In 1974, Snyder directed a stage version of "The Wizard of Oz" in the Soviet Union, and its success helped nail down this year's visit. Eighty-eight American actors, singers, dancers, musicians, stagehands and other personnel made the trip to Moscow and are giving eight performances. 1) did the players-Celin, Angel, Pepe and their newly mustachioed father Celedonio-achieve their expected bravura. Ma tried to stare down the hacking before each sonata, to no avail. "No" he said, "there've been no problems" John Horn contributed to this story. . After 14 years of athletic competition and an Olympic silver medal, the brother and sister team of Kitty and Peter Carruthers finally have their first job-skating in the Ice Capades "It's icing on the cake" Peter Carruthers, 26, said.

The thing is, you just can't fight this kind of thing, because by the time you tell people the real story, it's time to go" The "real" story, according to Wagner, is that he was "maneuvered" out of the music directorship by members of the Chorale's board of directors and by other Music Center powers, including Los Angeles Philharmonic executive director Ernest Fleischmann, and that his opinion regarding his successor was not sought or heeded. Exit Roger Wagner, grumbling-with Saturday's Los Angeles Master Chorale performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" The founder of the group and its music director for the last 21 years-known to speak whatever was on his mind to singers, administrators and media alike-is even less enthused about the prospect of becoming music director laureate than he was last November, when his successor, John Currie of Scotland, was introduced to Los Angeles amid much fanfare. The booths are private, the service by tuxedoed waiters efficient. DOWN AND OUT IN CANNES: Beverly Hills residents spending May-and their money-in Cannes won't be leaving home altogether. At a rehearsal Tuesday at the Forum, the tall, strapping Raitt demonstrated that he can still cut a commanding figure on stage-and that he can still sing "If I Loved You" "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' " and "Hey There" with robust skill and soaring clarity. The station's transmitter in the Santa Monica Mountains covers a listening area of 8 million to 10 million people. In keeping with the foundation's chronic anxiety about misspending charity money, a red-and-white plastic sign (see photo) has been taped to the wall at the entrance.

"The format for most of the programs will follow the Boston Pops format, slightly modified in San Diego terms" Atherton said. Geri Jewell is a young woman with a quick mind, a ready quip and a natural, infectious vivacity. Toguri, 69, was convicted of treason in 1949 and served six years of a 10-year jail sentence. . At precisely 4:16 Monday afternoon, emcee Army Archerd got his cue. The decisions to induct seven people each year, and to require that at least four of them be living, were made in consideration of how the proceedings would play on the air. But the scripted version here has the feel of having been set in cement (Estelle Parsons is translator, R S Bailey is director.

I'm trying to convince them they've been using the wrong hosts" Vinton says "You need a performer That's why Bill Cosby's show is such a success. As it is, there is a sort of scattershot quality to the exhibition that might elicit comments such as "Oh! Is all this by the same artist" On the other hand, the work is fresh and, more importantly, promising, sufficiently so that Johnson was included in the landmark La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art's "A San Diego Exhibition: Forty-Two Emerging Artists" a year ago. "If you have pain of any kind, I'll make time for you" says he with heavy suggestiveness But time is about to run out for this particular kind of Dr. Gallery Furniture HoustonBrowse furniture online, buy in store, and get it delivered tonight. GalleryFurniturePrecision Graphics Centers, Houston TxOver 20 yrs of fast, affordable, and reliable service. Douglas Ring, who became president of the LATC board after his connection as a lawyer on the deal, said the County Recorder's Office must have broken some sort of precedent by staying open late New Year's Eve so the deal could be recorded to meet the tax deadline. If "Silverado" in its unstinting appreciation of the genre doesn't have quite the same pulling power of "Pale Rider" you have to ask yourself why. The primary answer is indeed Eastwood. "I wanted the roller coaster of emotions to be present in the TV family.

That move followed a Congress-authorized advertising experiment by nine public-TV stations in 1982-83. The premiere was written by Bob Comfort and Rick Kellard and directed by Dave Powers. . Hammer consented to be photographed because, Bryson said, "he trusted me" The book grew out of a Life magazine story on Hammer, which followed a pictorial essay on the private life of Katharine Hepburn. One prospect is "Channel 1" produced by WTTW in Chicago and using the talents of that city's famed Second City comedy troupe. . Larina, Fredda Rakusin an appreciative Filipyevna, and Richard Paul Fink a notably sonorous Zaretsky.

Then he snapped his fingers to illustrate just how fast "we changed all that" In 1969, six years after film maker Ousmane Sembene of Senegal wrote and directed black Africa's first feature, "Borom Sarrett" (French for "The Carriage Driver" and top prize winner in France's Festival of Tours in 1963, Fespaco was created as a showcase for the movie industry that was burgeoning in former French colonies south of the Sahara. Eagle-eyed readers may have noted the weekly change in the film's ads depicting the goonies clinging to a stalactite over a seemingly bottomless pit. But in the past, Grodin-the actor whom one critic described as having "the face of a born dupe-has shown he knows good comedy when it slips through his mailbox. Videocassette games take a step up in class with Mattel Toys' "Predicaments" (retail price: $34. 95, an hour soap opera parody featuring Joan Rivers, due out in late May. The children in the cast-24, not counting Wendy (Tracy Halbmaier, John (Robby Hull) and Michael (Adam Byrne-are endearing But the numbers add up. For that kind of money, you could do better taking your chances on Sunset Boulevard.

"And she told us, 'Children, all year I collect pictures I like and keep them in order so I can find them when I want them' And I went home and changing from my black-and-yellow plaid school dress-I remember what I was wearing-into my play clothes, I thought to myself, 'She's got ahold of a good idea' " The idea obviously wasn't lost on O'Neil, here on a recent visit from New York for the Long Beach Museum of Art's opening of "Life: The Second Decade, 1946-1955" The lively, silver-gray haired New Englander, who calls Alfred Eisenstaedt "Eisie" organized the memory-jolting photo exhibit (along with the International Center of Photography, sponsored jointly by Time Inc and United Technologies Corp. A growing number, however, are leaving for other churches-particularly fundamentalist sects. Or why, in 1937, "The Life of Emile Zola" defeated nine other nominated films, including "The Awful Truth" "Captains Courageous" "Lost Horizon" "Stage Door" and "A Star Is Born" That would not have been an easy election to call, or to vote in. In the revised plan, the percentage for art will be based on 1% of all development costs-less land. King" Mary Frann of "Newhart" and Joan Van Ark of "Knots Landing" are hosting "The Tournament of Roses" on CBS.

Such a move, Turner said, "would make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for our offer to have any chance whatsoever" Turner declined to comment on whether he would up his own non-cash offer to counter CBS. It's a dangerously sentimental piece, but with the exception of Sandy McCallum's grandfather-a performance that makes us conscious of the old geezer as a "character-the players fit their roles around themselves like sweat-oiled old gloves. With tuneful, dance-oriented pop hits like "Heart of Glass" and "Rapture" Blondie-the band-became the toast of pop. The follow-up to last year's "The Ewok Adventure" finds that friendly furball Wicket (played by Warrick Davis) reteamed with young Aubrey Miller in a quest to save the forest moon that is home to the Ewoks.

When some rugged prostitutes overpower a bailiff and shoot up the courtroom, Scarlet and Tracy have the dimwitted idea of escaping during the confusion, which of course puts the angry cops on their trail. In Bulgaria, the artist does not have the freedom to paint absolutely anything that occurs to his mind That is true But I don't think you do here, either " At this point, his brother picked up the theme "Over there, there are restrictions on freedom Everybody knows that" he said "But there are limits on your freedom here For example, they are put there by the music industry. Now, every time I come back to one of them, I am studying anew" As a vigorous septuagenarian, Sanderling can make a gentle joke about the prerogatives of maturity: "Even at my age, I can still find new things, new insights in a familiar piece "Mostly, interpretation comes from the conductor But the orchestra has a part in it, too. By 5 p. m, Saturday's weather had a bitter bite and Cal State San Bernardino's Imagination Players, scheduled to perform outside, had to move indoors. The town created by the series is a deceptive vision of whites-only, conservative society where traditional values were never challenged. Toback likes to tell the story of a student who approached him after seeing it in a film school class: "She said, 'I'm not a violent person but I'd like to take a knife and stick it in your face' " Made for just $1 million, it has earned, according to Toback, only $600,000 in this country but a total of $6 million worldwide. MPAA-rated: PG-13 (parents are strongly cautioned to give special guidance for attendance of children under 13. .

Davis starred in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Querelle" and had prominent roles in two other network miniseries, "A Rumor of War" and "Chiefs" But it was his tiny cameo as American Olympian Jackson Scholz in "Chariots of Fire" that Davis says brought him to the attention of Kennedy miniseries co-producer Rick Rosenberg. Every step of the project will be reported in a Doubleday book to be released next week. In a dramatic reversal, now videocassette sales account for 60% of profits. Lloyd won an Emmy a few years ago by demonstrating on the "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" that even death could be made funny if handled properly.

While the debate isn't entirely academic over whether Mellencamp's new concerned-citizen and good-guy attitude is a sign of greater vision or simple opportunism (the commercial timing is right, he is making far better music than the old, wasteland fodder of "Jack and Diane" He's addressing legitimate themes: the national character and the American heartland. "In Orange County, there are about 50 to 60 groups playing in local bars Most already have records, so I try to help. The day before, producer Peter Smell and writer David Edgar had been called in for a last-minute script conference. Like the other local organizations that seek to perform or stage productions at the Center, Opera Pacific is very busy these days, gearing up and lobbying for a spot in the opening season.