And South African musicians are encouraged to play Western pop styles, limiting mbaqanga (pronounced oom-ba-KWANG-a ) music to township bars. Bad News: As the club scene dwindled to the point where Radio City in Anaheim is the only establishment booking local acts on a regular basis, Radio City instituted a policy requiring bands performing midweek shows to put up a $40 deposit, refundable only if they drew at least 10 paid customers. It's a time of total torment for me" Beresford is a highly likable man, full of good humor and easy laughter But his nervousness, this night, was showing So why attempt a biblical venture? "To try and do one well I've always loved epics'Ben Hur' 'El Cid' movies like that But they were always made with such reverence, those films I wanted to change all that. "Why would we want to do that" deadpanned Senate Finance Chairman Alfred Alquist (D-San Jose "I can't imagine why anyone would" Robbins said. Tim Bradley is attracted to photographs of buildings that no longer exist by the tension that pulses through what he describes as "a scene that is clearly described and yet we know we cannot enter it" He grew weary of chasing the wreckers' ball around Los Angeles so he began constructing and photographing models of buildings and scenes with a similar ghostly presence. He never told me I wasn't doing the next album; I found out from musicians who were working on it I was hurt I didn't think he'd do that to me.

But it does so with a cunning that recalls Barrie's in "Peter Pan" And as with that play, parents will see things in it that escape their children It's based, as the reader probably knows, on T S. "Even though we can't stop the cameras, we stop the pipeline, and it's filled at the moment with a lot of stuff that was rushed out" If there is a strike, writers won't stop writing. recently to show locals how to whip up various specialties of Sicily and Catalonia. Witkin asserts that his "tough" images are meant not only to shock but to convey the idea of "matter into spirit" His conversation constantly drifts into the vague territory of mysticism, and his images reverberate with Catholic iconography. For $300,000 to $350,000, we can produce TV ourselves" Lurking behind the high price of off-network shows are some statistics that frighten independent station owners. When West Germany's Volker Schlondorff agreed to direct "Swann in Love" (at the Monica 4-Plex, he knew he'd be criticized by the Proustians for even attempting to film a portion of "Remembrance of Things Past" but he didn't let that stop him. Elmo's Fire" Estevez wrote another screenplay-which he described as a "black comedy set in Redondo Beach-that's currently making the studio rounds.

With Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch, Barret Oliver, Linda Harrison, Tyrone Power Jr, Clint Howard Running time: 1 hour, 57 minutes. Brian Murphy, whose concert promotion firm Avalon Attractions is working on the local Amnesty International concert, stressed the importance of big-name acts in selling tickets. This is phenomenal" (Richard Grabel, New Musical Express) Let's Active's "Cypress"On this album, the trio bid boldly to join the current mini-boom of American groups not afraid to plunder their shared history and forge from it accessible weirdness more pertinent to these fractured (times. Even Stewart is a bit baffled by the complicated events that led to the pop duo's chart success. Performance in a Featured Role: John Anderson "In the Sweet Bye and Bye; Bruce Davison "The Normal Heart" Las Palmas Theatre; Gail Strickland "To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday. In the Hollywood Reporter, Robert Osborne, on the casting of Olivia de Havilland in "North and South: Book II"And typical of De Havilland's attention to detail and research as an actress. Or they can also sponsor a mile in your hometown, distributing slips at their locations".

"That was our Lew Erlicht year, and we just went right into the tank. (Cannon Group) EVILS OF THE NIGHT-Teens invades a private sanitorium and find themselves subjected to the film title. Lou Paciocco, the reigning king-queen-of La Cage aux Folles, is half owner with his brother-in-law, Zippy Russo, but of Follerie there is none in this quietly handsome place. On her first meeting with Dane, who has been taken off the investigation, she turns down his invitation to dinner but tells him, quite seriously, "If you help me solve this case, I'm yours. Kondon is one of San Diego's premier art collectors, and his collection will become a part of the history of the San Diego Art Center, which will open its first show in its temporary quarters in Horton Plaza on Saturday with "Selections from the Vance E Kondon Collection" The exhibition, which runs through Feb.

"Witness" won the best original screenplay award for writers Earl W. The American Legal Foundation, Martin said, got the material itself and filed its complaint without assistance or encouragement from Westmoreland or his lawyers. Other times the subject builds slowly, as when a stacked assembly of boats seems to emerge from darkness one hull or prow at a time. There are expected norms, and (size) is part of the image" Each is a successful dancer in her own right, and all three acknowledge the fact that their experiences were not all negative. Walden committed suicide by walking into the deep end of her swimming pool, her attorney said. At the Bowery Theatre a dozen actresses displayed impressive skills in "Talking With" The chic little Gaslamp Quarter Theatre in 5 1/2 years has found its metier in staging plays with in-depth, unhurried character development.

Young, a real estate investor in shopping centers, is a trustee of the County Museum of Natural History. . The coy, cabaret style treatment of "I Enjoy Being a Girl" was uncomfortably out of place in this context. The way it is shown is not the only way it can be done and be useful That's hard to get across on video. In accepting his Humanitas Prize, he said, "I have always felt that there is no one in a better position to bring greater ethics and moral character to the world than those who write for children. As brutal newsreel footage becomes counterpoint to her words, Winnie Mandela says that she's been imprisoned so many times she's lost count. On an aesthetic note, Gurney remembers the play as his first successful experiment in opening up the walls of the theater. The Center's 3,000-seat main theater, plus a 300-seat "black box" theater, are now under construction.

Among them: Strong word-of-mouth praise among Southland comedians, who are lining up to appear on the show-even though they receive no pay. Also on the bill are Secret Service, Attach, Zanty Misfits, U-Sqwad, Chardon Square, Broken Homes, Wednesday Week and Unforgiven. Now Valerie Harper, who co-starred on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and then went on to her own series, "Rhoda" says she'll be back too Harper will star in "Valerie" a midseason comedy for NBC. Most video-oriented people are accustomed to seeing four heads touted as one of a VCR's most attractive qualities, but many still wonder what the heck the difference is between basic two-head machines and more Medusa-like models. But when Hailey's husband, playwright Oliver Hailey, peeked at the first dozen, he said "Bets, I think you have a tiger by the tail" And so she had. A few seconds later he said loudly that he was just making a joke.

There's no urgency about seeing it again next week" He contends, however, that if the networks believe the genre is declining, they will make it a self-fulfilling prophesy. They desperately need a sharp director to shape and edit their material; a stern choreographer to keep Jones (who sings very well) from giving us movement that ultimately becomes less than interesting; a lighting technician to brighten up the stage, speed up transitions and keep the performers out of the dark where they now end up too much of the time. His location was too, and we wish we had not had to make a deal (not to disclose it, but we did" Jennings agreed with Brokaw that "no harm has been done" by letting the American television audience hear Abbas' point of view. Much as one might like to lament the commercialization of Itzhak Perlman, omnipresent star of stage, small screen and recordings, a name familiar even to those otherwise uninterested in "classical" music, the personable violinist confounds us time and again by refusing to become the prisoner of that commercialization. And Mikhail Baryshnikov, our white-Russian knight in excelsis , will dance in it.

"As I was able to, I started my shop first, and then from that I started a new house. There's a Mexican special $4. 35 with or without a margarita) every night. And that's so ridiculous because you can't take someone's gender away from them". Anthony Michael Hall plays Brian Johnson, the brainy nerd stuck in eight hours of Saturday detention with four other students in "The Breakfast Club" Judd Nelson is seen in "The Breakfast Club" as John Bender-a punk kid from the wrong side of the tracks Waltek, Inc. "I don't find it unusual for a musician to be involved in many things But still I am accused of doing too much" he said "I don't think it's too much "Obviously, I must be able to organize well To be able to maximize my energy and time. The firm will not fund operating or production costs of the two shows. Bechtol of Laguna Beach, Nixson Borah of Los Angeles (a former Fullerton resident, Ray Jacob of El Toro, Nancy Mooslin of Newport Beach, Suvan Geer of Irvine, Pat Sparkuhl of Laguna Beach, Jean Towgood of Huntington Beach, Carol Saindon of Newport Beach and William Riley of Capistrano Beach (Don W.

Because everything is magnified in Hollywood; nothing is what it seems. Alleged IRA leader Martin McGuinness and Loyalist Gregory Campbell, both elected members of the Northern Ireland Assembly, are the bitter antagonists in a controversial documentary produced by the British Broadcasting Corp to be broadcast on PBS tonight (Channel 28 at 10. Colman or the two-month-old medical leave of Performing Arts Council President Michael Newton are adversely affecting current operations at the downtown Los Angeles performing-arts complex Strains are starting to show, however. These days it is rare to find a friendly, ethnically mixed restaurant; this one felt lively and good. "Bigger was attracted and repelled by the American scene" continued Wright, who died in Paris in 1960 after a self-imposed exile. It was filmed in a unique setting-Miami's seaside Marine Stadium-before thousands of fans, most of whom seem to have had one too many "I wanted to make the audience part of the show" he said "You really feel the craziness of the audience.

Ringer keeps the proceedings moving, though, and it's gratifying to see "The Puritaine" even if its revival isn't the sharpest imaginable. -Periklis Halkias of New York, a Greek-born "living archive of Greek music" and a leading exponent of the Oriental clarinet style. Crawford is the vulnerable counterpoint and, in that sense, more colorful than O'Connor, whose righteousness is devoid of shading, either because Sheridan has forgotten to put in the chiaroscuro or because Meaney has It's hard to tell. Time magazine reported, "Connell has produced a new American classic" And People magazine flew the author to the Montana battlefield to snap him standing by Custer's tombstone.