"EGBOK kept us from going into despair" she said, gesturing toward the EGBOK printed on her faded T-shirt. Said Laff Stop owner Michael Callie: "When we opened in 1976, people's idea of a comedy club was that Bob Hope would come out Nobody had heard of any of the guys on that first show. It may be that Fo and Rame, as improvisational clowns graced with Italian antic spirit (as we've seen with "Les Colombaioni, are able to take the situation of these playlets and jam on them like jazz artists, finding the fun and the moment in different places on different nights. Garry Goodrow-remembered from his work with the Committee, one of the finest improv groups of the 1960s-worked one.

Writer-director Beaird, who is still a young man, had very good success with his Wisdom Bridge theater in Chicago. Both the Jackson and Grant programs were relegated to taped-replay status this month over ABC's flagship station, WABC-AM in New York. Like someone experimenting with notes on a keyboard to see how they'll fit into a newly devised musical scheme, composer Richard Peaslee warmed to the idea of trying to describe "The Garden of Earthly Delights" the much-heralded Martha Clark dance/theater/music piece, based on a triptych by 15th-Century painter Hieronymous Bosch, which opens the James A. 1 single, "Broken Wings" For years he was one of the heartiest partyers in the music business. He's renting a small house off King's Road that was home to Warren Beatty when he was making "Reds" During the filming of "Yanks" Richard Gere lived there. In the 1940s and '50s, radio newscasters typically were responsible for several 15-minute broadcasts each day.

Two films, "The Makioka Sisters" and "Smooth Talk" have virtually slipped into town and they are to the brutish bunch as cherry blossoms are to cannon balls Their productions are as unalike as you could imagine. Besides covering a song written for them by John Cougar Mellencamp, the L. A. With its wealth of theater and the symphony's pops programming, summers in San Diego more or less take on an arts festival atmosphere. What is impressive is that Norris, who is white and studied opera (as a soprano) in her native Seattle before she switched to comparative literature, women's studies and the blues, sings these old, hard 12-bar anthems with a deep-voiced fidelity not only to the sound but to the felt intensity of spirit of the originals.

"With be-bop, the whole idea is improvisation, with different rhythm patterns, time signatures and tempos. SAN DIEGO — Just like you can't teach an old dog new tricks, don't expect saxophonist Joe Marillo to leap onto the pop-jazz bandwagon simply because it happens to be the hottest form of jazz in town right now. Ablah's Gulf Stream II, docked near the Los Angeles International Airport, never left the ground during this recent interview But he hopes his art-for-everyone idea will continue to fly. On another issue, Aal, who last year was an NBC executive producer, said she had developed a two-hour script on the subject of AIDS but she told the panel it will be "very interesting to see if the movie is produced" She said that while network executives appear to be happy with the treatment there were certain "corporate concerns" about dealing with the subject at all, fearing it would hurt advertising Linda Otto, of the Landsburg Co. "That may be why the story was untold by the established media; it just got lost in the general mess. Soon whole lines and blocks of color and pattern appear in a dazzling parade of visual evolution.

Monique Van de Ven, the beautiful and talented blond actress of Paul Verhoeven's "Turkish Delight" and "Keetje Tippel" stars in "Dreamland" as a young working-class wife whose postpartum depression leads her to an addiction to tranquilizers. Keech, who does desserts for both Spago and Chinois on Main, is constantly innovating to meet the demands of her customers. The City of San Diego's Public Arts Advisory Board and the county's Public Arts Advisory Council, may learn a lesson from the Kelly controversy. Lafortune joined up last year and had been in the company only one week when Lubovitch began to choreograph for him. Are you ready? "Diff'rent Blokes" Meanwhile, getting back to 1985 no-nos: -No more TV hype of Doug Flutie. Reflections Gallery (8371 La Mesa Blvd, La Mesa) is offering a new group show titled "Magic: Eventual Transformation" The meaning is elusive, but you don't have to understand it to appreciate the works exhibited. SAN DIEGO — "Thomas Johnson: New Work" is the vague title of a strong exhibition of photographs by a gifted artist at the Grossmont College Art Gallery.

Here we see his anatomical investigations reflected in a drawing by his acolyte Francesco Melzi. "Some of them are brand-new, some of them are 20 years old" the bearded, Swarthmore- and Juilliard-trained Schickele explained, on the phone from Brooklyn "I've been writing these songs for years and years. Such heavy drum-beating is the network norm now, but it's in sharp contrast to the way the seasons used to begin, says Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, who presided over NBC circa 1953-55, in TV's so-called Golden Era: "We didn't expect shows to fail, but we didn't do the kind of promotion they do now, all this insane carrying-on" He was referring to the preseason blizzard of network "promos" those short, jazzy excerpts of coming prime-time series, and the musical battle cries of "We've Got the Touch" from CBS, "Let's All Be There" from NBC and ABC's "You'll Love It" NBC board chairman Grant Tinker, asked how all this hubbub compares to the early years of his career in the 1950s, readily admits that things were much calmer then. They also are asked to answer viewer questions that have been supplied to them beforehand All their responses are expected to be kept to 30 seconds. When we were discussing at the Los Angeles Theatre Center what plays to include in our classics series, it seemed to me that this had to be one of them" Los Angeles Theatre Center will also be the site of one of the few local theatrical celebrations of black history month when Edmund Cambridge's Black Ensemble Theatre stages a series of performances Friday through Sunday.

I really don't subscribe to this sentimental idea that the band should be together forever I'm not tied contractually or emotionally to those two guys. "Better people than I have lost their way in Los Angeles" he said "But Trish likes it there, and so we're a continent apart Me, I love Connecticut. Hoffman is particularly fine as the beleaguered Mother General, her face and eyes registering psychological details undreamed of in the script-even, perhaps, a sense of disappointment as she puts on her first modern habit and realizes that in surrendering the traditional habit she is also surrendering a certain mystique. To them, two hours of Prince for $30-in any kind of light-is a bargain.

Dornan (R-Garden Grove, a fiery conservative and frequent media critic who often makes more noise than sense. "And there'll be some surprises" Expect a few Disney characters to wander on stage to pay their respects Bob smiled in anticipation of the concert. These were the creations of Amy Pressman, formerly of Spago, who recently left for a restaurant in Dallas. "I don't think that every song has to have a banjo, or a fiddle, or a saxophone. Although it's difficult to believe that any American of voting age could find Himmelstein's conclusion startling, it's not hard to see why Lumet, noted as a grappler with social issues "Daniel" "The Verdict" "Prince of the City, could be intrigued by his material. Then, in the final Gavotte, when she had finished singing, McNair handed her score to Salgo, twirled in time to the music, then did a step with the conductor.

Finally, however, we seem to have come to the heart of the play But by now the play is almost over. "Besides" she continued, "you can only take so much criticism of your appearance from certain magazines without it affecting you. But Primi, 10543 Pico Blvd, (213) 475-9235, is more than just an innovative idea for a restaurant; it is the brainchild of Piero Selvaggio, owner of Valentino, who has thrown all of his considerable energy into the project. Between the early shooting and the late moment of retribution, Bejart splices in unrelated and undeveloped diversions Ronald Perry brings down the house with an orgy of fouettes.