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Chick Corea is home for the holiday -- the Clearwater Jazz Holiday.
[Times photo: Dirk Shadd]
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Cover Story
Hometown headliner
Chick Corea has lived in Clearwater since 1997, and Jazz Holiday organizers have been trying to get him to perform at the event ever since. This year he's on the bill.
Film
Snuff video
It may take repeated viewings to appreciate the subtle terror of The Ring, a tale of a videotape that guarantees death to those who watch it.
'Formula 51': Shaft in tartan
Samuel L. Jackson is such a fashion plate, he can even make a kilt look cool. Jackson reportedly sports one for much of Formula 51 (R) playing Elmo McElroy, a chemist who invents a new rave party drug 51 times more powerful than ecstasy.
Murder, she sang
8 Women (R) (106 min.) -- Imagine Hercule Poirot as a woman bursting into song while sorting through murder clues and you get the idea behind Francois Ozon's odd, mildly entertaining film. This is the musical mystery Agatha Christie never got around to writing, if such a thought ever occurred to her.
Spooky voyage to the bottom of the sea
Below (R) spins a nifty yarn about the USS Tiger Shark, a submarine that is, in a word, haunted. The sub, cruising the mid-Atlantic for Nazi vessels in 1943, is subject to some strange goings-on.
The best of the worst
Two bad-movie buffs come to Tampa to promote their book at a showing of one of their favorites: Zardoz. Imagine Sean Connery in a cross-your-heart bullet-belt bathing suit.
And the winner is: the documentary
A documentary film festival at Pasco-Hernando Community College highlights awarding-winning works from Berlin to Canada and beyond.
Family Movie Guide
The Family Movie Guide should be used along with the Motion Picture Association of America rating system for selecting movies suitable for children. Only films rated G, PG or PG-13 are included in this weekly listing, along with occasional R-rated films that may have entertainment or educational value for older children with parental guidance. Compiled by St. Petersburg Times film critic Steve Persall.
Video
Pacino's 'Insomnia' performance is an eye-opener
Director Christopher Nolan, hot off Memento, constructed another compelling psychological drama.
The full Monty Clift
Hollywood tragedy is rarely as complete as in the abbreviated career of Montgomery Clift, born on this date in 1920. One of the best young actors of his generation, Clift never fulfilled his potential because of constant physical and emotional problems that ended only with his 1966 death at 45 from coronary artery disease.
Art
The body eclectic
Four exhibitions focus on -- and reinterpret -- the human form, from life drawings to mixed media.
Annual show at Salt Creek
Salt Creek Artworks is an old furniture store and warehouse that a group of artists turned into a gallery, studios and classrooms. Its annual members show runs through Oct. 26 with a roster of well-known names: Jack Barrett, Mary Joe Boydstun, Michael Chomick, Carol Marie Dameron, Herbert Davis, Michael Davis, Kathleen Deasy, Daniel DeWendt, Jack Lebowitz, Augustine Ludovico, Felita Gale McNeill, Yoko Nogami, Robert Orr, Thomas Page, Rose Marie Prins, Jane Rivers, Lance Rodgers, Herb Snitzer, Ruth Andress Stone, Vic Swan, Rick Teague, Lee West, Rick Yearick and Robin Weber. Salt Creek is at 1600 Fourth St. S, St. Petersburg.
Pop
Something more for you to idolize
For 12 weeks you watched them sing, those American Idol kids, belting their hearts out, urging you to love them. And you did love them, didn't you? You were glued to the tube wondering: Will Kelly's pipes -- as big as her home state of Texas -- triumph? Will chaos ensue if they vote Tamyra off the island? Will Justin's hair take over the planet?
Team Pop Trivia
This week's winner: Ellen Salias of St. Petersburg knew that Rush's landmark 2112 album was based on the works of American philosopher Ayn Rand.
Dine
Slow shift from old wave to new
Using time and care, family-run Grillmarks is successfully updating its menu and image as son Nick Pappas takes over from father George.
Stage
The lighter side of ghoulish
Love and death lock arms in Macabaret, where the bizarre is softened with music and dance, and the final emphasis is on living.
'Titus' for the ghoul season
Halloween-themed Shakespeare is the idea behind Jobsite Theater's Titus Andronicus. It's generally considered to be one of Shakespeare's worst plays -- even Harold Bloom, the preeminent Shakespearean scholar, calls it "a poetic atrocity" -- but it has a certain currency nowadays. Julie Taymor of Lion King fame made a movie of it, and its narrative of rape and murder fits right into our violent age.
Three on the ivories
It's a piano recital weekend, with three of note taking place around the bay area. Robin Spielberg, who has made a dozen recordings of standards and lullabies, holiday music and her own compositions, gives a performance at 8 p.m. Friday at the Largo Cultural Center. Tickets: $14.50. (727) 587-6793.
Theater for the youngest
Mother Goose, that grand old lady of rhyme, stars Sunday in the Mahaffey Theater's first young children's series show of the season, A Pocketful of Rhymes. The Stages Production performance features, clockwise from bottom center, Terri D'Onofrio, Joye Johnson, Jonathan Hickey and Bryan D'Onofrio.
Get Away
Back on track
Streetcars resume trips through downtown Tampa. Festivities, many free, mark the reopening.
