In fact, given the foreign appetite for action adventures, teen sex comedies and horror (anyone for "Raiders of the Living Dead, and the limits of most independent budgets, most of the films are probably pretty bad But they'll all do business. Nor does the composer seem all that tortured by his success as a Hollywood producer, although he's got a real problem with Gussie, now his wife All in all, though, it doesn't seem that desperate a life. The announcement Monday stated that "throughout these years, LAOT lived with an ever-increasing deficit" but the amount of the deficit was not specified. Usually I just eat a sandwich at my desk, but it's such a nice day that I decide to walk up the street to Daisuke, a little Japanese noodle place in Weller Court. It's an interesting departure that he hasn't resolved in this show. "Steve cannot fail to do well" said O'Toole when that film was over Richard Rush, who directed, agreed. The man trying to snatch the microphone was not an overzealous fan, as Townshend thought, but a plainclothes policeman trying to warn the audience that fire had broken out.

Yet there are a few other network absentees too. The morning shows, for example, are throwbacks to those days when only the men went off to do the heavy mental work while the women stayed home to do the sewing and cooking. (For all it has achieved since, television has never matched the glory of those weekly dramatic anthologies) Horton Foote, who writes about Texas as sensitively and comprehendingly as Flaubert wrote about France or George Eliot about England, provided a text that must be an actress's dream, first for Lillian Gish and now Page. But he also was putting into perspective the underlying question of why it's crucial for the American theater to make room wherever possible (and artistically feasible) for the work of minority artists. Whitney Houston was ineligible because of two duet singles released before the eligibility period.

For lackluster shows at both amphitheaters from Alabama, the Oak Ridge Boys, the Firm, Power Station and Robert Plant, making at least one member of their audiences wish he'd stayed home and watched "Dynasty" or the stock market report To Orange Countians who objected to AC/DC's Oct. Tonight, on the eve of the nominations' voting deadline, Zweiback hosts one last screening for academy members in the Fine Arts Theatre. Monique Van de Ven, the beautiful and talented blond actress of Paul Verhoeven's "Turkish Delight" and "Keetje Tippel" stars in "Dreamland" as a young working-class wife whose postpartum depression leads her to an addiction to tranquilizers. We'll go, we decided, and if it starts raining heavily, we'll just leave We may be silly, we said, but we're not stupid Well. After being absent from here for half a decade, the California-born and -trained American soprano this week gave an operatic recital-assisted by pianist Henrietta Pelta-at the New York Company on Fletcher Drive. Already, notes Cutler-Shaw, the Collaborative has given San Diego an "Urban Meadow" a non-irrigated self-reseeding planting of wildflowers composed in various patterns at the northeast edge of Balboa Park. I'm not going to waste any more time" COVETING CALLAS: Anjelica Huston, feeling buoyant since her fine reviews in "Prizzi's Honor" which her father, John, directed, is negotiating with author Arianna Stassinopoulos for the rights to her biography of Maria Callas.

Balances and sonic definition tended to go awry at an aisle seat downstairs in Row L. Her life is transformed-well, interrupted-by one of her tenants, a Hollywood star/satyr who's played by Fran Montano with a dash of genuine charisma. The 1971 camp horror classic, "Willard" (Prism, $59. 95) will be out on Nov 26. We tend to take for granted many really equally fascinating animals because they're with us today and we can go to the zoo and see them" New discoveries and theories have stimulated widespread interest in dinosaurs over the last 10 years, but Hallet complains, "Dinosaurs are cast in a very campy, sort of circusy light in the popular media-almost as if they weren't real, and of course they were. Hales attacks the sanctity of the subject by employing a multitude of styles.

It was called the Federal Theater and, significantly, it had nothing to do with ANTA's charter. Unfazed, refusing to miss so much as half a beat, Ferri grabbed the offending fabric, ripped it off with pert petulance, tossed it into a corner and continued to dance with blissful exuberance. During Westweek, the satellite also will be taking pictures of the mirror array outside the Design Center. There's always something on Melrose Avenue to make even the most jaded urbanites gape as they inch through the never-ending gridlock. It will feature scores of concerts, exhibitions and workshops, plus an arts "Imaginarium" fair created especially for this celebration. GOES 4 is familiar to most people as the source of satellite photos used in TV and newspaper weather reports.

He has been basted with the kudos of success and has swallowed the failure of having performances rejected. In fact, the astronauts always appear to be having fun, and are even dressed for it, in shorts and T-shirts. He was the small-town boy who made good in the big city, and fame did not go to his head. The NBC-CBS joust, known in some circles as the Great Demographic Debate, concerns whose audience is more appealing to advertisers, older viewers or younger ones. And as a member of that band, he takes part in some of the shortest musical performances anywhere. It introduces the 150 black-and-white photographs by Yavno on view at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park through Feb 2.

I wanted to put the viewer in the position of a TV director deciding which images to use" Which makes it surprising to learn that when Mehrten began writing the show in 1984 in the company of director David Schweizer, he knew next to nothing about video "I wanted to do a show set and performed in L. A and about actors" he reflected. Sometimes the lab results even show that a factor like "dropouts" (those momentary horizontal glitches) can be a bigger problem on the more expensive tape. "I believe that we can help the young people in this culture by trying to emphasize positive role models" he said. NEW YORK — 'You can always tell a California wine man They swirl, they sniff; they never taste it.

Two other veteran one-hour series also were dropped, "Crazy Like a Fox" and "Trapper John, M. D" which premiered in 1979. The concert-inspired by the success of the July 13 Live Aid concert in London and Philadelphia-does represent the most impressive mixture of country and rock stars ever for a single show. The goal, Sinor reminded the group, is a richer experience-the more you bring to the theater, the more you receive. However, she added, once decisions on layoffs are made, "there is no intention of going through cutbacks twice" And, she said, "once a department has been downsized to an operation that can effectively perform its function, that ends that (layoff) process" (A corporate source put it another way: The Cap Cities philosophy toward broadcasting "is not to affect the on-air product in any way, but to do the work with the least number of people possible, so that everybody is busier and more productive) No company-wide or station-wide quota of job cuts ever was ordered, Matson said. "I have too much respect for Kurosawa, for myself and for the Academy members to show the picture in French instead of Japanese" Since he worked with Oshima directly under Kurosawa, people like to suggest that Silberman is now in his Japanese period He shrugs.

While in that post, one of his major accomplishments was to lure programming expert Fred Silverman away from CBS. 28, is expected to draw 250,000 visitors and gross over $2. 5 million. The distance between me and the next person was several thousand miles. Like David Bowie and her friend Peter Gabriel, Bush has shown a deep interest in the visual aspects of performance-mime, costumes, dance-and she's been making videos since her first single in 1978. "We've been lax about it" said John Stephens, the show's executive producer "Yes, we're aware of it Yes, we admit it. It is now safe to say that it had, indeed, turned out to be the biggest rock tour in U. S. She outlined the lyrical passages with a thread of gleaming, radiant, ravishing tone, and consolidated that rare and tender virtue with perfect pitch and neat rhythmic definition May she return soon, and often.

Warning: Never put four dedicated drummers in a room full of the percussion instruments that Dr. Sterling musicians all, they imparted the joy of close-knit, heartbeat-apart ensemble that not even some slight scrambling in the last movement could dim. . "Make-Up" (Times-rated Mature because of it has little interest to children) is too melodramatic to be compared to the great Mizoguchi films about women or even to Kon Ichikawa's recent and impressive "The Makioka Sisters" But it does take us into a world in which women, including geisha in exquisite dance and song, are still expected to dedicate their lives to pleasing men 'MAKE-UP' A Shochiku presentation Executive producer Masatake Wakita Director Kazuo Ikehiro. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks was out of town and unavailable for comment. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday disputed charges of a racially motivated Oscar shutout against "The Color Purple" A local chapter of the NAACP filed a letter of protest Tuesday labeling Monday night's Academy Awards a "slap in the face" and an industry "blackout" "This practice was used in the past to hinder the success of projects involving blacks" said Willis Edwards, president of the Hollywood-Beverly Hills branch of the National Assn. -A major work by William Grant Still (the "Afro-American" Symphony. Explains Solly: "We put the whole thing in the past, the '30s, like an Astaire-Rogers musical. For Hungarofilm week, foreign journalists/festival heads/critics/exhibitors are invited to see the new crop of films.

The suit claims that Bogdanovich has final dramatic cut, unless Starger disagrees. "When I first began to make the successes, you know, I was so much in demand to sing all over the place-I had to sing so many performances that I had no time to really think ahead-though of course it was I who decided I should sing so much, until of course I got a manager And then I was really in for it. Dick Shawn has a hilarious cameo as a temperamental Hollywood movie star appearing in a delicious sendup of those macho oil company commercials that assure us no effort will be spared in the search for oil reserves. But her remarks were not accompanied by any pledge of additional famine relief aid.

(This is not one of those "Sea Gulls" where Nina goes off to become a great actress, hardened by what she has learned of life. The playwright lets his message slink in quietly under the humanity of the piece, and Johnson is right in sync with McLure's subtlety. I know it works" Sallid uses the term art pieces to differentiate concert works choreographed for his ensemble from commercial dances he creates for television, video and film "In the commercial work I'm really 'selling it' " he says But commercial producers "don't trust the art works. Not only is he fearsomely articulate as he accuses himself before his own imagined jury (the play is laid partly in Bill's mind, partly in his law office, his every action seems to be a plea for punishment and forgiveness. With Adler already as its director and New York's Richard Weinstein redesigning, the planned museum will dominate as much as 90,000 square feet of mixed-use retail, gallery, performance and restaurant space.

His comedy style has gotten afflicted with leaden whimsy and a critical case of the macho cutes, and his ideas about timing and delivery seem to come from celebrity roasts, '60s Disney features, Lite Beer commercials, "Monday Night Football" and TV talk-show banter. They tried to talk me out of it, but accepted my resignation with lots of regrets, as they've said" Pierce, 52, said that he never had intended to stay on simply to oversee the transition of ABC's leadership to Cap Cities. Then, she came back with a song of her own-the rocking "After the Flood-that wowed the audience in a totally different way. Sometimes people order titles that the distributors don't have and are very slow to find The distributors can slow things down. Screenplay Andrew Birkin, James Costigan, based upon Samuel I and II, Chronicles I and Psalms of David Camera Donald McAlpine Editor William Anderson Sound Brian Marshall Production design Ken Adam Costumes John Mollo Art direction Terry Ackland-Snow Music Carl Davis Associate producer Charles Orme Special effects supervisor Kit West Makeup supervisor Stuart Freeborn Chief hairdresser Daphne Martin. Program topics include panel discussions by artists and film makers on the nature of "image making" corporate executives examining new ideas in office design, and five furniture designers exploring the essential and ubiquitous chair.

Virtually overnight, he was transformed into a television personality, a would-be movie star, a household name, a credit-card salesman. Later, she was misdiagnosed as schizophrenic when she actually suffered from panic disorder. That's why cassettes are so nice-nothing is cut" MORE OLD MOVIES: The 1949 Italian film, "The Bicycle Thief" which always gets votes when critics assemble their all-time Top 10, is available this week, only with subtitles, on Corinth Video for $69. 95. The other night there was a tribute downtown for Horton Foote, and I saw more brainy young actors at work, more wit than I can remember The comic mainstream is funnier than ever. "I guess we're taking a chance by opening with that" Kendall acknowledges.