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		Week of July 19, 2001


	Competing plans for Watson Island developments ready for evaluation
	Homestead weighs options to gain revenue from mostly idle stadium
	Gables elects to raze city hall annex, plot future for project
	Microtel buys airport-area plot for hotel venture
	4 initiatives separately seek to unknot region's snarled traffic
	One Miami team says buyer found for Biscayne Bay piece of project
	New board asked to monitor county beautification projects

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Thursday 7/19

KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS
Homage to America's car culture. 1965, 4 minutes. Part of "Reel America series." Shown with Steven Spielberg's Duel, 1971, 91 minutes. $5; $3 for members. 7 p.m. Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. Details: (305) 531-1001.

Thursday 7/26

REWIND/FAST FORWARD
Screenings of recently preserved film images from the Louis Wolfson II Media History Center. Overview by Ron Simon, TV curator, Museum of Television & Radio, New York. Included is a recently discovered Jackie Gleason Show made in Miami Beach on 11/29/69 that has not been publicly screened since. A reception follows screening and talk at 9:30 p.m. Free. 6 p.m. Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, 101 W Flagler St. Details: (305) 375-1505.
SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS
Hollywood satire. 1942, 90 minutes. Shown with Northern Pacific Railroad, 1930, 22 minutes. Part of "Reel America series." $5; $3 for members. 7 p.m. Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. Details: (305) 531-1001.

Friday 7/27

90 MILES
Florida premiere of a film by Juan Carlos Zaldivar, the only member of his family to return to Cuba. Billed as "politically charged" and "a testament to the Cuban and Cuban-American experience." 79 minutes, in English and Spanish. Part of the Louis Wolfson II Media History Center's Rewind/Fast Forward Festival. $5. 7 p.m. Colony Theater, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. Details: (305) 375-1505.
TWIST
80 minutes of archive footage on the evolution of rock-and-roll dances. Part of the Louis Wolfson II Media History Center's Rewind/Fast Forward Festival. $5. 10:30 p.m. Colony Theater, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. Details: (305) 375-1505.

Saturday 7/28

PRESENTATIONS
   "Film Preservation: View from Hollywood." Speaker: Alan Stark, co-founder, Film Technology Inc. 2 p.m. "Library of Congress." Speaker: Michael Mashon, curator, Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Television & Recorded Sound Division. 4 p.m. Includes screening of "rare images of Florida." Part of the Wolfson II Media History Center's Rewind/Fast Forward Festival. Free. Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, 101 W Flagler St. Details: (305) 375-1505.
FIVE FILMS
   Shorts "incorporating archetypical found footage" by Jay Rosenblatt. Includes Short of Breath, "a Rorschach test with moving images instead of ink blots," says Vincent Canby with the New York Times, and The Smell of Burning Ants, described as "profoundly disturbing and imaginative" by Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times. Part of the Wolfson II Media History Center's Rewind/Fast Forward Festival. $5. 8 p.m. Colony Theater, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. Details: (305) 375-1505.
GRASS
   Ron Mann documentary on the history of marijuana. 80 minutes. Part of the Wolfson II Media History Center's Rewind/Fast Forward Festival. $5. 10:30 p.m. Colony Theater, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. Details: (305) 375-1505.

Saturday 7/28

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIAMI FESTIVAL
Home movies and amateur footage of early Miami presented by Louis Wolfson II Media History Center. Also see SPECIAL EVENTS. 10 a.m. Lyric Theater, 819 NW Second Ave. Details: (305) 636-2390.

Sunday 7/29

SEMINAR
   "Achival Images & Documentary Filmmaking." Speakers: Ron Simon, TV curator, Museum of Televsion & Radio, New York; filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldivar; Steve Waxman of Higher Authority Productions, and Alina Valle of WPBT. Part of the Wolfson II Media History Center's Rewind/Fast Forward Festival. Free. Noon. Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, 101 W Flagler St. Details: (305) 375-1505.
SOUTH OF BROOKLYN
   60-minute film by Alina Valle. Part of the Wolfson II Media History Center's Rewind/Fast Forward Festival. Free. 2 p.m. Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, 101 W Flagler St. Details: (305) 375-1505.
LAST NIGHT IN CUBA. Film by University of Miami documentary unit. Part of the Wolfson II Media History Center's Rewind/Fast Forward Festival. Free. 4 p.m. Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, 101 W Flagler St. Details: (305) 375-1505.
ROCK RADIO REVOLUTION
   Rise and fall and rise again by rock deejays. Part of the Wolfson II Media History Center's Rewind/Fast Forward Festival. Free. 6 p.m. Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, 101 W Flagler St. Details: (305) 375-1505.

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