Movies - April 22, 2001

The long-delayed “Town & Country,” a comedy about life, love, friendship, having everything and not getting caught, stars Warren Beatty as an architect so shaken by the impending divorce of his friend (Garry Shandling) that he decides to be honest with his own suspicious wife (Diane Keaton). With Andie MacDowell, Jenna Elfman, Nastassja Kinski, Goldie Hawn and Josh Hartnett. Above, Shandling, left, Beatty and Elfman. Opens Friday.

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Also: Renny Harlin’s “Driven,” an action drama written by its star, Sylvester Stallone, takes us into the world of high-tech car racing. Burt Reynolds, Kip Pardue and Til Schweiger co-star. Opening Friday.

Music

From his posts in Tokyo, the Netherlands’ Limburg, and Liverpool, Japanese conductor Junichi Hirokami returns to the podium of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Wednesday and Thursday, leading Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes and the Symphony No. 2 by Rachmaninoff. His soloist is cellist Heinrich Schiff, who will play Max Bruch’s “Kol Nidrei” and Camille Saint-Sans’ Concerto No. 1.

Art

First the film, now the exhibition: “Les Chiens Andalous,” a new show of paintings and works on paper curated by influential artist Manuel Ocampo, opens Saturday at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will highlight works by Ocampo and Spanish artists Patricio Cabrera, Chema Cobo and Curro Gonzalez that are tinged with what Ocampo calls “Spanish surrealism’s twisted logic.”

Pop Music

Intimacy has its place in pop music, but now and then people just need things to be grand. This is a week for spectacle, starting with U2’s shows (with Bono, above) at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, and wrapping up with the massive Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Saturday in Indio, with everyone from Jane’s Addiction to Weezer to Fatboy Slim to Iggy Pop.

Theater

In his play “Tom Walker,” making its West Coast premiere at South Coast Repertory, John Strand puts a new twist on Washington Irving’s 18th century fable about a schemer who sells his soul. Set in 1726 America, the play examines contemporary cultural and political identity. Above, Margaret Laurena Kemp and Wendell Wright. Opens Friday.

Jazz

Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and Puerto Rican saxophonist David Sanchez team up for an enticing double bill at UCLA’s Royce Hall tonight. Sandoval is known for his bop-flavored playing, which pushes him beyond his Afro-Cuban musical base. Sanchez also weaves his way through multiple genres including Afro-Cuban and bebop jazz.

Dance

What’s in a name? Ask former Bolshoi principal Sergei Radchenko, artistic director of a company with two identities. As Moscow Festival Ballet, it danced “Don Quixote” in Cerritos in February, and as Russian National Ballet it will dance “Swan Lake” in Thousand Oaks on Friday and the Greek Theatre on Saturday.