According to Guidi, Erickson "makes her statements very subtly, but they always happen. " In 10 weeks' time, actor Perkins will be stepping into the ring for the first time-not only starring as the demented Norman Bates in "Psycho 3" but also directing the movie. Sam Shepard's plays didn't draw particularly well in New York when he was merely a playwright, but that's changed since he became a movie star. Barefoot, she makes her entrance just before the Habanera with her back to the audience She looks thin, boyish, gawky. And we had thought, maybe afterward, a few would stay and swap a couple of songs The final count was 80.

Thomas Browne Henry is named associate director, but effectively takes over day-to-day operations. Yet, as clearly a lover of beauty, Broughton does emphasize the young and the naked! Phones: (714) 628-7331, (213) 387-2000. -A steward on an airplane told him that, by example, Billy Jack had turned his son from a life of crime to a career as an attorney. It's taken all of the inaugural season, but the Los Angeles Theatre Center has come up with an honest-to-goodness, nonmodern classic that is at the same time (a) a bit of a literary curio, (b) a virtually forgotten, certainly neglected, script and (c) a striking herald of feminist self-assertion, written long before such an idea had taken hold of the popular imagination. After serving as chairwoman of the opening gala for Symphony Hall (which netted the orchestra more than $700,000, Dorene Whitney received a form letter that was sent to all who had helped with the gala. The most relevant-as well as the most eloquently delivered-speech on this subject came from 77-year-old actor Don Ameche, whose last two movies, "Trading Places" and "Cocoon" have been huge income producers for the exhibitors. Jack McGowran and Billie Whitelaw are among the actors who appear in play and story fragments.

Australia's Midnight Oil isn't thought of as a particularly humorous band, but during the last year or so the quintet's career has been characterized by some improbable developments and absurd events worthy of the Marx Brothers. That "Night Raid on Nijo Castle" is a tour de force building job. Rock star John Taylor was adamant about not sitting directly in front of the window of his two-story villa on the grounds of the Sunset Marquis hotel. That's why it's important to sustain Murrow as a model, even if the legend may conflict with the man. . Boyle; "Second Debut" segment of the "New Heartbeat Theater" syndicated, April Dammann; "The Next War" segment of "The Stereo Theater" American Public Radio, Jan Hartman; and "Shadow of Night" segment of "The New Heartbeat Theater" Michael Utvich.

It's too early to tell about "Bachelor Party" which debuted at No 21. Should "Cocoon" perform at the box office as well as insiders expect, Howard's career would move up a sprocket into the rarefied ranks of A-plus directors who can effectively pick and choose projects with little interference from the studios. Special Golden Lions were given to directors John Huston of the United States, Manuel de Oliveira of Portugal and Federico Fellini of Italy. . "Unless the (film) industry comes up with a series of blockbusters, or devises more effective marketing strategies, the decline in movie attendance will continue" Freehill says the Market Facts study, which also monitored trends in TV viewing and home computer usage, was commissioned by a large entertainment company that he will not name. Only in retrospect are things clear, he seems to say, if they're ever clear at all And then it's too late "Master Harold.

The flip side of this approach is that a few of Miss Rasch's actions aren't quite as credible in the hands of Fields-her smoking, for example, or more important, her final desperate deed. The evil Baron Scarpia got lost at the end of Act I, the cognoscenti complained, because the stage swarmed with a distracting cast of thousands celebrating the Te Deum at an impeccably, hyperexpensively reconstructed Sant'Andrea della Valle. Medley of three original song nominees: "Surprise, Surprise" with Greg Burge, from "A Chorus Line; "Miss Celie's Blues" with Tata Vega, from "The Color Purple" and "Separate Lives" with Stephen Bishop and Mariyn Martin, from "White Nights" Cher presents the supporting actor Oscar. Equal parts nostalgia, political activism, celebration and rock 'n' rolling, the show had produced a reasonable amount of top-notch music by the time it ended a couple of hours behind schedule and well past midnight.

And as in the original, Jesus suffers real tribulations, not always sure where this is all going to end That gives a real note of triumph to the Resurrection "I'm here" Keys yells joyously But the "here" is elongated. It always seemed like second-rate Mozart, the work of a hack" Cave admitted "Then, I found out why. For instance, when the cats improvise a locomotive for Skimbleshanks (Thom Keeling, everything on it could conceivably have come from a junk pile, from its teapot chimney to its lawn-rake cow catcher. His work as he moved from craftsman to artist, from romantic to realist, reflects the course of America, and those assumptions, both social and philosophical, upon which it is based" George Stevens Jr. Recent appointments: Writer and critic Beverly O'Neill is the new provost at CalArts.

Although little seen on the West Coast, the 53-year-old artist has long been considered a bulwark of the radical New York sculptural establishment whose work shades from confrontational Minimalist monoliths to the perceptual mind-games of Process art and the subversive aggression of Performance. I loved it' She'd forgotten me but remembered all the characters" The agent asked for a zippier first chapter. But "At Close Range" is about the underbelly of the idyll, where the best these drop-out dopester high schoolers can hope for is a steady job fixin' Chevies for $10 an hour, when what they want are hot, fast cars and easy money. It means for the conductor and stage director that we don't have to accept everything the singers come with-conceptually and interpretively. The All-Stars-which also features bassist George (Fully) Fullwood, rhythm guitarist-vocalist Tony Chin, drummer Larry Dent, and vocalist Keidi Howard-have two benefit concerts scheduled for next week: Tuesday the group performs at the Belly Up Tavern in Solano Beach, followed next Friday by an 8:30 p. m appearance at the Woman's Club in Laguna Beach The latter will benefit the Ethiopian Famine Relief Fund. They'll control the market' KIDVID: This has been a big year for children's videocassettes and, predicts Richard Fried, director of marketing for Disney Home Video, next year should be even better. But she also points out that the new owners reconfirmed her contract in December Whether her programming brief has changed, she's not saying.

We may deplore Magda's politics and her dictatorial ways, but Meszaros allows us to see her as a human being, genuinely caring about Juli. This trend, which just packs tunes by various artists together in hopes of getting some hit singles, has been bad for movies (the music does little to enhance the dramatic purpose of the film) and for the pop audience (so many of these collections are middle-brow in tone. De-centered compositions, severely cropped heads and feet and generally claustrophobic framing and palette conjure up images of the artist as manipulated performer, a tamed beast in danger of losing its identity to the demands of the market place. Jim Henson and his Muppets present the Oscar for animated short film Audrey Hepburn presents the Oscar for costume design Louis Gossett Jr presents the Oscar for documentary feature Teri Garr presents the Oscar for makeup Irene Cara presents the Oscar for sound.