I may be biased, but as testaments (to the Hindu culture) they are quite good" The paintings, like the sculptures, fulfill religious art's main duty-to give earthly form to what is heaven-bound. This, the 16th international symposium on art in glass, will feature presentations by more than 50 artists, architects, art historians, designers and critics, in addition to technical demonstrations, workshops and tours of studios, galleries and museums. Its continuing success was a surprise even to its organizers. Siepi's unique skills as an actor, and as a French stylist, came to the fore in the "Don Quixote" songs Ibert wrote for Chaliapin. Mason (of New York's Circle Rep) with the Taper (which staged Wilson's "Talley's Folly" "Fifth of July" and "A Tale Told. How do you celebrate 20 years of doing business at the same address? For the Mark Taper Forum and Gordon Davidson, its artistic director since it opened in 1967, you do more of the same, better At least you try. The film makers seem to be writing about young men and (particularly) young women from their own era, not kids in their early 20s today. "The commission is not the national arbiter of the 'truth' of news programming" the mass media bureau said.

But musicals are to be a pivotal part of the Center's 1986-87 schedule, and only one musical has been officially set-a presentation of "West Side Story" in early 1987 by Orange County's Opera Pacific. He looked back at two pieces by an honored Balanchine associate, Lew Christensen, who long served as paterfamilias of the San Francisco Ballet and who died last year. The festival, backed by more than 25 organizations, will involve 250,000 children, 5,000 teachers and hundreds of artists and performers. Significantly, however, they functioned as follow-up casting. It all adds up to what Steele, 26, calls a "very crucial time" for the group, whose current tour includes shows at the Greek Theatre May 17, San Diego State University May 18 and Santa Barbara's Arlington Theatre May 19"Actually, the feeling crucial is translated into feeling tired" continued Steele, a veteran of several bands including the first edition L. A's original girl group, the Runaways "We do enjoy it every once in a while. Bausch will introduce her "Arien" in October as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's "Mind, Motion and Emotion" series. (The fact that his teammates, even fellow-actor Swayze, look authentically rough 'n' tumble only makes him look more out of place-couldn't someone have at least blackened out a couple of his teeth) There's nothing wrong with Hollywood's obsession with making '80s updates of the Horatio Alger story.

"Perhaps as we listen to the strange and angular beauty of Ravel's music, we can understand the anguish he must have experienced as he became aware that his competence was eroding" Writes Dalessio. The material is, with the exception of the familiar "Songs of a Wayfarer" which sound rather thin with piano in place of the usual orchestral accompaniment, unjustly neglected. Very tender and sweet"I don't actually play myself-I'm just one of the performers" said composer Bill Solly of his seven-person musical revue "Solly's Follies" (opening Wednesday at Variety Arts. In turn, she sees film making as an extension of imagination. "If you want to continue this conversation, you ought to stop trying to give me that crap" Geldof continued.

"The art of film scoring is in dire danger today, the greatest it's faced" said Elmer Bernstein, composer of scores for "The Ten Commandments" "To Kill a Mockingbird" and more than 70 other films "The problem is one of pure ignorance To the studios, film music is just a sort of wallpaper. Kamei-who studied with Heifetz in his master classes at USC, beginning in the 1960s-was one of the founders of the Sitka Summer Music Festival in Alaska in 1972. If they did, I'm sure someone else would be willing to continue the shows" Some representatives at Thursday's meeting-including those from the Laguna College of Art and Laguna Moulton Playhouse-said they would back the festival at the city hearing. What there was was a vaguely spicy tomato-based sauce of some kind, good mozzarella-like cheese, thin slices of Italian-style ham, and lots of uncomfortable-looking little kernels of corn On the pizza.

Low self-esteem has never been a problem for the United States, which is as ethnocentric as any nation in history. Whoopi Goldberg, winner of the best comedy recording Grammy, was looking casual, wearing pants and a sweater and smoking a cigarette. Graham said Tuesday that he and network officials still are discussing whether he'll leave in January or stay until the end of July of the current session of the United States Supreme Court) George's brief stay on the "Morning News" was part of another unsuccessful effort by CBS News to boost the program's ratings Save for the summer of 1983, when it briefly was No. However motivated, the perception was father to the idea that LACMA could never do right by the art of the now until it had more space and therefore time to devote to the subject. Ignoring pain, he went on with plays two and three, even though he had to be carried from site to site By the next day, however, it was clear he couldn't go on Doctors concurred. On July 14, "Spies Like Us" director John Landis' comedy about the Cold War, is out on Warner Video.

Proving once again that its strongest programming can be found on the screen, this year's Los Angeles International Film Exposition began Thursday night with a droll British comedy that was the high point to an otherwise uninspiring gala opening. The company won an Academy Award this week for this innovation, but it's the theater that ought to be the most grateful. When there were no more experts or journalists to interview, the networks really got silly. He's a romantic lead with a few kinks, practically a semi-surrogate: a would-be movie director pitching a project.

Women, who still bear most child-rearing and homemaking responsibilities, have almost five hours a week, or 23% less, leisure time than men. Meisel, who wrote the script in English, describes the story as "Ordinary People Meets Scarface" and insists it marries the best elements from Hollywood and French film styles. As Graham Greene has noted, "Each new book of his is unpredictable, dangerous, and amusing. (Some may have been) To the best of my stunned memory, no action happens just once.

Neither Jerry nor his cohorts-Mark Goldweber as Mercutio and Carl Corry as Benvolio-mustered the ultimate precision or dash for their bravura trio but were thoroughly admirable elsewhere. . She seemed content to strike gosh-I'm-beautiful poses in the tradition of Lisa della Casa. "Stephen Birnbaum's Paris" Waldentapes. "But, for us, that made our programs too long" And unlike the Boston concerts, Spiga says, performances by his 60- to 75-member ensemble are undisturbed by extramusical sounds in the Los Angeles Room at the Century Plaza Hotel, site of the group's concerts for the past five years-despite the availability of drinks before and after, and at intermission "You will hear no clinking at our concerts" Spiga promises "And no one talks. This has been a time of 40th anniversaries: D-day in 1984, V-E Day and V-J Day in 1985 and, for a few hundred thousands of us at least, in 1986 the 40th anniversary of getting out of the Army (with vows never to wear khaki again; I thought of it when I bought my first pair of chinos. And they're going to be very happy he lives on in the body of Fortune Dane" "Fortune Dane" about a political trouble-shooter fighting white-collar crime and corruption, also has some earmarks of a "quality" show. "Mexican food, for sure" he specifies without hesitation, then tells a story about arriving at the Frankfurt airport and having to explain "one whole suitcase lined with packages of tortillas we had brought from California "But, hey, we got those tortillas for 49 cents a dozen.

At the moment the monumental sculpture is trapped on a truck that's caught in a blizzard in the Southwest. One of the measures of the orchestra's artistic success is that the players like each other. This complex ensemble work, with its ritualistic overtones and repetitive patterns, adapted well to contemporary jazz jargon and made a hit with Jazz Unlimited fans last year. "Becky Sharp" is a lavish period piece but Mamoulian uses color intuitively, for psychological rather than naturalistic effect. The opening Gregorian chant may numb the most zealous music lover. The standout cut is "Lightning" in which Janice Pendarvis sings Vega's vivid lyrics against a throbbing beat. Much later, Eleanor Stout, who was doing a program on WGBH out of Boston, asked me if I would do 'The House of Mirth' " Harris wasn't available, but Stout asked if there was anything else she'd like to do"I said, 'Well, I'd like to do a one-woman play on the Brontes' Anne and Emily wrote very few letters that are in existence and Charlotte wrote a great many, so it was in my mind that Charlotte should be the one to tell the story" Stout asked Harris if she'd write the play, to which Harris replied that, short of having five years on a desert island, it might be wiser simply to ask William Luce (who wrote "The Belle of Amherst.

On a beautiful grassy plain in 16th-Century Japan a great lord, his sons, guests and retainers take respite from a boar hunt. COUNTRY Female Vocal: "Heart Over Mind" Anne Murray; "In My Dreams" Emmylou Harris; "The Sound of Goodbye" Crystal Gayle; "Tennessee Homesick Blues" Dolly Parton; "Your Heart's Not in It" Janie Fricke. Maybe those homeowners are right" Verna secured tentative approval on Tuesday to lease the Rose Bowl from the city for $226,000, plus an undetermined percentage of Global Media's share of royalty revenues from Concert That Counts products and spinoff entertainment projects. The show moves to the Anaheim Convention Center Tuesdayfor a run through Aug 6, and then to the Los Angeles Sports Arena Aug 9 through 18. The Rats avoid sanctimonious message-rock, taking a more personal tack against social and political hypocrisy-as in a stirring us-and-them outcry, "A Hold of Me" in which Geldof wails "they'll never get a hold of me" Here, the measure of the Rats' maturity lies in a thoughtful assessment of the complexities.

Overall, it's such a flabbergasting turkey-misfiring in every conceivable direction-that it may actually improve if you watch it with your eyes shut. Add Vinton and some scantily clad "young female dancers" and you have "The Bobby Vinton Show" Vinton considers himself a show business veteran and something of an expert on variety, with 75 shows to his hosting credit. Instead, it will reimburse the Kennedy Center for any deficit incurred. Provocative items all, and more skillfully interwoven in their presentation than dissected here. "We've shown it to a couple of people, but no theater people yet" said Marcia Robbins, who is handling the sale for R B Augustine & Co That was Monday Better hurry. John Bailey's camera takes us right in close for most of the action; this is an intimate epic, not a panoramic one.

Rights to her story have been purchased by two publishing companies and producer Robert Halmi. The council received approval for this year's basic state grant in August. It's not surprising that the close-knit Los Angeles rock community would respond to the tragedy, but it was especially heartening to see this major gesture of support at a time when alternative music is shut out of the mainstream, and rock in general is smeared as a haven for degenerates. Seymour Lipton's pod-like forms grow repetitive, as do Ibram Lassaw's lumpy accretions of molten metal. But then this is a film of gesture and nuance, ever inviting us to sense its timelessness, its eternal truths beyond its wealth of incidents. Director: Zbigniew Rybczynski for Chuck Mangione's "Diana D; Pete Angelus and David Lee Roth for "Hot for Teacher; Kevin Dole and Sherry Revord for "I Do' Wanna Know; George Lois and Jerry Cotts for Bob Dylan's "Jokerman; Edd Griles for "Time After Time".

Also, the LaserVision freeze frame is more efficient than that of tape machines-no visual static, no tape-head wear. The increase was condemned by labor unions, which pointed out that consumer prices jumped during January by 8. 8% and that minimum wage earners are struggling on a daily salary of less than $3. 50 to keep up with annual inflation averaging over 60. On "Don't You" he sounds more like Billy Idol than the Jim Kerr who has recorded seven Simple Minds albums since 1978. Or is it innocent? Amphlett's sly, carefully phrased delivery adds a teasing, or even-as the Moral Watchdogs might say- naughty ring. When the film was budgeted, the pig was calculated simply as another character.

Jay Bernstein, executive producer of the show in association with Columbia, said Tuesday that CBS' plans represented "a victory" for Keach and the show. But 22 miles away, it's running the "Museum in the Mall" at South Coast Plaza shopping center in Costa Mesa. On Wednesday, Zucker and Allan Miller (husband-and-wife producing directors of the Back Alley Theatre) will unveil their most ambitious project to date: "The Greeks" a collection of nine plays (six-hours over three nights) by Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus and an adaptation of the works of Homer, all by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander. "Red Grooms, A Retrospective, 1956 to 1984" is a national touring show, expanded at MOCA with new works assembled specifically for this occasion Organized by Judith E. The more the Nazis oppressed them, the more resourceful the teen-agers became, devising daring schemes to leave and re-enter the ghetto and smuggle in food. If it was for Young Communists, Young Socialists or Young Fascists, we would have backed out "I think it's just going to be a fun bill.

To help is enough" Geldof has come out of Live Aid as such a good guy that the papers here have playfully dubbed him St Bob. They are very special artists to me" Partners off stage as well as on, Miller and Canfield have become principal dancers in Pacific Ballet Theatre, a 13-member regional company now in its third season. But it is woven skillfully into the play's fabric, finally emerging in full view at just the right moment to create a feeling of catharsis. John, now indeed a barrister, opted out of the fourth interview, as did Charles, now a BBC documentarian-who is missed) Although the '60s optimism was unfounded, and Britain has clung to her rigid class structure and to a government that one subject, Peter, a Liverpool-born teacher, calls levelly "the most incompetent, uncaring bloody shower we've ever had" there is an astonishingly cheerful air to most of these young people There's even one act of class rebellion.

Semiautomatic weapons, guns, grenades, pistols are everywhere A table is in the center. The accent is on private because many of her established clients would as soon not have it known they were brushing up. Unlike the rather clunky and closed-in Beverly Hills Prego, this is a light, airy place with tall windows on three sides and a lot of attractive outdoor seating surrounded by garden and lawn. Trumpeter Hugh Masekela and pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) are recognized in the jazz world. "Oh" I said. In setting up the interview, their publisher had mentioned that Bob and Ray were going to do a TV special on PBS I asked Bob about it "Oh, that's sort of up in the air right now" he said. His people don't struggle against their environment; they are thoroughly absorbed in its lines and textures.