"A Year of the Quiet Sun" which was Times-rated Mature when it was reviewed by Michael Wilmington in Calendar on March 20, has been classified PG by the Motion Picture Assn of America. . Bloch can play spectacularly, but he is shrewd enough to not always consciously aim at the spectacular. "I was interested in getting art out into public places" she explained. Contemporary art is escaping the confines of traditional galleries and museums and finding its way into new public environments, from storefront museums in shopping malls to banks and office buildings. They can watch the backstage action-who's fighting with whom. Co-anchor Kurtis, who'll share the show next week with Maria Shriver, also wants a respite But when he goes, he won't return He wants out Some reports say he'll leave at the end of next week. Yet characters like Volkoff (who appears in person and in cartoon form on the Saturday morning kids' show, "Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling" on CBS) are not spoofs that merely exaggerate reality.

The first such spot that KCET ran in December was typical: It was a "season's greetings" spot from Wells Fargo. Leval, although saying he felt that the request "should be granted" and that such coverage was "inevitable" denied the request. "I'm a lot more concerned with realizing my dream of becoming a polished improviser, which is what be-bop is all about And that's a continual learning process that will never end. The artists have distinctly individual aesthetic personalities, but they are bound by a vision of color as an element interdependent on form. "He's freewheeling and definitely travels to the beat of his own drum, but he's under control.

But the show must go on" Bonnet and other French officials insist that the show is going on without extraordinary security measures being taken. Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports magazine, is branching into the how-to videocassette market. Garci thus joins a very select company-Bunuel, Fellini and Bergman are among his fellow members-with multiple nominations in the category. WASHINGTON — Walking alone down the corridor of the Rayburn House Office Building at the end of a long day's testimony on next year's National Endowment for the Arts budget, Rep Sidney R Yates (D-Ill) was asked about the eventual outcome. But also, going back only two years, I find that, at the end of the tenure of (board president) David Ingalls in 1982-83, we had a surplus of $70,000" Rosen admits the present financial crisis is serious and that, indeed, the orchestra could go out of business if the deficit is not erased "But" he adds, "that option is unacceptable.

But CBS' selections, announced Wednesday, suggest that timeless formulas may win out over copies of current fads. It's hard at first to see Reitz's plan; then the suggestion begins to emerge that we see moments with heightened emotional meaning in color-sometimes even selective color. (It) needs time to breathe" Mark Taper artistic director Gordon Davidson, who is in Paris, could not be reached for comment But the Taper's general manager, Stephen J. There is no way to link the art of Joseph Albers to that of Martin Puryear other than to say each currently adds up to an exhibition of exceptional interest.

you can understand why the level of appreciation is not where we'd like it to be" Davatzes believes that A&E's staying power-and continued growth-will help expand that appreciation level. It's too simple" About his own place on the musical horizon, Penderecki holds a healthy, if immodest, view "I was always an enfant terrible " he says matter-of-factly. But it left open the possibility that cast changes may be made with Michaels now back at the helm of the program. Nor did the orchestra's soloists miss their chance to earn equal status. The lad arranged a succession of spectacular head-on collisions, at some risk to the trains His father threatened to stop having them repaired.

There's good fun in "I'm Hip" tenderness in "Then I'll Be Tired of You" and a piano interlude (with Don Thompson's bass) in the Horace Silver tune "Nica's Dream" For more Shearing-and-Thompson, there is also the "Live at the Cafe Carlyle" on CCD 4246 Both 5-star sets. . Most major film studios allow channels such as Viewer's Choice to market their product at about the same time the videocassette of the film becomes available, typically months before it will be seen on such monthly services as Showtime or Home Box Office. That combination of ruggedness and intellect has always been part of his art. Everything he painted from billowing red robes to magnificent battle horses reeks with vitality. Clifford's intellectualism sounds merely chromatic, with strong pitch centers, and Lady Chatterley's sensuality seems cramped, always compromised by parody. This week's "In the Works" plays are Thomas Babe's "Planet Fires" (Thursday and Saturday) and Neal Bell's "Sleeping Dogs" (today, Friday and Sunday) Information at (213) 410-1062.

Barkin's waitressing days aren't that far behind her (old customers still recognize her on the street"Remember me? Cheese and eggs, yet she's had an uncanny knack for winning roles in the kinds of films that set critics' hearts afire. With a top ticket price of $50 (now increased to $75, it figured to appeal to people who didn't mind blowing a lot of money on a night out that was different, if it really was different. It has been quite a lovely year for actresses. On average, half of Los Angeles restaurantgoers order dessert, while only about 30% of those who eat out in New York are similarly indulgent. Formation of the council effectively ended debate on Wilson's and Hatfield's proposals. In an effort to draw even more people into the tent, the League of Producers and Theatres of Greater Los Angeles hopes to launch what would be Los Angeles' third try at half-price ticket booths.

"I'm not for the whole competition thing; there's no such thing as the 'best' If five guys played the same part, that's one thing. Bottled water is crammed under an Army cot littered with boxes and bags. Not long before, one of Marlowe's Cambridge pals had been burned at the stake for atheism. He will lead the first three weeks' programs and return for two weeks in January and two in March.

"If we get this right, it will make you laugh and break your heart" he said. None of the questions involved ABC News operations or the Central Intelligence's Agency's still-pending complaint to the Federal Communications Commission about two disputed ABC News reports, aired last year, about an indicted businessman in Hawaii and the CIA. Jacob Even, Israel's consul general to the Western United States, will be interviewed on "News Conference 4 L. A" 9 a. m (4. You can't put your finger on it, but even when we play, say, an old Basie thing like 'Moten Swing' we lend it our own personality" Juggernaut today plays nightclubs, concerts and dance dates, mostly in and around Los Angeles, but with occasional forays such as festivals in Concord and Ojai. Dick Clark, "The $25,000 Pyramid" CBS. Bill Cullen, "Celebrity Hot Potato" NBC Richard Dawson, "Family Feud" ABC Pat Sajak, "Wheel of Fortune" NBC. 63 in 1981 and Lou Reed's "Berlin" dropped after reaching No 98 in 1973. The place is the spiffily quaint Southwest Museum high atop Museum Drive in Highland Park (exit the Pasadena Freeway at Avenue 43 and follow the signs-carefully, as they are rather small.

Moments after an electrified Sudanese jug band began warming up, a dusky latter-day Brenda Lee stepped to the microphone amid cheers and wolf whistles from the post-Ramadan revelers. Kieser, president of the organization that bestows the awards for "humanizing achievement in television" found cause for optimism about the medium's future. Three of Hunter's classics covered the same tawdry turf"Magnificent Obsession" (1954, with Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman; "Back Street" (1961, starring Susan Hayward and John Gavin, and "Madame X" (1966, with Lana Turner and John Forsythe. Douglas Jacobs, artistic director of the San Diego Repertory Theatre, likes to bring in outside specialists for the Rep's Friday Night Forums. "So we're asking the City Council to reconsider" said a Chartoff-Winkler spokesman, explaining that the producers have agreed to pay the costs of the change, "like the street sign and the alteration of maps". It aims to be "a dramatic infusion of high-tech, gourmet dining and sophisticated New York-style entertainment" It manages pretty well at the first and the last-the view is spectacular, the room dramatically modern, and entertainer Michael Feinstein is a delight. Sydney May Morrison, the Megaw's artistic co-director, directs here, and has this to say: "Sheldon was highly instrumental in the development of 20th-Century theater in America.

He encouraged the younger boy's passion for raising and training falcons, and when he incinerated himself clumsily with burning hashish oil, Boyce mourned his loss. Fanny, the mother, feels that the house has grown too big for them-especially now that the father is no longer producing any work"At its core, I think the play is about the nature of creativity, about what it is to feel that germ bubbling up out of the subconscious, and the early guilt, pain and anxiety of trying to bring it to life and knowing that one is self-absorbed in the process. Her self-effacing portrayal in Stanley Kramer's "Ship of Fools" of an overweight, perspiring, dying, defeated woman, was an act of bravery as well as consummate art, and I thought she should have had the Oscar as well as the nomination. No less typically, the band works only a few nights a month and most of its members earn their living as free-lancers in the TV, movie and recording studios.

citizens who will be between the ages of 17 and 26 by May 24. But what is a Dylan public appearance without a few sparks? Though publicist Norman Winter instructed the assembled writers and TV crews that this was to be a presentation, not a press conference, reporters couldn't resist shouting questions at Dylan. Throughout the radiothon, interviewers who included radiothon anchor Scott Shannon, Dick Clark, Mary Turner and Casey Kasem, all urged listeners to send letters of support to the USA for Africa Foundation. Its sound is not voluptuous, but it does deliver the goods and the brass section would seem to be first rate. The first HBO/Silver Screen film, "Flashpoint" was barely a blip on the box-office charts last year. The exhibition lends itself to accounting rather than analysis, but its strength is in individual artworks that convey something more authentic than affiliation with transient art movements.