Movies - March 14, 1999

In “Forces of Nature,” Ben Affleck, above with Sandra Bullock, has two days to get from New York to Savannah, but man, machine and Bullock threaten a detour. Opening wide on Friday.

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Clint Eastwood stars in “True Crime” as a womanizing reporter who has a last-chance job at the Oakland Tribune and lands a final interview with a condemned man. Opening wide on Friday.

Theater

“Too Old for the Chorus,” Celebration Theatre’s new musical revue by Marie Cain, Shelly Markham and Mark Winkler, about getting older in a youth-obsessed society, premieres Saturday. Robert Schrock, who will be taking Celebration’s hit show “Naked Boys Singing!” to New York, directs.

Music

Mixing more than 100 percussion instruments with the clarinet, the Canadian ensemble Nexus collaborates with Grammy-winning Richard Stoltzman on Friday at Royce Hall in a program called “‘Reflections.” The music stretches from classical (Stravinsky) to jazz (improv), world music (Ghanaian) to Minimalism (Reich).

Pop

After its 1997 album “Floored,” Sugar Ray, top right, was relegated to the knuckleheaded novelty scrap-heap, but the L.A. band has surprised the skeptics with an engaging, pop-flavored collection, “14:59.” They appear at the Hollywood Palladium Friday.

Dance

The accomplished Hubbard Street Dance Chicago performs Jiri Kylian’s “Six Dances,” Nacho Duato’s “Rassemblement,” Kevin O’Day’s “To Have and to Hold,” David Parsons’ “The Envelope” and Harrison McEldowney’s “Group Therapy” on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Art

Sculpture and architecture meet in a new monumental site-specific work by architect Frank Gehry. Opening Thursday at Gagosian Gallery, “Frank Gehry: A Study,” features a 20-foot-high, 25-foot-wide and 40-foot-long shaped wood sculpture covered in 16,000 pounds of overlapping sheets of gray lead.

Jazz

Wynton Marsalis, above, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra have been presenting an all-Duke Ellington program this year. The ensemble will be swinging at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts next Friday and Royce Hall on Saturday night.

Video

Warren Beatty gives a freewheeling performance in his astute satire “Bulworth” as a conscience-stricken California senator campaigning for reelection. The comedy boogies Tuesday into video stores.