ANDRE WATTS AT THE AMBASSADOR Andre Watts is a showman, a master of the grand flourish, a purveyor of the keyboard's physical possibilities in excelsis. His professional public persona was of the rather pompous know-it-all who in fact had vast wells of ignorance and misinformation and was always being confounded by simple facts. They range from local rockers the Living Daylights to White Wolf, a Canadian heavy-metal outfit. What started out as jazz fast food has evolved into musical haute cuisine with subtle refinements of attitude, emphasis and emotion. "I've already set aside some of my own money to use as a seed fund to launch the project.

'MacARTHUR'S CHILDREN' An Orion Classics release of a You-No-Kai production Producer Masato Hara Director Masahiro Shinoda Screenplay Takeshi Tamura; based on the novel by Yu Aku Camera Kazuo Miyagawa Production designer Yoshinobu Nishioka Music Shinichiro Ikebe Film editor Sachiko Yamaji. I'm so into the forest of Arden that I can't see it for the trees" Room for Theatre, which likes to polish up American plays of the '20s and '30s, makes a rare excursion into the contemporary with Richard Lenz's "Last Class" opening Monday. The San Diego season includes a concert by soprano Joan Sutherland (Jan. Johns angrily accused Columbia of breaking a promise to the guild to discuss the dismissals before acting, adding: "I know for a fact these orders came from New York. Half the nation's TV markets have bought the show in one month's time, Danylik said. 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. Ablah's Gulf Stream II, docked near the Los Angeles International Airport, never left the ground during this recent interview But he hopes his art-for-everyone idea will continue to fly.

And from that privileged perch we watch the insular, in-jokey life of people to whom nothing is ever what it seems. Vin Scully will be live, in person, not on videotape as he was pitching Farmer John and Union Oil last week between innings Scully and the Dodgers together again the season really starts now. Genius continues to be born, not made and certainly not molded by committee. "Like anything else that's good for you" he added, "they take it away, or they use it for warfare. The competition will be limited to genuine independent films, with budgets under $1 million. Starr broadcast the Cardinal games for seven years and Torre played behind the plate for several seasons, catching Bob Gibson. The bad news is that they probably won't give you much of a kick, either, although the Burns-fronted half-hour has some promise.

Yet, after being repeatedly clobbered by terrorists, the nation was seeking to end its frustrations and clearly felt better about itself Tuesday after the bombing of Libya The C-SPAN cable network took call-ins Tuesday morning. The dream was that the script, "The Ultimate Solution of Grace Quigley" and the actress, Katharine Hepburn, would get together and that he, Martin Zweiback, TV writer, would get to direct the movie. He was interrupted and given an award for the best explanation of an award. Word-of-mouth works in the academy as it does on ticket-buyers.

"Women who look after the great writers, whether mothers, sisters, wives or daughters. At MOMA a piece called "Delineator" consists of just two oblong steel slabs about 10 by 25 feet One lies on the floor, the other is attached to the ceiling. A local man has a desperate question: Where can he take his wife for quiche and dancing? Ross and her partner Rita Garlington have all the answers for the '80s. In Manhattan-that radical, sophisticated citadel-Kelly's peer Richard Serra has placed his massive, obstructive "Tilted Arc" sculpture in a public plaza, and the public outcry now threatens to have it removed altogether. The Kelly sculpture, if approved, isn't likely to face a similar fate-it is "objectively" beautiful, and will obstruct nothing-but those who oppose it fear that it will become the city's aesthetic logo, coolly and inscrutably against the grain of the city's warmth and human scale. That makes it all worthwhile" As understudy to David Cassidy in "Little Johnny Jones" Torcellini got his chance to carry the brunt of a big dance show when the star was sidelined with an injury. All the incessant comparisons to the Jackson 5 must've finally gotten under the skin of the all-teen New Edition.

This oldest city in Germany was once capital of the Western Roman Empire. 2 issue of Daily Variety"Dear Sid Sheinberg: When are you going to release my film, 'Brazil' -he wanted to respond with an ad of his own: "For sale Half price. If we have some results to point to, I think we'll make it" said Chuck Stewart, the arts high school's principal-designate, as he kept a watchful eye on the auditions. The choreography, it must be admitted, is clever in its suavely acrobatic way. Since then, she has recorded two albums-both produced by her husband on Stash label"Oh, What a Memory We Made. Some of the events and characters are fictionalized for dramatic purposes" The announcement, which took 12 seconds of air time, was followed by a "parental discretion" advisory warning that young viewers may find certain scenes disturbing. Now 35 and retired from dancing since 1983, he has become respected and successful as a ballet photographer, bringing to his work not only a cultivated observer's eye but also a firsthand familiarity with many of the dancers and ballets he photographs.

DRIVER'S NOTES: Many people who make their careers in the theater are survivors Donald Driver is more than a survivor. "We took the film to the Edinburgh Festival just to make us feel good. Says things like, "Backs away from edge of night and turns east to face the wall" And, recalling parents' wedding, "There Together Sailing Wedding day There Alone Him. I'm looking for the simplest and most interesting things about a city, just like everyone else" Accompanied by a crew of three, McKenzie spends about two weeks in each location.

There's a built-in schizophrenia about pictures like "Head Office" (citywide) that can leave you holding your head. Maybe they aren't going to march in the streets or burn their draft card any more, but I think a part of them is still ready to respond. This art seems to aspire to an updated state of primitive magic-overlaid with religious ecstasy and contemporary terror-but it doesn't feel authentic (Orlando Gallery, 14553 Ventura Blvd, to Jan 31). I take one look at this huge character and say, 'Table for two' " And yes, Feld will do the POP! "It's funny; Virginia and I were in Africa once and came across about 50 young kids, all in uniforms" he recalled "I did the POP! , and immediately they all started popping "Even in Africa, they pop".

When two stock company actors were injured in a car accident, Al Jackson recruited Ameche on an emergency basis for the stock company That was over Thanksgiving, 1928, Ameche remembers. Trank said that "Page One" used to reach Dodge City until about two weeks ago when station KAKZ-FM in Wichita dropped the program "Page One" is broadcast over 40 U. S stations, he said. In the smaller works, Fellows lets us in on the evolution of her abstract vocabulary and its metaphorical content: Fundamentally organic and as life-giving as they are dangerous, coils metamorphose from pulsating veins, to thorny vines, to green serpents twisted around limbs (Kirk deGooyer Gallery, 1305 Factory Place, to Jan 27. . That's because, even at the end, we still don't know Dern's runner as well as we should. .

Then came a chance to bid on a walk-on part on "Cagney & Lacey" in an auction benefiting the Downtown Women's Center on Los Angeles Street Visions of Emmys danced in my head I'd bid I'd play a crusading lawyer or a cop on a tough case I'd be discovered without ever eating at Schwab's I'd star in a spinoff I bid But I was up against high rollers The parts-eventually two were offered-went for $2,200 each But not to me I was disconsolate Fame had fled Executive Producer Barney Rosenzweig came to my rescue He saw my article in this very space He said a walk-on was no big deal. Entries must have been aired between May 1, 1985, and April 15, 1986. At the same time, they stayed clear of such topics as theater profits in recent years and the psychological impact of ticket prices, however justified, on theatergoers. "I managed to raise the entire $3. 2 million from a rather small group of financiers" said Brodie, who said he also tossed $100,000 of his own money into the pot. "Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman' " With "Out of Africa" which Pollack calls the most difficult film of his career, the panic set in during production "All the time I was in Africa, I worried about it.

"Then they found out that I was wearing barely any makeup" "As a funny twist they decided to make me a chic, reverse sex symbol. It features previously unpublished material and interviews with friends, fellow painters, curators and others who had important associations with Kline. "Everyone in the show is a prize winner, really" said Kathie Conrey, a Community Services Department aide. Sidlin reduced the 75-member band to a chamber orchestra of 37 players, offered a reassuring program devoted to music by Handel, Mozart and Haydn, then conducted it all most stylishly. The full-ensemble numbers from "The Wiz" "Purlie" and particularly the black-pride songs from 'Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" are sung and danced with a joyous, evangelistic intensity. Rochaix also sees the all-too-human Wotan as the alter ego of Wagner, a visionary poet trapped in a world of prosaic realities. "There were maybe 65 of us who did this and did all the Westerns in Hollywood in those days" Lyden estimated.