Announcing to his parents an intention to follow in their footsteps as ballet dancers, the earnest teen-ager-active in baseball and pursuing an otherwise normal childhood-found himself drawn to the physical challenge of dance and the appealing cosmopolitan life style of his parents' careers. Labeled "gritty" and "unsettling" by its admirers, the movie has also generated some violently negative reactions. After the suave brutishness of his Goering surrogate in "Mephisto" this is a more pathetic monster: an aesthetic disciplinarian, a limpid-eyed tyrant, covertly in love with his daughter and determined to marry her above her class (and not to a musician like himself. When Scott gets out of jail, everybody gets a little more focused.

Also appreciative of them is the poet's former but still adoring love (Waheeda Rehman, but she has married for money-indeed, to the very publisher who rejects the poet's work as "trash" because he finds it too serious. There's an observer at work here, and someone who's realizing the undeniable role of the comedian as outsider (some of Shakespeare's most astute and sensitive social critics were his fools. Alas, we gain a tragic hero in Richard/Bedford, but lose a chance to hear a woman play Imogen. "I feel that same sense of astonishment when I ride through California" he said. When he was finally signed by EMI, a residue of those years of rejection colored his music. with opening remarks by the museum's curator of American art, Michael Quick, the event features talks by Peter Birmingham, director, Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson; Nicolai Cikovsky Jr, curator of American Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Karen Crenshaw, conservator, the Baltimore Museum of Art. He admitted that, despite his love for his dancers, he's not the easiest person in a work situation.

But Mitchell's already moved on to other, more lucrative projects. That was a bit more like open-mike night at a Hollywood comedy club. Now Garfield's in Huntington Beach, a disco-video music club since it opened in 1984, is turning to live concerts to counter sagging mid-week attendance. By 1900 the grandiose statements of painters like Hill had fallen from fashion. The Huntington is open from 1 to 4:30 p. m, Tuesdays through Sundays. . "We need you to exert pressure on the city to be reasonable" the festival's financial consultant, Paul Griem, told 75 cultural representatives Thursday evening at the Forum Theatre. Now, the appropriateness of putting duck on pizza can probably be debated; the appropriateness of chili (had there been any) and corn can not be.

The choreographer-actually, he prefers to be called a constructor-was given whimsically economical props: a coffin, a door, a sofa, a pseudo-horse-designed in inimitable Gothic black, white and gray by none less than Edward Gorey, who also concocted the embellished unitards that served as costumes. They have collected Rodin drawings, sculptures in plaster and marble, and examples of most of the sculptures in bronze. 19, has been postponed until the fall of 1986, according to a spokeswoman for the fund-raising organization World Vision. Australia's winner was the animated "Fascinating Reading" for the Age Newspaper.

We hope to bring the operation back on its feet and file reorganization plans" Kinkle said. First on "Sneak Previews" and now on "At the Movies" the two have made a very comfortable living perpetuating that rivalry. But Lipp said the disco-video format will be retained on Fridays and Saturdays until the concert format is established. When artworks displayed at Piret's are sold, the restaurant receives a 10% commission and Herbst, as organizer, also receives 10. Six mid-season replacements that also failed and won't be back are the comedies "Sara" "Double Trouble" and "Under One Roof" the high school drama "The Best Times" and two action-adventure series, "Code Name: Foxfire" and "Half Nelson" The new schedule was to have been announced to advertisers and reporters in New York today by NBC Entertainment President Brandon Tartikoff.

What then, you are bound to ask, does "Year of the Dragon" add to our understanding of Cimino the film maker? Beyond doubt, he is an exceptional maker of images, and he handles violent action very well. To me, this is like playing" Part of the charm of this small new restaurant on Melrose, which seats only 42 people in rather cramped quarters, is its sheer unseriousness. It could have been even better camp" Of all these, he's most proud of "Spartacus" a star-studded spectacular about a slave rebellion in ancient Rome, directed by Stanley Kubrick "Kubrick really came into his own on this film I had helped him get his start in 'Paths of Glory' (1956. Sharpen your taste buds and put on your polka shoes and jogging togs.

"And I'll never forget my own car being shot up by one of the hijackers" Glass said. We begin to see how hurt she is when she attacks her needlework-and later, as she makes the character's sexual hunger slightly more explicit than Jens did. It also explained the frequent shift in both administrative and artistic personnel, the often amateurish performing conditions, the endless cancellations and postponements, the long waits between seasons, the inevitable technical mishaps, the dubious solutions to housing problems, the unkept promises, the absence of growth, and the sometimes unholy alliances with guest stars of disparate distinction. The University Art Museum at UC Santa Barbara has received a gift of 41 16th, 17th- and 18th-Century drawings from the Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Foundation. Kragen said he did not know how many permits have actually been granted to date.

Other than the day-glo outfits the band models on the cover, about the only thing really remarkable about "Dirty Work" is the way it doesn't live up to its title-that is, the lack of outrageous feminist-baiting. Thea Musgrave decided that she wanted to write an opera for black singers back in 1980 when her husband, Peter Mark, the general director of Virginia Opera, was holding auditions for a production of-what else"Porgy and Bess" In an affecting program note, she explains why she chose to write about Harriet Tubman: "Composers are drawn to subjects that cross political and temporal boundaries and venture into different, often exotic, settings for their works. A link, perhaps, to the underside of Vienna that surfaces in "Measure for Measure" Jeanette Landis plays a fussy comedy mother, who is still susceptible to the flirting tone that marks all male-female conversations in Schnitzler's world-not an innocent tone, although the words are kept innocent, to add spice to the encounter. "When I was only 7 or 8, Balanchine (the most powerful voice in modern ballet) told me to go home and shrink" Segal recalled, still smarting from the callous remark. The group's recently released eponymous debut album was produced by Robin Millar, known for his work with Sade.

Since his death at age 46, I have been thinking about it a lot And thinking about him. Curtis Rayam is a Faust low in heroic passion but sweet in tone Nadine Denize is a lovely, secure, convincing Marguerite Jules Bastin makes a snarly Brander Serge Baudo conducts with only routine attention. At their June meeting, board members voted to hire the Oram Group, a New York management consulting firm, to research the depth of financial support available to build a countywide art museum. In these enlightened times, ethnic stereotyping and other sins of excess "Dragon" has it all: slit throats, decapitation, gang rape) in a major studio movie aren't going to pass unnoticed.

This "Giselle" enjoyed the enlightend services of a really luxurious cast. It's a contemporary comedy about female bonding, centering on a friendship between successful women older than 30. "The producers were even willing to just let Richard lip-sync to the video and not actually re-do the song, but it just didn't work out. Simon Hosein, the store's general manager, sees the "compact disc only" concept as an idea whose time has come.