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In N.Y.C.: Danny Glover stars in the Roundabout Theatre's revival of "Master Harold"... and the Boys, now in its second week.

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Out this month:

Hilary Lifrin's lovely and lyrical memoir, Candy and Me: A Love Story, charts the author's romantic blossomings against a backdrop of heavy candy consumption. Recommended by four out of five dentists

who read books.

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N.Y.C.'s Metropolitan Museum mounts the first full-scale retrospective of American photographer Charles Sheeler (1883-1965). Museumgoers, Sheeler dealers.

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Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum offers a show of Italian Mannerist painter Parmigianino (1503-1540), and Barbara's Bookstore hosts Liar's Poker author Michael Lewis (I960-) reading at its Oak Park,

III., location.

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Scholastic Weston Woods—the film company responsible for the adaptations of Where the Wild Things Are and Make Way for Ducklings— celebrates its 50th anniversary.

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Chicago's Ravinia music space opens its season with a performance of John Adams's El Nino. Another big noisesongbird Norah Jones—descends over Fort Myers, Fla.

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The British Museum turns 250, kicking off a week of festivities, and Prince—as in "Lovesexy," not as in "occasionally surrounded by corgis and sovereign monarchs"—turns 45.

Day two of the Tote Britain's show of German-born, Londonbased photographer Wolfgang TiHmans (recently: obsfract compositions mode by manipulating \ light, and a Pet Shop Boys video). Also: the Tony Awards are broadcast. .

affiliations of a Brooklyn family in the 1950s.

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Out in paperback this month:

The Lobster Chronicles, an account by former swordfish-boat captain Linda Greenlaw (of The Perfect Storm fame) of moving to Maine and becoming a lobsterman.

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The Maui Film Festival at Wailea will include a 50-foot-wide screen set on a grassy knoll overlooking the Pacific.

Washington, D.C.'s Memorial Holocaust Museum displays— for the first time ever outside Amsterdam—some of Anne Frank's writings (in her own

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art opens a Louis Faurer retrospective, including his postwar street photography. PBS's Great Performances offers up Salvatore Licitra and Marcelo Alvarez singing outside Rome's Colosseum.

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Art-world mavens flock to the 50th Venice Biennale (the U.S. is represented this year by Fred Wilson, known for his complex installations created for museums, which re-interpret their collections).

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Three unstoppable juggernauts of American industry celebrate

anniversaries: Ford Motor Company (100), the Pepsi-Cola trademark (100), Joyce Carol Oates (65).

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HOW WOULD LUBITSCH HAVE DONE IT? read a sign over Billy Wilder's door. Find out at day four of Film Forum's tribute to Ernst Lubitsch (Ninotchka, The Shop Around the Corner, To Be or Not to Be), in N.Y.C.

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The Dixie Chicks play the wideopen space that

is Boston s

Fleet Center.

21 Bookstores across the nation burst at the seams as 6.8 million copies of the new Harry Potter book go on sale today. Tomorrow:

Sex and the City's final season

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Later dude

Carson Daly turns 30.

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k. d. lang performs with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

This could be lush.

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Tomorrow night: Maggie Rizer, Gisele Bundchen, Milla Jovovich, Angela Lindvall, and Jacquetta Wheeler host a casino benefit for AIDS charity DIFFA at N.Y.C.'s Regent Wall Street. Let it ride.

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The first comprehensive survey of Max Beckmann in more than 30 years gets under way today at N.Y.C.'s Museum of Modern Art, Queens.

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Antiquity and the architecture of Robert Adam (1728-1792), at London's Sir John Soane's Museum. Meanwhile, Charlie's Angels kick some ass in their sequel, which opens today.

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"Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures," at the San Diego Museum of Art. (Ballet is particularly challenging when you're cast in bronze.)

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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents "Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse" (including Brancusi, Chagall, de Chirico, Duchamp-Villon, Leger, Lipchitz, Picasso, Rivera, and Soutine).

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Jackson Hole Wine Auction, with dinner made by Julian Serrano of Picasso at the Bellagio, hosted by wine aficionado Anthony Dias Blue.

The world premiere of the Jules Feiffer play A Bad Friend, at N.Y.C.'s Lincoln Center. Communist Party