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2 CHICAGO TRIBUNE SECTION 5 TEMPO WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17, 2001 NEWS REVIEWS IN BRIEF 'Bleacher Bums' will bat cleanup The feature film version of "Bleacher Bums," the beloved Organic Theater stage play in the '70s about a group of die-hard Cubs fans, has been scheduled to close out the 37th Chicago International Film Festival at the Music Box Theater at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The film, co-produced by festival co-sponsor Showtime, stars Wayne Knight Brad Garrett Loves Matt Craven Hal Sparks As and Peter Riegert who also directed. The movie is set to premiere in the spring. Allan Johnson NU honors Gaines Northwestern University's 25th annual Alumnae Award goes to Barbara Gaines, artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, for her "outstanding contribution to the American theater." Richard Christiansen 'Fifth Beatle' auction NEW YORK Entertainment auction house Fleetwood Owen announced its acquisition of the estate of Stuart Sutcliffe, a bass player sometimes called the "fifth Beatle." Sutcliffe was the band's unofficial stylist in its early days.

He died of a brain hemorrhage in 1962, a year after he left John Lennon's band, and just six months before the Beatles' first hit, "Love Me Do." A talented young artist, Sutcliffe met Lennon at an art school in Liverpool, England. He died at age 21. The estate includes artwork, sketches and the artist's complete private correspondence with the Beatles; photographs; and other personal artifacts. A snowing of the estate, which the auction house estimates will sell for more than $4.5 million, began Tuesday and ends Nov. 3 at the West-wood Gallery in SoHo.

Closed bids will be accepted until Dec. 5. According to Fleetwood Owen, $150,000 of the proceeds from the sale will be donated to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac is one of the founders of the auction house. WV 'A -sift a jf i- i .1 "'I 1 an irimwin Mi i Ism mi nn'i i-Tirtiltiiiiiniiii him ni ratal li -hit IT Jk Tribune photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo Bono extends a microphone toward guitarist the Edge at the United Center Monday night.

The skinny on gardening KNOXVILLE, Tenn. The dirt on gardening is that for many home enthusiasts, it's better than sex. That doesn't come as a surprise to Burton Ja-blin, president and general manager of Knox-ville-based Home Garden Television, which has built a cable network reaching 73 million U.S. households since 1995. The network conducts an annual Lifestyle Trends Report, a compilation of polling and other research.

"This year, yet again, making love did not come in No. 1 among home enthusiasts," Jablin said. "Working in the yard actually beat having sex." Yardwork was the most popular answer among home enthusiasts to the HGTV question: Which activities are you most likely to do in your spare time "for fun and Forty-one percent gave a green thumbs-up to mowing the lawn. Sex was second at 37 percent, followed by gardening at 34 percent and redecorating, 23 percent. The report was prepared by Yankelovich Partners a North Carolina-based marketing research firm.

The company relied on a nationwide telephone survey of 1.414 adults in January, in-home interviews with 2,500 adults between January and April, and U.S. Census data. The Edge was a one-man orchestra on guitar, keyboards and backing vocals, with a veritable symphony of sound packed into his foot pedals. Bono, his voice appealingly earthy and his grizzled face even earthier, has become a great Irish soul singer, dipping into Curtis May-field's "People Get Ready," with a guest guitarist plucked from the audience, and Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On." "New York," a song about a midlife crisis, was transformed into a celebration of a devastated city's resilience, and "One" became a moving tribute to the victims. As the band played its most enduring anthem, the names of the crew and passengers on the hijacked airplanes scrolled down a screen.

It was a gesture, and a concert, big enough for the moment. And it was further evidence that more than 20 years into its career, U2 remains more necessary than ever. U2: Covers include Mayfield, Gaye and 3 Degrees CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 "Remind me to practice that," Bono said to his bandmate after breaking the song off after a couple of verses. U2, road-tested, otherwise was in fine form. Adam Clayton's bass pumped blood and oxygen into the heart of the gangbus-ters opening, "Elevation," Larry Mullen Jr.

was a rock of egoless rhythm on drums, and 'N Sync joins benefit MIAMI BEACH 'N Sync will perform at a free Veteran's Day benefit concert on Nov. 11, with proceeds from the sale of VIP tickets going to families of the victims of last month's terrorist attacks. The concert, sponsored by the City of Miami Beach and the Ocean Drive Association, will take place in the Art Deco district of South Beach. 'N Sync had been scheduled to kick off its latest tour in Miami in May, but the group postponed the concert until August. Then Tropical Storm Barry rained out the August concert.

Tribune wires contributed to this report. PLANNER CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL THE DONNAS WHENWHERE: 7 p.m. at the Vic Theatre, 3145 N. Sheffield Ave. HOW MUCH: $13.50.

312-559-1212. WHAT: Loud, fast, rude and utterly enjoyable that's the Donnas in a nutshell. MARC RIBOT WHENWHERE: 8 p.m. at the Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln Ave.

HOW MUCH: 773-728-6000. WHAT: A solo performance by a guitarist who is a mainstay of New York's avant-garde scene, and who has recorded everything from Cuban music to classic tunes with Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Marianne Faithfull. JACK WILLIAMS WHENWHERE: 8:45 p.m. at Two Way Street Coffee House, 1047 Curtiss Downers Grove. HOW MUCH: $3.

630 969 9720. WHAT: Musician Jack Williams, who's toured with everyone from John Lee Hooker to Hank Ballard to Harry Nilsson, brings his adventurous sounds to Two Way Street. Here are reviews of films (listed in chronological order) that critics have viewed in advance for Wednesday's lineup of the second week of the 37th annual Chicago International Film Festival. Check Tempo through closing night, Thursday, for daily festival reviews and updates. Film screenings will take place (unless otherwise noted) at Landmark's Century Centre Cinema, 2828 N.

Clark and the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave. For tickets and other information, call the festival's 24-hour hotline: 312-332-FILM. "The Pornographer" -k (Ber-trand Bonello; France). Another French movie that attempts to nar on his family life, the collapse of his marriage and the estrangement of his son.

Bluntly integrating hardcore sequences into the larger work, director Bonello loses shape and control of the material, turning in an excessively mannered and increasingly solipsistic work. Leaud compensates somewhat with a performance of wounded gravity. French, subtitled. (6:30 p.m., Century Centre) Patrick Z. McGavin "The Son's Room" (Nan-ni Moretti; Italy).

Like his compatriot Roberto Benigni, fellow star comedian-filmmaker Nanni Moretti Diario," "Palombella won a major Cannes Film Festival prize (the Palme d'Or) for his first serious work. But "The Son's Room" is even more dramatic than "Life Is there's barely a comic moment in this realistic study of a family's deep grief and harrowing adjustment after the sudden accidental death of the eldest teenage son. Moretti, usually an acerbic and wry leftist commentator on Italy's social and moral foibles, here shines as an upper-middle-class psychologist racked by guilt and confusion. The calm understatement of both film and performance become devastating. Italian, subtitled.

(6:45 p.m.. Music Box) Michael Wilmington "The Iron Ladies" 12 (Yon-gyoot Thongkongtoon; Thailand). The second highest grosser in the history of Thai cinema, "Iron Ladies" is the shrieky but affable tale of a mostly gay, defiantly flamboyant male volleyball regional team and its lesbian coach. Perhaps the most amazing thing about this movie is that it's based on a real life team, but one doubts the record is followed scrupulously, unless Thai life and sports really are a cross between 'The Mighty Ducks" and "The Boys in the Band." Forced, cliched, overloud but somehow likable, "Iron Ladies" proves that the unlike-liest subjects can appear in movies andor life. 9 p.m., M.W.

JENNIFER CHADA WHENWHERE: 8 p.m. at Davenport's, 1383 N. Milwaukee Ave. HOW MUCH: $12. 773-278-1830.

WHAT: The up-and-coming cabaret singer takes center stage at Davenport's on Thursday and Saturday. row the cultural and personal resist rtTTttyfTTtftTtftftttHfTtftfTTtttttttftffftfTttt'tTtftl ance to sexually explicit material. A pornographic filmmaker, sharply played by New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Leaud, assesses the personal damage his profession has weighed ABSOLUTION Stephen Sondheim's PACIFIC OVERTURES Chicago Shakespeare Theatre on Navy Pier For tickets call 312.595 5600 steppenwoK theatre company www.steppenwolf.org 312.335.1650 Don't Miss Broadway's FEEL GREAT musical Comedy! THE FULL MONTY Today and Tomorrow at (312) 902-1400 The Shubert Theatre fl TTtb emin ail IH I ifo am HBO aim family spoof THE RICHARD II Visit us on the WEB at www.ChicagoTtibune.TOmtraveI ILLINOIS RA Chkogo Shakespseare Theatre on Navy Pier I For tickers call 3 1 2 595 5600 K1SHAUWAII ON THE VERMILION Unique1 Stay in one ol 16 beautitul oottagc. in Die woods. Whirlpools; kitchens.

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(9:15 p.m.. Century Centre) M.W. "Kwik Stop" (Michael Gilio; U.S.). A road movie where the lov-ers-on-the-run barely get started, this is one of the fest's best U.S. indies: A neat, smart, affecting little sleeper from Chicago-born actor-writer-director Michael Gilio.

Gilio deftly plays an egocentric smalltown actor on his way to Hollywood who picks up buoyant young Didi (Lara Phillips) when she spots him shoplifting. He's good, but he's even more impressive as a filmmaker and director of other actors especially Phillips, terrific as the discontented, sweet runaway. The film has mood and feeling; you won't forget it soon. (9:15 p.m.. Century Centre) M.W.

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