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With the Osbourne family firmly installed in America’s living rooms via MTV, the spotlight on Ozzfest has never been brighter. Ozzy’s annual high-decibel, multiple-stage road show has become the summer camp of choice for the headbanger set, as well as a platform to fame for bands on the brink. The perplexed patriarch, right, headlines as the tour pulls in at Devore’s Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion on Saturday, with support from System of a Down, P.O.D., Rob Zombie and more.
Movies
Portuguese-born director Manoel de Oliveira, who began his career in 1931, brings all of his 93 years of living to the comic drama “I’m Going Home.” French star Michel Piccoli plays an aging stage actor faced with a great personal tragedy. Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich also star. Opens Friday.
Theater
In Shakespeare’s intricate, romantic adventure “Pericles,” a king’s travails take him on an odyssey of riddles, shipwrecks, jousts, intrigue, incest, murder, and loves and family lost and regained. Staged by veteran theater and opera director Darko Tresnjak, it’s the Globe Theatres’ first production of the play, which is less frequently staged than other Shakespeare classics. It opens Saturday at the Globe’s outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre in San Diego.
Music
In premiere performances, unfamiliar music by Alex North and Elmer Bernstein takes up the first half of John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra’s Tuesday-night occupation of the Bowl. A two-movement symphony, arranged by Mauceri and based on North’s score to the 1963 film “Cleopatra,” will be heard for the first time in this country; Mauceri previously conducted it with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, Germany. Another longtime film composer, the 80-year-old Bernstein, will be represented by his recent Guitar Concerto, to be played by its dedicatee, American virtuoso Christopher Parkening.
Jazz
Jazz keyboard master Chick Corea reunites with his former bandmates and frequent collaborators for a concert Wednesday at the Hollywood Bowl. Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton will open the show. Corea will also perform with his Elektric Band, his Three Quartets band featuring saxophonist Michael Brecker, plus Flora Purim and Airto Moreira from his original Return to Forever ensemble.
Dance
Bringing what a Times reviewer called an “emphasis on sex, technology and athleticism plus its breezy, self-mocking style of physical risk,” Diavolo Dance Theatre appears at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts on Friday and Saturday evenings performing the premiere of Jacques Heim’s “Capture(d),” along with familiar repertory: the two-part “Trajectoire” and the recently re-choreographed “D2RI” and “D2RII.” A special one-hour family program is also scheduled on Saturday afternoon.
Art
Pepperdine’s Weisman Museum of Art celebrates a decade in existence with the exhibition “Tenth Anniversary Celebration: California Art From the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,” opening Saturday. The Malibu show will include more than 30 large-scale works by more than 25 of California’s most influential artists, including Peter Alexander, John Baldessari, Joe Goode, David Hockney, Ed Ruscha and Alexis Smith. Left: “Frederick R. Weisman” by Arnold Mesches.
Video
Dennis Quaid gives one of his best performances in “The Rookie,” a charmingly old-fashioned, true-life saga. “The Rookie” tells the story of Jim Norris, a high school science teacher from Texas who, at 38, got a second chance to become a pitcher in the major leagues. Rachel Griffiths and Brian Cox co-star. The film arrives Tuesday on DVD and VHS.
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