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Best Bets / MARCH 21-27, 1999

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Movies

Ron Howard’s comedy “EDtv” tells what happens to a video store clerk and his family when he’s picked from obscurity to have his life aired on cable TV 24 hours a day. Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Ellen DeGeneres, Sally Kirkland, Martin Landau, Rob Reiner, Dennis Hopper and Elizabeth Hurley form the ensemble cast. It opens Friday in general release.

For the record:

12:00 a.m. March 28, 1999 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Sunday March 28, 1999 Home Edition Calendar Page 91 Calendar Desk 1 inches; 35 words Type of Material: Correction
Wrong name--The actor shown with Annette Bening in a scene from “Hedda Gabler” in Sunday’s Calendar was Byron Jennings. He was misidentified in the photograph that ran with the announcement of the play’s opening at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood.

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“A Walk on the Moon,” set in a Catskills resort in 1969, stars Diane Lane as a wife and mother whose life is turned upside down when she meets a traveling salesman (Viggo Mortensen). . It opens at selected theaters on Friday.

Art

Fragile works on paper from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will go on display Thursday in “Old Master Prints From the Museum’s Collection: Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries.” The collection will include woodcut prints, Italian Mannerist pieces, etchings and various works by Rembrandt.

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Theater

Annette Bening, right, with Patrick O’Connell, plays the title role in Ibsen’s classic domestic tragedy “Hedda Gabler,” about a woman who pays a high price when she attempts to alleviate the boredom of her “safe” marriage. Adapted by Jon Robin Baitz and directed by Daniel Sullivan, it opens Wednesday at the Geffen Playhouse.

Music

Returning to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Friday and to the Orange County Performing Arts Center on Saturday, the Pittsburgh Symphony, under music director Mariss Jansons, brings separate programs: first, Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, then Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1 and Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique.”

Pop Music

One of the summer’s most anticipated tours is the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young trek, but before that long-time-coming reunion, prodigal partner Neil Young, above, will do a brief solo tour that includes shows Monday and Tuesday at the Wiltern Theatre. Expect to hear some tunes from his upcoming album, as well as a retrospective of his entire career.

Video

Gary Ross wrote and directed “Pleasantville,” a comedy about two modern teenagers (Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon) who find themselves trapped in a black-and-white ‘50s TV show. Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen and William H. Macy star in this fantasy, available on video Tuesday.

Dance

The splashy Smuin Ballets/SF, above, appears Saturday and next Sunday in the Luckman Theatre at Cal State L.A, dancing two local premieres choreographed by Michael Smuin: “Carmina Burana” and “The Blue Angel,” a dance drama based on the Josef Von Sternberg film that made Marlene Dietrich a star.

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