WEEKEND EVENTS

Here are a few weekend jesters to amuse people who desire or need bread-and-circuses entertainment to pad out their free time:

Rodeo tromps the Boston Garden sable each night at eight, featuring the real and unreal of vaquerdom, paunch-sing Gene Autry, and pigtails-fringe-flap Annie Oakley.

IIIicit Interlude sports ballet and bodies in a hold-over run at the Brattle; Boston censors unaccountably kept shears sheathed from Passionate Summer, at Loew's Center, the French-Italian tale of "A big stud-horse of a man" who runs up against three marish women and goats on an island.

George Shearing with quintet at Storyville in the Copley Square Hotel should be seen at the Sunday afternoon matinee (2-6:30), when the cover charge drops to two dollars.

Raintree County, with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and a whole flock of northern Gone-With-the-Winders plays at lukewarm epic-making at the Astor, to epic length. MGM spent millions on it.

Edward G. Robinson dominates Middle of the Night, at the Wilbur, as a middle-aged man trying to find true love with a decades-younger woman. A very honest and true performance.

Time Remembered, with big names Helen Hayes, Susan Strasberg, and Richard Burton has just opened at the Colonial. "An aristocratic fable, an intellectual fairy tale," Anouilh's play is Helen Hayes' platinum setting.