Her first album for her new label, Manhattan Records, is due this fall, and she may tour late in the year Meanwhile, she is considering several more film offers. You can easily accept him as the sort of commanding figure who could demand respect and have broad shoulders for an emerging nation to lean on. LA JOLLA — It is, perhaps, the La Jolla Playhouse's most ambitious production of the season. But 22 miles away, it's running the "Museum in the Mall" at South Coast Plaza shopping center in Costa Mesa.

Jill Elmore Patton, 29, Miss Oklahoma in the 1980 Miss America pageant, is in her second year as Laurey Bennie Lee McGowan is in her fifth year as Aunt Eller. Since that time, countless screen scientists (not all of them mad, not all descended from Baron von Frankenstein) have attempted to create life from the lifeless. Using a version of the Socratic method, a Communist cadre gets the former bandit Yu-lai, played by a bare-chested, swaggering Manami Mitani, in real life a Japanese-American, to proclaim: "Our labor transforms their land! We create their wealth" Although a work of propaganda influenced by enthusiasm for the Chinese Communists, "Fanshen" is not just a paean to vulgar Marxist-Leninist-Mao Tse-tung thought. These days, the word communist does not come easily or often to the lips of American college students. Schaefer considers Van Dyck's "Andromeda" a "major rediscovery" both because it is little known and unpublished and because "it played a major role in his life" Though the oil is one of only two known paintings of mythological subjects from Van Dyck's English period, it represents his aspirations.

and putting it frequently in an intellectual or emotional context The spiritual and the physical. The pervasive fragmentation of the piece-a collage, really-keeps the characters as incomplete as Russell Pyle's admirable shattered-stone platform set, Lawrence Metzler's dancing lights, Stephen Shaffer's recurrent cacophonies and John Cannaday's ubiquitous video. The problem is that the production, thoroughly overconceptualized by director Mark Travis and LATC producing artistic director Bill Bushnell, is so busy trying not to be docudrama that it errs too far the other way. And his assertion, he said, is backed by XHRM's showing in the latest Birch ratings, which place it at No. "It's a quantum jump for us, organizationally and artistically" said Opera Pacific chairman Hugh Saddington "It's audacious on our part, and we know it.

Bairbre Dowling plays Helen with uncommon subtlety and technical assurance. "We assume the actors can play anything" He added, "Of course, their parents might be shocked" In Chinese, the ideographs for "Fanshen" mean "to turn over" or "to upset" This critical moment in modern Chinese history, as the Japanese occupation army was withdrawing or surrendering and the civil war between the Communist and Nationalist forces was reignited-with the outcome still in doubt-was re-created by an American author, William Hinton, in his 1963 book of the same name. "There were times when we wondered if we could ever rally the community around this orchestra" Sidlin says he takes the cutbacks philosophically: "Maybe this is what we needed to do all along-to give the minimum in order to stabilize. Prospective participants include Jean-Michel Basquiat, Peter Lodato and George Trakas. Shortly thereafter, "Virginia and I were shocked to find out that 85% of our society never goes to a museum" he explained "That sparked an idea. Lewis blamed Atlantic Starr's invisibility in the pop market on A&M's lack of effort.

You see the look 50 times a day and after a while it feels like something out of one of those public television programs on wildlife behavior. Last year, the city's share of the summer event's proceeds was $388,137, mostly from gate receipts. More anonymous dancing and more evident inexperience marked the performances of two familiar showpieces from the West: Ben Stevenson's "Three Preludes" (a pas de deux with the circus thrills of "Spring Waters" but some early pretexts of expressivity) and Anton Dolin's "Variations for Four" (a neoclasssic male equivalent to his neo-Romantic "Pas de Quatre. If it looks like it's going to be a pain, we just say no" Friends since childhood in Manchester, England, Godley and Creme-both art college graduates-have been working together steadily for 25 years, beginning with a group called the Sabres.

Four years after shelving a $17-million plan to expand Bowers Museum, Santa Ana city officials are considering a new expansion proposal that would make Bowers the anchor to a museum-oriented cultural district. But everyone at Disney was so enthusiastic about the project that I finally agreed to do it. In the book she had been strong, but all the jokes were at her expense" in the film. Their actions helped inspire and focus attention on a small but gifted and idealistic wave of new American groups, mostly headquartered in Los Angeles (X, the Blasters, Black Flag) and New York (Talking Heads, Television The word spread quickly. She is dressed almost severely in a high-necked black dress and is wearing a pair of tiny pearl earrings. The group, which is the quartet-in-residence at the Santa Fe (N. M) Chamber Music Festival and New York City's Hebrew Arts School, has toured the United States extensively, earning considerable acclaim for its exploration of the polychromatic world of Arnold Schoenberg (not Felix Mendelssohn, as the group's name might imply.

"This is a North American survey that includes Mexico and Canada but is mostly United States" Cook said in a recent interview. It is on view with about 20 other works at the Whitney Museum until May 11. People are inclined not to walk on the floor piece because doing so enhances a feeling that either the ceiling plate will fall on you or the floor will rise up and you'll be crushed like a B-movie hero trapped atop a hydraulic lift. Wearing fatigues, his movements tracked by a PBS affiliate crew from Minneapolis, Bridges is standing at an open phone in a Cleveland bus station.

"Target" (citywide) is created around that germ of an idea, yet even with Arthur Penn as its director, and ingenious casting, it is, sad to say, mainly for connoisseurs of the car chase, European style The real meat of the problem is botched. A week after former KNBC news anchor Tritia Toyota signed with KCBS-TV Channel 2, KNBC weatherman Kevin O'Connell has followed suit. (Tiptoeing about the plate, too, was a subtle Madeira sauce that knew its place and stayed in it) Squash on the side was a wonder, passed through so many sieves it virtually floated They do things like that at Trees. George Wein, who has masterminded this fast 10-day event and its various predecessors since the original festival in 1954 at Newport, R. I, now delegates the authority to various co-producers who in many cases suggest the concepts as well as helping to line up the talent and sometimes find their own narration. Even though Fogerty dropped out of sight, Creedence's music continued to be played regularly on the radio and was featured in films, including "An American Werewolf in London" "Twilight Zone-The Movie" and "The Big Chill" One movie, "Who'll Stop the Rain" even drew its title from a Creedence tune. He also said it had been his intention to step down once the center had opened or was close to completion. "The main problem is that it is not a known work, so the musicians are not acquainted with it" Silverman said.