California artist John Nava has a precise love of the way things are structured, be they old Roman buildings or young American women He paints these subjects carefully Maybe one ought to say he draws In either case, carefully is right. The menu is simple, but the food is so good that when I recently asked a group of chefs where they ate on their days off, two of them mentioned Yuca's. 23, 24 and 26) will be devoted entirely to the composer with performances of his First and Seventh symphonies and the Violin Concerto, with the young American violinist Joseph Swensen (also making his Philharmonic debut) as soloist. "And they were kept busy because there was an explosion of science books. Thomas was blunt in talking about Kantner: "We're better off without him We can move forward.
And here was a formalist modern-dance abstraction of Stalinist terror. An internal CBS study of "Uncounted Enemy" conducted by veteran CBS producer Burton Benjamin and sparked by a sharply critical TV Guide article, said that the use of the word conspiracy was not proven, given the accepted definition of the word. This evening at 8 p. m, Bronislaw Machalski will break the ice with his one-man show at the East County Performing Arts Center On Feb. Director Al Rossi makes good if sometimes overly contrived use of Douglas D Smith's multi-level set (well lit by Kathy A. Walking around the Doolittle's art gallery during intermission, you find trinkets that have nothing to say except "Aren't I amusing" O'Neill doesn't want to amuse you He wants to improve you But not to hype you. Better these people should go to Beverly Hills to Burger Hills on Canon, a Cassel's clone that improves on the original-the same type of potato salad and homemade lemonade, the same hamburger grease from the griddle hanging in the air, but better meat, tastier rolls.
Imagination-we like to think-provides the theater's true alchemy. "From an early age I have been fascinated by motion pictures, by images" he says. It takes about two hours, then it turns a lovely brown, with a dark, heavy flavor of rich onion. At that, Gilliam's darkly comical vision of a bizarre bureaucratic future, with Big Brother as a kind of supremely tyrannical office manager, is so personal and so heavily a matter of style not plot that the original script can have given only the vaguest clues to the end result. in Beverly Hills run Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 8 p. m; Wednesdays and Sundays at 2 p. m, until Feb 10 (274-6755. . Sometimes they twinkle, as when she told of her first encounter with Beatty.
A streak of melancholy-perfectly Russian and perfectly appropriate to one born in Kiev-has long marked the music of Michel Michelet. The performance halls, together with a restaurant and some candy stores and other small retail shops, take up an entire block between the new City Hall with its skin of bright-blue windows and staggered roof line that creates a step effect, and the Calgary Convention Centre and the local Glenbow Museum. The funniest is a canvas called "For Life Without a Dentist" with those words squeezed out like cake frosting on a sendup of a sentimental illustration. Ballads are the weakness of her new pop-soul album, her first for MCA Records. Monday, 8 p. m, $20 (213) 859-2644; Variety Show at City Stage on May 17, 8 p. m, $8 (210) 687-9837; and Steven Banks Home Video Entertainment at the Chamber Theatre, May 18, 8:30 p. m, $8 (818) 760-9708. The early results indicate that Steven Spielberg will have the last laugh on his critics.
Until, that is, Maphis started playing his twin-necked guitar or sawing away on a fiddle. Goldfadn coined the name because it's so funny" In fact, the story is as old as theater itself. They will be feted at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on March 23 in ceremonies that will be taped for broadcast on NBC April 21. . When will our non-rock engineers learn? Renvall's solo, "Superboy" is an extended joke concocted by Walter Bourke. The most engaging words about Price come from the lady herself.
"Best Wishes" is otherwise as faithful to its subject-the ways a family releases the past for the present-as a play could be. But given the influence of their work, the difficulties it took to reach them seem minor-and the payoff hopefully major. . Richard Foos and Harold Bronson, co-owners of Rhino Records, loved the idea. "I think these guys have a real chance of breaking out like Los Lobos and I'd like to build them into one of my cornerstone acts in this region" The effort has been paying off with club owners, most of whom eagerly invited the band back.
Peter Brosius, who as author or co-author had a hand in the ITP's prior works, "School Talk" and "Family Album" directs The play opens for the public Saturday at Taper, Too. . The Matrix production, a highly capable one, staged by Sam Weisman, uses a very different script from the published version. since before Bruce became big box office, and he's been getting better at it all the time. Altogether, we have a small general history of an art museum that has never looked so impressive.
"She said, 'Cut it in half but don't leave anything out' I did I cut out words, lines, paragraphs. The third and most recent version, revised and refined through IRCAM, was presented in Paris in October, 1984; this third version is being presented on the group's current United States tour. Yorkin's critique-and her conclusion that "the one thing theater can do very well is present ideas speak to the human condition. Here also was a program, hosted by Bryant Gumbel of "Today" that NBC had allowed to debut almost unheralded, and that's why Charren was mad. Also going on sale Monday will be a second Culture Club show Aug 18 at the Pacific Amphitheatre. She was carrying this bag of groceries but when she saw me she got off the curb and walked a huge circle around me. The artist will discuss his collaboration with John Dexter, artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera, in designing sets and costumes for "Parade" (presented by the Met in 1981.
She'd started college at 30 and within a month after she started taking an acting class, she got a role playing a witch in a children's play. His birthday gift to his pal and upstairs neighbor Norton is a night at the movies Ralph buys the tickets. Clint Eastwood is really good, but I wouldn't see it myself unless someone else told me to. A machine-gun massacre of nine people at a nightclub is found to be tied to a scandal at the bank his beloved father runs, and he resigns from the police force to pursue the case on his own next week "Fortune Dane" is not as corny as this may sound.
If things start going too well-if I get a good job, start making good money-I do something to make it hard for me, to challenge myself" Ultimately, though, he admitted that his whole act is geared for the entertainment of only one person. Box Office" per Newsweek magazine, helped "Beverly Hills Cop" make 1984 the first one-hit Christmas in more than a decade. (A continual refrain on Heathrow's loudspeaker at mid-month was the announcement that any unattended package or suitcase would be removed immediately) On the other, tone of voice has become extremely important, whether your microphone is backstage at a West End theater, in an airport lounge or in the cockpit of a 747. OPENING REMARKS: Programming appeared to be a stronger selling point than location and convenience, patrons of Filmex's opening weekend said. Another jazz veteran-trumpeter Doc Cheatham-is scheduled to be featured on Dec 29 Classical music and performers also are regularly featured.