After listening to forecasts of cities destroyed and untold millions killed in a nuclear showdown with the Soviets, Kennedy turns to his FBI chief and says, "Do you still want to attack Cuba" An ominous figure in the play, a Major Smith, is shown hovering in the background with a black case containing the codes necessary to launch a nuclear strike President Kennedy, portrayed by the well known actor A A. Judith Anderson, Robert Mitchum, Elmer Bernstein and Yvonne DeCarlo are among the notable residents of Santa Barbara who will attend a kickoff celebration Sunday for their city's inaugural Santa Barbara International Film Festival The festival will be held Feb. "Some of my flavor combinations" he admits, "are influenced by the tastes of my California childhood" Carter specializes in creative inventions like mango and brandied cherry pate or cream of coconut and strawberry "soup" He also makes a popular frozen apricot sabayon on a bed of apples, almonds and raisins. It is no surprise to discover that Southern Californians are more fitness-conscious than people in any other part of the country. Only this camera happens to be on a satellite 22,000 miles in space, and its pictures will be part of the program of a unique conference inside what locals know, affectionately, as the Blue Whale. Her colleagues said she had turned to look at a wedding procession when she lost her balance and fell off. "There have to be better ways and better days and I think if I work on these things in myself, it will make things better" It was an intensely introspective Richard Pryor that decided to make "Jo Jo" which is the most personal-and perhaps commercially riskiest-kind of film making one can imagine for a person with his star power.

Have we got a scary movie for you! Not since the halcyon days of "Nosferatu" and "Dr Jekyl and Mr. Instead of limiting their teamwork to this sentimental journey, the Nashes should record together, offering us yet another reminder that there is no generation gap in jazz. . An intriguing, if erratic low-budget film that follows the L. A-based band's career over the past five years, it offers fascinating glimpses of the group's personal mythology, home lives, rehearsal process and eclectic musical background. The composer claims to have made liberal use of Harriet Tubman's words as quoted in two biographies. "What I find so giving in the theater-it's so strongly an interdependent art-is that you work together with others to raise a consciousness. "There were only a couple of scenes with Pepsi in them" said a source close to the production asking for anonymity "They're not there now, but Coke had nothing to do with it They were just in scenes that happened to get cut" Hmmmm. . Being in the theater and maintaining a personal life is not an easy task.

What the cameras did, though, was witness scenes of election rigging that belied the words of Marcos as he tried using American TV to make his post-election case directly to the American people. NEW YORK — David Hartman decided he wanted to do a prime-time special on computers, microchips and high tech after playing with a sports watch-and losing. A few minutes later, the limo was back, without its passenger The chauffeur is no fool He's in the movie. The show was black and white, of course, and black and white by now looks startlingly prehistoric. Stephen Barr lends strong triple assistance as the dominant male figure in each of the women's lives. Warner Home Video announced that it will distribute two different versions of "Once Upon a Time in America: Sergio Leone's 225-minute uncut version, priced at $89. 95, and the much-maligned 143-minute theatrical version, for $79. 95. "The advances that brought us modern medicine also brought us alienation.

Ralph Richmond is a congenial Prince of Wales, and he incorporates some complexity in his portrayal. NEW YORK — For film maker Ken Burns, the night he spent with the lady with the torch was a night of cinematic bliss Burns has this thing for edifices. The conceit is to create a fairy-tale world, in spite of the play's sophistication. He stayed in bed and sent his daughter to pick up his golden statuette Initials 34 Old MacDonald, just getting started 35 Angst from the East 37. "There is this incredible sense of proportion that the French culture has. " "The Cosby Show" drew praise for being a sensitive, mature production about a family that happens to be black, while "The A-Team" and its star Mr T were considered negative.

But until the Rimon School opened last fall, the academies where legitimate music students in Israel could continue their studies specialized in only one "dialect-classical. You have to git man off your eyeball before you can see anything a'tall" This observation also applies to the man-god and does indeed cast aspersions upon the source of Christian knowledge about the man-god, the Bible. Directed by Pieter Verhoeff, "The Dream" which was The Netherlands' official entry in the recent Oscar sweepstakes, is a beautiful, somber re-creation of an actual incident that occurred in 1895 in Friesland, a province of the Northern Netherlands on the North Sea. David Crosby, the subject of arrest warrants issued last week in Texas, canceled his concert Saturday night at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach. "Heartbeat Theater" the last live, regularly scheduled radio drama produced in Hollywood, suffered cardiac arrest last October and finally goes off the life-support system this week.

Paik's piece is the fifth work of public art installed by the Stuart Collection on the campus. Levine and DG missed a golden opportunity for fresh recordings of the complete scores rather than the conventional concert abridgements. His blend of psychological and mystical phenomena-through heavy-handed elemental and painterly metaphors-has become an exercise in virtuoso style. The cartoon sparked a long career for Nash and a universal love for the cranky, crazy duck. Our eye might simultaneously be caught by broad "landscapes" of black and white or impastoed areas of unstable depth that create a false sense of linear perspective. That concert-titled "Boulangerie-Music by American Students of Nadia Boulanger-will offer works by Copland, Harris, Rodriguez, Talma and Carter.

When the Oscar nominations were announced in February, and Steven Spielberg was not nominated for best director, several industry insiders interpreted that as a personal snub to the director, who was making his serious dramatic film debut with "Purple" From the day of its release, Spielberg's adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Alice Walker novel sparked controversy Feminists complained that it was sexist. When we appear at Pompidou Center as fashion models for (couture designer) Issey Miyake, we're listed as 'Miyakemix' " Accustomed to group interviews, the four take turns chiming in, never dropping a beat in the steady flow of talk. One method is on-location interviews, and an upcoming segment of "Book Talk" will be shot at a local science-fiction writer's home. With artists of such striking authority and individuality in the central roles, Ballet Theatre allowed the viewer to focus upon the plight of the characters-and to disregard the gaucheries of direction and design Most Giselles make a demure entrance in Act I. At this point Eleni managed to smuggle her son and her three daughters out of Lia in the hopes that they might rejoin their father, already a citizen in America.

for the Advancement of Colored People, in a letter to the academy. It is located just northwest of Perpignan, near the village of Cases-de-Pene, in France's Roussillon region-which is to say just north of the Spanish border, on the Mediterranean side. It was unclear Monday, however, when the Malibu museum will take possession of Andrea Mantegna's "The Adoration of the Magi" which the museum bought in April for the record-setting price. His earlier film, "Sunday Daughters" (1979, about troubled adolescent girls in a state-run institution, was a revelation, both in the exceptional frankness of its story and for its fine naturalistic performances. Peter Jemison, Dan Namingha, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Randy Lee White and Emmi Whitehorse. His family was in oil and his father commissioned the now-renowned Price Tower from Frank Lloyd Wright.

(And why did he have to be sent out of his own country for treatment in the first place) Poor guy. According to stories in various trade journals, the downward trend started in May, when $72. 3 million was registered at the box office vs $92. 7 million last year On some weekends, ticket sales have been down 20. For the last two months, Goss has called the marathon men and woman at 8:40 a. m sharp, every day. Another $10 million would fund the museum's program endowment, currently $8. 4 million. "Don't blame it on racism; don't blame it on drugism" he was telling the inmates at this East Facility of the California Institution for Men "Stop this with blaming Don't blame anybody "Self-esteem is the game I had the same choices; I had the same temptations (as you "Work on yourself That's all you can do, one moment at a time Self-esteem-you've got to work on it every day.

Some feminists argue that it's dehumanizing for an actress to take off her clothes for pay and that, in shedding her self-respect, she sheds a little of the self-respect of her whole gender. Tonight at 7:30 Filmforum will present Broughton and three of his films at the Wallenboyd Center, 301 Boyd St. Mohan playing the classical south Indian mridangam drum and Valayapatti Subramanium (no relation, who beat the thavul with the fingers of his left hand and with a drumstick held in his right. Pete Wilson (R-Calif, who recently visited Korea and met with top government officials, issued a statement Tuesday proposing that trade sanctions be imposed on South Korea unless it opens its markets to the U. S film industry before Jan. Tri-Star Pictures and Rastar Productions plan to wait for Winger, hoping that Coppola can be kept on hold. "About two years ago everybody went to video, but lately a lot of people have been requesting live, new music again. There is a wide range out there" Each day of the week, A&E's prime-time schedule is intended to appeal to a different type of viewer within that range.

Actually, the album version of this 1983 heavy-metal collection, a phenomenal commercial success, sounds better than the CD. Unfortunately, it's not as easy to sympathize with her character, who must have everything her way. In November, the program profiled soprano Jessye Norman and composer Aaron Copland. "The Ultimate Solution of Grace Quigley" is a fine example of what the French call a film maudit , or cursed film. What makes this new Russian jazz so special is its very high level of originality.

The show includes 150 prints spanning more than 40 years of work. (Archerd alerted producer Howard Koch) Though Oscar night is clearly Archerd's most important evening of the year, it is his daily column that remains his first love. The quartet is accomplished and energetic, but the performances suffer from too light a touch; finesse is Higgins' stock in trade as a drummer, but periodically applying a bit more muscle here wouldn't have hurt 3 1/2 stars. . The material combines five brief selections by Hamilton or Duke Ellington that emphasizes the clarinet's sonorous qualities and long pieces from Carter and Batiste that open the door to more experimental forays. Then she sang-a lively number written especially for her about 20 years ago by Livingston and Evans.