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* MOVIES: Norman Jewison’s beguiling “Bogus” celebrates the transforming power of the imagination in a fantasy of infinite charm. It stars Whoopi Goldberg as a dour workaholic who becomes the unapologetically reluctant foster parent of a 7-year-old (Haley Joel Osment), who’s invented an imaginary friend, played by Gerard Depardieu, no less. . . . Writer Tim Metcalfe makes a powerful directorial debut with “Killer: A Journal of Murder” (selected theaters), in which James Woods stars in an Oscar-caliber performance as a ‘20s serial killer befriended by a young Leavenworth guard (Robert Sean Leonard). . . . Peter Sehr’s prize-winning “Kaspar Hauser” (Music Hall) not only probes the enigma--as Werner Herzog did more than 20 years ago--of the mysterious youth, barely able to walk or talk, who turned up in a Nuremberg square in 1828, but also confidently, persuasively identifies him. The result is a handsome film that unfolds on several levels. . . . Continuing: “Low Dives and Formal Feasts: William S. Burroughs on Film” (at LACMA today and Saturday). . . . Commencing: “3-Card Monte: The Films of Monte Hellman” (American Cinematheque at Raleigh Studios), with “Two-Land Blacktop” (1971) tonight at 7. . . . Returning: The Los Feliz 3 is bringing back today “Small Faces,” Gillies MacKinnon’s powerful drama about a 13-year-old boy growing up quickly in the shadow of his older brothers and the violence of gang-ridden 1960s Glasgow.

* MUSIC: Fireworks and music from “Camelot” close the Hollywood Bowl season, tonight through Sunday, when John Mauceri and the Bowl orchestra host soloists Jennifer Larmore, Rodney Gilfry and Patrick Stewart in the final weekend of this 75th season. . . . The Illustrious Theatre Orchestra returns to Shannon Center for the Performing Arts at Whittier College Saturday night for a showcase of its players’ compositions, which the group calls post-modern chamber music. . . . Leonid Hambro returns to give another of his awesome pianistic demonstrations, Saturday night at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo. The veteran musician’s audience will be able to choose a program from a list of more than 100 works.

* DANCE: Joaquin Cortes, the “Flamenco Kid,” brings his company of 27 to the Universal Amphitheatre Sunday night in a flamenco fusion show called “Pasion Gitana.”

* THEATER: “The Immigrant,” Mark Harelik’s play based on the tale of his grandfather, a Russian Jew who immigrated to Texas at the turn of the century, is given a poignant revival at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills, thanks to director J. David Krassner and a talented ensemble of actors. . . . Simon Levy’s involving staging of a gritty “Orpheus Descending,” Tennessee Williams’ drama about a mysterious young guitar player who stirs up trouble in a Mississippi small town in 1957, has extended through Oct. 6 at the Fountain Theatre.

* FAMILY: Prokofiev’s musical children’s classic “Peter and the Wolf” will be presented for free by Symphony in the Glen for family audiences, outdoors in Griffith Park at the Old Zoo site, Sunday at 3 p.m. Canned food donations for the needy are welcome.

* POP MUSIC: Ex-Replacements leader Paul Westerberg headlines the El Rey Theatre on Saturday and Sunday. . . . The Red Aunts mark the release of their latest album, “Saltbox,” with a Saturday show at their neighborhood club, Silver Lake’s Spaceland!

* ART: Two shows currently on view in San Diego’s historic Balboa Park offer intriguing looks at two mediums. An exhibition of 125 black-and-white photographs from the Hallmark Cards Inc. collection presents a historical look at photography from the 1880s to World War II in “An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital/Part I.” At the Museum of Photographic Arts through Oct. 13. . . . The San Diego Museum of Art exhibits paintings by a curious self-taught painter who didn’t begin painting until he was in his late 50s in “Discovering Ellis Ruley.” Sixty of the artist’s works--executed on poster board with ordinary oil-based house paints--are on view through Oct. 27.

--Compiled by Calendar writers