Best Bets: Fri 10/30

All day: Antiques & Art

More than 60 art and antique dealers will be showing more than $1 billion in goods at the Beverly Hills International Art and Antique Fair, which opens to the public Friday after a posh premiere-benefit tonight. Event coordinators have constructed a 35,000-square-foot temporary museum on top of the Robinsons-May parking structure in Beverly Hills. Among the works on display and for sale are “The Lovers,” a 1951 Marc Chagall, Roy Lichtenstein’s 1991 “Landscape Mobile,” a signed bronze sculpture of Auguste Rodin’s “Le Penseur” and Giovanni Dupre’s 1874 marble sculpture, “The Vine Dancer.”

* Beverly Hills Art and Antique Fair, 9900 Wilshire Blvd. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Monday-Tuesday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Closes Tuesday. $12. (323) 931-9145.

All day: Movie

Screenwriter Richard LaGravenese, whose credits include “The Fisher King” and “The Bridges of Madison County,” tries his hand at directing with the romantic comedy “Living Out Loud.” A very blond Holly Hunter plays a stylish but lonely woman who falls for the good-natured elevator operator (Danny DeVito) of her posh Manhattan high-rise. Queen Latifah co-stars as a nightclub chanteuse.

* “Living Out Loud,” rated R, opens Friday at selected theaters.

7 & 9 p.m.: Hauntings

The International Society for Paranormal Research holds its Ghosts of Hollywood Tour, starting out at the group’s new headquarters in the Vogue Theatre in Hollywood. The evening-long event includes a video, a lecture by parapsychologist Larry Montz, presentation by paranormal investigator Peter James from the TV program “Sightings,” and a two-hour tour of “actively haunted” sites around Los Angeles, done in conjunction with the company Apparition Expeditions. If you prefer a more active interaction with ghosts, check out the sixth annual Houdini Halloween Seance at the All*Star Cafe and Speakeasy. The cafe is in the Knickerbocker Hotel, where Bess Houdini tried to contact her dead husband, the famed escape artist Harry Houdini, in 1936. Film clips of that seance will be shown, and there will be a presentation about the history of the hotel and its famous guests. Seance to contact some of those guests--Rudolph Valentino, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis and Frances Farmer--will follow.

* Ghosts of Hollywood Tour, 7 p.m. at the Vogue Theatre, 6675 Hollywood Blvd. Tour, $45; ISPR presentation, $59. Total package, $99. (800) 422-4002.

* Sixth annual Houdini Halloween Seance, All*Star Cafe and Speakeasy, Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel, 1714 N. Ivar Ave. 9 p.m. $5. (323) 962-8898.

8 pm: Theater

A Noise Within presents Lillian Hellman’s “Another Part of the Forest,” set 20 years before its companion classic, “The Little Foxes.” It’s about a father’s unscrupulous dealings during the last days of the Civil War that are the groundwork for the machinations of his avaricious offspring in “Foxes.” The two plays are running in repertory.

* “Another Part of the Forest,” A Noise Within, 234 S. Brand Blvd., Glendale. Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m.; Nov. 8, 2 p.m.; Nov. 12, 13 and 18, 8 p.m.; Nov. 15, 7 p.m. Call for other dates. Ends Nov. 29. $24-$29. (818) 546-1924.

8 pm: Jazz

Saxophonist Joshua Redman, son of famed sax man Dewey Redman, has gained legions of fans through his aggressive jazz playing and appearances with the Rolling Stones, among others. Here, he’ll lead his quartet in material from his new album “Timeless Tales (for Changing Times),” a collection of instrumental versions of the Beatles’ pop tunes, such as “Eleanor Rigby.”

* Joshua Redman Quartet, Henry Fonda Theatre, 6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. $28.50-$30.50. (323) 468-1770.

10 pm: Pop Music

What’s the best way to mark the approach of your 80th birthday? If you are pianist Ruben Gonzalez, you embark on your first U.S. concert tour. The legendary Cuban musician, riding a wave of interest generated by the high-profile “Buena Vista Social Club” album and his affiliated solo record, wraps up his two-night Conga Room stint Friday.

* Ruben Gonzalez at the Conga Room, 5364 Wilshire Blvd. $25 general admission, $65 reserved seating. (323) 938-1696.

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FREEBIE: Santa Monica College Emeritus College Band, Santa Monica College, 7:30 p.m. (310) 434-4306.