Best Bets / JUNE 11-17, 2000

Movies

A rebellious young man is recruited to find a mysterious spacecraft that could save the human race after Earth is destroyed in 20th Century Fox’s “Titan A.E.” Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo and Janeane Garofalo provide the voices for the animated adventure, which opens Friday.

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“Shaft” is re-imagined in a version directed by John Singleton, with Samuel L. Jackson taking over from Richard Roundtree (who makes an appearance) as the dashing and fearless New York detective. With Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright and Christian Bale. Opens Friday.

Theater

Iconoclastic performance artist Rachel Rosenthal will make her last appearance as a solo artist in “Ur-Boor,” her original multimedia world premiere about a woman with a mission to accomplish while trapped in an orbiting space capsule with a talking computer: She must find a way to rid the world of incivility and barbarism. Opens Friday at Los Angeles Theatre Center.

Pop Music

Even if Eminem weren’t the hottest property in pop music right now, the Up in Smoke Tour would rank as a must event. Dr. Dre heads a hip-hop package that features some of his key partners and proteges: Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Warren G and of course Eminem. The tour begins Thursday at the Coors Amphitheatre in Chula Vista and hits the Arrowhead Pond on Friday.

Jazz

Two of the major Afro-Cuban jazz groups star in Los Angeles clubs this week. Jane Bunnett’s Spirits of Havana (at the Jazz Bakery starting Tuesday) and Gonzalo Rubalcaba’s Trio (featured at Catalina’s beginning Wednesday) offer examples of the richness of Cuba’s diverse music scene.

Music

Opening the three-concert Brunch Classics series for summer 2000 today at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, the St. Petersburg String Quartet, joined by pianist Justin Blasdale, offers a program of works by Prokofiev, Glazunov and Brahms. Members of the distinguished ensemble are violinists Ilya Teplyakov, left, and Alla Aranovskaya, cellist Leonid Shukaev and violist Alexei Koptev.

Museums

“Making a Prince’s Museum: Drawings for the Late Eighteenth-Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese in Rome” will highlight some 50 unpublished drawings from the Getty Research Institute collections as well as institutions in Rome. The drawings, mostly by father and son architects Antonio and Mario Asprucci, detail the development of the famous villa since the 17th century. Opens Saturday at the Getty.

Video

Critics and audiences either loved or hated “The Green Mile,” Frank Darabont’s three-hour adaptation of Stephen King’s acclaimed novel about the guards and prisoners of a death row in 1930s Mississippi. Tom Hanks heads the cast of the box-office hit, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including best picture. “Green Mile” arrives Tuesday on video and DVD.