SFist Tonight
*FILM: Angela Lansbury plays one of the cruelest mother's in film history, Elanor Iselin, in John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Re-made a few years ago with Meryl Streep during the Gulf War era, the re-make lacked Frankenheimer's Cold War paranoia that infuses this classic political thriller about a Korean War POW brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. (Really, it's a sublime watch. Even if the political thriller genre isn't your bag.) Laurence Harvey stars as the brainwashed officer in question. And Frank Sinatra pretty much rules the screen -- that is, whenever Lansbury isn't on it.
9:35 p.m. // Castro Theatre (Castro & Martket Streets) // $6-$9
READING: Huf Po columnist and social/political activist/politician Tom Hayden reads from his latest effort, Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader. Q&A follows the lecture/reading. Oh, and be sure to ask him a question about being to married to Jane Fonda. We're sure he loves those kinds of inquiries.
7 p.m. // City Lights (261 Columbus) // free
MUSIC: Panic at the Disco, Motion City Soundtrack, the Hush Sound, and Phantom Planet all have very attractive lead singers -- you know, in that forcedly nebbish and nerdy kind of way. Which is why they're all performing tonight at the Warfield.
8 p.m. // Warfield (982 Market) // $35
VISUAL ART: Johnny Ray Houston recommends catching the dark-yet-horny photo exhibit "Burlesque: Photographs by Robert Adler." At this NSFW showm which features burlesque images from days of yore, Adler himself will be across the street from Hyde Street Gallery--where tonight's opening reception will be held--kicking it over at Bacchus Wine Bar and signing copies of Burlesque.
6 p.m.-9 p.m. // Hyde Street Gallery (1987 Hyde) // free
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