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pitm; fv.i!i:. i JJi Comics CI 1 Living CI 2 VIDEO As time goes by, few films come close to matching the brilliance of the classic Casablanca, which has been restored and just re-released on video to mark its 50th anniversary. In wartime Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart, as an expatriate nightclub owner, and Ingrid Bergman, as the former love of his life, make movie magic together. More on what's new in video stores, Page C3. to 1 I I I 1 I 1, fe a U' It's turning into a long weekend at Les Foufounes Electriques, just the way we like it.

Me Mom Morgentaler moved into the room last night, and they'll be there tonight and tomorrow night as well. More ska fun than a body can handle. Ticket details, Page C4. mww CO 1 '4 II KjB kJl. 1 frr-S 1 I VI ssy? as ,.1.

i if i 1 a if Illustration for official 1992 World Film Festival catalogue by Frederic Eibner. TELEVISION The U.S. television industry gathers this weekend to honor prime time's best at the 44th annual Emmy Awards. The awards will be handed out Sunday night at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. CFCF-12 will broadcast the ceremony at 8 p.m.

Co-hosts are Tim Allen, Kirstie Alley and Dennis Miller. Tonight's highlights, Page C3. Prime-time schedule, Page CS. ART Peter Krausz is having not one, but two exhibitions these days. His first opened this week at his old stomping grounds the Saidye Bronfman Centre art gallery.

Krausz was the gallery's director for a decade. And his second show opens tomorrow at Galerie Samuel Lallouz. See story in Art section of tomorrow's Gazette. Schedule, Page C3 CLASSICAL The sound of the Cinquieme Salle at Place des Arts has divided critics, and nobody likes its post-industrial look. All the same, Monday evening's recital by a young American soprano, Lauren Wagner, looks promising.

The prodigious prize-winner will sing an all-American program, including works by Charles Ives, Elliott Carter and George Gershwin. Ticket details, Page C4. MOVIES 1 L4 if, Em Til FILMFEST STARTS WITH A STYLISH GALA ypwyji jf v. JOHN GRIFFIN GAZETTE FILM CRITIC El LadoOscuro del Corazon, in Spanish and its droll little sidekick, Mircillc Goulct's wicked five-minute Quebec-made comedy, Les Malheureux Mag-nifiaucs. Later, amid the glitz, glamor and elongated limousines of opening-night ceremonies at Place des Arts and a party at the Hotel Meridien afterward, those same films delivered another left-right flurry, and PLEAGE SEE Nicolas Cage (from left), Sarah Jessica Parker and James Caan may share top billing in the screwball romantic comedy Honeymoon In Vegas, opening today at Montreal theatres, but the real stars are the dozens of outrageous Elvis impersonators director Andrew Bergman was able to conscript.

Both principals and impersonators generate mayhem in Las Vegas. Movie chart, Page C2, Review and story, Page C5. The World Film Festival landed a one-two combination on its attackers yesterday with the strongest weapons at its disposal the movies. Cries of "Bravo!" from a packed house at the Imperial greeted a 10 a.m. screening of the magical Argentinian-Canadian romance The Dark Side of the Heart U2 chases demons from Big 0 with massive, giddy show DANCE More than 30 world-class dancers gather for Gala do Etoiles at Place des Arts tomorrow.

Proceeds from the dinner and dance alter the performance go to the Starlight Foundation, which grants wishes to seriously ill children. Starlight trustees Karen Kain and Frank Augustyn perfocm. along with the Bolshoi's Maya Plisclskaya, Eka-tcrina Maximova and Vladimir Va-siliev, and local star Margie Cillis. For tickets to the performanco on-ly. call Placodes Ms (842-2112).

for tickets to the dinner and djnee, call 934-3620. 3 CO the World, the singer grabbed a woman from the audience, danced with her on a runway, and opened a bottle of Champagne, spraying the contents over himself and the audience. "Rock'n'roll used to be dance music not that I'd know anything about that," he said, before the band played an impassioned She Moves in Mysterious Ways while a belly dancer cavorted. He called the rest of the band olT the Mage on to the runway for a folksy Angel of I larlem that somehow turned into the Abba fossil Dancing Queen. hen he called Daniel Lanois.

producer of the breakthrough Joshua Tree album, out for an acoustic version of I Hi 1 11 Haven't Found What I'm Looking for. At every turn, Bono kept thing unpredictable. That the chaos was olv viou sly chorettgraphed Trabanls sus-pended from cranes descending toward a genuflecting Bono us one song ended was only in keeping with another 1 The name of the latest tour is ZooTV, and that phrase marked the boundaries of the event. The TV part was pretty obvious: towering over Bono, guitarist The Edge and the others were six enormous video screens, four multi-screen video walls twice as many as the Republicans had in Houston and endless smaller monitors. Zoo is the name of the main Berlin train station.

In case that and the band's latest album Achtung Baby weren't clue enough, a hall'-doen gutted, garishly painted 1 rabant cars scattered across the stage made things clear. If the 1)2 that recorded Rattle and Hum had its heart in the Mississippi Delta, the I2 that's touring on Achtung Baby has its gut in Berlin. As for Bono, he was in fine spirit, just as the band was in excellent form. Dur-ing Trying to 1 hrow Your Anns Around PAUL WELLS THE GAZETTE "What time is itT U2 singer Bono asked, 20 minutes into last night's U2 concert. "Listen, I think we got to go now.

Sorry," I'ausc. "Joke." Sure it was. This was U2 on Aug. 27, not Ciuns N' Roses on Aug. 8.

Nobody was leaving early this time. Forty thousand of Montreal' finest youths were on their best behavior, more or less, and the preacher at what became a deeon struttionisl service of redemption was the new. less pompous Bono Vos. The Dublin band that just keeps getting chased the demons out of troubled Olympic Stadium with a mav sue, giddy trip through the video nyx, monstrous high-tech KalniKi theatre that turned reality on lis head within seconds and never guile put it k. theme of the evening, flashed on the video screens as the festivities began: "Everything you know is wrong." The message was on the screens for less than a second, followed by doens of others, in French and English, often gone before you could read them: "Make friends.

Cry more often. Guilt doesn't come from Ciod, Phone your mother." Set and choreography didn't rule the whole night. More than once, as on a Sunday, Bloody Sunday that had the audience roaring, the screens showed only the band, and the cranes kept the cars on the ground. U2 remains, above all else, a killer rock band, one that can hold a crowd with its music alone. Its music, and the undeniable charisma of its leader.

One message in the series that Hashed on the screens could have served as yet another of the show's subtexts; "Being famous is a business." Bono knows, He lakes care of business, You'll find nuny more suggestions about local entertainment events (or weekend and next week In '01 Special Interest' listings, Page C3..