Now you can make his day and meet Dirty Harry in person. That`s if you can pull out $15 as fast as he draws his .44 Magnum. Though Clint Eastwood doesn`t appear on screen in ”Bird,” he`ll be here Wednesday to introduce the movie he produced and directed about legendary jazz musician Charlie Parker at a benefit for the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute. The screening is at 7:30 p.m. at the Fine Arts Theatre (418 S. Michigan Ave.). Eastwood will also appear at a combination cocktail reception and jam session from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Jazz Showcase in the Blackstone Hotel (636 S. Michigan Ave.). That`ll cost another $15. For ticket information on either, call 443-3735.
Seeing stars
The Fairmont Hotel (200 N. Columbus Dr.) will be a heaven for royal stargazers Saturday when Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Angie Dickinson, singer Ben E. King and columnist Art Buchwald all check in for the Chicago Rita Hayworth Gala benefiting the Alzheimer`s Association, starting at 7 p.m. However, you`ll have to do your watching from the lobby; tickets for the event have been sold out for months.
It will be one limo after another pulling up to the Chicago Hilton and Towers (720 S. Michigan Ave.) Wednesday through Oct. 14 for this year`s International Women`s Forum. Workshops and lectures will be led by an all-star lineup of top women movers and shakers from the business and media worlds. They`ll all be at Thursday night`s gala when Audrey Hepburn and Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph will be inducted into the Women`s Forum Hall of Fame. Other attendees will include Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards (keynote speaker at this year`s Democratic convention), journalist Judy Woodruff (from ”MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour”) and Christie Hefner. Bonnie Koloc, Laurel Masse, Valerie Wellington and (we`re told) Oprah Winfrey will entertain. Tickets to the gala-which begins at 7:30 p.m.-are $150. (Call 324-0202 by Monday for tickets.) But you have a better shot at seeing Lily Tomlin if you wait outside where the limos line up. She`ll appear only at a private reception Thursday (time to be determined).
Filmmaker Marcel Ophuls makes the media rounds Wednesday to promote his 4 1/2-hour docmentary, ”Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie.”
Autographs please
Artist LeRoy Neiman scrawls his name on his book, ”Monte Carlo Chase,”
at the 29 S. Wabash St. Kroch`s and Brentano`s, at noon Friday. . . . Also at Kroch`s on Wabash, Mel Torme signs copies of his autobiograhy, ”It Wasn`t All Velvet,” from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Thursday.
![Illinois is now home to a federally recognized tribal nation after the U.S. Department of the Interior placed portions of the Shab-eh-nay Reservation into trust, according to a statement Friday from the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. The federal government illegally auctioned off 1,280 acres of the Prairie Band’s reservation land 175 years ago. At the time, Chief Shab-eh-nay had been traveling from his home reservation in DeKalb County to visit his family in Kansas, the Nation said. “We have been asking for this recognition and for what is rightfully ours for nearly 200 years, and we are grateful to the U.S. Department […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CTC-L-Potawatomi-Nation-land.jpg?w=575 "Illinois is now home to a federally recognized tribal nation after the U.S. Department of the Interior placed portions of the Shab-eh-nay Reservation into trust, according to a statement Friday from the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. The federal government illegally auctioned off 1,280 acres of the Prairie Band’s reservation land 175 years ago. At the time, Chief Shab-eh-nay had been traveling from his home reservation in DeKalb County to visit his family in Kansas, the Nation said. “We have been asking for this recognition and for what is rightfully ours for nearly 200 years, and we are grateful to the U.S. Department […]")