In his autobiography Chagall said that when he was born in the village of Vitebsk he appeared to be stillborn He lived as if in simple gratitude for being alive. In addition to Mitchum himself, other Hollywood figures will be on hand to share personal anecdotes about the actor The tentative schedule: Feb. "I want to thank you from the bottom of my new heart" Peggy Lee told a clearly sympathetic and receptive audience Wednesday on her return to the Westwood Playhouse. plays a soulful sax at a jazz club, is writing a novel, drives a jeep and dresses sort of like the guys in "Miami Vice" What's missing now is a real dopey cop like Lt Tragg in the old series But Raymond Collins, who played Tragg, is dead.
I think it's too easy, in our day, to embrace Jacques' cynicism; the play says 'yes' to love in spite of it. The only obstacle: a strong challenge from Ashford & Simpson's "Solid" COUNTRY FEMALE VOCAL-Rosanne Cash's "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me" This will be the first Grammy for the daughter of Johnny Cash (who has won six Grammys and is likely to win another this year. 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. Born in Texarkana, Ark, Nancarrow is usually described as an expatriate American because he moved to Mexico City and became a Mexican citizen after fighting Francisco Franco with the Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.
He's got a TV movie project in development at CBS and recently completed work on an hourlong documentary, "Passion and Memory" which airs on KCET, Channel 28, tonight at 10 (It also will be broadcast Wednesday at 8 p. m on Channel 24 and at 11 p. m. A subject that was once a TV taboo has become almost TV chic. His recent live album, "The Tigers Loose" recorded at the Golden Bear and released last year on his own Balboa Records label, shows a virtually ageless Dick Dale who still exhibits the technical mastery, sheer instrumental power and machine-gun staccato runs that made him a local hero more than two decades ago. Rather, he views them with a disinterested kind of compassion. The performance on Friday seemed to realize all the drama inherent in the score.
It might be a decent enough vehicle for a charismatic artist with something to communicate, but in the case of the Lucy Show (which also plays at Texas Records in Santa Monica Sunday afternoon) that's all there is. Her latest sculptures and accompanying drawings mark a significant departure, replacing the tripod/vessel format with a more integrated dialectic of organic forms. The play will transfer to the Kennedy Center from the playhouse in exchange for a modern adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, "Ajax" The photos of Des McAnuff and Peter Sellars were transposed in Thursday's Calendar. Subsequent films by present plan will star Robert Duvall and Mary Steenburgen and eventually the year will be 1902 "which is before my time" Foote adds quickly; he'll be 69 on Friday. KHJ made a similar attempt to return to its Boss days this fall when it hired veteran Los Angeles deejay Dave Hull to anchor the morning drive-time slot. (After his conviction, police closed their books on more than 20 other murders of young blacks) Mann has vehemently defended his dramatization of the case as fair. But the mere mention of Aubrey's name to anyone in Hollywood over 40 elicits the same response, after the eyelids raise: "Is he really cooperating with an article" "I've never done this before" said the man of mystery, who after leaving CBS became president of MGM-the first man to head both a TV network and a movie studio.
It shows them that anything is possible" FONDA IN THE FALL: There will be a new Jane Fonda exercise videocassette this fall in time for the Christmas season, according to a spokesman for Karl Video. Blowzy, buxom Hazel, the "Big Blonde" who boozily moves from man to man, is especially poignant. "There was more product, but there weren't any more hits" said industry analyst Art Murphy. Mocha torte, a densely textured concoction of lady fingers soaked in Triple Sec, coffee, chocolate and whipped cream, was a ne plus ultra cake Tea was decorously served in plump sang de boeuf pots.
He appeared in modern works, as well as in Shakespearean productions, playing Ariel, the airy spirit in "The Tempest" and Feste, the clown in "Twelfth Night" Houle might still be a speaking actor had it not been for the suggestion of a friend that he study mime Initially Houle was unconvinced In fact, he didn't even like mime. The movie, which also is a nominee for an Oscar as the best foreign-language film of the year, was directed by Coline Serreau and produced by a little-known company whose phone was cut off for nonpayment of bills just after the movie was completed for a little more than $1 million seven months ago. Despite the revolution compact discs have triggered in the record business, record stores partition off CDs from regular albums, cassettes or videos. To think that this goes down the tubes because someone in some town insists that the local news must start at 11 o'clock. For one thing, there's a sense of urgency and importance about it all, since it chronicles the evolution of the great John Lennon's son into a capable concert performer.