"Crossroads" needs a leap of faith to swallow it whole, to buy its Faust-like premise of a musician's pact with the devil played against the realism of a contemporary road movie, but director Walter Hill lays out reasons enough to make us want to make that leap. I wanted to book the group, but it broke up when the third member, Weir Chrysamer, quit "They put this show together and played in Minneapolis. "Nightwatch" is the only surviving late-night network news-talk show. 11 episode of "Glitter) Now he is writing a book about his life He declined to name his agent. Bolet-like the composer in this particular music-aims straight for the gut rather than teasing us with a show of sensitivity He does not make light, or light work, of the scores. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is scheduled today to begin a daily TV feed to report on the flight of Voyager II past the planet Uranus, but officials at the Pasadena facility were unable to say Tuesday where the public will be able to see it.

Paul Getty, Santos-Killins and Goldstine are from outside Southern California. Among the 150 paintings on view are those by such well-known artists as Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cassatt, Pisarro and Signac; forgotten names include Lepine, Cals and Desboutin. For nearly an hour "Kindergarten" is familiar, shamelessly manipulative war-is-hell stuff. North urged the industry to start making more life-affirming films and stop with the "blatant, bloody violence" In the press room, North, whose most recent film was the relatively violent "Prizzi's Honor" said he was complaining about violence both on television and in films, singling "Rambo-style films" out for special disdain.

The only sensible-and apolitical-conclusion to be derived from "American Abstract Painting" is that the genre has established a rich, varied, still vital tradition, from the monkish rectitude of Brice Marden's all-black diptych to the roiling emotion of Lee Krasner's "Green Rhythm" No one-note show, this museum-level assembly takes note of everything from Josef Albers' pristine "Homage to the Square" to Alfred Jensen's split-color bull's-eye and John Torreano's spray of black spots and glass "jewels" on a gooey field of vivid red paint Quality varies, too. It is a fat pie anyway you slice it, and another, even more expensive one will be out of the Carolco oven in two summers. It has the functional, Hawksian design Carpenter usually works for in his own movies-that worship of professionalism, everything in place and paced, everything orderly and interlocking And it has Carpenter's typical dryly caricatured paranoia. Like his ambient music, Eno's lulling video is not meant to be watched like a football game or the latest Duran Duran opus. That collection includes John Wayne films, seven Bob Hope comedies, six Cary Grant movies and the classic "Macbeth" with Orson Welles. If it is not a masterpiece-and that is still too early to tell-it is built of a substance, density and seriousness that give that impression.

And abstract designs by Charlotte Robinson and Alice Baber don't seem well suited to fabric. Earlier this year, longtime Top 40 bar Joshua's Parlour in Westminster began periodically offering concerts. More specifically, the depictions have ranged from the heinous newspaper editor who victimized Marlo Thomas in "The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck" to the greasy little rag where Mary Tyler Moore works in her new CBS comedy, "Mary" The media make mistakes and act irresponsibly, but not always. Sawyer also is said to be in the running for the co-anchor slot on the "CBS Morning News" recently vacated by Bill Kurtis. Gene Siskel has been asked to step down as film critic of the Chicago Tribune, Daily Variety reported Tuesday. Judd Nelson would make a great shopping cart, Sheedy a still life of a cornflower gone to wilt" (S. F. He started out musically real shaky and you could sort of see the adrenalin start flowing the talent come oozing out.

"That's why I can say to the audience, 'It's nice to be in your small town when I go to places like Los Angeles or New York' As long as you keep in touch with your family and friends, you can carve out a small town anywhere" Educated in a small town Taught the fear of Jesus in a small town Used to daydream in that small town -Lyrics by Mellencamp It's a theme you read over and over in rock bios: the misunderstood kid in the small town who saw rock 'n' roll as a way to escape to a bigger, more exciting world. Everybody knows Lennie was crazy about proportions and was forever calculating the precise interrelationships of measure that made for the ideal man, woman or whatnot. Broadcasters often claim that their attitudes reflect concerns arising out of the Federal Communications Commission's fairness doctrine, which requires federally licensed radio and TV stations to air all sides of controversial issues of public importance. He said I had the best timing of anyone he'd ever worked with It must be something that comes to you naturally. Yet in both book and movie, the subject of the theology is the same: salvation. The best way to enjoy the salsa is with a quesadilla, two big tortillas with melted cheese between them. Despite the fact that the ratings for the Academy Awards show have gone down in the last few years, the cost of commercial time on the telecast has gone up.

Instead of nonstop, though, there are many stops, and even the best trial attorneys are not necessarily silver-tongued They win their cases on points of evidence and law, not lip. Cronkite also remembered those early days, when he sat out on the Cape, hoping and cheerleading with the nation: "I think that all of us who watched the beginnings of the space program with unmanned rockets blowing up on the pad or shortly after takeoff have always had, locked somewhere in the back of our memories, the thought that someday this same sort of an accident might overtake the manned program" Despite Tuesday's tragedy, Friendly said, he still believes journalists should make the trip "It goes with the job" Friendly said. While most of Little Richard's '50s records seem innocent by today's standards, many parents were so scandalized by the sexual aggression of his sound that they would have certainly wanted warning stickers if such a system had been in effect. Her son Andrusha-6 years old, long-legged and exceptionally bright-nonchalantly informs a visitor that he sometimes spots sharks and whales through the same window. Before becoming president of ABC Entertainment, Erlicht had been senior vice president for prime-time programming, and prior to that was a vice president for programs in New York. . Hanson never condescends, never suggests that Bower is the only miner who's not a male chauvinist pig.

But so far he doesn't have the production-i. e, a New York production-which he needs to get published. After bumbling happily into a few more anterooms, like one devoted to the maestro and the poets, one begins to wonder if this museum is not just a touch too much fun. In the fashion of the day, the Musee Picasso has been slightly boutiquized. "The record company is responsible, but the artist has to take some of the blame The artist has got to know this is going on". It's fiery stuff, very much what we imagine the Klemperer of the 1920s to have been like and in distinct contrast to his later, characteristically monumental studio recording for Angel.

"But it does t end to obliterate all the other things I've done. If the latter conclusion is reached, there are compensations. We won't use a trapdoor or a hook, but we'll start a red light flashing at the camera at 30 seconds. And now (faced with the cutoff of the Pacific Ocean) there's nowhere else to go" The drifters here are young Paul and Anemone (who made their debut in an earlier Shank play"the new poor" waging war with "the traditional poor, the Chicanos, who've lived in the area a long time but haven't taken part in the community's economic success" That social climate is paramount: "I always start with the idea of a setting-I know where a play is set before anything else. "We're still kind of in shock" "When I first heard this morning, I let out a nice, loud 'hoot' But, really, I think we're all kind of surprised" Pearce agreed.

But Erin Clark and the other women of "Radio Visions? No way. "Chuck has been working as our associate director, contributing to the repertory, and working with the dancers to improve the quality of the ballet company" artistic director Maxine Mahon said in a recent interview. "I worked in markets before like Dayton (Ohio, which has less than a million people, and there were six religious stations that all seemed to make it. The feeling just comes very easily to me" Jillana, who declined to give her age, joined New York City Ballet in 1947 "I was the youngest girl they ever took" she said) and left the company 20 years later. On her way from San Francisco back home to New York, she detoured here for a few hours for this Calendar interview. In exchange for a tour of the best restaurants of Barcelona, the city officials asked only one thing. Panelists are: Jacki Apple, intermedia artist/writer (who hosts and produces "Audio Networks" on KPFK and writes for Artweek, Media Arts and High Performance; Peter Kirby, video artist, editor/producer and co-founder/vice-president of Video Transitions (a post-production video company; Max Almy, video artist, and Julie Lazar, curator of media and performing arts at the Museum of Contemporary Art Fee for the program is $85 Registration: 206-8503.

"There were two of us, one at each side of the stage, and my parents got into an argument over which one of us was me" But there's no mistaking her now. "Thicke challenges the viewer to figure out just what it is that he does so well that he should be on television. Nor does his slender and undifferentiated tone tend to illuminate the music at hand. Nobody's in a hurry and although there may be (almost certainly will be) 20 or 30 people waiting for your table, the waiters act as if it would not be polite to remind you of this fact. I've experienced it" Bridges, the father of three, narrates an outstanding videocassette, "Creative Parenting: The First 12 Months" (A&M, $29. 95) that attempts to defuse this terror. She thinks this is a "dreadful way" to hold an audition, dreamed up by some "bright little monster in Hollywood or New York" Instead, she works with actors to draw out what's inside them. "We're now being turned down for $50,000 grants that I'm sure we would have gotten if we didn't have the crunch.

Just two months after Cannon Films proudly announced it had signed Dustin Hoffman to star in "LaBrava" Hoffman has reportedly terminated the agreement because of two unauthorized full-page ads that Cannon ran in Hollywood trade papers. Indeed, except for minimal (and almost half-hearted) pointe choreography in Helen Coope's new "Aymara" the program remained utterly free of conventional classicism. Geoffrey Stack, SCR board president, said that the 3-1 matching criteria means SCR has to raise $1,050,000 over a three-year span to receive the $350,000 NEA grant "We're ready to accept this challenge. A reasonably complete performance of the gargantuan tetralogy was staged at the War Memorial Opera House back in 1935.