.m. show in, of all places, Peabody's DownUnder. Terrible Parade opens. Tickets are $5.

Renowned jazz vocalist Betty Carter will be at Peabody's DownUnder for 7:30 and 10 p.m. performances April 23. Tickets are $12 in advance. The Tubes, with original lead singer David Killingsworth, will be at the Agora Metropolitan Theatre for an 8 p.m show April 25. Tickets are $13 and $14.

The Roches Suzzy, Maggie and Terre demonstrate their lilting folk-rock harmonies at 8 p.m. May 3 in Cleveland's Hanna Theatre. Tickets are $12.50. Seventies supergroup Deep Purple returns to the Coliseum for an 8 p.m show May 11. Tickets are $15.

$25 for one day. Prices increase to $50 and $30 after 8 p.m July 16. Children under age 6 are admitted free. For more information, call toll-free 800-624-5456. COMING Wild man Norman Nardini rocks at 9 p.m.

Friday and Saturday at Barney Google's in the Richfield Holiday Inn. Admission is free. She's guarding the vision of Ansel Adams Ansel Adams Continued from page Bl look before he even made the exposure," Alinder said. "That takes a lot of hard work and thought." As his close friend and associate, Alinder, 40, said she shared a special relationship with Adams. "Ansel and I worked together very well," she said "Because he was such a grand man, most people held him in such awe that there weren't many people in his life who really were absolutely truthful with him all the time.

We had that kind of relationship." Since Adam's death, Alinder has remained on the job, directing the production of every Ansel Adams project from a soon-to-be-published book of letters to the popular calendars, date books and posters that bear Adams photographs. She selects the ink, paper and printer for all the projects in order to keep a tight rein on quality. "People ask me what I do now and I say I still work for Ansel and they look at me like 'Well that's a strange thing to It is fitting that Alinder's program, is sponsored by the Portage Trail Group of the Sierra Club. An ardent conservationist, Adams served on the Sierra Club board from 1934 to 5t i ,2. -i 1971.

As part of her lecture, Alinder recounts Adams' campaign to oust former Secretary of the Interior James Watt. "He wasn't an artist in an ivory tower," Alinder said. "He was an artist who was part of the world." Alinder said she is most often asked if Adams was really like his public image. "He didn't believe in putting on the dog for anybody," she said. Alinder's presentation includes tape recordings of Adams' poetry and music.

Tickets for the program are $6 in advance and $7 at the door. For more information, call the Sierra Club at 923-2317. Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico, perhaps Ansel Adams' most famous photograph recreation! PANDA CHINESE RESTAURANT "Noma of fhe Chinese Buffet" 4Beyond Therapy' may be beyond our understanding Ovf Popular frkfay 4 Saturday mr Kf AR-D-Q CI3 OUTFIT or 7L Night Buffet 5to9Pjn. tef Lmtoh Buffet Dinner Buffet 3 to 9 p.m. FAMILY BUFFET REVIEW SPECIAL COMBINATION DINNER.

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Bruce has run a personal ad in a magazine in order to meet a woman. He is bisexual, currently has a homosexual lover, Bob (Christopher Guest). Prudence is clearly heterosexual. Stuart is Prudence's therapist, Charlotte is Bruce's. The other characters are evenly divided between the two, which makes for symmetry if not sense.

Beyond Therapy has its wacky moments and there are some good individual performances. A number of characters are French and the place where they congregate is a French restaurant. But French characters and a French restaurant do not a French farce make. The use of a single Gershwin song on the soundtrack, Someone to Watch Over Me, is not only a comment on the film's subject but a suggestion that you are watching a Woody Allen comedy, such soundtrack music being found in his films. Perhaps that's what someone wanted audiences to think.

This is comedy Allen might have made. But he would have made it differently and better. Altman fans will like this movie. Others may simply wonder. By Tony Mastroianni Special to the Beacon Journal Director Robert Altman can be wildly funny (MASH) and brilliantly offbeat (Nashville).

He also can be tedious and unnecessarily self-indulgent (The Wedding, Three Women). Beyond Therapy, based on a play by Christopher Durang, with whom Altman wrote the movie script, is in the style of a French farce. The material, however, is a commentary on the American preoccupation with psychotherapy. A self-indulgent director working on a movie about disturbed people whose problems are primarily sexual results in a movie that is a trifle too idiosyncratic to work well at any particular level. Altman sometimes gets close to the split-second timing that is required to make farce work well.

But close in a farce is not good enough. As he did in Nashville, Alt-man has created a mosaic in which different, unrelated characters have lives that filially intertwine. What they have in common are a couple of therapists. One, Stuart (Tom Conti), thinks that the best therapy is sexual encounters with his female pa- for only ml With coupon and a purchase of Coke. tients.

The other, Charlotte (Glenda Jackson), is a flighty person who has a problem picking the right words. Her idea of satisfying sex is sex without preliminaries, preferably with a stranger. She and Stuart, whom she has never met, get together regularly in a darkened, connecting room between their offices at some pre-arranged signal for quick sex. Except for some grunting on the soundtrack, neither the logistics nor the mechanics of the event are explained. Beyond Therapy is primarily about Bruce (Jeff Gold-blum), a sexually confused man, and Prudence (Julie Hagerty), a prim and sometimes proper young woman The Wilderness Center in Wilmot is touting its upcoming program, Spring Storytellers in Concert, as "an evening of tall tales, folk tales and literary tales." Barring a repeat of Tuesday's snowstorm, you won't freeze your own tail if you attend the affair, scheduled for 7 p.m.

Saturday. Tickets are available at the door for $2.50 for adults and $1 for children 12 and under. Family admission is $5.50. The Wilderness Center is on U.S. 250, one mile west of Wilmot.

HIKES, NATURE WALKS Akron Metropolitan Parks Hiking Club, 7 p.m.. Thursday. Five-mile hike through Sand Run Park with Charles Briggs. Meet at Old Portage Picnic area on Sand Run Parkway. Sierra Club, Portage Trail Group, 10 a.m.

Saturday. Leisurely hike at Nelson's Ledges Park in Portage County. After, stop tor pizza. Cleveland Hiking Club 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

A five-mile hike with Cal Rhodes. Meet at Lost Meadows Picnic Area, Bedford Reservation. 7 a.m. Sunday. A five-mile speed hike with Ray Lusln.

Meet at Eastgate Shopping Center, Mayfield and SOM Center roads. 9 a.m. Sunday. A 10-mile hike with Ray Lusin through North Chagrin Reservation. Meet at Sanctuary Marsh Nature Center, off Ohio 91 In Mayfield Village.

2 p.m. Sunday. A five-mile hike through North Chagrin Reservation. Meet at the Strawberry Lane Picnic Area. 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday. A five-mile hike with Ed Koschmann, plus a tour of Brooklyn Historical Museum. Meet behind the museum, 4442 Ridge Road. Optional brown bag lunch, coffee served. Cleveland Melroparks Bedford Reservation 10 a.m.

Thursday. A five-mile trail walk. Meet at Lost Meadows Picnic area. The Wilderness Center, on U.S. 250 one mile west of Wilmot, will offer these activities: 2 p.m.

Sunday. South American Travels, slide program by Jan and Woody Shearer. Free. 3 p.m. Sunday.

Planetarium Show, Uranus, by Dean Wilson. BICYCLING Stark County Bicycle Club, a.m. Saturday. Fifteen-, 32- and 64-mile rides. L.O.S.T.

checkout rides. Meet at Tuslaw High School, Ohio 93, Massillon. 9 a.m. Sunday. TORSV training ride, 64 miles.

Maps provided. Meet at Tuslaw High School, Ohio 93, Massillon. 2 p.m. Sunday. A 10-mile, Class ride.

Meet Barb Warren at KSU Stark Campus, Frank Avenue, Canton. Film festival still rolling The Cleveland International Film Festival continues this week, with participation by Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Cinematheque. Here are the schedules: GetaBarnbuster Rk. for only 99C! (7) Police (8) Alpine (9: 15) Happiness Strikes Again (10), Static Class oi Nuke 'Em High Sunday French Short Films (11:45 d.m.), Descendant of the Snow Leopard (12:45 p.m.), Opera do Malandro (2), Go to Tokyo Countdown (4), Happiness Strikes Again (5) Dead End Kids (6), Kaos (7), The Mystery of Alexi-na Hate It Monday Descendant of the Snow Leopard (7 p.m.), Twist and Shout River's Edge The Mystery of Alexina Tuesday The Sacritice (7 p.m.) Go to Tokyo Angry Harvest Twist and Shout (9:30) Wednesday Burke Wills (7 p.m.), The Sacrifice (7), Tampopo Saxophone Colossus (Strosacker Auditorium) Top Gun at 7 and 9:30 p.m. and midnight Friday.

Song of the South at 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday. A Brief Affair, Turbo Concerto and Final Offer at 7 p.m. Sunday. Debts, By Attrition, Long Lance and Native Sons: Palestinians in Exile at 9 p.m.

Sunday. Cityshape, Charlie's Boogie Woogie, Return to Dresden: Divine Solution and Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason at 7:30 p.m. Monday. Triangle Below Canal, Fortunate Son, Joe Polowsky: An American Dreamer and North at 9:45 p.m. Monday.

The King and I at 7 and 930 p.m. Tuesday. Cleveland Cinematheque (Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East Blvd.) The Legend of Suran Fortress at 7:30 p.m. Friday, 9:30 p.m. Saturday.

Farewell at 9:15 p.m. Friday. White Bird With a Black Spot at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Hair at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday. Filmmaker Chick Strand at 7:30 p.m. Monday. Cleveland International Film Festival (Cedar Lee Theatre, Cedar and Lee roads, Cleveland Heights, 349-3456) Tonight (7:15) Cactus, (7:30) Kaos, (9) The Shadow of Victory. Friday Lamb (7:15 p.m.), Police (7:30) Opera do Malandro (9:30) Static Saturday A Zed and Two Noughts (12:45 p.m.), Leave All fair (1), Place of Weeping Countdown (3), L'Arbre Sous La Mer (4:30) Dust (5) What Happened to Kerouac? Lamb Please present coupon before ordering.

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