Franklin's attorney, Beverly Hills- based Ronald Katz, maintains that there are grounds for a suit because of a "breach of responsibility" "Based upon evidence made available to me, I am convinced that Mr Franklin and Mr. And a conveyor of mixed messages. That point is made, perhaps unintentionally, in "A Comedy Salute to Baseball" an hour special NBC is airing Monday (8 p. m. Runner-up in the 15-18 age category was Sean Botkin, a 16-year-old pianist from Federal Way, Wash. "If Tomorrow Comes" isn't much when the leggy Smith, who played Steve Martin's rejected fiancee in "All of Me" isn't around Fortunately, she's around a lot Get a load of her Texas drawl Get a load of her. "When they study drama, they can become someone else, if only for a few minutes. "You can't be invisible in a visible profession" Curtis says. and starring Peter Strauss and Mary Steenburgen, marries the "quality level" of PBS' "Masterpiece Theatre" with the "entertainment appeal" of "big American stars" Chernin said.

"Where is Parsifal" a film he made in Europe a couple of years ago with Orson Welles and Peter Lawford, was called "ludicrous beyond belief" in a Variety review last year. reporters working in the Soviet Union, with William Windom, Caroline McWilliams and Dennis Drake. This program will be repeated at 8 o'clock tonight at the East County Performing Arts Center in El Cajon. . His gorgeously lush pictures appear to depict romantic locales-a mysterious sea cave or a back alley in Tangiers. MPAA rating: R (under 17 requires an accompanying parent or adult guardian. . Some of the Brownie haunts, such as the Torch Club (1612 L St) are still visited for old times' sake, but they are no longer the places to see and be seen.

But that didn't solve the problems of rock stars who had reserved the studio's luxury facilities months in advance. We must make sure the artist remains an important part of that equation "There's a confusion these days between technology and art. And the conversation flows from topic to topic like a verbal stream of consciousness. But finally, it was perfect" Pairing these two icons of the Italian cinema fit in with what Fellini called his "puppeteer nature: I've put together two of my favorite puppets, each representing a different aspect of my cinema. (Christopher Walken, a preening charmer, appears in the living room one afternoon, drops off a few hundreds for his ex-wife, takes a first look at Brad Jr since infancy and is gone again. An animated, comic film played across the curtain as the orchestra performed the overture. 10 envelope, the BBB will send its latest bi-monthly "Give, But Give Wisely" guide that lists major charities that meet-and don't meet-its standards.

Photography and video works by six West- and East-Coast artists will be on view at the USC Atelier, Friday through Feb 23 at the Santa Monica Place shopping mall. 16, speculation within the arts field has focused on Lawrence Wilker, president of the Playhouse Square Foundation complex in Cleveland. In less prominent roles, Maria Calegari and Simone Schumacher grace the intricate interplay with a capable mini-corps For once, TV actually enhances theater choreography. "I just want to say good morning, Greenville" Scott says before cheerfully babbling about 200 hot-air balloons that will soon take to the skies Finally, he wedges in a weathercast. This week's special treat in UCLA's "Archival Treasures" series is a three-hour compilation of vintage TV (Wednesday, 7:30 p. m at Melnitz.

Much of the accompaniment for the Prokofiev was too brash for the soloist's comfort. Perkins, who also portrayed Zal's mother in the 1983 film "Table for Five" had high praise for her co-star. Most actresses must weather their share of emotional storms on film, but you'd be hard pressed to collect a more devastating group of problems than Roxana Zal has faced in her short acting career. It's easy to imagine where director Gideon Amir (who also has a story credit) got the idea for the picture. HBO especially is concerned about the impact that pay-per-view might have on its existing pay-TV service. Cole said Tuesday that the developer already has spent so much money on the project at 1850 Morton Ave, near the intersection of Echo Park Avenue, that to stop it now "would not be equitable" The Elysian Heights Residents Assn. The companies also complained that rigid Korean censorship prevents many American films from being seen there There are also problems, the U. S. "Donahue" was selected as best talk show and its host, Phil Donahue, was named best talk show host.

It's a vehicle for exploring the ramifications of each physically, rather than in theory All art, he says, is secondary "There's no brush stroke that hasn't been done before. Radio station KNAC-FM (105. 5) hired Bill Scott, formerly with KROQ-FM (106. 7, to replace its evening deejay Rick Stewart. Bill McAndrew, a spokesman for "Today" in New York, expressed cautious optimism about last week's Nielsen victory, and added: "It just goes to prove what we've been saying-this is a very tight race" The perennially third-place "CBS Morning News" which has been trying to bolster its ratings with the addition of Phyllis George as co-anchor with Bill Kurtis, remained firmly in third place last week. Jerry Jeff Walker will be at the Crazy Horse Steak House in Santa Ana on Nov 4. His first work as an ex-convict, in "Intimate Strangers" which aired Jan. But even "Stairway to Heaven" seems to lose its amphetamine effect when the sun kisses the horizon and the 400 cars up ahead are crawling along Ventura Freeway like arthritic armadilloes.

That's all there is to it" Although the program for tonight's recital excludes Mendelssohn, it includes Franz Josef Haydn's F Major Quartet, Op. All the publicity focused on the 30th anniversary of Disneyland should help sales and rentals. The talks resulted from an effort to avoid a Superior Court hearing previously planned for today. But new musicals do keep getting produced"Grind" "Leader of the Pack" "Big River" "Tap Dance Kid" (due here in a few weeks Unfortunately, most of them don't catch on. Her characterizations were never more effective than in rescuing Fred Ebb and Paul Klein's "London Town" patterned after those English ditties sung by traveling troubadours. The execution, unfortunately, veered dangerously toward the precious.

An audience counted at 12,003 arrived early, stayed to the end and endured numbers of passing aircraft with good humor. . "RAPE" is evidence anew that truth is more powerful than fiction No one could write scenes or characters like these. But that discovery quickly fades into our collective memory of an endless stream of similarly constructed artworks. The movie has broken box-office records in the United States and is scheduled for release in London on Aug 30. And as the guard changes here today at the Arizona Biltmore-CBS begins its press tour, to be followed next week in Los Angeles by NBC and ABC-critics from across the country are left with scribbled pages and computer-recorded notes that reflect mostly more of the same from public television. The fourth in a continuing series of small exhibitions of Old Master drawings selected from the Getty Museum's permanent collection is being shown in Gallery 224 through mid-March. Walker, in the book, presents a self-sufficient, bisexual, economically independent, liberated Shug Avery.

He may leave you with the undeniable impression that he's pro-Sandinista and anti-Reagan, but his film (at the Nuart for one week only) is no blind endorsement of Nicaragua's leftist regime. But, says Ford, "I haven't tasted bouillabaisse since" As another Ford, John, once remarked, "When in doubt, print the legend" The list of Glenn Ford films includes such remarkable roles as "The Blackboard Jungle" and "The Big Heat" and a thundering herd of good Westerns, including "3:10 to Yuma" and, a favorite of mine, "The Rounders" in which he co-starred with Henry Fonda as a contemporary tramp cowboy, from a novel by Max Evans. While the samurai adventure-comedy "Yojimbo" (1961) is one of Kurosawa's most popular pictures, his "The Bad Sleep Well" is one of his most unjustly neglected. CPB officials, however, argued that these funds will have to be used for additional expenses, including costs incurred with recent management changes The next scheduled CPB board meeting is in September. The onstage personas all radically contradict the offstage ones-they're elaborate negative fantasies-and, when the women peel to the skin, it seems (perhaps to them as well) only another costume. A portion of the $6 ticket for subsequent performances will benefit the Shanti Foundation, AIDS for AIDS and the Minority AIDS Project Call (213) 874-3678.

But the stage show is something we can change each time" The Daddyo's was formed in 1982 during the Southern California rockabilly revival-hence the '50s-sounding name. Burns draws Huey Long so pungently that you can't help ruminating on the roots of the tragedy. (Earlier in the day, Komorowska swam in the ocean with him and rode with him on a motorcycle) The photos showed a handsome, bare-chested blond on a sailboat, just the kind of shots you send off to casting directors and agents, but Komorowska said he has no interest in acting"Thank God" "I put as much heart into my cooking and cleaning as I do acting" she said. Robin Williams mock-scolds viewers to think about Africa and the Live Aid book while biting into a three-pound hamburger But the best takes of all may never see the small screen. Some are making their feature film debuts and others finally have gotten their first big break: John Cusack, who portrays Walter (Gib) Gibson, an Ivy League college freshman in "The Sure Thing" Gib becomes the unwanted traveling companion to classmate Alison Bradbury (Daphne Zuniga) while hitchhiking to California to find his dream girl. We never had the same boyfriends or same taste in clothes, but we were shackled to each other.

They just know me as Mike in 'Chorus Line' and Mistoffelees in 'Cats' But everyone (in show business) knows me" During a recent interview from his dressing room at the Shubert Theatre, Torcellini, 26, confessed to being high on life as a song and dance man. The boyfriend and the daughter have this beautiful, youthful relationship. Last year at this time, four of the eventual best-picture nominees"Amadeus" "Places in the Heart" "A Soldier's Story" and "The Killing Fields-were already out and being talked about that way. Recently in New York, Toback saw one of the movie's rare showings on TV The 91-minute film was chopped to 70 minutes "It wasn't a bad censoring job" he said "If I had to cut 21 minutes out, I'd do it that way Of course, I don't want to see anything cut out. Boyce was generally pleased with the script, Zaillian said; "interestingly" he added, Boyce's chief concern was that the falconry scenes be handled properly Daulton Lee was more unhappy with the script, Zaillian said. Larry Anhorn's choreography works well for the men, carried out with pizazz by Weinberg-Harter and two Lords (Michael Cox and John Greyshak) in their comic "He Who Shies at Such a Prize" "Iolanthe" is one of the local company's best, highly recommended for a delightful evening of song and satire. According to Kendrick, a key advantage of the Pace proposal is that Pace is offering to present musicals for one-week runs.

I'm even happy not to know" There are dangers in transplanting a production from one environment to another, substituting new orchestral and choral forces for the familiar ones, playing in a house that really wasn't designed for opera in general or for these operas in particular "The conductors are scared" Friedrich confirms "But they will have 5 to 10 orchestra rehearsals here. I've never played villains until San Diego" The fact is that Whitehead, English-born-and-raised, though an American citizen by his mother, has earned a sizable reputation as a comic actor and also hordes an array of talents. "You know, here we are from this hayseed type place and we come here and I thought there'd be all these smart people, above the norm And there are some But mostly it's the same idiots as there were there There are just more of them. But where a pioneer like Malevich made his statement in metaphors of theory, Serra states his in terms of intimidating physical reality. "I'm very pleased that the company, coming off the crisis of '83, has taken a solid two years to make its next jump (with the new weekend 'Morning Edition" Siegel said. "Dynasty" star Collins is the big cheese in the seven-hour, three-part "Sins" premiering at 8 p. m Sunday on Channels 2 and 8.

Too often, his lyrics and his singing seem mannered, lacking in stylistic direction. (In these kinds of cases litigants can file for copyright infringement, unfair competition or breach of an implied contract. One song, for instance, is the classically tinged "Improvisations on a Theme of Villa-Lobos" while "Take Seven" is based on Paul Desmond's famous jazz instrumental "Take Five" "I wouldn't know how to label it" Reidling, 47, said. The student government very much wants this to be a success and they are really throwing themselves into it Whatever it takes, they are going to get it done. The season-opening Paul Brach exhibit was not considered particularly demanding. "The Dream Is Alive" a short IMAX-format film of a space shuttle flight from the astronauts' point of view, will be shown daily as part of the second annual IMAX Film Festival, which opened Thursday at the Museum of Science and Industry in Exposition Park.

Although she is most assuredly the heroine of the 25-minute film (and the sole person you'd let anywhere near you with scissors,it doesn't make her stay at chez Sassoon any less tormented. It's a pity that director Fuller didn't ask his actors to follow Weiss' preface: "The variety of experiences can, at most, be indicated, by a change of voice and bearing" The effect should be that of men and women trying to speak calmly under duress, not of people trying to convince themselves that they have had an experience. The tickets were $5,000 a couple$25,000 if you attended a cocktail party at the Walter Annenberg estate before the dinner. She has exhibited throughout the world and her works are represented in major museum, private, governmental and corporate collections. Many Philadelphians regard MOVE as nihilistic terrorists that Hollywood may gloss over. "In an odd way, one of the really good things I learned about myself in the whole firing episode is that I did not need to be on television, that I didn't need to have people recognize me, that I could pursue other avenues. 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.