FIRST IMPRESSIONS: The owners have been announcing that the restaurant was about to open since before Thanksgiving, but a couple of weeks ago Le Bel Age (in the hotel at 1020 N. The lady of the house tells two visitors it's Stanley's birthday, though it really isn't. He provoked an argument with the producer over an arcane production point while nearby, Siskel, the crew and a reporter listened uneasily. For a night, a weekend-whatever suits you, short of matrimony" When he stops by her home later to discuss business, she's in her bedroom wearing a skimpy piece of silk lingerie that she doesn't bother to cover with her robe. Just in case you don't remember who Carl Weathers is, the title sequence for his new series features a "Rocky-like montage of him jogging, doing push-ups, pumping iron and then lathering up in the shower.
Here, though, the scene is Hollywood and the family business is acting. The first subscription dance series in the Japan America Theatre resumed Saturday with modern dance by two Asian-American choreographers: San Francisco-based June Watanabe and Heidi Ashley of Los Angeles. (Yes, yes, I know it has no grooves) It will duly become to the LP what LPs were to 78s. It (the shuttle explosion) is a small price to pay for what we've learned and accomplished with the system" One woman told Jackson on the air that her 12-year-old son had just been telling her Monday night that he would like to be an astronaut. Another Embassy project outside the Coke takeover is Rob Reiner's "The Body" in production in Oregon. They didn't have many more answers, but they did have pictures, words and, perhaps above all else, presence-eloquence for an age of images Suddenly the NASA announcer paused There was an agonizing silence.
As if all that weren't enough to daunt most operatic mortals, there is the additional matter of the drama Otello is no ordinary stand-and-sing protagonist. My favorite dish after those wild gunpowder scallops is "gold coin beef-julienne strips of beef and red and yellow bell peppers in a slightly hot, slightly tart sauce (the menu speaks of jalapenos, but what hot peppers I found were the tiny green ones familiar in Oriental cooking. Bill Jones opted out to give undistracted time to teaching and to the Southwest Film and Television archive, which not long ago discovered, unclaimed in a warehouse, a historically invaluable trove of early black films. Mercedes McCambridge, in her first film role, was named best-supporting actress. The Akira Kurosawa video blitz continues. He says, ominously, "We can make America suffer" And he does. episode would be understood by rank-and-file newspaper readers. That situation makes the intent of much of the work at LAICA seem too clear to require much explanation. It looks like it's raining" Will we find "Untitled" on some future MTV Top Videos Countdown? "I doubt it" she said with a laugh.
He noted that the space shuttle program seemed to have been experiencing more problems in recent months. The 26-year-old Englishman certainly looked trim-topless and in a sweat suit-the other morning by the pool at the Hotel Bel-Air, accompanied by a small entourage that included his tall, tan girlfriend, who was also topless and creating a mild stir around the pool. Like Renoir, Kusturica can look evil right in the eye, deplore it for its terrible consequences yet realize that when emotions are at last spent, its perpetrators are more effectively disarmed with forgiving pity than violent anger. Officials also skirted the subject of the theater season's quality to date, which many here believe goes hand in hand with the increasing reluctance on the part of consumers to buy high-priced tickets. NEW YORK — Broadway theater owners and producers have taken the unusual step of publicly defending themselves in the face of criticism that the season to date has been as bleak as its predecessor-in large part due to high ticket prices. First is the subdued, princely one of Nikhil Choudhury (Victor Banerjee, a handsome, gentle, British-educated rajah, and his beautiful and adored wife Bimala (Swatilekha Chatterjee. "One of the things we must do" says board president Ron Rosen, "is look at the worst that can happen" In separate interviews, both the Chamber Orchestra's executive director, Robert Elias, and president Rosen told The Times that "the orchestra could fold" Naturally, both also promise they will not let that happen.
Directed by David McDonald, associate professor of drama, the student production is being staged at 8 p. m today through Sunday in Room 260 in the Fine Arts Village Admission is free with tickets "There is no political identity to the cast" McDonald said. Females of all species are provided with enough physical cues to attract mates, but this is ridiculous No matter where a man looks on a woman, he is reminded. Beneath his French accent, this De Becque is half-American already, and should get along fine with his in-laws back in Little Rock, once they get used to the part about his having two dusky children (Ruby Chang, Max Barabas) Bussert as Nellie does fairly well in the difficult task of not reminding us of Mary Martin, but she should do more to remind us of Meg Bussert. This, of course, is entirely proper and in conformity with our own sensible practice.
All are here for the three networks' biannual displays of new programs, stars and executives. Kristoffer Tabori, who was staging it originally, is now playing the lead and Sam Weisman has come in to direct. 18 screening of Raoul Walsh's 1930 Western saga "The Big Trail" starring John Wayne, shot in an early 70-millimeter process called Fox Grandeur. The most deleterious effect of the guild's turmoil can be found in last spring's guild negotiations with movie and TV producers and the two-week strike that followed. Wynyard has a timeless cool elegance and directness, and the very handsome, large-scale "One More River" (called "the most British movie ever made in Hollywood" by film historian William K Everson) seems strongly feminist today With it, at UCLA Melnitz at 8 p. m. BACH FEST CANCELED: The Pasadena Chamber Orchestra has scrapped plans for its fifth annual Pasadena Festival of Composers-this year devoted, naturally, to Bach, and tentatively scheduled for the first weekend of February The reason is an all-too-familiar one: money.
The Nicoise developed a version of their own (and Nice still produces some of the world's best pizza. The only suspense is whether the obese Burr will ever remove his overcoat (he finally does. Kano Eitoku's "Birds and Flowers in the Four Seasons" is one of the National Treasures on hand and a masterpiece by the most grandiose measure. But after all the work I've put in all these years, I'm not about to say I was writing better then than now" In the '50s and '60s, Holman used to get lots of work crafting arrangements for big bands-from Kenton to Gerry Mulligan-and for singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee, who toured with orchestras. On those occasions, Altman infuriated the studios by screening the films for critics and festival committees. "We have been under fire, and frankly, we're feeling a little gun-shy" said Harvey Sabinson, executive director of Broadway's official trade organization, the League of American Theaters and Producers, in acknowledging at a press conference that the league was releasing the results of an eight-month economic study to deflect recent criticism. There has to be something approaching a climax at the curtain You have to find notes and tones and variations And one is working with people.
He even hosted a daytime variety show called, straightforwardly, "Keene at Noon" "You could hardly turn on Channel 2 that I wasn't there" he said at KNX's Sunset Boulevard offices That ended when he was fired in a 1974 management shakeup. That also seems the prevailing mood on Madison Avenue, which by one estimate will spend $8. 7 billion on network advertising this year But two major agencies, BBDO and J. Fans who sample some of the 15 to 20 albums available in the States will discover that the sound is far removed from Nigeria's juju music, the most widely known African style here. The greatest fear: That "Rocky IV" like "Beverly Hills Cop" last year, will dominate the box office so completely that the others will never get started. Sho nuff! Parts of ABC's bloated 12-hour "North and South" (starting at 9 p. m. Co-writer Oliver Stone wouldn't want to see that happen to "Year of the Dragon" He is convinced that his research in Chinatown has produced a film that, he said, is true to life.
"If I had stayed, I would have done the same" Apart from "Romeo and Juliet" Makarova is working on several potentially interesting projects. They are the Museum of Contemporary Art $500,000, the education division of the Performing Arts Council of the Music Center $300,000) and the South Coast Repertory Theatre $350,000. Mitterrand's presidential mandate runs through 1988, and he has said he plans to stay in office no matter what the outcome. Walter found himself pitching a story idea recently to a former student who's now a story executive with "Twilight Zone" (Walter got the assignment.