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S.F. EXAMINER Pago 21 fro 14, 1980 0 I fcl.M. When the streets turn green The Irish take to the streets Sunday at 12:30 p.m. when the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade starts at Market and Second streets.

Grand marshal John K. Kealy and Mayor Dianne Feinstein will lead the 295-unit procession, which includes block-long schools of dancers doing the Irish jig, Irish setters and wolfhounds, color guards, drill teams, bands, horses, floats and an antique calliope atop an antique fire truck. ri I r-i a JCI I UdlC Finish This year's route for St. Patrick's I i f- i i. 5 1 ii i --1 1 'ty' Einstein's back relatively Friday March Flamenco guitarist Carlos Montoya performs at 8 p.m.

at the Masonic Auditorium, 1111 California St. Yale Russian Chorus comes to the Bay Area for a concert at 8 tonight in Stanford's Oinkelspiel Auditorium. Their capella repertory consists of Cossack and modern soldier songs, folk ballads, traditional hymns and choral works by Russian composers. Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson solos at 8 p.m. in UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Auditorium.

Neeme Jarvi guest-conducts the S.F. Symphony in Mozart's Symphony No. 32 and Smetana's "Ma Vlast" at 8:30 tonight in the Opera House, and at 8 p.m. Saturday in Flint Center, De Anza College, Cupertino. The Kronos Quartet performs works by Cage, Benshoof, Prokofiev and Johnston, plus a selection of jazz pieces, at 8:15 p.m.

at Julia Morgan Center, 2640 College Berkeley. Pop music highlights: Tower of Power entertains at Circle Star Theater in San Carlos tonight through Sunday; Manhattan Transfer plays the Old Waldorf tonight and Saturday; the Four Tops are at Keystone Palo Alto tonight and The Stone Saturday; jazzman Cal Tjader is at Great American Music Hall tonight and Saturday. Saturday March A pair of thrill-packed races is scheduled as part of local St. Patrick's Day festivities. Steinhart Aquarium's St.

Patrick's Day Snake Race starts at about noon at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. You can enter your own (non-poisonous) serpent, or borrow one from the Aquarium. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m., and champion Irish step dancer Larry Lynch entertains before and after the race. Also, the "Shamrock Stampede," a four-mile, AAU-sanc- tioned footrace benefitting the Ameri can Cancer Society, begins at 8 a.m. at Sacramento and Front streets.

Edo de Waart, Louis Magor and Donn Forbes conduct the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra and Chorus in works by Beethoven, Stravinsky and Mahler at 8 p.m. in Hellman Hall, 1201 Ortega St. Rep. John Burton delivers the key address at a teach-in and public discussion entitled "Shall We Go To War for Oil?" to be held from 9 30 a to 4 p.m. Saturday in the Student Center, College of Marin, Kentfield.

More than 110 home product and service-related exhibitors display the latest in home improvement products at the fifth annual Home Restoration and Remodeling Show at the San Jose Convention Center. The show is open until 9 tonight, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a m. to 7 p.m.

Sunday. Call (408) 244-1390 for information Pop music: The Jam and The Beat rock at the Warfield Theater; Johnny Waters and the Blues Survivors play Larry Blake's in Berkeley. Sunday March rv French pianist Jean-Philippe Col-lard gives a solo recital of works by Debussy, Schumann, Rachmaninoff and Chopin at 7:30 p.m. in the Masonic Auditorium, 1111 California St. "A Very Sick Man," a new musical comedy based on Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid," premieres at Chez Jacques, 1390 California at 4 p.m Also on the bill are "The Book of Good Love: The Diary of an Amorous Medieval Priest," performed by La Cone Musical, and "I Hate Music," a Bernstein musical revue.

Call 775-7574 tor reservations and information. Experts demonstrate training, riding and showing at "Cavalcade of Morgan Horses In Action from 1 to 4 30 p.m. in the "Little Cow Palace" at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds hi Santa Rosa. Admission is tree. Soprano Irene Gubrud performs with the Chamber Soloists of San Francisco at 7:30 p.m.

in Herbst Theater, Van Ness and McAllister. The program includes a selection of Strauss Lieder and works by Shostakovitch, Milhaud and Schumann. The, Wendy Rogers Dance Compa ny periorms Living Hooms, a pre miere, and "Terminal Dust" at 8:30 p.m. at the Margaret Jenkins Studio, 1590 15th St. Pop music: The Kids and Psychotic Pineapple rock at The Palms; Bad Finger, Day After Day and Rock of Ages play Frenchy's in Hayward; Jim Post is at Great American Music Hall; Ruth Hastings and Co.

entertain in the Hotel York's Plush Room. Start Of Parade Second St. MVCI IUv Day parade sequence in which he re-enacts the evolution of man. But for the most part, his performance is labored and flat and his manic raving about the evils of our technological society becomes quite tedious. Madeline Kahn has only a brief role as a conniving scientist and it offers her little opportunity to display her zany comic technique.

The supporting cast acquits itself admirably. William Finley, Wallace Shawn, Max Wright and Jayant, as Pendleton's henchmen, are hilarious, especially in a sequence in which IQ-reducing gas turns them into hysterical children. Judy Graubart is beguiling as Simon's no-nonsense girlfriend and Fred Gwynne is wonderfully pompous as a Pentagon general who is out to destroy Simon. But Pendleton, a gifted farceur, all but steals the show. His Impassioned seduction of Doris, the giant computer, is the film's most effective instance Of wild and wonderful lunacy.

Though his film is seriously flawed, Briekman shows a gift for perceptive social comment, lively urban humor and a sardonic sense of the idiocies of the modern world. One hopes and, in fact, expects, that his next effort will show more accomplished directorial technique, fresher satirical aim and disciplined comic focus. REVIEW highlights "Simon," a Warnef Bros Pictures release, produced by Martm Bregman; written and directed by Marshall BrtcKman. With Alan Ark 19. Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton.

Judy Graubarj, William Finiey, Jayant, Wallace Shawn, Ma Wright, Fred Gwynne. A flawed satire on the tdiocies of our technological society, sabotaged by tired targets, but partially rescued by Marshall Brtckman's slyly amusing style which is abundantly apparent the ftlm first half, bat which deteriorates sadly thereafter. Rated Evening admission $4. At the Cinema 21, 2 11 Chestnut St. 5S cfA a it in A free symposium entitled "Einstein's Century" is being held today and Saturday at San Francisco State University.

The event is geared to the general audience and will bring together internationally recognized scientists and scholars, including some who worked with Albert Einstein, to discuss the cultural impact of his life and work. Einstein in the living room of his Princeton home will be portrayed on the stage of McKenna Theeter at 7:30 tonight by actor Steve Polinsky. Exhibits, films, a Planetarium show and a course on Einstein's scientific theories are also scheduled. At 1 p.m. Saturday, S.F.

Symphony violinist David Schneider will perform a selection of works by Mozart, a favorite of Einstein's. Call 469-1301 for a full schedule of the symposium's events. Those interested in having a little mechanical help to bring out their genius might enjoy the Fifth West Coast Computer Faire at Brooks Hall and Civic Auditorium. More than 300 exhibitors display inexpensive hardware for home and business, and tutorials and conference sessions are planned through the weekend. Hours are until 6 p.m.

today, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Registration is $10.

Alan Arkin is brainwashed to think he's from outer space in 'Simon' Some far-out humor in a fake spaceman I TV weekend "i i By Jeanne Miller Theater Critic IMON," which opens today at the Cinema 21, begins with a witty 1 and inventive premise the brainwashing of a messianic scien tist by five twisted think-tank geniuses who convince him that he is an extraterrestrial being. The film marks the directorial debut of Marshall Briekman, Woody Allen's brilliant collaborator who co-wrote "Sleeper," "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan." Some of the Inspired madness which characterized the two men's writing partnership is splendidly in evidence in "Simon," but, unfortunately, Briekman is unable to sustain the bright patina of outrageous comedy that makes the early sequences so enjoyable. 'Simon" begins at the Institute for Advanced Concepts, a sterile, futuristic scientific laboratory in New England where a quintet of eccentric scientists, headed by Austin Pendleton, read a survey indicating that a majority of Americans believe in life on other planets. They decide that it would be useful' to produce a spaceman in order to get an accurate reaction from the public. With the help of a sexy computer named Doris, the mad scientists select a pretentious psychology professor from Columbia, Simon Mendelssohn (Alan Arkin), who happens to be an orphan and therefore ripe for the suggestion that he is indeed an alien.

Up to this point, the film is slyly amusing and intelligently satiric. But once Arkin appears, is immersed in a water tank for days, and finally emerges as a reformer with a message for the world, Brickman's incisive rapier thrusts become sledge-hammer jabs at tired old targets like TV, the military and Muzak in elevators. Arkin has one marvelouly funny Home of the brave People who have been missing a sinking feeling in the pits of their stomachs can rejoice. Marriott's Great America opens its fifth season tomorrow in Santa Clara. These riders are getting their thrills on the flume.

There are new shows, including "Broadway," a musical revue, and "The Bugs Bunny Bourbon Street Follies." The park will be open just Saturdays and Sundays (10 a.m. to 8 p.m.) through May 18, except for March 29-April 6, when it will be open daily. The daily summer schedule begins May 24. Admission is children 4 to 11, senior citizens, $7.95. Sanford and wife and funny jokefest.

In his review on Page 33, Bill Mandel predicts "Sanford," which debuts tomorrow night, will become some people's new secret vice. Redd Foxx is back! His new NBC series, "Sanford," in which the raunchy old junkman marries a rich Beverly Hills widow (Marguerite Ray, above), is a low-brow.