For me, to take risks is a must" Still, the handsome singer says, he believes he is not moving ahead-to those heavy, darker roles-faster than he should. This weakness in recent years only makes Saturday night's screening of USC's 1985 Advanced Film Projects class all the more exciting. Pianist James Barbagallo is in Southern California, partly to repay an artistic debt. Not unlike David Mamet, to whom he is most easily compared, he knows how to listen and reproduce the sound of conversations. The drawing, which hearkens back to the Renaissance in character, is academically elegant, as is the overall facture of the works despite the obvious modernity of their mixed-media components and the contemporary distortions of their figurative idiom. Among them: -Program development: With the effect of federal cutbacks "now evident" Christensen said, "the upcoming fall season on public television will be the first in recent memory without a major new domestically produced public television series" Specials, however, will include "Live From Lincoln Center" "Statue of Liberty" "Comet Halley" and the Oscar-winning film "Times of Harvey Milk" New non-domestic series include "Treasure Homes of England" and "River Journeys of the World' Series with new episodes will include "Masterpiece Theatre" "Great Performances" "Nova" "Wonderworks" "Newton's Apple" and "Adam Smith's Money World" "Brain" and "A Walk Through the 20th Century With Bill Moyers" will be repeated. Simultaneously friendly and threatening, "Sequi" (whose name has no significance outside the artist's accounting system) is both familiar and foreign, natural and expressionistic.

Since then, USA for Africa and the Live Aid Foundation have both come under fire from critics for failing to spend money donated to the cause of Africa fast enough. . She appears to relish the domestic tasks that occupy Franz Xaver Kroetz's lonely woman upon her return home from work. It is an admirably game try at assimilation that is still clearly his own. I remember that-and I use it" She described her character (as the cancer-ridden mother of Sam Anderson) as "too tenacious to let it (the illness) get her down. The custom of places blessed with a view is to rely on the blue water to obscure the lack of a blue ribbon in the kitchen.

This high-level promotional scheme might lead one to believe that NBC is apprehensive about the show's financial performance. Monday's Academy Awards show is the subject of "At the Movies" 12:30 p. m. Even George Kubler, who wrote a standard scholarly work on the subject, was constantly bemused by the way expertise only fostered greater enigma. SAN FRANCISCO — Jean-Pierre Ponnelle used to be regarded as an enfant terrible. Watts joined the company in 1970, was promoted to soloist in 1978 and became a principal dancer a year later. "Made for Each Other" is packed with funny moments, some of them painfully so.

"It just made me feel good about people again" a woman in her 30s said the same afternoon during a stroll in Regent's Park. Smith Goes to Washington" in 1939, "It's a Wonderful Life" in 1946, "Harvey" in 1950 and "Anatomy of a Murder" in 1959. At the time, producing imagery of currency was loaded with connotations that now seem quite simplistic. From a strictly commercial viewpoint, Exude might have been smarter to include more rock parodies on its new album and capitalize on "Boys Just Want to Have Sex" the Cyndi Lauper spoof that brought the group considerable attention, radio air play and record sales in 1984. It's not clear whether we're supposed to find Babe essentially saner than the outside world, in which case her final capitulation to the city is a defeat; or whether we are supposed to see her as bonkers, in which case the last scene shows her returning to the land of the living. "We went through so much of that that when I finally met Susanna we said, 'Well, how far do you want to take this? I mean, are you as crazy as we are' And she definitely was.

A new carpet is on the floor to match the recycled red curtain (it was once the Ahmanson's. People are so shocked by this, they worry that maybe the whole country is beginning to fall apart They don't even trust themselves any more" Mullins says. Brokaw anchored his network's 90 minutes of coverage from New York, and Jennings was on the air for 90 minutes from Bonn. Industry estimates predict that 1. 6 million compact disc players will be sold in the United States this year, up from 1 million in 1985 and 200,000 in 1984. There'll be a third annual trad jazz festival in Los Angeles over Labor Day weekend.

Kevin Thomas, Michael Wilmington and Leonard Klady contributed to this article. . "For years people outside San Diego knew that there were no vacant dates at the Civic" he said. All possess, however, the mystery that we seek in true works of art. -Dan Petrie Jr, 33, received an Academy Award nomination last year for "Beverly Hills Cop" his first produced screenplay.

There was nothing pale or modest about Deborah Kavasch's strident melodrama, "Medea" Still, we expect more of extended vocal techniques than just amplified rasping and extra-wide vibrato, and more of drama than simplistic symbolism. . No one wrote music that was too long" But the French connection was not to last. "Winter in Berkeley is a great time for growing garden salad" she says, "but you don't get that much of it Here, winter is the prime growing season. I had about 6 1/2 weeks (off) this spring" That 6 1/2 weeks had been reserved for "Night of the Iguana" which Harris had agreed to do as the inaugural production of the Los Angeles Theatre Center. I just did what she told me" said Nolan, 74, during a visit to the BC Space Gallery.

The play's chauffeur, if you will, is Grown-up Paddy (Timothy Donoghue. Anthony Embeck's Cassius em-bodies leanness and hunger; Gary Allen Poe's Brutus is a touch bland but vocally persuasive. We waited 40 minutes for our food, time enough for leisurely illicit talk, but too long for this hungry citizen that night The table was so small, we were served one dish at a time. (The show airs live tonight at 9 on Group W in Fullerton, Buena Park and Placentia. Not everyone liked it, but it jolted you into thinking about "Lear" and not just listening to it. Benefit performances of "The Runaways" will be given at 8 p. m. The person who can keep the Oscar show to under three hours will be a (Good luck, Stanley) 32.

So when Midnight Oil (which also includes guitarist Martin Rotsey, bassist Peter Gifford, drummer Rob Hirst and guitarist-keyboardist Jim Moginie) entered a Japanese recording studio to make a follow-up LP, the machinery was geared to complete the U. S breakthrough. Certainly, for example, there were no great lines around the block to see "Catskills Honeymoon" "Schund, " (trash) cringed Miriam Saul Krant, co-founder, with Sharon Pucker Rivo, of this first-ever international archive of Jewish film. (The film even runs obscenity-punctuated outtakes over its final credits) Except for Blair, who plays her role with good-natured charm, the rest of the cast walks through on automatic pilot. Jazz Solo Instrumental: "Black Codes From the Underground" Wynton Marsalis "Human Nature" Miles Davis "Magic Touch" Stanley Jordan "Meet Benny Bailey" James Moody "Sing Joy Spring" Dizzy Gillespie Female Country Vocal: "Ballad of Sally Rose" Emmylou Harris "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me" Rosanne Cash "Real Love" Dolly Parton "She's Single Again" Janie Fricke "You Make Me Want to Make You Mine" Juice Newton. Rather than go for the Beverly Hills life style, they'd rather stick to Monterey Park and salt their residuals away for their kids' education. He said he and Elliot are enamored of Indian pop music as well as Eastern philosophy and religion, which partially explains such songs as "Sacred Cowboys" and "I Wanna Be a Hindu" But the group's fascination with India was initially triggered in the unlikely locale of Fullerton, Elliot said.

Anyway, it's hard to understand how it could be more dehumanizing for an actress to bare her breasts on camera than to have them taped together and then artificially hoisted into camera range, which is what the modestly endowed Vivien Leigh endured in order to simulate the fictional cleavage of Scarlett O'Hara. You can't show your bosom 'fore 3 o'clock. Across the Seine, the Eiffel Tower looks as if it had been positioned so as to be perfectly framed by the picture window. (She is convinced he was paid to do it) It was demoralizing, although she now says, philosophically, "I'll be able to tell my grandchildren I was in Richard Rodgers' last musical" Still, "Mama" led to a life-changing experience. It is well scaled and pedestrian-oriented, with all the entrances and exits working off the street; there is no secret passage to get patrons from their cars to the lobby. "But I also want to exercise my talents in as many ways as possible, and this film looked like a real test for me, in that the dancing comes out of the story rather than the other way around. "The fact is that obviously we can't sell places in line" he told The Times "We're asking people to make donations and stand in line That's the way we phrase it They're really two separate acts One is not dependent on the other.

This seven-hour, three-part CBS miniseries-based on a Sidney Sheldon novel and beginning at 8 p. m. "You know there are child labor laws in this country" he says reproachfully. In one of the tribute album's most touching moments, Prine sings "My Old Man" a song Goodman wrote shortly after his father died Like "Souvenirs" it speaks about loss. On the Bicentennial Independence Day itself, his human chain managed to stretch only about 10 miles. USA for Africa is trying to put its chain together in about half the time, but hopes to be 400 times as successful by using computers, satellite communications and lots of TV and print advertising to encourage Americans to participate. The banner said: "Welcome home, Jane" Lee Rich, president of Lorimar, and many others sent her flowers for the occasion.

Eating Splichal's food is like going on a little treasure hunt, for this is a cuisine of constant discovery, and it makes the repetitiveness of California Cuisine seem rather tired. Once you learn (from text posted by the artwork, no less) that Baker paid $4,500 less 10% in four installments for Willem de Kooning's "Collage and Crayon" you immediately start wondering how much he paid for the other pieces. Instead they've invented a fantasy '30s cuisine, French-Italian-American, coming from an imaginary time of gourmet dining before the onset of gourmet self-consciousness. 'VIRGINIA' "Virginia" a play by Edna O'Brien, presented by the South Coast Repertory, with Megan Cole, Bruce French and Natalia Nogulich, directed by Robert Berlinger. There's a vast world literature out there, most of which Los Angeles hasn't seen" Even if there were no problem with what to put on the stage, questions remain about who'll be out in the audience. In an industry in which honors and awards are handed out like business cards, it was gratifying to see the first Singers' Salute to the Songwriter at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Monday night. Foxworth also will appear as one of the comedians in "Beyond the Fringe" to be directed by Paxton Whitehead, who will play a leading role in the comedy revue.