-Granddaddy cliche of the day: NBC promoting the Rose Bowl as "the granddaddy of them all" -Second-biggest cliche: Referring to backs as "running for daylight" a specialty of Brent Musburger and Ara Parseghian at the Cotton Bowl. Although more contemporary celebrities like Janet Leigh and Mel Torme have been among his guests, he seemed especially proud of interviewing Joan Leslie, a Warner Bros star of the 1940s. As he talked about his experiences in musical comedy, he was still reeling from his show-stopping performance as the wily cat Mistoffelees, a role he danced on Broadway before joining the Los Angeles cast of "Cats" a few weeks ago "I love doing the show" he said. Contributing correspondent Connie Chung will report a segment on "Designer Genes" about a controversial new genetic procedure to select a baby's gender.

With the first 10 musicians chosen and a much-publicized induction ceremony behind it, the board of directors is so eager to see construction begin on the combination fan museum and research center that it appears to be rushing unnecessarily fast to judgment. "I didn't listen to vibes players anyway; my idols were Roy Eldridge, Benny Goodman, Lester Young. "It is important how movies are cut, and the best people to adjudicate the way they are cut are those making them" Beatty is by no means alone in his contempt for the networks' treatment of movies. For adult moviegoers, there are other encouraging signs coming from theaters these days. As I said goodby to tour group members, I tried to appear as if soldiers wearing camouflage and carrying submachine guns were nothing out of the ordinary If I acted calmly, I presumed, so would they. WHAT'S BRUIN: The signal of UCLA's KLA-AM (530) is so weak that you can't even pick up the station in its campus-based studio.

It's an excessive play, and it needs some wildness in the playing to catch the megalomaniacal strain in the script. "If, for example, the Acropolis in Athens falls victim to air pollution or if the masterpieces in our museums are mistreated by conservators, what will be left for the future? Nothing. But he was also buoyant, albeit a bit guarded, about the new project. which got possibly the worst reviews of any film so far this year? Review in point, from Daily Variety's Jim Harwood: "To judge 'Hamburger' fairly requires certain relative standards of the filmgoing experience. Even with all its crowd-pleasing fireworks shows and pops programs, the Bowl actually doesn't make as much as one might think.

According to his press agent, Dick Guttman, Marinaro believes the time is right to leave the ensemble mold and move to starring TV and film roles. "I didn't want to get caught in the Hollywood trap that got other women directors in the mid'70s" she explained, declining to get specific. In Sector 29, a dense collection of squalid mud huts along meandering dirt roads, several hundred Burkinabe had gathered in the dusty yard of a local two-room elementary school. Alfie listens to others, but they don't influence her, Zal said. The fact that Hall and Jagger, who have a year-old daughter, are still living together gives you a clue to the book's character. "Its value as a piece of music lies there and not in the meaning of a tragedy.

Among these were his most famous paintings-his vibrantly colored sunflowers, fishing boats and country scenes It was, Khoshbin said, an outburst of hypergraphia. OPENING THIS MONTH COBRA-Sly Stallone is back in action-as no-nonsense cop Marion Cobretti, assigned to protect fashion model Brigitte Nielsen (a. k. a Mrs Stallone) who's been marked for death by a serial killer George Cosmatos directs. The small storefront has been beautifully designed by David Kellen and Josh Schweitzer (who are also responsible for Rockenwagner, Border Grill and City Restaurant. I say 'gods' because I'm no longer a Roman Catholic; I guess I'm a Catholic-they equipped me for what I was to do later on. This year we have an early winner in the dumb cluck category. .

The entire Museum of African American Art is housed at the May Co Crenshaw, for instance. Finally there's the ever-popular Franchise Tax Board-no, not the board members, the building of the same name in Sacramento Deadline for applications is May 1. A little later Armand's son (Zach Galligan) is in Paris kissing the neck of his Jewish girlfriend (Joanna Pacula Then he kisses her arm, then her lips A little later we see them under the covers "That was beautiful" she says "You're beautiful" he says War is hell. Vestron is a releasing a coffee-table video book, "The Secret World of Erotic Art" which is tasteful or titillating, depending on your point of view. When Shapiro decided to make "The Unknown Soldier" after "Return to Iwo Jima" he said, it was the first time that he had repeated himself thematically during his 22-year career.