Best Bets: JULY 1-7, 2001

Movies

After raising the bar for outrageous parody (or lowering it, depending on your perspective), director Keenen Ivory Wayans and company have another go at the horror genre in “Scary Movie 2.” Starring Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Tori Spelling, Chris Elliott and Tim Curry, the spoof opens Wednesday.

Also: Chinese government agent Jet Li heads to Paris to assist police official Tcheky Karyo, only to be betrayed and ensnared in a vast conspiracy in the action thriller “Kiss of the Dragon.” Bridget Fonda co-stars. Opens Friday.

Jazz

The ubiquitous Poncho Sanchez, below, will perform a special July 4 concert at the Hyatt Newporter in Newport Beach. The percussionist and his Latin band are among the most active and popular players on the local jazz scene.

Theater

“Twelfth Night,” Shakespeare’s gender-bending, romantic comedy of disguises, mistaken identities and confused affections will be presented under the stars at the Globe Theatres’ Lowell Davies Festival Theatre in San Diego. Directed by Jack O’Brien, the cast includes Harry Groener as sly fool Feste and Paxton Whitehead as the hapless Malvolio. Opens Saturday.

Music

The Fourth of July is celebrated at the Hollywood Bowl with three nights of fireworks spectaculars Monday through Wednesday. John Mauceri leads the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and soloists Kristin Chenoweth and Jubilant Sykes, above. Also on the Fourth, the Pacific Symphony, conducted by Jack Everly, plays “Star-Spangled Swing!” at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine.

Pop Music

One of rock’s great enigmas, multi-instrumental prodigy Shuggie Otis burned brightly in the early ‘70s, then bowed out in mid-decade at age 22. The son of L.A. R&B; bandleader Johnny Otis and a sideman with Frank Zappa, Al Kooper and others, the musician resurfaces for Thursday and Friday shows at L.A.’s El Rey Theatre to mark the reissue of 1974’s “Inspiration Information.”

Art

“Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art,” an in-depth look at the paintings and sculptures of Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, two quintessential Western American artists, opens Saturday at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana. While both artists were often compared during their lifetimes for creating the image of a mythic American West, they actually beheld the region from entirely different points of view. Below: a replica of a Remington statue owned by William Rolland.