A comparison between Katrina and Chrissie Hynde is hard to avoid, because of the awesome power and versatility of their voices and their ability to convey toughness and tenderness. Black string bands were popular all over the South in the '20s, livening up fish fries, medicine shows and the occasional white debutante ball with their syncopated jug-band music. "But it's not really feminist, although it speaks of the female condition. The strains of Glenn Miller's "Tuxedo Junction" wafting from a loudspeaker set an appropriately nostalgic tone as more than 125 people gathered on the ocean front sidewalk in Newport Beach on Tuesday awaiting the answer to the question, "What ever happened to the Rendezvous Ballroom" The answer came with the unveiling of a bronze commemorative plaque set in concrete just a few yards from the former site of the Rendezvous, the dance hall where virtually every major big band performed during the 1930s and '40s. But people change their mind, even people with a Boston house in escrow. The stars of Taylor Hackford's thriller "White Nights" which is opening shortly, are dancers Gregory Hines and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Obviously a white-haired man talking is not great stereo source material.
Fox and Rebecca DeMornay present the Oscar for art direction Sally Field presents an honorary Award to Paul Newman. Even if it was a disaster, it would be a unique disaster because it was a musical" Anticipating a secondary film acting career, Manilow's been taking lessons from veteran actress Nina Foch Like all actors, his problem was finding good scripts. Simultaneously friendly and threatening, "Sequi" (whose name has no significance outside the artist's accounting system) is both familiar and foreign, natural and expressionistic. Maybe that's how you end the threat of nuclear holocaust and soft-sell world peace.
"A woman with a 'honey-child' accent is perceived as a featherhead. Part of the station's programming commemorating Black History Month in February, "Reggae: The Beat of the Heart" was co-produced by reggae authorities Malika Lee Whitney, author of the biography "Bob Marley, Reggae King of the World" and Jonathan Blunk, who has a reggae radio show on an East Orange, N. J, listener-supported radio station. Otherwise, who needs it-with "Broadway Danny Rose" and "Casablanca" all cranked up and the popcorn in the bowl?. But too much of this album seems a stylistic exercise edging dangerously close to self-parody. You have no trouble identifying with Spacek, burned out and eager to draw close to her loving family. Or to Bruce Barthol as a gangling student from Reliable Bible College, who can't stop smiling because it feels so gosh-darned good to be saved! I even found it in my heart to enjoy Chumley's Jerry Falwell, with his jaunty certainty that the Commies and the Devil were the same Entity. It does, however, serve food-a single prix-fixe meal, the same year-round, and only at lunchtime (daily during the summer and weekends from Sept 16 to June 14.
-But Lawrence Schiller, the project's original producer and director, who paved the way for Soviet cooperation, was ousted from the production just before it began shooting on Russian soil. We didn't have finished designs when we started, and this wet December didn't help" Compounding the problems of refurbishing the 1916 building was a building design on file with the city that didn't comply with the earthquake code (which didn't exist in 1916) and a slowdown in the delivery of materials (such as concrete, brought about by traffic restrictions during the summer Olympics. In the meantime, Brustad has announced the 1986-87 season, one which he says will stay close to the fiscal limits of 1985-86. But I would still travel a far piece to see a superior work of animation.
When I found out I thought God was white and a man, I lost interest" The characterization of the liberating relation between Shug and Celie leads to Walker's larger message about the terms of redemption. We're more like naughty little boys, not out-and-out villains" On stage the diminutive Young, always in a schoolboy uniform of short pants and blazer, does look like an overgrown kid. At the end of each show there'll be a listing of current job openings to be updated every two weeks so that the episodes can be repeated periodically. Instead of filling the college's 2,500-seat gymnasium, as organizers had hoped, attendance peaked at around 500 for Fishbone's 2 p. m. Humor is notoriously hard to handle in art, and there's a debilitating streak of silliness in Alexander's treatment of serious themes, but his work is fun to look at because it's so spirited and richly painted.
Boston Official Bartender's Guide" (Karl, $14. 95, which teaches you how to mix drinks. Sources estimated a $7-million cost alone for the pirate galleon being captained by star Walter Matthau, whose personal price tag was set at more than $1 million. And in his most chilling command, he has ordered the execution of his older brother Fredo. Just below the ad line-in living, life-size color-was a battered, venomous-looking Schwarzenegger, gnashing his molars and looking for any living thing that he might be able to crush with his bare pincers. His leadership in this area has added a welcome dimension to the orchestra's profile. . To achieve this goal, they approved of a popularized imagery that would touch people directly through strong emotional reaction, rather than through complex intellectual dogma. A Columbia spokesman said two Christmas movies"A Chorus Line" (an Embassy picture being released through Columbia) and "Murphy's Romance-will be added to the academy screening schedule after they open to the public. THIN FIELD: This year's Oscar Derby, by the way, looks more like a sack race.
But it's enjoyable to key in to Smith's memories and to feel them dislodge memories of one's own childhood. "If I'd had $50,000, I could have spent it all in two or three weeks getting the place open. Aired on Sunday nights, the program now is consistently in the Nielsen Top 10 list, and reportedly earns CBS $70 million annually (Hewitt says he can neither confirm nor deny the figure, but "I've heard it so often that it must be true. This controversial-and longstanding-practice had been the subject of recurring rumors about payoffs and other illegal activities by some indie promoters. Analysts have placed the blame for summer '85's woes on such things as cyclical depression, product glut and genre madness.
"A lot of organ builders today are saying they are creating authentic copies, but they haven't copied them at all "Now don't get me wrong" Welch quickly added "I'm not a purist I'm incredibly moderate. We see him as a child peering through a keyhole in the Peoria brothel in which he grew up, sneaking a look at his mother at work. "Finnegan Begin Again" a made-for-cable film directed by Silver, started its Home Box Office run this week. But after a couple of hours-and this show lasts 3 1/2 hours-it begins to look like actors indulging themselves (and repeating themselves. Before Hooper returned to the day's filming, he emphasized, "It should be known in advance that this is going to be a zany, warm, wonderful film-not dark and deadly It's gonna be entertaining".
Instead of using the distance to organize the land into neat compositions, Osmond employs it as a license to engage in drama. Last week artistic director Robert Smyth announced a major national play writing contest, the Fieldstead New Plays Award, to be administered by National City players. It was like I was made to rebel" he recalled, somewhat bitterly. But, he conceded, it might be such a factor to somebody else.
"It's what keeps the academy free and independent of the studios" Peck says. Louis, Arkansas, Kansas City and Long Beach-Ruth Golden would seem ready for her debut in July with New York City Opera. It is the heritage of our great writers like Jorge Amado, painters like Di Cavalcanti and musicians like Villa-Lobos. Eugene Scribe's marvelously convoluted libretto deals, in precious rhyme, with quasi-historical conflicts in 15th-Century Constance. Maximilian Schell's captivating 1984 documentary "Marlene" will have a preview screening at 8 p. m Sunday D W. Rap stardom, not carpentry or plumbing, is the profession to which they aspire"If they don't go to the street, they go to the tube" he said when interviewed in Claremont the day he was to give the keynote speech at a major fund-raising event for the Claremont Graduate School. Robert Colescott has not only had such outrageous visions, he has made them concrete in ironically witty canvases that make high sport of racial stereotypes.
But that turns the play into "Macbeth" It is "Hamlet" and for the most part the Shakespeare Society audience gets an accurate reading of it. It comes from New York, but whatever the difference, it makes very good mozzarella He likes it rolled around prosciutto. About 20 paintings from the folk art collection of Peter Tillou will be on view Oct 2 and 3 at Sotheby's, 308 N Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. "Ellie, a 10-year-old girl, is having a difficult time deciding whether or not to accept her new stepmother. WASHINGTON — Sonia Landau, chairman of the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, says that the Reagan Administration's budget proposal for CPB, which recommends cutbacks in the federal appropriation, is a "respectable beginning" for the industry to move ahead.
In this manner Lin juxtaposes fey scarf dances with flashy ballet steps, Peking Opera acrobatics with Graham-based modern dance, re-creations of a fabled yet oppressive heritage with depictions of rootless, dangerous life today. "And because it's so well done and so widely publicized, people trust it. Adams, as series host, also visits radio swap meets and the homes of collectors. The theater, however, the Tricycle, is an exciting space, with its plain-pipe-rack framing and its obvious commitment to the people in the neighborhood Theater in London can be just down the road. .
But, no: Isaak's repertoire the two nights I saw him this week didn't include any Presley tunes. Ticket prices will range from $3 for a Tuesday "new-wave showcase" nights to $10. 50 for big-name performers. "But I think with the condition of the theater and the screen, we lost a lot of that audience that came on a regular basis We hope to change that "Everything is pretty much experimental We'll have to see how (the new format) works. You really don't want to kick a friend, or a movie, like this-because, after all, how many have you got? Snarl at it too much and you're liable to wind up with nothing but a "Highlander" a "Hitcher" and a bunch of "Nomads" hanging around. Sculptor Gary Martin is participating in "Engaging Objects: The Participatory Art of Mirrors, Mechanisms and Shelters" at the Clocktower in New York, through June 15. Day-of-the-performance half-price tickets are available at the Old Globe Theatre box office for "Bert and Maisy" and "Pygmalion" Subject to availability, the tickets are sold Tuesday through Friday from 4:30 to 6:30 p. m and Sundays from 3:30 to 5:30 p. m. Because the venerable Juilliard Quartet has been admired for its musical probity and intellectual acuity for such a long time, it's been easy to forget that the ensemble, superior to all its competitors in music making, remains equally distinguished as a sound-making body.
From Janos, who's beginning to depart from Magda's hard line, Juli learns of Magda's heroism in fighting for her beliefs. Kennedy to life in a one-man show he has performed for theater audiences around the country. The other 800,000 calls came from people who meticulously dictated their names and their addresses before declaring their support for President Reagan and hanging up. "I belong to a very unstable profession and I don't want what's happened to others to happen to me" she said earlier this week "So, I started writing. But my art is as much an embrace as it is a critique" The Los Angeles-based photographer was discussing his current exhibition, on display through April 21 at Balboa Park's Museum of Photographic Arts. "I was very disappointed" But with "Enemy Mine" and his starring role in the coming Tri-Star film "Iron Eagle" directed by Sidney Furie, he is optimistic again. McGee is co-owner of the Edge Gallery in Fullerton and has served as chairman of the Arts Alliance's visual arts committee.
Finally, the present assembly of art belatedly celebrates the 10th anniversary of the gallery, which opened in 1975 (farther west on Melrose Avenue) with another Man Ray show. He's Howard the Duck-a tough-talking, no-nonsense waddler from the planet Duck World-and he's accidentally blasted into another dimension Ours. Cantonese fare includes monkey brain soup and anything that swims and anything with four legs except tables, according to Quayle The Chinese also dine on yummy anteater and cooked snake. While his fans suffer to work back on the freeways, Morgan is pulling in seven-pounders "We're talking fresh water here" he said. "I don't think the changes will mean anything to parents, but it's a wake-up call to producers, writers and directors who may begin to ask themselves if that drug scene is really necessary" Dyak is disappointed that alcohol was not included in the new directive.
And television is still the only place where the Hall of Fame exists. There was also a scene where a hooker did a transvestite's hair. Sensible beings would have destroyed these weapons years ago. "The best story I have" she says, humor now filtering the heartache "I was invited to the opening of the Universal Ampitheatre I was beside myself I went I think Frank Sinatra was opening it. Of late, a cadre of "Good Morgan L. A" loyalists has been despairing of ever again hearing the graybearded grouch on Los Angeles radio. As a Chinese-American, it bothers me that he portrayed us as being one step removed from being rats" "Year of the Dragon" promulgates Asian stereotypes.