Almont Drive, and through Tuesday at Larry Gagosian Gallery, 510 N Robertson Blvd. . A five-member jury then reviewed about 5,000 slides and 16 videotapes, selecting one winner from each region. In June, 1982, Chrismas offered New Yorkers Dexter Guerrieri and Jane Ordway two Rauschenbergs for just $110,500, about one-fourth their market value, Chrismas testified in a sworn declaration. "Nah, not really, I don't really like the violence" he said as his mobile home carried him to the next set-up. "We will still do the big ones downtown (at Civic Theatre, but in addition we want to launch a series at the Old Globe Theater" In 1985-86, Campbell notes, four operas will be presented in the 3,000-seat Civic Theatre, and two in the more intimate Globe, including Peter Maxwell Davies' 4-year-old theater piece, "The Lighthouse" The second Old Globe production is yet to be announced "We will use the Globe to experiment 'The Lighthouse' is not for everyone, and that's fine. The shuffle started when Anthony Thomopoulos resigned as president of the ABC Broadcast Group A day later, Lewis H. In January: "Mask" "Prizzi's Honor" "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" "St.

Pete Wilcox headlines an Elvis Presley birthday celebration Tuesday at the Palomino. . It will feature scores of concerts, exhibitions and workshops, plus an arts "Imaginarium" fair created especially for this celebration. Fielding ignored the surface realities of time and place, forcing attention on the tormented protagonists. The audience was charmed-but not so much that it demanded an encore. The political situation has affected the availability of South African recordings: England's Rough Trade stopped distributing them two years ago after hearing that royalties were going to the whites-only musicians union. "The promised land is in sight for all of us" guild president Melville Shavelson said.

Intact from that era are such monuments as a great city gate and an imperial palace. Auctioneer Patrick Lindsay started the bidding at $3 million, and the Getty quickly outran its competition, a representative of New York's Wildenstein gallery bidding for an unnamed client. "I wanted to play with a group, and so I started one then, at 12. At its swiftest, Gray's special kind of dramaturgy is not what you'd call wildly commercial. You can't plan that; you luck out" She doesn't previsualize her work but often makes "little thumbnails" as a way of "putting it all down" before selecting what will be used "It's incredible the ways that something can be said The hard part is decisions" she said "The simplest thing is to take one figure and blow it up. By definition, bona fide spintos flourished in the generous, long-lined, middleweight challenges that fell somewhere between refined lyric simplicity and full-force dramatic indulgence Vocal categories are, of course, man-made As such, they must be somewhat arbitrary. Georgia O'Keeffe was the absolute last survivor of the first generation of American artists to forge an avant-garde art on the anvil of the American sensibility.

Yet, Walker, Lewis, Howard, Bryant, Charles Quertermous as the helpful Denny and Eve Brenner as the troubled Vera find the inner fire that generates each of their peculiar loves and hates. A winner of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he has also shown his work extensively. "It's like (Captain) Beefheart said, 'Nobody's found a label for this bottle yet' We bring together different elements that cause some people to turn their heads and say, 'Wait a minute-those things aren't supposed to go together' That can be a problem but the average person doesn't think about that. What with its video store that's been split by a neon lightning bolt, its pricey interior decorators' showrooms or its parade of electric hairdos, Melrose definitely ain't West Covina. It is the baboons themselves, trained by Clint Rowe, who perform most heroically: making grand charges, diving through windows, baring incisors as the camera zooms in.

Executive Director Benjamin Hooks was out of town and unavailable for comment. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday disputed charges of a racially motivated Oscar shutout against "The Color Purple" A local chapter of the NAACP filed a letter of protest Tuesday labeling Monday night's Academy Awards a "slap in the face" and an industry "blackout" "This practice was used in the past to hinder the success of projects involving blacks" said Willis Edwards, president of the Hollywood-Beverly Hills branch of the National Assn. The whole experience is captured on a 58-minute videocassette, "Stand by Me: A Portrait of Julian Lennon" (MCA, $29. 95, a mixture of concert and interview footage. A psychologist friend, who spends his life wrenching out the deep meanings out of dreams, was baffled by this one. Elsewhere' I think it's enough just to have Belafonte and all the news people coming through here regularly to keep the issue alive". Harry's search for the truth launches a free-wheeling and superbly sustained odyssey as distinctively surreal and satirical as that of "Brazil" So outrageous and offbeat is "Bliss" that it had trouble getting a release in Australia. If I never did another film after this, I'd be happy" This sense of achievement has carried over to his personal life. 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.

But one of the secrets, we think, is to establish relationships with film makers you love and respect" She adds: "With classics divisions, there were a lot of unrealistic expectations. 21, 24, 27, March 1, 1987) with Hermann Prey, Susanne Mentzer, Mark DuBois, Langan and Francois Loup (Wolfgang Weber will direct, San Diego Opera music administrator and associate conductor Karen Keltner will be in the pit. But I'm not quite sure I understand why such niceness should occur only once a year, or why secretaries should necessarily be singled out for attention over, say, law clerks, production assistants, salespeople or, for that matter, gardeners, chambermaids or chauffeurs-and I certainly don't understand why, in the city of Los Angeles in the year nineteen-hundred-and-eighty-six, so many restaurants and/or their public relations teams should automatically assume that the secretaries whose day or week it is are necessarily secretaries of the female persuasion. Reno's truck ended up in the southbound lane of the highway, resting on its top, Hecht said No specific cause has been determined for the accident. . On Saturday: "The Scarlet Empress" (1934) and "Death Takes a Holiday" (1934 On Sunday: "Weekends Only" (1932) and "Liliom" (1930. "I usually don't push where I'm not wanted" Corman explained, "but in this case I just had to know the reason, so I called and asked.

Skillful exceptions: Marcie Ryken-Lewis as both a terminal flirt and in her Burnt Swan variation; Veronica Apodaca and Michael Wong in their stolid, strenuous duets; Patrice Anderson and Paul Hamill (though not consistently. But in March, 1984, the FCC relaxed its rules on underwriter crediting, as recommended by a congressional study of alternative financing proposals for public broadcasting. "Of course I wrote the story for Marianne, whom I knew" said Adlon "It had to be that way. Is the program omission the latest example of New York's tight-little-island mentality, which has been so xenophobic that mere mention of Los Angeles is violently shunned lest some kind of Santa Ana crud form on the lip? (Critic John Simon, in fact, has gone so far as to mention that a Los Angeles genesis is a foolproof sign of a production's execrable quality) Susan Dietz, who runs the L. A. "I've always recognized the connection between the mind and the body" she told literary critic Pierre Demeron in a recent magazine interview "My eyes held out until I finished the novel.

The Rukeyser household includes eight dogs of various shapes and sizes besides the human inhabitants, who are Rukeyser and his wife, Alex, and two daughters An older daughter was married recently. Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg present the Oscar for documentary short subject Michael J. "I started in college (Southwestern, but I got off to a quick start. Referring to ABC Entertainment President Lewis Erlicht, who turned down Cosby's acclaimed family comedy series, Cosby drew even more laughter when he said: "I don't see why they tried to hang this poor fellow over at ABC He only was doing what they told him to do. The cast is generally good (all but Raffin are holdovers from the first "Lace) and Cates is better this year at being nice in "Lace II" than she was last year at being naughty. ABC also charged that the CIA plotted to murder investment counselor Ronald R Rewald. Michael Winslow (the walking sound effect from the "Police Academy" trilogy) presents the Oscar for sound effects editing. Following is the tentative schedule (subject to change) for the 58th annual Academy Awards presentation, to be telecast on ABC starting at 6 p. m Monday, L. A time: Revlon, a major sponsor, "presents" the Oscars A minute of commercials, commencing with 30 seconds on J. C Penney diamonds Greeting by co-host Robin Williams.

While there is no doubt that architecture serves myths, as Stern repeatedly states, it also serves people. Counseling against revenge is one thing; instructing the girl not to report what she knows to the proper authorities in the hope that justice will be served is quite another. Explains Solly: "We put the whole thing in the past, the '30s, like an Astaire-Rogers musical. In addition to evil men, a Mack truck crashing through a shed and a gunfight, a viewer saw a total of 20 national and local commercials for such diverse wares as Kal Kan cat food, Burger King, Caress soap, Philadelphia Brand cheese, Duracell batteries, Del Monte no-salt green beans, Dimetapp cold tablets and Crystal Light Drink Mix. Good old George Frideric Handel (a k a Georg Friedrich Haendel) celebrates his 300th birthday on Feb 23.

DRAMA, DAYTIME Claude Kerven, "High School Narc" an "Afterschool Special" ABC. and talk all night about myself" but he hated to see it in print Later he said, "People wrote a lot of stuff about me. Wells' time machine? Now it has jet engines and stewardesses and dispenses free mouthwash in the Gents. "Can you imagine the characters in 'Final Cut' or 'Indecent Exposure' appearing in my books" Collins asked the other day "The deeds done in those books are too gruesome for fiction By the second page you hate those people I have to tone my characters down, I promise you. Among them: Audrey Hepburn, Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, Cher, George Hamilton, Sally Field, Sam Shepard (who snuck off with Jessica Lange at one point for some quick smooching near the kitchen, Quincy Jones, Marsha Mason, Richard Dreyfuss, Tom Selleck, Kathleen Turner, Peter Bogdanovich, Lionel Richie, Raquel Welch, Jane Seymour and Rebecca DeMornay. Entertainment-industry power mongers included 20th Century Fox chieftain Barry Diller (who hobnobbed with past Fox owner Marvin Davis and new owner Rupert Murdoch, Orion Pictures' top gun Mike Medavoy, his Columbia Pictures counterpart Guy McElwaine and Motion Picture Assn of America President Jack Valenti.

As is routine, the book was synopsized and analyzed-in this instance by screenwriter Petrie, who at the time was a young agent. Earlier this week, a hardcover called "The Beverly Hills Cop Story" arrived in local bookstores. (Prize-winning documentaries have come out of USC recently, but from the broadcasting division of the School of Journalism) There are strong dramatic films on Saturday's program as well, in addition to two animated and two experimental works. pop debate" With his two wins in the male vocalist category, Strait is now second only to Merle Haggard, who has won the award five times. Now our challenge is to raise $6 million for a building" The museum, chartered in 1947 by the board of regents of the New York state Department of Education, is located in the former home of George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak Co. He was a writer, disciplined enough to have published 40 novels and 18 plays by the time he was 42, and he was a flamboyant and dedicated hedonist; he idealized the pure, fierce ideals of the samurai, yet lived in a Western house with rococo furnishings; he was a publicly demonstrative husband and father, and a homosexual whose flair for bloody, sadomasochistic fantasy reached its peak in a widely circulated set of photographs of Mishima, in a draped loincloth and protruding arrows, as the martyred St Sebastian. He did his Papageno number, ventured into the juicy operatic realm of Italianita , threw in a few gags, chatted with the audience, served as a theatrical prop for his partner during her solos, grabbed her for a waltz around the piano, and oozed climactic Schlag and Schmaltz There was much to admire in each of Hagegard's efforts. "I'm getting great offers, I'm having great conversations with people I never thought I'd get to meet.

His penchant for odd combinations of sensibility shows in an early (1856) view, "The Juniata River" It has the stiff, labored sweetness of self-taught art combined with the formal aplomb of classical landscape. I never want to go back and never will" Asked about those statements Monday, Horowitz replied: "It was wartime then. I never knew him to go away empty-handed from a deal" More than 50 films in mint condition fill a storage room on Arenson's property, including "Chained for Life" "Child Bride" "Marijuana" "Human Wreckage" "Confessions of a Vice Baron" and Tod Browning's classic "Freaks" Then there is the memorabilia: posters, wax heads, photos of John Dillinger in various poses of derring-do, and the wooden "gun" that he used (supposedly) to make his escape from a Hoosier jail possible (countless others claim to have the same gun, and his likeness carved in wax by a St Louis sculptor. Travel expert Laura McKenzie, takes you on a one-hour tour of 12 locations-Paris, London, Rome, Switzerland, Ireland, Egypt, Morocco, Athens, Hawaii, Spain, San Francisco and Los Angeles Each cassette is $24. 95 All were made especially for home video. "We should take more care of how we say goodby" These are the words of a thoughtful, grieving son after a funeral in "My First Wife" (at the Cineplex Friday, but they are actually the substance of the entire film. Last year, an effort by ABC News to develop a second news series, one tentatively called "Seven Days" ended in failure. Corky snaps his fingers to unfreeze each character briefly and let him or her speak, one by one.