Because KUSC and KLON have already signed up for first and second rights in the Los Angeles basin, KPCC would only get to broadcast what those two stations didn't want, a prospect that, once again, would put beleaguered KPCC in the "also ran" category. The Orange County Performing Arts Center was expected to name its new executive director this week, but unexpectedly prolonged contract talks have stalled the long-promised announcement. "Cocaine Wars" is a standard low-budget action film, but there are a few encouraging things in it. Plans for the concerts were announced Monday in London by Bob Geldof. I want just the right role, huh, Harve?Newspaper reporter? Cagney and Lacey emerge from a building where they've discovered a grisly killing.
9-14 with six evening performances and two "family" matinees and then will be staged in Los Angeles for another two weeks. But surely the actor was also looking to some crabbed and cynical place within himself, just as Shakespeare did when he wrote the character, and as the viewer does when he sees the movie. It was all done with comedy exposition at the beginning: 'So-and-so's getting married' 'Who's the lucky man' " "Follies" will feature songs from "Boy" and another local hit, "The Great American Backstage Musical" plus "some things I've done routines on over the years: one on 'Stardust' a Stephen Sondheim-type number and a medley of really rare Rodgers and Hart songs" Within his own work, Solly admits-albeit reluctantly-to a personal preference: "It's my ballads; I like them a lot. It has the sound I love more than anything-that '40s, dreamy quality, written to epitomize the separation of lovers in the war: the longing, the nostalgia, the coming home. The cast, furthermore, offered a number of happy revelations. Uh oh! All this time, meanwhile, the driver is still crumpled on the ground, unconscious, but no one cares because he's a black slave and isn't going to West Point Besides, Madeline has big eyes only for Orry. Performers and songs: Willie Nelson "On the Road Again, Bob Dylan "Trust Yourself" "Maggie's Farm, Neil Young "Heart of Gold, John Cougar Mellencamp "Pink Houses, Loretta Lynn "Coal Miner's Daughter, others.
On a film like this, it will probably encourage cross-over (help draw older moviegoers" Roginski says he figured it was this week or never for the Time cover The magazine rarely spotlights a movie after it's opened "Back to the Future" was released July 3 "It was a long weekend" he says. But a federal appeals court overturned that verdict in June, and this is the ruling that the Supreme Court let stand after being petitioned by Craft to hear the case Our legal system sometimes works in baffling ways. "I stop rehearsals very frequently to refocus the voices in order to minimize stress and strain and give them exercises to allow them to sing in an operatic style. The study, outlined at the theater district's Marriott Marquis Hotel by one of its authors, economist William Baumol, concludes that tickets are up less than the cost of theater operations, less than the purchasing power of consumers and far less than soaring production costs. Both went on to CalArts to earn master's degrees, also in sculpture. Wasn't that silly? There weren't many women who were good as men in rock 'n' roll then and there still aren't many now" Some, Wilson charged, get recognition merely because they're female rockers: "If they were men with the same talent they'd still be playing in a garage somewhere" Being a female rock singer, she noted, is fun, with one exception-the same one that seems to plague most single women rockers: "Dating guys isn't easy because some of them are intimidated by me They don't see Ann Wilson the person They see Ann Wilson the rock star They find it hard to relax.
Still, who can stand the constant high-volume interruption of the loudspeaker calling out someone else's number? "There isn't a great hamburger in L. A" says my friend Jerry, a man who gives the word persnickety new meaning. "Live" goes from an almost nine-minute version of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" to "Tuba Tiger Rag" to a seven-minute "Tribute to the Ballet" in which "Swan Lake" "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Nutcracker" go to the brass. From this starting point, the exhibition moves through work by artists of the early part of the century. " The reviews were even better for the company's second program, which, for some reason, Los Angeles won't see. Former KWVE-FM sports director Kevin Rafferty will call the play-by-play, while KBPK-FM's Lon Brunk will provide color commentary. "Macaroni" "Ginger and Fred" for Federico Fellini (the man who made him an international star with "La Dolce Vita" in 1960) and a sequel to "Big Deal on Madonna Street" And last year he appeared on the Paris stage in "Chin Chin" directed by Peter Brook. LONDON — Rambo has been shot down by the BBC The British Broadcasting Corp.
NBC's "Today" and the "CBS Morning News" plan coverage by field reporters, but not anchors. . There, she said, chuckling slightly, "I played a newscaster " She said that the acting experience had been fun and that she'd do it again if asked: "It's dreary being a Joan of Arc" Asked about working again as a television news reporter, she said that "Everyone tells me I've been black-balled" although she later added, "I'm not saying that I've been black-balled" "My main concern now is how I pay the July rent" she said. Sixteen canvases define vast expanses of space and spiritual abysses in terms of gritty surfaces, rough edges, gouges and pock marks. Fully in control of her life and subservient to no man, Shug helps Celie (the central character) realize that redeeming oneself involves changing one's consciousness. One soldier comes in from a firefight, where he knows he's killed somebody, to read a letter from his girlfriend and look aghast at her dilemma over which major to choose in school.
I don't think we've got a lot in common other than we don't sing properly and we've both got small (vocal) ranges" For now, Cole is ready to close the book on "Easy Pieces" and invest his energy honing the band's live performances and developing his new song ideas. But there is a reason for seeing "Fatty" or at least a reason for not leaving at intermission This is Art Metrano's evocation of Arbuckle. Of the 33 new shows that will have opened on Broadway-the fewest of any season this century- by the official season close Friday, only 13 are still running. A case in point is the masterpiece "Muscle Beach" (1949) for which he waited by his tripod three Sundays in a row and made about 70 exposures It is a crowded image, dense with human activity Nothing can be removed from it and nothing added. Just as new outlets for music have sprung up in the wake of previous club closings, there are signs this week that a new flurry of club activity will help fill the void left by the Golden Bear. It's a way of life" Adams responds when asked about his feelings about four decades of touring More to the point, he says he enjoys learning new roles. "How many hate being asked to raise your hands" Appreciative laughter, and the timid feel less so.
Every day I see records come in the store by bands that have been together for maybe eight months-and a lot of them are making money. He's a highly intelligent man and I think large numbers of people are just that-mesmerized He just sits there and talks. An exhibition of 18 recent works retains his trademark combination of painting and sculpture made of joined flexible materials like sheet aluminum and fiberglass that either stand free or hang on the wall as reliefs. Motown Productions is in post-production on what it calls "a new art form-a 45-minute, "mini-movie" music video in which classic Motown hit songs are woven into the story line. In an illuminating program-magazine article and in an interview with this writer, Ponnelle has expounded at length on the profundities of the libretto. The unpublished work has been transcribed by Tilney from a manuscript located at the British Library in London; this presentation is thought to be its New York premiere. The weak Ottoman Empire finally collapsed in 1918 after a century of being known as the "sick man" of Europe and being vulturously eyed by other nations with territorial designs.
But director Ronn Guidi's attempt to revise, reform, reinterpret and renew "The Nutcracker" results in a hopelessly scrambled, ruinously unmusical production. Let's say it again: Streisand is quite possibly the most gifted female singer of her generation, and she made a spectacular pop entry with larger-than-life renditions of songs like "People" Since then, however, she has tended to waste her voice on material that was hopelessly middlebrow or totally inappropriate (her misreading of David Bowie's "Life on Mars" remains a cult comedy classic. The music is a treat, but the real show is Armstrong, whose fiddle style fits his personality-sly, exuberant and full of bravura twists and turns. But the very fact that so many Los Angeles restaurants have pastry chefs who are constantly inventing new and wonderful desserts might, in itself, provide one of the answers. Works by Van Gogh, Millet, Seurat and Cezanne exemplify the work of masters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The fourth new show at the museum is a compendium of 35 works by American master Edward Weston titled "Things Seen, Things Known: Photographs by Edward Weston" Thursday through March 10. During the last eight weeks, ABC has finished first six times and has tied for first once with CBS, which had been the consistent front-runner since January, 1984.
It was an unfortunate thing that the claim was filed the same day" Karlen said. Among those reportedly backing the claim filed by Karlen were Joseph Olson, a retired Navy lieutenant commander who has lived in the county for 35 years, and artists Gilbert A Watrous and Maher Morcos. You can't blame him, either, for wanting to showcase Jackson's regal command and Canfield's partnering prowess at their purest You can blame him, though, for not listening to Liszt. On Wednesday, KCRW's Hirschman spearheaded a successful drive to save the weekend version of "All Things Considered" from the budgetary ax this year "Rather than see that program disappear Sept. "General Hospital's" ratings skyrocketed, and with them, ABC's daytime ratings. That combination of ruggedness and intellect has always been part of his art.
Technology breaks down, while faith gets stronger" Mastrosimone claims that subsequent events in Lebanon, which have philosophical connections to this story, bear out his theme. 18 and sell tickets beyond it" Beats us, too, but someone sent the mailer and it wasn't the Music Center, according to a puzzled Alan Coleman of the Music Center Operating Co, booker of the show and keeper of the box office "I am very, very sorry about this" Weissler added. It's dated Valentine's Day, 1977, and bears a postage stamp photo of the Irvins' great-granddaughter who is now 9 years old. Your faithful scribe cannot attest to the acoustical reception afforded the devout in the far corners of the arena, but in the midsection of the main floor-atop the basketball court-the tenor sounded about the way the average soloist sounds at Dodger Stadium during the National Anthem. As expected, the videocassette of a live Prince concert, "Prince and the Revolution Live" is the week's hot new seller. Alhilali takes them from basic fiber warps and woofs to massive paper structures with rhythmic protrusions.