Gershwin created a sometimes jazzy, sometimes show-bizzy, sometimes unabashedly operatic portrait of poverty in the South Carolina of the 1930s. (Cannon Group) EVILS OF THE NIGHT-Teens invades a private sanitorium and find themselves subjected to the film title. But it would be good to see one or two good sculptural ideas explored in depth rather than a half-dozen in various degrees of thoroughness. Rossini's Rosina lives inside an arty structure resembling a nude female torso. Arriving late and full of fire after a speaking engagement at Berkeley on South Africa, Waters took her chair and seemed to dispel any notion of de-funding the council. Of course" Kelly added, with his big Irish grin, "the Pittsburgh Pirates lost a hell of a shortstop" The gain was ours. .

But I explain that I didn't know about it until they called" Keene said that he relies heavily on a network of about 50 volunteer stringers who alert him, increasingly by mobile phone, to traffic conditions as far away as Lake Arrowhead and Tejon Pass. "Otherwise, I've thought about having an interpreter sit next to me on stage, which might work. The artist fee is $40,000, of which the California Arts Council will pay $16,000, or 40% to the presenter. These performances will follow "Porgy" performances at the Orange County Performing Arts Center by the same forces. It turned out that most of the other principal players were either Hungarian or American, since the conductor had studied in Hungary and the U. S" According to Savage, imported instrumentalists are not unusual in Mexican orchestras. A few weeks ago, he sat in on a panel discussion on the rise of Top 40 radio personalities at a Museum of Broadcasting seminar at County Museum of Art. While council members, including Gotch, say they do not want to use city funds directly to bail out the symphony, the letter of credit would allow them to pledge tax money as collateral if the orchestra then sought a loan elsewhere to pay all or portions of its $1. 8-million operating deficit.

The unwieldy, sprawling affair featured about two dozen musical performances and just as many speeches-the music courtesy of folks like Neil Young and Stevie Wonder, the talk from folks like Jon Voight and Whoopi Goldberg. After ticking off the obvious names, the party man also cited Robertson. Research revealed that the 15-minute opus was commissioned by the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. AND NOW HERE'S THE NEWS: Rock radio programmers may have some doubts about the new Bob Seger single, but that doesn't mean they've thrown the record out the window.

But since the no-nomination flap (not all that unprecedented in Academy history if you scour the record books) Spielberg's public stance has been that of a man disappointed but gracious, and good manners go a long way in Hollywood. The rest of the play is devoted to Harrison proving to his daughter-in-law that men and women are equally subject to temptation, especially when on leave from their spouses Take a woman traveling in, oh, Egypt. Previn Comes to Town" get their unfair share of Mickey Mouse, too. Block's novel featured Bernie Rhodenbarr, a New York book-shop owner who moonlights by breaking and entering, who has a lesbian buddy, Carolyn, who runs a poodle grooming shop Well, Whoopi has the role of Bernie She's now Bernice, a lesbian Goldthwait will play Carl, who pampers poodles "I'm astonished" Block said of the Goldberg casting "I have no reason to believe she won't do an excellent job. (ABC currently is second in daytime behind CBS, while NBC is third) He also said he thought that the network's third-in-ratings evening news program is fast closing in on the No 2 "NBC Nightly News" "We have zero regrets" he said. Four-time Oscar winner Robert Wise, who produced and directed such classics as "West Side Story" and "Sound of Music" has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the 1985-86 term. Nineteen oil and tempera landscapes, still lifes and portraits, dated 1937 to 1984, represent the artist's work in an exhibition selected by artist Stephanie Sanchez, who is also a member of CAF's board of directors.

But now I fear that I may have lost one of my most valued resources. "Many fine performances have not made it to the winner's circle" the director said. "Like anything else, if the audience comes without preconceived ideas and with an open mind, they will have a good time. Only in duets with his real-life wife, director Gilmour Smyth as Abigail Adams, does any sort of harmony-domestic or otherwise-prevail.

not only (on) government, but on cooperation among independent film and video producers, educators, scholars and individuals; among various and diverse archives spread across this country and among the commercial film and video industry. The result is art that simultaneously denies and affirms its own importance as mark-making. Never mind that it appeared that her questions had been written for her. Plimpton-Strutt, with an accent that's strictly Miami Beach (Ruth Jaroslow.

AFTRA represents broadcast reporters and anchors as well as entertainers who appear in live and taped programs. At the very least, a station found to have violated the fairness doctrine could be ordered to give free air time to groups representing opposing views Theoretically, the penalty is much worse. Or, as Mama notes in movie and play: "I like it here, and I will stay here until they make me go, until they drag me screaming-and I mean screeching-into my grave. Performances are at McCadden Place Theatre, 1157 McCadden Place, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p. m, Sundays at 7 p. m, indefinitely (213) 851-3771. "But things started to get hot again, and now I'm back in business" Otis, who brings his 14-piece band to Fullerton's Dal Rae Restaurant for two shows Saturday, speaks fervently of his affection for early jazz, blues, gospel and R&B. dedicated to the great whales forever" He receives no money for the murals and supports himself through the sales of his posters and oil paintings of whales and dolphins.

It's just fantastic because it avoids having to bus the kids and it allows them to learn without disrupting their class schedules" The paintings are displayed for two days at each school. "I believe in taking risks" said Teroy, "so I always take my dancing to the limits. Hoffman's there to help (and give sexual pointers) until his steady exits, leaving him a basket case as well. In the 1933 silent "Apart From You" (Sunday, a pretty teen-age geisha (Sumiko Mizukubo, who adores the wayward son (Akio Isono) of an older geisha (Mitsuko Yoshikawa, strives to make the youth appreciate the sacrifices his mother has made so that he can have an education and the promise of a better life. It includes a noncompetitive bicycle ride, a free lunch and, primarily, a closed-circuit telecast of a concert at the Superdome in New Orleans featuring Huey Lewis & the News and Hall & Oates. Opie Cunningham-as Eddie Murphy dubbed him-is still high on life and, despite a mustache and thinning hair, looks boyish as ever at 32.

"There were a lot of $30-million or $40-million movies out there, but people expected them to do $100 million" The summer of '85 was also the first one since 1978 to open without a sequel to a blockbuster-a release whose subject alone would almost assure it megabuck business. Puffing a pipe, gently professorial in manner, Chancellor made mention, of course, of his coming documentary about newspapers and television news. And my penetrating examinations of "Detective in the House" "Off the Rack" and "Mr Belvedere" must have put them away I was some kind of journalist Rosenberg's the name, news is my game. The state of a studio's TV division typically is overlooked when studio heads come and go. It's bad enough it has to be interrupted by someone selling Roto-Rooter" Network treatment of movies has been a sore point with Beatty for years, and he readily acknowledges that he had been waiting for the right movie to challenge the networks with. An Orange County Performing Arts Center recruitment panel has made its choice for the Center's new executive director, but negotiations could delay the contract signing for up to three weeks, Center board President William Lund said Thursday. The best of the appetizers is the shrimp cocktail, which does not say much for the chef.

"No one can, obviously, replace Wayne, so his character will have died" Groskopf said. "In Southern California terms, we cover an area from Magic Mountain to Disneyland, and nearly out to the county fairgrounds (in Pomona" said production director Tom Strother. "We're just not going to become part of this witch hunt" Spelling said. Medley of three original song nominees: "Surprise, Surprise" with Greg Burge, from "A Chorus Line; "Miss Celie's Blues" with Tata Vega, from "The Color Purple" and "Separate Lives" with Stephen Bishop and Mariyn Martin, from "White Nights" Cher presents the supporting actor Oscar. But they must keep this simple humility to say, "I respect the fact that there was a greater civilization in relation to real values in the past" Bringing the past into the present is not to give up the present, but to be constantly helped at a moment of degeneracy to stand firm and to hold enough together to reach the point when, hopefully, the cycle, having reached its lowest point, begins to rise again-without giving oneself false arrogance and false complexes towards the past. Theatre Under the Stars is currently offering "Cabin in the Sky" with Armelia McQueen (of "Ain't Misbehavin' Sounds like a group with a bit of imagination. "Jagged Edge" (citywide) is really something.

Instead, Thomas asked film critics to make the nominations, and even though the critics' nominees occasionally strayed into esoteric waters, Thomas was able to lure most of the winners to the show. The physical production will linger for some time in the mind's eye, including Jane Greenwood's costumes-grays, browns, defeated colors that still retain dignity. Erskine on any real person, relying instead on her sense of what it's like to be a politician's wife. Rather than making a museum separate from the life of the city, the tendency now is to want cultural resources to be readily accessible"On the bluff, just above Main Beach and the Pacific Ocean, the Laguna Beach Museum of Art is closed for expansion. "If our landlord turns our theater into a 7-Eleven, he'd make a lot more money" In a move to work with rather than against Equity, a coalition of theater operators formed an Ad Hoc Theatre Operators Committee last September to clean up and organize the Waiver situation There are currently 45 signatory theaters in the committee. .

There's an air of culture about him, but also a wry, mischievous streak. And I said, 'Is this where old elephants go to die' " Keene remained unhappily at KTLA for six months. Imagine great wheels of cheese, and endless oysters, and dessert wines that are so honeyed that a single sip makes your mouth ache. As Sally Field put it a year ago, "It takes 18 months to get one of these pictures going; it takes that long period, and don't ask why. " 'Moslem Suite' is a set of dances from the southern part of the Philippines" Carter said, "and there's a very large Moslem (population) there. But the scarecrow falls in love with the man's daughter and longs to become human "It's really quite magical.

The visual notation is so complex and the idea of representing deep space on a flat surface is such a weird conceit that it is no wonder 20th-Century artists eventually trashed the whole system. "I was doing the saxophone tracks for this movie, 'End of the Rainbow' when the star of the film got another job" Pizzi recalled recently "The director (Laszlo Papas) asked me if I acted. She's a director of the City Club of San Diego and a member of the Old Globe Theatre, the San Diego Museum of Art, the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, the San Diego Symphony and the Chancellor's Associates of UC San Diego. As a disco singer, though, Divine falls a little short-and when Divine falls, you hear it. Three years ago, Joan Collins and "Dynasty" each in their own way, teetered on the edge of obscurity Then Aaron Spelling cast Collins as a female J R Ewing on his floundering soap opera. When the client tries to point out that the whole Western culture is built on cancer-causing products, "Bliss" becomes increasingly a cautionary tale about the way mankind is polluting the environment. This play also needs help if it wants to "have a life-that is, go to Broadway But the help can only come from Valdez It's his most personal play We don't see it at first.