Although the Daddyo's music has moved away from its early rockabilly overtones to a synthesizer-based dance sound, the name has stuck. "You don't have a permanent Civil Service at the high level that we do" he says. Stern also conducts intermittent foggy interviews in which he displays more a pride of peers than a pride of place. "When I'm doing theater, I love the theater; when I'm doing film, I love film. It's sort of like a teacher in a classroom-if you can hit one out of 30, then maybe that person will figure things out a little faster than we did" LIVE ACTION: Tickets for three Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre shows go on sale Sunday: Mike & the Mechanics (July 2, the Temptations and Four Tops (Aug 29) and Anne Murray (Sept 19 Tickets will also be available Sunday for Starship's Aug 28 concert at the Pacific Amphitheatre. (You might expect even more, if you remember the successful movie-director debut of another MTM alumnus, James Brooks on "Terms of Endearment) The situation is promising: Two women, apparently complete opposites, strike up a friendship at an aerobics class. Because Jennings and Koppel were both abroad, moreover, ABC had to fall back on David Brinkley to host its post-speech coverage of President Reagan's televised defense budget address.

And this time, said Southland vice president Kenny Weissberg, the series will be bigger than ever, with more than 50 acts-ranging from traditional jazz trumpeter Miles Davis to the more commercial Windham Hill family of pop-jazz instrumentalists-scheduled to play from late April through October. "Spiraling real estate costs" Weiss continued, "are squeezing artists out of necessary rehearsal and performance space Insurance costs have become prohibitive. Poignant, witty, articulate, crafty and economical-the music of Mel Powell seems oddly separated from its times, though its times are ours. Nothing was as gripping as Bruce Springsteen's singing an impassioned "Who'll Stop the Rain" to wheelchair-bound vets at a Sports Arena show nearly five years ago, but it's nearly impossible to hit that kind of peak when you barely have time to play a couple of hits before moving on. "We assume the actors can play anything" He added, "Of course, their parents might be shocked" In Chinese, the ideographs for "Fanshen" mean "to turn over" or "to upset" This critical moment in modern Chinese history, as the Japanese occupation army was withdrawing or surrendering and the civil war between the Communist and Nationalist forces was reignited-with the outcome still in doubt-was re-created by an American author, William Hinton, in his 1963 book of the same name. More unusual is Sobol's choice of theatrical conventions, which include cabaret, slapstick, vaudeville, even ventriloquism.

You could spring for the most comprehensive, well-documented country music anthology available-though you'd have to order it by mail. Most of this early activity was accompanied by a self-conscious media hype that rivaled anything dreamed up by Madison Avenue. Terri Gens' lighting scheme features quick blackouts, contravening the sense of days endlessly crawling by There's a structural problem with Edgar's script as well. "But they all deal with the American attitude of moving on: If things aren't good here, they'll be better in Kansas. Women, who still bear most child-rearing and homemaking responsibilities, have almost five hours a week, or 23% less, leisure time than men. Here in their glory, and a few in infamy and others in obscurity, are the monuments of man-made America, reflecting the nation's shifting tastes, cultures, politics and commerce, and the visions of its architects.

A $15 ticket price for an hour on stage with no opening act? (Yo, Mick, what happened to worker solidarity) Playing the entire album virtually note-for-note, without a trace of spontaneity, let alone a memorable instrumental passage? And that garageland version of Prince's "1999? And sometimes B. A. D is mediocre. Either way she has accomplished the apparently impossible: developing an audience in San Diego for some of the most avant-garde performers in the nation. The view is that of "Crossroads of Paradise" a "KCET Journal"special report airing Wednesday at 9 p. m on KCET, Channel 28 But it is hardly a saccharine vision. Four producers, five co-hosts and countless staffers later "E. T" (which it instantly adopted from Steven Spielberg's extraterrestrial) has become-as they say in the biz-Big. "The band was hired by Walt to play the first day and just to stay on for a short run to help open up the park" Freese said.

Vid clips picked to click: Iam Siam's "She Went Pop" Director: Zbigniew Rybczynski. Though she freely admits that being a woman has been "more of an asset than a liability" in her career, Steel hopes that gender will no longer be an issue. Our principal guest conductor had overwhelmed Los Angeles with the work in 1982, and his subsequent recording with his Birminghamsters has reaped worldwide acclaim. The proposed "cultural complex" in Newport Center has been submitted by the Irvine Co for approval by city officials.

"The man who was Apollo Creed first and foremost is expected to come out slugging. How have the performances been going? "I've never seen the show" Rzewski replies with a chuckle "I'm in it. Spokeswoman Chen Sam in New York said Wednesday that Women in Film "has been told she cannot be there. According to a spokesman for the orchestra association, Tilson Thomas has left his post as a principal guest conductor, though he will conduct the Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl in the summer of 1985. "With groups like SADD (Students Against Drunk Drivers) and MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, the public is aware that drinking and driving is getting out of hand, and I think people are saying, 'We're not going to take it' " Curto said. "Right now, I feel very relieved" Drummet said shortly after the vote. It's that feeling that we all love, that a ton of metal is about to fall on us.

Humbugs go less frequently to those who actually make theater, than to those who make a living off of it-producers, public relations types and even journalists (see last award. There's nothing in between" Bandleader Leighton Nobel "Bandstand Revue) had come from Victoria, Canada, to attend. "I think there has to be something in your heart in order to explore something intellectually" That's the way Hwang describes his gradual attraction to the theater, aided by some courses with the author-scholar Martin Esslin, and a lot of spare time. In reality the logs were an interesting sculptural demonstration of relative scale, but they set off a fuss over everything from ecology to fears they would break through the museum floor. NEW YORK — Richard Serra's retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (through May 13) leaves little doubt that he is among the most powerful and pure of living sculptors. Part of the appeal of the Bilko show (1955-59) undoubtedly was that so many of its viewers were not more than a decade out of the Army. "Parade" isn't exactly a lazy album-Prince offers some new sonic slants, and one track is strikingly touching.

All they seem to do is sit there-discussing their love lives (or lack thereof, late nights in the village tow truck, failure to prepare for class and invidiousness of the football coach's availability. Carl Weathers, hot off a dramatic death at the hands of Soviet no-goodnik Drago in "Rocky IV" is about to do battle again. "They are calling on you to tell them what you think is best for you" Among those attending were Peg Yorkin, director of the Los Angeles Public Theater and a member of Los Angeles Municipal Promotion, an informal coalition of arts groups that helped organize the reception; Bella Lewitzky, director of the modern dance company that carries her name, and Gordon Braithwaite, managing director of the Los Angeles Theatre Center After the reception, CRA Chairman James M. "We're in the entertainment business here, that's what we do" he says "We're not in the judgment business". LYNN MAYEDA Los Angeles Is anybody able to explain why we aren't in an uproar about the social influence and statements of the likes of Ozzie Osbourne or Vince Neil (from Motley Crue, and up for a charge of manslaughter, on the just-as-impressionable young boy's mind! In comparison, Sheila E. "With some 8,000 people attending weekly pops concerts, we didn't want to lose those folks, but we do want to attract as wide a variety of people as we can" Atherton said. One must blame the Met management, which once again seems guilty of either wishful thinking or, much worse, cynical miscasting.

However, Ibsen beat Marowitz to the punch by about a century-his Gregers Werle, in "Duck" is such a fanatic that the breakup of a formerly happy family and the suicide of a young girl are not enough to deter him from his self-appointed rounds as truth-teller. "General Hospital" "The $25,000 Pyramid" "Woman to Woman" hosts Bob Barker, Gary Collins and Merv Griffin and soap opera star Larry Bryggman-all of whom won daytime Emmys last year-were nominated again this year. "A lot of these have not been exhibited that often" To represent the romantic scenic landscapes popular in the second half of the 19th Century, Kovinick chose two Yosemite Valley views by Thomas Hill. The Wild Cards showed Saturday at the Lingerie that they'd be equally effective as an opening act for the Blasters or the Manhattan Transfer-and that's a compliment to the group's cross-genre reach, not a dig at its easy accessibility. He wasn't comfortable calling it nonfiction, so we called it a novel" But the $3. 95 paperback isn't really a novel and isn't based on Robert Getchell's screenplay either "A little confusing" admitted the publicist. . The disagreement with Equity-which Stauffer refused to discuss-had to do with a "failure to make correct payments to many of our members" according to Edward Weston, Equity's western regional director in Los Angeles.

"Like this: I'm very worried about the Music Center's future Orange County's already started the ball rolling The future is theirs, not Ernest Fleischmann's". "I thought that on a small scale it would be nice to get something together in Orange County. Does Seiden think the traditionally conservative Civic Light Opera audience might resist "Tango's" heat? "Gee, I would hope not" he said "It's just different couples doing the tango. Mason (of New York's Circle Rep) with the Taper (which staged Wilson's "Talley's Folly" "Fifth of July" and "A Tale Told. How do you celebrate 20 years of doing business at the same address? For the Mark Taper Forum and Gordon Davidson, its artistic director since it opened in 1967, you do more of the same, better At least you try. He's a magnificent pseudo-homespun orator, alternating folksy tall tales, calculated buffoonery and great rolling tidal waves of rage against his targets: politicians and the super-rich. For two seasons he commuted between Salt Lake City and San Diego, sending in substitute rehearsal conductors from Los Angeles when he could not squeeze a San Diego trip into his schedule This erratic leadership took its toll. "But I only start to write them when I see the movie in front of my eyes as clearly as you see it in the screening room" HONEST: Now here's an intriguing quote from Angie Dickinson in a New York interview: "I regret only three one-night stands in my life No, make that four ".