To do this weekend

Tonight on KQED, the local PBS station which has tahnkfully gotten back to playing classic movies on Saturday nights, The Fortune Cookie, a hilarious Billy Wilder black-and-white New York urban comedy with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Has one of the greatest Matthau takes ever. Wonderful.

Blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein and other blacklisted Hollywood figures will appear at the Castro Theater [map it] Sunday after a screening of The Front (co-written by Bernstein) on a panel "Jewish Left? Writer?" as part of the Jewish Film Festival. "The Front" at 4:00, panel at 5:45.

Later on Sunday, Pamela Z will appear with other new musicians:

Heavy Snowflakes
Sunday, July 24, 2005
9 pm to 1 am
Mickey T's Drum Machine Museum
142 Taylor St. (btw. Turk and Eddie) San Francisco
Admission: Free

Performances and Media Works by:
Pamela Z (San Francisco)
Seppo Renvall, Jari Haanpera, and Maria Duncker (Finland)
Katya Gardea Blown (Mexico)
Christopher Fleeger (San Franciso)
Alaric Burns (San Francisco)
Aaron Wolf Baum (San Francisco)

Walter Bernstein, blacklist, Red Scare, Castro Theatre, Pamela Z, Jewish Film Festival