And I've come to realize that my real gripe against movies on TV was the way they were chopped up by commercials. "Twenty-six years later, it doesn't seem extravagant or even absurd. Fassbinder's film "The American Soldier" About four years passed before Longo turned the vision of a man shot in the back into a monumental series of elegant drawings. 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.

If death from radiation, child abuse and divorced parents aren't enough, Zal now must face a faith crisis when her younger sister dies from a muscle disorder in "God, the Universe, and Hot Fudge Sundaes" a "CBS Schoolbreak Special" airing today at 3 p. m on Channel 2 (3:30 p. m on Channel 8. Nearly 50 of pop's biggest selling artists would get together in a Hollywood studio to record a song, "We Are the World" that much of the world would join in singing? Looking back, it seemed so reasonable: superstars pooling their talents to raise millions of dollars for famine victims in Africa. Humbug! A literary Humbug to Dotson Rader for an "affectionate" memoir of his old cruising-buddy Tennessee Williams that Williams would have thrown into the fire, along with Mr Rader. "I'd told everybody going in that this wasn't a picture about dressing rooms and limos, all the usual perks It was down-to-basics time, and they responded. Thus in Stackhouse's hands, modern urban signification becomes just one more metaphor in an ongoing evolution of collective archetypes, resonant symbols of mankind's obsessive search for meaning (Koplin Gallery, 8225 1/2 Santa Monica Blvd, to March 8).

Bonus visual clue: And yet one more bonus clue: Chuck Norris' movie in the nominations 26 What Bob and Meryl did on a sultry African plain 29 Not acclaimed for her acting If she ever wins an Oscar, Calendar will stop the presses 30 Avery 31. What it most resembles is a polite 1930s afternoon-club program, with piano accompaniment, on the subject of Famous American Women in Song and Story. She is the only illustrious newcomer to join the ABT ranks this season. Toru Iwashita, an early member of Sankaijuku who had left the group, has now rejoined it. "Around here" he said, "you walk into somebody's study and there is likely to be a Winslow Homer just hanging casually in a corner" That sense of relaxed independence pervades the exhibition. "In other words, to see the links between the two, the influence of the earlier on the contemporary" "Reaching the Summit" is modeled after an earlier Saddleback exhibition on desert landscapes, which caught the attention of officials at the Laguna Art Museum and led to the current exhibition.

What is finally most unexpected of "What Have I Done to Deserve This" (Times-rated Mature for nudity, vulgar language, implied sex, adult themes) is that Almodovar, for all his anarchic urbane wit, is throughout really expressing a longing for the loss of contact with community and with nature. . The New Music Group survey began with Tippett's earliest published work, the String Quartet of 1935 as revised in 1944, and continued with the world premiere of a Philharmonic commission, the Piano Sonata No 4. Recalled and re-examined as well are those random thoughts that flicker through the performer's mind as you do familiar material by rote for the nth time: ponderings on the variant nature of audiences, and a performer's quirky and elusive rapport with the faces in the shadows beyond the footlights. David Mamet, a 1984 Pulitzer winner for the play "Glengarry Glen Ross" Marsha Norman, who won in 1983 for her play " 'night Mother" (now playing at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles) and Robert A. We're now getting to those (musical) places that you find when you've been together that you never find if you don't play that much"Until now, contemporary guitarist John Scofield has been what might be called "the ultimate sideman" His substantial career includes engagements and LPs with Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan and Billy Cobham. British producer Michael White in his autobiography, "Empty Seats" (Hamish Hamilton, $17. 50: "Wounds heal faster in the theater than in the real world".

"Even at this moment" he went on, "it would be very difficult to spend a lot of money on conservation since there aren't that many people involved in the field" About 50 conservation researchers are working in the United States and about 300 in the entire world, Monreal said. Best of all, however, is the film's attractive setting, Prescott, Ariz. . For some reason, there was a flurry of queries by reporters and possibly some raised eyebrows at ABC News when the President's son disclosed this week that he will become an on-camera reporter for ABC-TV. de Young Memorial Museum hosts "The New Painting, Impressionism 1874-1886" Thursday to July 6, while "The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect" opens Saturday at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and remains on view through June 8. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rothman told the trade paper Variety that the filing was just a "protective backstop against damaging an investment" and that the day-to-day decisions remain in the hands of the Ladd team. "We as an industry should be sensitive to local community concern" he added, noting that in this instance the concern was "genuine and high level"But is sensitivity just another word for thinly disguised censorship? Fritts insists it isn't"we're not promoting censorship" he said-but he did acknowledge that the NAB's campaign has "severe" antitrust and First Amendment implications Lenny Waronker, president of Warner Bros.