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The fourth film based on Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels reaches the screen Friday in “The Sum of All Fears.” Ben Affleck, above with Morgan Freeman, takes over from Harrison Ford (who succeeded Alec Baldwin) as the CIA analyst investigates a plot to plunge the U.S. and Russia into World War III.

Pop Music

The rock music corpse has started to twitch, reanimated by an injection of the fire of earlier resurrections. Call it a rediscovery of passion, a garage-rock revival, a return to the sources or a turn of the cycle, but there’s no denying the immediacy, energy and smarts of such suddenly hot standard-bearers as Sweden’s Hives (Monday and Tuesday at the Roxy in West Hollywood) and Detroit’s White Stripes (Friday, next Sunday and June 3 at the El Rey in L.A., Saturday at the Glass House in Pomona).

Dance

Surf’s up at Highways from Thursday to Saturday when the Santa Monica performance space presents Keith Glassman’s “Mavericks,” a 50-minute celebration of surfer energy, style and mystique. Five dancers and 10 Malibu-area surfers catch a wave to music by Alan Terricciano and Jon Szanto, punctuated by beach blanket banter.

Art

The new Pasadena Museum of California Art, dedicated to California art, architecture and design from 1850 on, opens Saturday with “On Ramps: Transitional Moments in California Art.” Compiled by four curators, it includes Impressionism to Postimpressionism, Post-Surreal- ism, Hard Edge Abstraction to Finish Fetish, and Bay Area Conceptualism. Below: “Lamentation” (1935) by Rueben Kadish.

Music

Nine events make up the expanded Ojai Music Festival, Wednesday through next Sunday. Italian pianist Marino Formenti begins the festival with a marathon performance in the Ojai Art Center on Wednesday, and returns Saturday in Festival Bowl. The Emerson String Quartet plays in Festival Bowl for three nights beginning Friday. Singer Ute Lemper and guitarist Eliot Fisk perform a joint recital next Sunday.

Theater

A shy college student goes to unexpected lengths to retain the affections of an audacious art major in the West Coast premiere of Neil LaBute’s provocative “The Shape of Things,” opening Saturday at the Laguna Playhouse.

Video

Daniel Radcliffe plays the title orphan who discovers on his 11th birthday that he’s the heir of two powerful wizards in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” Chris Columbus directs the fanciful adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling’s series of popular books. Also starring Alan Rickman, above, and Maggie Smith. Available Tuesday on DVD and VHS.