Buster Keaton

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Members of the Black-eyed Susan Cat Club will take their cats and their knowledge of felines to Linthicum Library for a demonstration on pet care July 15.Grooming, spaying and neutering and the benefits of keeping cats indoors will be among the topics discussed. The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon.Among the demonstrators will be Jo Ann M. Genovese and her cat, Humphrey "Bogie" Bogart, a prize-winning longhaired 3-year-old Maine Coon silver tabby in white show cat.Ms. Genovese, 36, club president, works at an insurance company and lives alone above a hardware store in Linthicum with four cats.

Pete Geist does not speak for most of his show. Instead of using dialogue and punch lines, the comedian relies on music, oversized props and audience participation to entertain. "What I am doing is a combination of circus skills, juggling, magic, pantomime and physical comedy," he said. "I make people laugh by using body and facial expressions." He brings his most-popular show - "GEIST: Visual Comedian" - to Columbia for a 7:30 p.m. show tomorrow at Slayton House in Wilde Lake. His show is family-friendly and features exaggerated movements to a variety of musical genres with colorful props and costuming.

Curt Heavey of art-rock band Boister will play guitar and banjo music to accompany a showing of rarely screened shorts by Buster Keaton, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson, 3134 Eastern Ave. The shorts include The Scarecrow, which involves madcap chases, The Paleface, which deals with evil oil barons and American Indians, and One Week, a comedy about newlyweds and a do-it-yourself home project. Tickets are $8-$12. Information: 410-276-1651 or go to creativealliance.

Cheerful and unpretentious, "The Bachelor" is a lightweight concoction that works best when it remembers it's supposed to be a comedy, less well when it tries to get at universal truths through the laughs.Fortunately, the film doesn't do that often, and when it does (as, for instance, when it tries to make some point about men's and women's views on romance), it moves on fairly quickly, before any real damage is done.It also never loses sight of its main strength: the chemistry between stars Chris O'Donnell and Renee Zellweger, who look so good up there together on the screen, you really hope these kids can make it work.

'Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker,' by ThomasKunkel. 497 pages. New York: Random House. $25 The best reason to read a literary biography about the editor of a humor magazine is to be entertained, at least every now and then. But there is little fun in 'Genius in Disguise,' the life of Harold Ross (1892-1951), founder and first editor of the New Yorker and a great eccentric.Ross was an unlikely person to create a sophisticated magazine. The son of a Colorado silver prospector, he dropped out of school in the 10th grade to become an itinerant reporter.

Performances Alice -- Towson University Center for the Arts, Mainstage Theatre, 8000 York Road, Towson / 410-704-2787. 10:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. Jan. 17, 8 p.m. Jan. 18-19 and 2 p.m. Jan. 20. $10-$15. Buster Keaton short films with live scores by Chuck Heavey -- Creative Alliance at the Patterson, 3134 Eastern Ave. / 410-276-1651. 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26. $8-$12. Creation -- Round House Theatre, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring / 240-644-1100. 10:30 a.m., 8 p.m. Jan. 18. Also at Towson University Center for the Arts, Studio Theatre 8 p.m. Jan. 24 and 26 and 1 p.m. Jan. 27. $10-$15.

Most American audiences know Jackie Chan through such recent Hollywood action flicks as this year's "Shanghai Noon" and the wildly funny 1998 "Rush Hour" with Chris Tucker, which reeled in $140 million. And now, having established Chan as a box-office draw in the U.S., producers are hoping audiences are interested enough in the actor to flock to an offshoot of one of his classics, "The Legend of Drunken Master." It was made in 1994 as the sequel to one of Asia's most popular kung fu classics of all time, "Drunken Master," and has been dubbed in English for re-release in America.