According to a source close to the negotiations, Hoffman's contract-described by the source as "the richest star deal in entertainment history-specifically grants him approval on all advertising connected to the film. He tapped his feet, he raised and lowered those wonderful bushy eyebrows with every orchestral climax and he could not resist secretly beating time. The donor said he would provide special scholarly access to Da Vinci's "Codex Hammer" Purchased in 1980 for $5. 2 million, it is a collection of the artist's scientific writings and 360 sketches. It's not senseless, disrespectful and dangerous like teledependency, where you watch while you're on the phone, yelling at your children or switching from channel to channel while eating. I've heard from many men who tell me they find it very difficult to go to a woman doctor, even though a woman is often far more empathetic" Far from taking a militant stance against Playboy, Penthouse or even Playgirl, Lenz is tolerant, even somewhat sympathetic of the graphic exploitation in skin magazines.

"I was talking to somebody at one of the major studios who said Americans cared about racism in the military, but they didn't care about racism in America" The cast came on board because of the caliber of "Native Son" Carroll Baker, who plays McGovern's mother, got the script in London "As I flipped through it I got so involved. Such restaurants as the Parkway Grill, the Seventh Street Bistro, Orleans, Fiasco, Chaya Brasserie, and Abacus will contribute food, and 20 or so wineries from Acacia to Storybook Mountain will pour their wares Call Maria at (213) 372-4634 for information. He is eager to make a mutually sympathetic ensemble of the cast assembled by Terence McEwen, anxious about projecting essentially intimate tragicomic impulses in a house seating well over 3,000. Everyone on the Nissan Racing Team, including the driver, thinks this may be the weekend when he wins his second. He couldn't think of any pop or rock artists he's anxious to produce but did express an interest in working with Keith Jarrett, the jazz pianist with the wildly unorthodox style "It would be a challenge" White explained. Then he ran into Michael Balhaus, the cinematographer who shot a lot of Fassbinder's pictures, and Balhaus said sure we can They started coming to the play every night They became fixtures backstage.

There have been some intriguing screen credits over the years but none, I dare say, to equal two that will appear on producer Stan Margulies' five-hour ABC miniseries of Shirley MacLaine's book "Out on a Limb" For among the cast credits of the show, scheduled to air in November, you will read: "Trance-channelers Kevin Ryerson and Sture Johanssen played by themselves" Trance-channelers? "People through whom 'entities' from the spirit world choose to speak" Margulies explained the other day. Her relationship with Megaw Artistic Director Elaine Moe proved satisfying enough that they collaborated on a musical about women in history called "Stepping Forward" which played New York's Quaigh Theatre earlier this year under the title "To Feed Their Hopes; it opens Thursday at the Mayfair in Santa Monica. The movie's only charged sense of loss or grief comes when Jack accidentally sees his stoic, lower-middle-class father, sobbing at the table. We sense complexities not even hinted at in the first two acts-for all their shouting Theater at last! But it's a long time coming D Martyn Bookwalter's set presents three interesting faces "This Story of Yours" unfortunately presents only one. Entertainment nightly and on Friday and Saturday, 10 p. m-1:30 a. m Reservations necessary All major credit cards accepted Valet parking Dinner for two: $60$165 (food only.

But the message coming to me was that I was banging my head against the wall. Yet people are attacking our freedom to say what we want to say "These people live in the dark. He wears roomy pants, not dancing tights, "so the dancers won't imitate me" he says Dance time is sacred for Joffrey. On these visits, Aldridge performed in English, while the rest of the cast spoke in the local language (in the case of the Chapman scenes, French, German or Russian is used. We had one last visit, in late August or early September, I'm not sure. In one corner, the soft, somewhat plaintive voice of Clifford Antone, the club's owner, could be heard talking to an attentive group of listeners from the media.

of Motion Picture and Television Producers said it would provide benefits to "bona fide" producers and associate producers and allow PGA members to use the guild designation behind their names on screen credits. Imagine that all this really happened in 1978, just this way, except that the chief executive was Pope John Paul I, and that corporate headquarters was the Vatican. Van Gogh's most productive time was in Arles, France, in 1888 and 1889, when in 444 days he painted about 200 oils, made more than 100 drawings and watercolors and wrote 200 letters. Also, I still think, in the wake of the Olympics, which we considered an event, that the theater has yet to recover that sense of being an event" It's business as usual at the Back Alley, however, where "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been" is currently being reprised and Donald Driver's "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" opens June 27 with Rue McLanahan and John Anderson Beepers Noisy late arrivals Interminable sotto voce chat. His love for all the music he ventured was obvious, but his mastery of many of its intricacies remained questionable. . After all the lawsuits are settled and all the breaches of all the contracts have been mended, Michael Joseph Jackson's earnings will be split by three charities: the T J. But it seems safe to say that his story has never been so well told as by noted Russian director Elem Klimov (husband of the late, highly acclaimed director Larissa Shepitko) and his writers Semyon Lunghin and Ilya Nusinov.

Specific guidelines will come up at the next council meeting in April. Home of African FabricsWe specialise in African clothing and accessories. To varying degrees, each became a victim of self-indulgence, expressive limitations and/or disfunctioning mechanics. And that's one of the things that Doonesbury characters wrestled with on graduation: How do you reconcile a belief with the imperatives of a career? Or more simply, how do you avoid being a hypocrite" "Rap Master Ronnie" on the other hand, involved no such wrestling, only what Trudeau and collaborator Swados regarded, and with grave concern, as the tone and record of Reagan's years as the nation's leader.

"We had an instant rapport" Palmer has always been respected by peers and fans largely because he has always seemed motivated by artistry rather than dollars None of his music was ever overtly commercial For him, the Top 10 was never-never land. 'MANDRAGOLA' Machiavelli's early 16th-Century bawdy farce, "Mandragola" has continued to have contemporary appeal. The hot, fresh rolls taste like the brown-and-serves you'd buy at the store. More likely he's going to wait for Zeus, or Sylvester Stallone, to ordain him. "I could have folded from pressures (about living up to challenges) a long time ago" she said flatly. What these two can make of a steady, open gaze is wonderful in its honesty and straightforwardness, and Yoakum provides valuable contrast in showing us a miserable, defeated man behind a handsome facade. Hanson directs with ease, but at some point his concern for his people overrides his concern for style and imagery.

The bonuses in returning to the United States at this time are many, Mack believes. Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest -Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! -From Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" The year is 1750, and setting sail from England is the good ship Hispaniola Destination: Treasure Island. According to one story, the first circus was staged by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, king of Egypt from 285 to 246 BC, who gathered animals, birds and reptiles from Africa and the Middle East and put them on parade for his people on days of celebration. Katleman disclosed Friday that negotiations with Bochco were ongoing for three weeks before MTM announced that, in Bochco's words, it had "invited me to leave" the series Bochco refuses to say who at MTM asked him to leave, or why. He also went crazy at cadenza time, interpolating his own convoluted network of Schnittke-esque pianissimo glissandos and throb barrages and modern sound-effect explorations. Elsewhere" Thursday"The Cosby Show; "Family Ties; "Cheers; "Night Court; "Hill Street Blues" Friday"The A-Team; "Miami Vice; "L. A Law" (new. Eurythmics' "Would I Lie to You" (RCA-Annie Lennox too should be a cinch for a Grammy nomination.

Playing on those wonderful old instruments showed us that those particular combinations of stops Bach suggested do work Now we know why he indicated them. The quality of the pieces is improving, too, as technique in all areas continues to evolve, she said. Sheldon) Ausman, co-chair of the 1986 Music Center Mercado; Edward W. Packwood said that he was under surveillance and high security most of last week but that the danger had apparently now passed. Affording nothing new, it shows how a critical subject-even child molestation-can be trivialized through repetition What's more, the movie is slow and predictable. He hosts the syndicated TV show, "Solid Gold" and two syndicated radio shows: "Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40" and, beginning this month, "American Music Magazine" He put out two albums of comedy bits and silly songs last year: "Hurt Me Baby, Make Me Write Bad Checks" and "Put It Where the Moon Don't Shine" The first one didn't sell well and Dees is now suing his producer/distributor for $550,000, alleging breach of contract for failing to properly distribute the album. "I checked it out" La Barbara said with a chuckle, "and it just happens to be her real name) "In 'Performance Piece' which is sort of a left brain-right brain exploration, a series of projected words will be seen raining down into a grid on the stage" Most intriguing, perhaps, is "Berliner Traeume" in which, according to La Barbara, "a series of historical photographs will be projected onto a fog pouring down from the ceiling" La Barbara played down this visual-aural blending as a sign of a specific new direction in her work.

"It would probably have to be a black comedy, but it would be a start". But one local arts activist, who asked not to be named, depicted the meeting this way: "I think they (festival officials) want some kind of united front to present to City Hall It would be a natural move on their part. But she delineates the long, slow middle section of the work with beautifully gauged rubato and altogether becoming low-key tension, by means of which her violent attack on the fugue that ushers in the finale becomes joltingly effective. "Trading Places" which has been bouncing up and down the chart, just bounced from No 21 back up to No 9. Now Ishioka, whose dazzling book "Eiko by Eiko" came out in late 1983, sees a whole new career opening up for her in films.

He discovered in the hospital that he could get to sleep without a drink and without much trauma. 26, hosted by the Entertainment Industry Council in recognition of her work to combat drug and alcohol abuse. "ABSENT FRIENDS" a play by Alan Ayckbourn at the Gaslamp Quarter Theatre Directed by Will Simpson Settings by Robert Earl Lighting by Matthew Cubitto Costumes by Joseph Dana Stage manager, Linda Muller. But there's a hard-core older audience for foreign films, and we try to reach it to build a larger audience for our films" Barker estimates that there are generally 300 play dates in the country for Orion Classics fare "Maybe a hundred more for the biggies" Gigliotti says. All are geometric abstractions that wed linear configurations to solid-color grounds, delicate drawing to rigid shape.