I was doing more serious poetry then, but since most serious poets tend to bore me, I started doing something different. Studio-taped in October using facilities of Societe Radio-Canada, Toronto, the hourlong telecast commits the usual sins of TV dance-and then some. Wasn't that crazy" But now she'd said yes to "Knots Landing" Who had convinced her to do that? "My business manager" she says with a throaty chuckle The power of television here continues to surprise her "But it's getting to be the same in London" she says. "Here in America, we are a nation of consumers" blares another missive, topped by an army of gaudy plastic toys.

"If worse comes to worse, we'll begin to cut back" One of the largest questions surrounding the fate of the Los Angeles Theatre Center is how much the public at large is willing to support a big new arts institution. A lot of people have encouraged me, so I've decided, Why not" (The movie, for Columbia, is "Lake Forest) Once his promotional tour for "Perfect" is over, Travolta will wing quickly back to his Santa Barbara ranch "I get nervous here in Los Angeles" he said "As soon as I'm through with all of this, I'm off. People who had been shaking their head over the band's shifting musical game plan began seeing a steady and original vision. Rather, he said, the "disruptive schedule" of World Series games prompted NBC to "target the first four Spielbergs so they would hit an absolute bull's-eye with kids and teen-agers" That age bracket includes a healthy portion of Spielberg's film fans and is also the TV viewing group not among the loyal following enjoyed by "Murder, She Wrote" another Universal show.

Now it's David Wolpe's three-hour adaptation of David Lindsay's cult science-fiction novel of the '20s, "A Voyage to Arcturus" where all the traveling is inward. Valle called "City Hearts" Gary Blumsack, the theater's artistic co-director (with Patrick Pankhurst, had an interesting start with Valle. We establish which cause affects most people, then we move quickly and safely. "I certainly don't want them to" He's against the 15-second movement, he says, because "it would double our inventory" of commercial time to sell. By the time we get to the final siege and fall of Sir El Jowr, the Big Bang has become a whimper and cannons pop like toys. This rock 'n' roll business is crazy-all of show business is crazy You're up one minute and down the next But I keep coming back to it It keeps sucking me in This business may be the death of me yet". We don't do that anymore" By the same token, his withdrawal from the salsa circuit hasn't prevented his old record label Fania (now called MLI) from releasing an odds-and-ends collection, "Mucho Mejor/Much Better" which ironically earned him a 1985 Grammy nomination for best Tropical Latin performance, while his "Escenas" was completely ignored.

"I have been here for 17 years and I've never seen anything like it. The couple, in Honolulu celebrating, has set no date, the report said. But it's based on a faulty premise: that the Japanese are successful because their workers toil like drones in tatami sweatshops, and their managers act like Imperial Army drill sergeants. ASPEN, Colo. I don't know if my film is good or not-it's not my profession to judge-but my message is important to me I want to help a little mental hygiene. Though the other day, when I was walking somewhere and it began pouring with rain, I did think I should have taken all the movies they offered me when I was in my 30s and 40s-then I could have been driving in a Rolls-Royce " Had she turned down many films? "A lot But I had to. Also, it's being approached very seriously, and there are not many serious films about the Russian people" Hackford said the idea for the film started out as a vehicle for Hines, whose work Hackford had admired for its "great seriousness and depth" in such films as "Wolfen" "Deal of the Century" and "History of the World, Part I" "I think of myself as a tap-dancer" said Hines, during a break.

In short, it's just the same as the old "Perry Mason" series that ran on CBS from 1957 to 1966 (These were simpler, peaceful times) and continues to live in syndication Uh, almost the same. I just can't talk about it" an obviously angry Talbot told The Times "I worked at NPR eight years Eight years. For her appearance at the Westwood Playhouse, Lee's carefully planned program "I've got a production book this big" she said, holding her hands a foot apart) will include a well-balanced mixture of new and old. Anyhow, it is going to continue to April 30 because everybody knows he was just mad because the artwork threw up on him. . FLAGGING A NEW SPACE: "The Wonder Years" designated as "A Baby Boom Musical Revue" will be launching a new Equity cabaret theater when it opens in the Academy Room of the Roosevelt Hotel April 30 Music and lyrics are by David Levy. "The co-sponsorship was mostly a funding question, and a space question" Gamwell said "They (the museum) rented the show from us, basically.

Looking for something other than music to play on your Walkman or car stereo? Then you might like to join all the people who have recently discovered books-on-tape and other spoken-word audiocassettes. A hidden agenda seemed to mark the uncompromising list of works Marianne Schroeder played at the Schoenberg Institute on Thursday night. What we don't know, yet, is who really is calling the operatic shots at the Music Center Or how Or why. . "Of course I dream about that" said Bona, who is now writing a script for an afternoon children's TV special "It's everybody's fantasy". Created for the Stuttgart Ballet, "Jeu de Cartes" broadly parodied 19th-Century classicism, macho gymnastics and exhibition ballroom dancing within its whimsical playing-card context and thus required dancers of considerable technical mastery as well as comedic flair.