He has built the museum's 20th-Century holdings from a straggling assemblage of non-illustrious works into a respected collection with enviable high points and a potential to become a major national force in art In April, LACMA will celebrate its 20th anniversary Tuchman is already feting a period of renewed activity. Five years ago, Lauridsen's project was a commission from USC, where he teaches, for a work intended for the USC Chamber Singers, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the university. While the other mourners are still absorbed with the funeral, the Colonel seems curiously unmoved. Among the offerings in "The Films of Erich Von Stroheim" at the County Museum of Art this week are the 1923 "Merry-Go-Round" (Saturday at 8 p. m) and the 1922 "Foolish Wives" (Sunday at 8 p. m. A Los Angeles company called Scancal Importers, working with the San Francisco-based Scandinavian-California Gourmet Food Company, regularly imports genuine sport-killed wild game to these shores, vacuum-packed and nestled in dry ice but not frozen, from Scotland, Sweden and Norway. Irene Cara performs "Here's to the Losers" a tribute to the famous stars whom people assume have won Oscars but really haven't.

The Ledge is backed by Austin rockers the Leroi Brothers, and besides an updated version of "Paralyzed" the album features Odam's demonstration of a rebel yell, Comanche war cry and elephant call. The "Earl of Exercise" Richard Simmons has a new cassette out next week, "Get Started" on Karl at $39. 95. For example, the great Kabuki player Tamasaburo refers to himself as a male actress , while the last president of Actors Equity was Ellen Burstyn. "Many fine performances have not made it to the winner's circle" the director said. "We had no idea what was going to happen, but it came out all right"If you pared down the late-night talk shows to just their stand-up segments-comics performing five-minute routines before chatting with Johnny or Dave-you'd have something like "After Hours" a 30-minute program produced by Fullerton's Group W Cable. "If Equity doesn't like the way the Waiver is set up, then that's what it must change" Retorted Weston: "It's the wrong people fighting at the wrong time for the wrong reasons" By press time, nothing had been resolved Against all odds, Holt tried to remain optimistic. Our formal training was on the ice" "We started ballet class two years ago" Torvill adds, "and it certainly helped our skating-it enables us to understand and control our bodies and to move more easily" Skating partners for 11 years, pioneers in the art of ice dancing (an event new to the Olympics in 1976) and veterans of numerous competitions, Torvill, 29, and Dean, 28, are authorities on this specialized skating/dancing hybrid.

It's hoped that he won't be scooped away by one of the big resident theaters. "The Times of Harvey Milk" will also receive a special screening on Friday at the Variety Arts Theater The 8 p. m. "You could never pin down the Beatles on what style of music they played. From the handful of outdoor tables, you can see (peeking around a huge Downey Savings sign) the rolling Saddleback Valley and an entertaining mile or so of Interstate 5 from the La Paz Road exit to about Oso Parkway That's something they don't have at North Beach. "Tumbleweed" the sixth and final work in her California Suite series, will make its world premiere in the hyperactive Los Angeles Theatre Center's "7th Festival of Premieres" in March. Originally known for her "hyper-realism" style of play writing, Shank has shifted to a more conventional technique in her recent plays. Yet when they present themselves in concert, as they will Friday and Saturday at the Wadsworth Theater in Westwood, everything runs with high-tech speed and oiled smoothness. To help allay those fears, Tom Capra, news director at NBC-owned KNBC-TV in Burbank, last month held an AIDS seminar for his news crews and invited-at the suggestion of a union official, he says-crews from other TV stations in the Los Angeles area About 50 people showed up They discussed the disease with Capra; Dr.

Now it has been made flat-footedly literal: What Cassie did for the love of Zach, and it's indicative of the earnest, unsoaring, unimaginative conveyance that "A Chorus Line" has become. Anthony Newley and Stanley Ralph Ross' musical about Charlie Chaplin came a long way during its 1983 Civic Light Opera tryout, but the financing fell apart at the last minute and it never got to Broadway. "But you can't blame them for not knowing any better, because there are so many messages in the culture that this is the sign of a sexy woman Women are turned into narcissists. She said in an interview last week that she liked "Porky's" from the first moment she saw it: "It was so special, so honest, so innocent and so funny that I fell in love with it" Although Lansing declined to talk about it, she reportedly became embroiled in a nasty fight over whether "Porky's" was "clean enough" to release. Coralie Schatz offers an ultra-droll portrayal as a secretary who uses a rapier wit to defend against Essendine's unrequited love and almost two decades of watching an endless string of women spend the night in his spare room Actress Susan Herder should be decorated. There were the usual revolving talking heads, last month's terrorist and Libyan experts having been ousted by this week's nuclear and Soviet experts. What are you going to do? Hannah, we learned, also requested that she be allowed to wear snaggly, yellowed prosthetic teeth, claiming that that's how prehistoric women-even the latter-day Cro-Magnons-actually looked Fortunately, the producers stuck to their guns.

Michael Jackson, who won a record eight Grammys last year, was honored this time for best video album for "Making Michael Jackson's 'Thriller". "He always encouraged me to do that thing which I loved the most" And that, he says, was film making. Then the music from the shed stops, and it comes into her head-not that she hasn't been aware of it for some time-that her daughter is no longer a little girl. What you do on the floor is different on ice because your center of balance shifts forward slightly to compensate for motion.

And through them, Berri was competing equally with Israel for the support of the American people. The networks and many newspapers were calling the hostage ordeal a "crisis" But the TV pictures delivered a different message. 1, with SASE, to PrimaFacie II, DCTC, 1050 13th St, Denver, 80204. A new contender for the mantle of the Lion of Venice is news even under placid circumstances. And it tempts Mo's twin sister, Queenie, back from California, where she has fled in her own attempt to get Bristol out of her mind. Heckel's exhibit encompasses relatively gay circus images, quietly touching cityscapes, wickedly erotic images of a nymphet, a tortured self-portrait and a rare set of illustrations for Oscar Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol" As he follows Wilde's tale of a man who kills his wife's lover, gets sent to prison and is finally executed, Heckel conveys a range of feeling that would seem impossible in such a recalcitrant medium. MPAA rating: R (under 17 requires an accompanying parent or adult guardian. .

For three months a year he travels with Jean to Canada, Britain and France, osmotically gathering inspiration for his books. "Yet through all this hassle we're presently going though "Broken Rainbow" still lacks a theatrical distributor, I'd definitely make another film. Much of the smarter art is comparatively pale but it seems a legitimate part of a culture that's still gaining a sense of itself The museum, in Exposition Park, is open daily from 10 a. m to 5 p. m. . Bennett had been with the CBS-owned TV station here since August, 1980. He tried to please just the microphone (by playing only for recordings) and his death was a logical consequence of withdrawing from the public"But Pogorelich said there is a limit to self-popularization as a means to an end, adding that he believes a megastar like Luciano Pavarotti has gone beyond "decency" It would be hard to imagine the lanky 27-year-old doing star turns, smiling for the paparazzi, embracing an audience with outstretched arms.

One gets the sense that he is far more interested in power, influence and history. "It reaches something that really has nothing to do with culturalization or the learning process" Added Howard, a dentist who accumulated the instruments over 30 years while pursuing a serious hobby of studying rhythm patterns around the world: "Every one of these drums in this room is different but there's a common chord that goes through all of them. Because you constantly sense the attraction between the two, the divisions have that much more poignancy and force. The Pope said last week that the film, "Je Vous Salue Marie" by French director Jean-Luc Goddard "distorts and insults the spiritual significance" of Christian beliefs. "I was interested in getting art out into public places" she explained. Contemporary art is escaping the confines of traditional galleries and museums and finding its way into new public environments, from storefront museums in shopping malls to banks and office buildings. Alistair Cooke has called Nicol Williamson a bit too much of a "lug" to play a brilliant swagger of a man like Mountbatten Yes and no. According to Christopher, the nomination ends his anxiety that the film's political volatility and strong identification with the Salvadoran guerrillas would scuttle all hope for Academy recognition.

Do you know the little ache on Sunday night, when there's nothing to look forward to but Monday morning? That feeling. Miracle he mustered a terrific approximation of Nosferatu, and as Dappertutto he sang a glorious, full-throated, long-lined, downward transposed "Scintille, diamant" Nelly Miricioiu, remembered for a febrile Violetta in San Francisco, gurgled Olympia's coloratura gingerly, sounded rough but eminently poignant as the lyrical Antonia, and exuded brash sexuality as a Giulietta who, in this version, meets an appropriately unhappy end. What emerges is the distillation of each personality: Willie maintains a Zen-like and watchful calm, punctuated by dry humor The blustering Myron becomes even more of a hollow bully. The sideband is carried on other Bonneville-owned radio stations, including KOIT-FM in San Francisco. Mitchell, who serves as chairman of the Hall of Fame, having established it when he was president of the TV Academy from 1980 to 1983. I knew I had to move to L. A" That pushed painter Richard Sigmund out of San Diego to Los Angeles He had come here in 1978 to be an artist.

In addition to his 100-count federal criminal indictment, Rewald faces Hawaii state "theft by deception" charges and a number of civil actions arising out of the Bishop, Baldwin bankruptcy. A press statement released Thursday by the archbishop, said, in part: "Critics have termed this production a 'serious attempt' at film making. Here it applys to Stephanie Weber's work as well as Rothenberg's but what a difference in tone and effect. With them will be another "Foxfire" performer: Keith Carradine. "China was very shut out from the rest of the world" she says. Ball made the announcement Friday in characteristically dramatic fashion-after rehearsing the crucifixion sequence in ACT's cycle of medieval mystery plays, "The Passion Cycle" depicting the life of Christ.

Conley said many artists received hefty commissions to provide prints for natural science books and journals that were popular at the time. And right in his own backyard, a milestone such as his 60th birthday does not go unnoticed or uncelebrated. That's been in dispute, of course, ever since "Old Times" was new (1971. "So, I suggested I write an original score for the film-but at that time, last fall, I didn't realize the film was two hours and 15 minutes long! I had given my word, however, and I'm glad I did-it was a challenge extraordinaire " This challenge aside, Delerue is hardly noted for the ordinaire. "I'm probably a journalist at heart" she smiled, yet fully enjoys sending her message via lectures. Meanwhile, Levin said the associates would keep a close watch on the gallery situation. The second half-hour of entertainment consists of videos by Wham, Cyndi Lauper, 'til tuesday and other popular acts.