"Chaplin-which didn't get off the ground when Civic Light Opera tried it out a couple of summers back-had a brief second try under the stars in Houston last month. Clearly, he was something different, something unexpected by the assembled poetry lovers, most of whom seemed not to have had a clue that the famous idol of the 1960s would be in their midst. "Solid Gold" "Entertainment Tonight" and the upcoming "America" with a budget of $20 million for its first year of five-day-a-week production, attest to Paramount's ambition in exploring non-network territory. Outfitted in a burgundy beret and examples from what must be a closetful of loud suits, Armstrong is a flamboyant raconteur, given to such delicious self-mythology that his reminiscences have the sultry air of after-hours tall tales. For the official TV season that ended April 21, the "CBS Evening News" averaged about 11. 4 million households per night, compared to about 9. 5 million for "NBC Nightly News" and about 9. 4 million for "ABC World News Tonight) NBC correspondents Marvin Kalb, Roger Mudd and Connie Chung, the latter the anchor of the daily "NBC News at Sunrise" sounded similar sentiments to nearly 800 station representatives gathered at the Century Plaza. "This is a tremendous enrichment of our repertory" Haitink observes.
"Maybe 20 years ago modern dance at the campus theater was every company's horizon But then things turned experimental Streets and subways became performing venues And now there's video. It would have helped to pay off the nearly $21 million still owed for construction of the stadium in 1967. Included in this category is a $400,000 contribtuion from a new support group, the Angels of the Arts. Taking a fresh look at the Italian countryside and its inhabitants, the Macchiaioli began to work out of doors and to capture actual visual experience on canvas. The awards, covering programs from July 1, 1984, to June 30, 1985, cover seven categories: network television, major-market television, medium-market television, small-market television, independent news and public affairs, cable and radio. "I'd forgotten all about that" he said, adding ruefully, "It was the most embarrassing moment of my life" Although primarily an actor, Estevez spent most of the visit discussing his writing, an interest that long predates "That Was Then, This Is Now" "I wasn't content with being just an actor" he explained "I'd been writing since I was 7. Hacker says the field has been narrowed to 8 to 10 candidates and that the company has "talked to anybody who's anybody in the world of film criticism" from Gene Shalit to Rex Reed.
She keeps an ear to the ground, meeting regularly with black leaders to identify issues within the community that could become the subject of programs. And Margy, who goes for the decent little charbroiled chili burgers at the Hard Rock Cafe. When he regains consciousness after a coronary bypass, he feels so unhinged, having envisioned his own death, that he believes he must attempt to find out whether he's gone to hell or has simply gone mad. The Grammys are curious enough if one's gaze is confined to recordings that happen to deal with unimportant things: symphonies and concertos and operas and chamber music The Grammys do deal in such things, you know. GARDEN CITY, N. Y. Yet, there is also something endearing about an artist who shows no interest in playing it safe. Always, in the past, we've avoided overhead costs outside of musical ones.
" -Other shows en route to a ratings graveyard: "Family Honor" (ABC, Tuesday at 10 p. m, about conflict between a family of cops and a family of criminals; "George Burns Comedy Week" (CBS, Wednesday at 9:30; "Stir Crazy" (CBS, Wednesday at 8 p. m, based on the Gene Wilder-Richard Pryor film; "Misfits of Science" (NBC, Friday at 9 p. m, about a band of superpowered freaks, and "227" (NBC, Saturday at 9:30 p. m, a new comedy that Schulman predicts will be replaced by either "Valerie" the new sitcom due from Valerie Harper, or "All Is Forgiven" from the creators of "Cheers" -Making strong showings, though not necessarily winning their time slots, will be "Moonlighting" (ABC, Tuesday at 9 p. m; "The Equalizer" (CBS, Wednesday at 10 p. m, about a middle-aged ex-secret agent now in private practice; "The Twilight Zone" (CBS, Friday at 8 p. m) and "Hell Town" Robert Blake's new show (NBC, Wednesday at 9 p. m. To wind up a winner took super drive, grit and an overwhelming intensity to achieve" And then there was Kroger Babb. The politicians are good at getting attention, but they depend on civil servants to give them all sorts of facts. Institute of Contemporary Art, the two installations are like theater sets with background music but no actors.
The Town Hall audience was the kind, after all, where the speaker felt compelled to ask a question about a recent Kennedy Center honoree in dance: "Is Merce Cunningham's name familiar to you" In the last quarter of her speech, however, standing before film clips of models (some of them already out of date) for her new Dance Gallery at 4th and Grand streets, Lewitzky stepped out of the standard speaker's mode and came alive Her voice brightened Her dark eyes danced. There were exceptions of course-singer-actress Apollonia's being the most noticeable. a very human-and sad-story" The project began when Hardcastle, who specializes in synthesizer-based, dance-oriented music, was deeply moved by an award-winning ABC-TV program, "Vietnam Requiem" Two facts especially haunted him: -that the average age of the American soldier in Vietnam was 19-that so many of those soldiers were considered outcasts when they returned home. For example: "Want your body / Want your mind / Why are people so unkind" Youth can be forgiven a lot, but there are limits. Moreover, he didn't have to add, as Cronkite always did: "And that's the way it is" In a credibility contest, Reagan could put all three network anchormen out of business quicker than you can say A. C Nielsen.
Now that Neblett had thoroughly refamiliarized herself with Amelia's music, she was able to play it for strength. My last two were hardly seen'Madame Wang's' (1979) and 'Forty Deuce' (1981 Just in places like Belgium and Holland and Australia. (The show airs live tonight at 9 on Group W in Fullerton, Buena Park and Placentia. Twyla Tharp, for instance, has worked with the Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet while maintaining the ensemble that bears her name. If plans are approved, the grand old estate will become the home for the Frederick R. They also include fantasies of a less frightening nature, such as Cocteau's poignant 1946 film version of "Beauty and the Beast" to be shown Feb 7, which Potter described as "a classic fantasy.
When a film with little sense and no content is a ruination, the sense of loss isn't particularly acute. Young musicians concerts predominate this weekend: Five winners of the Orange Coast Cities Branch of the Music Teachers Assn. It's afternoon drive time-that arbitrary radio time zone between 3 and 6 p. m. But writer-executive producer Noel Black has not written roles with enough substance to keep them from seeming more stereotypes than archetypes. A current MTV promo begins with an announcer pretending to discuss the big bang theory and the possible existence of a "higher intelligence" This is chased off the screen as a voice says, "Who cares? It's party time" It's always party time on MTV, but it's a wan sort of partying, the kind a corporation would mandate for its employees during business hours It's always business hours on MTV, too As a company, MTV is run like a fortress. Asked for details about the secret project, Norman Winter, Jackson's personal publicist, said he had "no comment about anything". However, the film leaves us feeling that we've been smuggled behind the scenes of a closed world.
"I thought Henry was my friend" Dordick commented bitterly, "but he didn't have the decency to say to the board (when offered the post of artistic director, 'I want to talk to Johanna first' " Yet, Kaufman and Holt said she had encouraged Holt's promotion to the top job. It's Hot" One of "Drood's" leading ladies, Cleo Laine, was nominated as best actress in a musical. His medium is light in space manipulated to create visual illusions Turrell comments: "Light is a powerful substance We have a primal connection to it. It's a horror and there are so many people doing it and messing up their lives for the world to see. They were looking for things to startle us, shock us, something that wasn't conventional In fact, conventional movies were harder to get made then "It was a more adventuresome time at the studios There was diversity. And at the climax of his revelation he finally hears himself, and the roof caves in This was a great performance 30 years ago. Schulman reached that conclusion because he can't find another time period in which NBC could put "Almanac" to which it is committed for 1986.
But I'm never sure whether the on-screen credit should go to Wallace or to his field producer or to crafty editing. Its history has been laced with financial problems and personality conflicts, and in January, its board-unable to meet its payroll or pay its payroll taxes-voted to merge with the newly formed American Cinematheque. For years Japan has turned to the screen in an attempt to come to terms with its invasion of Manchuria and its subsequent precipitation of the war in the Pacific, and the masterpiece on this subject is Masaki Kobayashi's great nine-hour anti-war trilogy, "The Human Condition" (1958-60. Ray Blanton, through his top aides, was "selling" pardons and early paroles to politically connected prisoners.
This represented the amount of nuclear firepower available today If 60 seconds sounds small, time it on your watch. The "California" series, and the 1984-85 Monday Evening series, end next week, when performers from UC San Diego offer music by composers from both ends of the state. . " After returning to "General Hospital" and completing her contract, Moore appeared in the forgettable "Parasite" a low-budget 3-D flick about a man-eating flatworm. The strongest aspect of Graves' design is how it meets the street flush with retail space. Entertainer Milton Berle provided another poignant moment with his first public appearance since undergoing quadruple bypass heart surgery earlier this year. The variations receive an ebullient reading, dominated by a striking sense of contrast. According to an attorney associated with the Rewald case but who asked not to be identified because he did not wish to be quoted talking about an ongoing proceeding, the Hawaii trial promises to examine "the two types of stories that have come out of this case-that this is a fraud case or whether it had all of these CIA undercurrents in it" "It really is a battle between which side is correct" the attorney said.
"Right now, our intention is go to ahead with Francis and Debby" Producer Paul Gurian has been in the midst of casting the film and was hard hit by the news. Rodgers, in town from New York for a few days, was squeezing the Stewart sessions into a schedule mostly devoted to work on a sound track for David Lee Roth's slapstick movie, "Crazy From the Heat" "This is more of a traditional big band jazz score" Rodgers said. Prince, who went to the awards show, was expected at the session to sing one of the solo parts, but he never showed up. She had been profiled in local newspapers and had performed in nearly every other reading venue in the city. It tends to distract people from Southeast Asian galleries, which include such treasures as a dancing Nataraja said to be the best of its kind in the known world.