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Movies Live Music 'WEEKEND SCENE Rudder Theater — Thursday 7 p.m., The Point; 8:30 p.m., The Sentinel; 10:05 p.m., Phantom of the Opera. Friday 7 p.m., Doc Savage; 8:50 p.m., The Boys From Brazil; 11:05 p.m., A Clockwork Orange; 1:32 a.m., Phantom of the Paradise. Saturday 7 p.m., Invasion of the Body Snatchers; 8:55 p.m., Dracula; 10:45 p.m., Forbidden Planet; 12:35 a.m., Dark Star. Cinema i & li — Coal Miner’s Daughter All That Jazz Midnight: Rust Never Sleeps Call 846-6714 for times Campus Theater — Ten Midnight Friday: Tommy Midnight Saturday: Rocky Horror Picture Show Call 846-6512 for times Manor East III — Kramer vs. Kramer Little Darlings Chapter Two Midnight Friday: Alien Midnight Saturday: A Star is Born Call 823-8300 for times Backstage Restaurant — Thursday 9 p.m.-midnight, Donna Wot- trich, cover charge 750. Friday 9 p.m.-midnight, Belly Dancers, cover charge $1. Saturday 9 p.m.-midnight, Jazz, cover charge $1. Basement Coffeehouse — Thursday, Morning, admission $3. Fri day, amateur students perform, admission 500. Cell Block Five—Thursday 8 p.m.-midnight, and Saturday 9 p.m.-l a.m., Madison Express, country-western, cover charge $3 for guys and $2 for girls. Friday 8 p.m.-midnight, Dime Box, U.S.A., cover charge $3 for guys and $2 for girls. Chelsea Street — Thursday 8:30 p.m.-midnight, no cover charge, Friday 8:30 p.m.-midnight and Saturday 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Mischief, rock and roll, cover charge $1. Grins Beer Garden — Thursday 8:30 p.m.-midnight, Steven Fromholz, cover charge $3.50. Friday 8:30 p.m.-midnight and Saturday 9 p.m.-1 a.m., big band music with Ain’t Misbehavin’, cover charge $2. Lakeview Club — Thursday 8 p.m.-midnight, cover charge $2, and Saturday 9 p.m.- 1 a.m., Dennis Ivey and the Waymen, cover charge $3. Rosewood Junction — Thursday 8 p.m.-midnight, Friday and Saturday 8:30 p.m.-l a.m., Rosewood Junction, no cover. Texas Hall of Fame — Thursday 8 p.m.-midnight, the Debonaires, cover charge $2. Friday 9 p.m.-1 a.m., the Music Masters, cover charge $2. Saturday 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Clyde Brewer and the River Road Boys, cover charge $3. TJ’s Whiskey Bar — Thursday 7:30 p.m.-midnight, Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m.-1 a.m., Fine Line, rock and roll, cover charge $2. TEXAS EVENTS Austin Special Events Center: 1701 Red River. Friday, March 28, Heart will perform at 8 p.m. at the Center. Tickets are $6, $7 and $8, and are avail able at the ticket office. Saturday, March 29, Jimmy Buffett will give a concert, beginning at 8 p.m. Tickets are $8.50, $7.50 and $6.50. Wednesday, April 30, Linda Ronstadt will per form. Accompanying her on vocals will be Wen dy Waldman, with Billy Payne, formerly of Little Feat, on keyboards. Danny Kortchmar, a guitar player from the West Coast, will open the show. SportsFest: The 1980 Austin SportsFest, the annual spring sports festival, will feature as second weekend attractions Southwest Senior Swimming Championships, WalkFest, South ern National Flying Disc Championships, Celeb rity Allstar Canoe Race, the first annual Sport sFest Hall of Honor and many other events, Friday, March 28, starts it off with the swimming championships at the University of Texas Olym pic Swim Center, and the Morris Williams Inter collegiate Golf Tournament. Saturday, March 29, will be the WalkFest and the Southern Na tional Flying Disc Championships. For a free SportsFest brochure with a schedule of events, write: SportsFest, P.O. Box 1967D, Austin, Texas 78767; or call Lynda Lowery at the Austin Chamber of Commerce, (512) 478-9893. Magna Carta: The Magna Carta, a centuries-old British charter, will be on exhibit at the LBJ Lib rary and Museum in Austin for one week, March 29-April 5. The exhibit begins with public wel coming ceremonies at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 29, on the plaza of the LBJ Library. In pageantry featuring members of the UT Longhorn Band and the university color guards, the Dean of Lincoln Cathedral, the Very Rev., the Hon. Oliv er Fiennes, will present the document. No flash or other artificial light will be allowed. Dallas-Fort Worth PDQ Bach: PDQ Bach will appear Saturday, March 29, at the Convention Center Theater, 1111 Houston, in Fort Worth. Performance starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5-$12. Houston Festival: Beginning Thursday, March 20, the Houston Festival will present a cultural feast of crafts, entertainment, international food and a variety of unique exhibits and demonstrations. It will begin with the Mayor’s International Ball, on Thursday, March 20, and will end with the Hous ton Festival Baghdad on the Bayou Tardi Mardi Gras Street Bash and Contained Riot on Satur day, March 29, The Ball will be at the Hyatt Regency, and the Bash will be at 1200 Louisiana St. For information on the other activities and their locations, call 623-2141. Elsewhere Amarillo: The Texas CowBelles are sponsoring the third annual Texas Beef Cook-off which will be held in Amarillo on April 17, during the Texas Beef Conference. The winner of the Cookoff will go on to participate in the National Beef Cook-off to be held in Scottsdale, Ariz. The site of the CowBelle cook-off will be the Texas A&M Re search and Extension Center, 6500 Amarillo Boulevard West. For information call (806) 353- 0681. San Angelo: The Third Annual Original Lamblast will be held April 19 at the San Angelo Fair grounds. Events will include the traditional Working Sheep Dog Trials, Leg of Lamb (men’s legs), Lamb Chop (women’s legs), washer pitch ing, horseshoe pitching, blindman wheelbarrow race and wool sack tossing. Marlin: Marlin Festival Days will be April 19 and 20 in the Marlin City Park. An arts and crafts Big Tent with artisans, both local and out-of-state, will be open to the public. Dancing to live bands, a variety of food, and rides and games will be available. Admission $2 for adults, $1 for chil dren. Magnolia: The Texas Renaissance Festival for the 1980 sixth season is holding auditions for Royal Countenances: Kings, Queens, and other assorted royalty; and other nonroyalty such as grave robbers, beggars, witches, dwarfs, belly dancers, giants and many others. On April 12 and 13,26 and 27 open auditions will be held at the Festival site, 45 miles north of Houston, near Magnolia. For more information, call E.W. Forbes, (713) 524-0409.