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Dustin Hoffman recently received the AFI Life Achievement Award and here’s an opportunity to see his early standout performances in “The Graduate” (1967) and “Midnight Cowboy” (1969).

New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd., (323) 938-4038. (Through Saturday.)

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Jazz

Alto saxophonist Greg Osby and vibraphonist Stefon Harris, left, are joined by pianist Jason Moran and tenor Mark Shim in a band of young all-stars from the Blue Note label.

The Mint, 6010 W. Pico Blvd., L.A., (323) 954-8241. 10 p.m.

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Dance

Besides plying their usual trades, dancers make music and musicians dance when the maverick modernists of Australia’s Sydney Dance Company join Michael Askill’s percussion group Synergy onstage in the local premiere of Graeme Murphy’s plotless full-evening showpiece, “Free Radicals.”

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Royce Hall, UCLA campus, Westwood, (310) 825-2101. 8 p.m. (Also Saturday, 8 p.m.)

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Pop Music

Wynonna . . . need we say more? No? OK then, here’s the lowdown:

Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, Cerritos, (562) 916-8500, 8 p.m. Also Saturday. (Sunday at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.)

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