Movies - Oct. 1, 2000

In the comedy “Meet the Parents,” Ben Stiller plays a groom-to-be for whom everything goes wrong after a disastrous meeting with his intimidating would-be father-in-law, played by Robert De Niro. Opening in general release on Friday. Right: Blythe Danner, De Niro, Stiller and Teri Polo.

Also: Sylvester Stallone stars as a Vegas mobster in “Get Carter,” a remake of Mike Hodges’ 1970 cult classic starring Michael Caine, who in this version plays the owner of a Seattle nightclub managed by Stallone’s brother. Opening wide on Friday.

Dance

Replacing the originally scheduled Martha Graham Dance Company at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Friday and Saturday, the 11-member David Parsons Dance Company performs Parsons’ “Closure,” “Bachiana,” “Union,” “Mood Swing” and his signature, strobe-light solo, “Caught,” along with the West Coast premieres of two works by Robert Battle: ‘Mood Indigo” and “Strange Humors.” Below: Jason McDole, left, Mia McSwain, Robert Battle and Liz Koeppen perform “Closure.”

ART

More than 100 artifacts drawn from one of the greatest collections of Egyptian antiquities in the world will be featured in “Egyptian Treasures From the British Museum,” opening Saturday at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana. The survey will span 3,000 years and include decorated coffins--complete with mummy--stone sculptures of pharaohs, bronze statuettes of the gods and gold jewelry, among other items.

Theater

Rudy Pazinski isn’t like the other kids in his 1959 Catholic school. While they reverently toe the line, the bright, wisecracking 12-year-old clashes with church precepts and stern Sister Clarissa in the Southern California premiere of Tom Dudzick’s nostalgic memory play, “Over the Tavern.” Presented by McCoy-Rigby Entertainment, it opens Friday at La Mirada Theatre.

Music

The Los Angeles Philharmonic begins its newest season with a gala pension-fund concert honoring violinist Isaac Stern, Thursday in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Then, beginning Friday, music director Esa-Pekka Salonen will lead the orchestra in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Schoenberg’s “A Survivor From Warsaw,” with narrator Leonard Nimoy, three times over the weekend.

Also: Long Beach Opera notes the 400th anniversary of Jacopo Peri’s early opera, “Euridice” by presenting the work at the Getty Museum three times, Friday through next Sunday. Andrew Lawrence King will conduct; Isabel Milenski, in her debut, will be stage director. The cast includes Christine Abraham, William Hite, Ellen Hargis, Nils Brown and Curtis Streetman.

Video

Although “U-571” features about every submarine movie cliche in the book, it’s still a taut, exciting thrill ride. Written and directed by Jonathan Mostow (“Breakdown”), the World War II suspense film finds an American submarine crew attempting to board a German U-boat. Matthew McConaughey, Harvey Keitel, Bill Paxton and Jon Bon Jovi head the sturdy cast. The box office hit arrives Tuesday on video.

Pop Music

Cypress Hill’s annual Smoke Out has grown from an esoteric pep rally for the legalization of marijuana into one of the strongest concert draws of the year. At the third annual event, Saturday at the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino, Cypress Hill will be joined by B-Real, right, Limp Bizkit, 311, Redman, Xzibit, Pennywise and System of a Down.