"In order not to just narrate, I use musical interludes, voice-overs (for the inner monologues) and a Bogart hat My mime is always connected to something. CBS correspondents say privately that George has become an enormous embarrassment and that the hug session took the cake. Carol Burnett is set to star in a five-hour CBS miniseries next season titled "Fresno" a comic takeoff on prime-time soaps about the rival families "in the raisin capital of the world. Schaefer was referring to Istvan Szabo's "Colonel Redl" a true story of a military man made more vulnerable by his impoverished background than by his homosexuality during the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; Agnieszka Holland's "Angry Harvest" a complex character study in which a Polish farmer shelters a Jewish woman during World War II; Kusturica's film, which deals with political oppression in Yugoslavia in the '50s, and Luis Puenzo's "The Official Story" which calls attention to the thousands of Argentines who disappeared during the rule of the now-deposed military junta. Tonight is the Academy Awards, when at last we'll have the answers to one of the hardest-to-predict Oscar races in years. "This theater is a significant and long-awaited addition to the cultural environment of the community" said Irvine Co's Nielsen, who announced a $100,000 company grant to help underwrite the first-year operating costs. What could be a better way of proving that capitalism causes extensive brain damage, at least in the hands of grubby Hollywood film makers? 'BASIC TRAINING' An Entertainment Events Production Producers Otto Salamon and Gil Adler Director Andrew Sugerman Writer Bernard M Kahn Camera Stephen Gray Editor Larry Bock Music Michael Cruz Art Director John Carter.

"We wouldn't be able to renovate and survive and to give out the (cultural) grants. The exhibition, featuring the art and addressing the aesthetic trends of the '80s, is being organized by institutions and local authorities in several towns in the area of Emilia-Romagna. Computerized tickets, arts groups are finding, can make a big difference. Not one of the unsuccessful features had a well-constructed story.

There, in their realm, are Rob Fiedler, 38, and Peter Berlin, 33, producers of "Chance for Romance" Would a network put on a game show created by two unknowns above a liquor store? Fat chance, you say Well, stay tuned. It's one thing to suggest disconnection by flattening speech and clipping it off with vacuous silence, but an overused device quickly becomes an artifice. The introductory Sylphide was Ludmila Lopukhova, who had spent a dozen years at the Kirov, having achieved soloist status in Leningrad by 1984 when she emigrated to the States. All its redeeming features hark directly back to the established traditions of German art. NBC, riding high and feeling well-stocked with mid-season replacement shows, has told Steven Bochco, the co-creator of "Hill Steet Blues" who was replaced as producer, that his new series won't be needed until next fall Bochco is developing a series called "L. A Law: "It won't be a case-of-the-week show" he promised. Sometimes David Wilcox's choreography grew overly Russian in style, Saturday night in the Terrace Theater.

ABC's $3. 5-billion takeover by Capital Cities Communications is expected to be completed by January Earlier this year, CBS Inc. In mid-December, a reporter accompanied Hanifin on what he described as a fairly typical evening. Assisted by pianist Mark Neikrug, Zukerman will play on viola Bach's Sonata in G minor (originally for viola da gamba) and Brahms' Sonata in E-flat (originally for clarinet; on violin: Prokofiev's Sonata No. 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. So which of the two won the weekend? Despite the apparent gap in figures, the two are actually close contenders. The entrance is appropriately dramatic, leading into what had been the original banking area of about 5,500 square feet with a stained-glass ceiling 36 feet high.

Occasionally an independent comedy comes through" Harlin studied film at the University of Helsinki, making short movies there and for Finnish television. "How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman" comically uses cannibalism as a metaphor for imperialism. Why should they? The experts say the future of the nation depends on ability of people to create-and to be creative. Los Angeles' own most prominent restaurant twosome of the moment, Wolfgang Puck and Barbara Lazaroff (of, it scarcely need be said, Spago and Chinois on Main, do things a bit differently: He is indeed often in the kitchen, but the kitchen is out in plain sight; often, too, he is not in the kitchen, but working on one project or another (like a new line of frozen pizzas) or off in Tokyo, Texas or New York attending to one important corporate client or another. It's strange" One continuing question involving Dylan is his much-publicized "born-again" Christian phase. We did 'Pinoys in Space' which deals with the first Filipino in space, and we have upcoming Jon Shirota's adaptation of his novel, 'Lucky Come Hawaii' We're also planning to do a play about Mishima.

A pointed post in the center, directly below the pebble pyramid, has a metal rod running through it-and therein lies the sculpture's center of interest. And within a few songs the band had the entire place spinning in an impromptu slam-polka. Sports Reporting: "Tots in Training: Channel 2 News" KCBS-TV. I kept thinking, 'If only they were rock' " That reservation caused Geffen Records to pass on Lone Justice-for a while. But to the promoters responsible for putting on those series, that same fact represents a gamble that hinges on the question of just how much jazz San Diego audiences are willing to support. This time he was singled out for his unusually controlled and low-key portrayal.

On Madison Avenue, where ad agencies buy specific programs for their clients and not overall network ratings, NBC's resurgence is even more significant because of the kinds of people the network is reaching (demographics, rather than how many people (ratings) are being reached. It was going to be 'Sweet Charity' and Bob was to be involved; those first ads were before we decided to have John Bowab direct. 9 is no walk in the park-for conductor, orchestra or audience. Responding to Albrecht's knock on the door, they skip or dart or prance out of the cottage-daintily, perhaps even coyly. They have had very public disagreements about everything from the quality of movies to the order of their credits on their popular syndicated television show. The second subject that seems to be preoccupying current film makers is what James Thurber used to call the man-woman thing. Having earned very good personal reviews in the recent miniseries "Peter the Great" pitted as it was against the Joan Collins "Sins" she says, "I thought 'Sins' was much closer to real life than 'Peter' It was said to have been melodramatic; well, my grandparents were in melodrama, and what did that mean except that it was larger than life.

It's about style and cool and appreciation, and that's not to be sniffed at. The Spanish items made a framework for her grandeur, despite a certain lack of timbral sensuality. "Our new album definitely won't sell as well as our last album but we don't care" said Matthias Jabs, who plays guitar for the Scorpions, the famed German heavy-metal band. They say Weber is inspired by experiences as a skin-diver, but the work is more concerned with art than life. -They're bolstered by fresh leadership in Sweden's oldest film company.

But the "We Are the World" session alumnus who attracted the most attention was the reclusive Michael Jackson, who brought his friend, Elizabeth Taylor, on stage with him. The people, mostly in their 30s, appeared too conservative to be waiting for Sigue Sigue Sputnick, the latest rock (out)rage here-but you could imagine them shrieking at the sight of, say, Sade. Opening concurrently at MOCA are two other exhibitions: "Allen Ruppersberg: The Secret of Life and Death" a survey of 60 pieces from 1969 to 1984, and "Mark Lere: New and Selected Work" featuring about 40 recent and newly commissioned works by the Los Angeles sculptor The Ruppersberg and Lere shows both run through May 26. At the 299-seat Theatre Two, Al Rossi will direct the West Coast premiere of Joyce Carol Oates' "The Triumph of the Spider Monkey" On March 8 a new play by Len Jenkins, called "Five of Us" goes in at Taper, Too after Spalding Gray's delayed departure (He's been extended through Feb 17) "Five of Us" runs through March 31 Tony Abatemarco directs. Not a robust portrait, this Caesar in the Globe Playhouse at the Shakespeare Society of America is a dictator whose weaknesses (as Shakespeare wrote them) are softly illumined by a benign manner and aging gait The play's central issue, social order (Caesar) vs.

"It's a tempest in a tea bag" said Edward Weston, western regional director of Actors' Equity, which first granted, and then denied, the Sunset Boulevard facility Equity Waiver status for the two new 99-seat theaters under its roof. The combination of rare folk instruments and musicians with rhythm in their blood (local drummers Billy Higgins, Carl Burnett, Bobby Matos and Munyungo, who will participate in the fourth Day of the Drum Festival at the Watts Towers on Saturday) created an atmosphere that sent what should have been a predictable conversation promoting the annual event spinning off on a series of dizzying tangents. "We have been under fire, and frankly, we're feeling a little gun-shy" said Harvey Sabinson, executive director of Broadway's official trade organization, the League of American Theaters and Producers, in acknowledging at a press conference that the league was releasing the results of an eight-month economic study to deflect recent criticism. At 10 p. m, the opening installment of "The Equalizer" attracted about 3 million more households than the season premiere of NBC's "St. By introducing us to larger-than-life figures, he can also treat his primary themes-losers with big dreams, and dreamers with unlikely victories-on a large, ambitious scale. This trait-like that of David Letterman in the willingness to experiment with different things, even if they don't always click-emerged very early, when the production originated from Buena Park (before moving to Fullerton last fall. It's big, cartoonish and empty, with an interesting premise that is underdeveloped and overproduced.

Holly has just enough humor (and insecurity) to enjoy Sandy's sarcastic, half-envious digs at her. wantonly threw pieces of meat at the audience with astonishing velocity. But her screen work didn't guarantee that she could carry off a big Broadway musical with the glee of a kid jumping rope after school. On the evidence presented here, one is forced to conclude that media are bad voodoo indeed-hardly a shocking revelation to anyone who's done any reading on mass communications Curated by L. A. The show used to provide a good mix of sports news, interviews, taped bits and callers when ex-jock Tommy Hawkins shared the airwaves with ex-newspaperman Furillo, but Hawkins left the station last month following a contract dispute.

"This turning point is predicated on several reasons: First, preservation has become a popular issue no longer limited to film buffs and archivists; second, the popular response to restored films-just think, when LACMA announced that it would show the most completely restored version of a film as well-known as 'Metropolis' people had to be turned away; third, Frank Hodsoll, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, has made film and TV preservation a priority; fourth, American archives are alive and kicking as evidenced by the new facilities at the Museum of Modern Art and UCLA's expansion, symbolized by this series; and five, producers, who once may have viewed past product as dead storage, now realize its enormous value and think about preserving their own material" Rosen, originally a teacher of social history at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, sees a primary function of the center as "a non-competitive, non-duplicative, coordinating entity for all archives and all the archives of the producers" One of the key undertakings of the center is the creation of its National Moving Image Data Bank, which will contain computerized information on the holdings of all its various participants. "I hope it doesn't give me a headache" he said, noticing the presence of a wary staffer whose job it was to head off unauthorized comments "No, it's very, very nice" he said, changing the subject. It was the follow-up to "Hi Infidelity" the blockbuster album that in 1981 changed REO almost overnight from a middle-level rock band into the biggest act in pop music. Scott Reeve brought nice point to the roving-rascal duties of her myopic would-be lover, a bewhiskered baritone whose name, of course, had to be Tom Cute And not so cute. Over early evening cocktails during a recent local visit, Laird-Clowes, an impassioned talker, was in obvious ecstasy about the sudden success of the English band, which burst out of obscurity into prominence in the last two months He was also baffled by it. It is a very healthy exercise in this age of a rising design consciousness by the public and a sharpened awareness of the potential of publicity by design professionals.

Both gifts were given in memory of the late Lorser Feitelson, an artist, collector, scholar and teacher who was very active in the art community of Southern California. Buried in a little list of sauteed seafood dishes, right under scallops mornay (for the record, not a French mornay sauce but scallops with cheese melted on them, is a bland-looking shrimp curry. The post-Christmas blahs have hit the videocassette market Business will probably be slow for the next few weeks. Bunker is a man who, until a few years ago, was better known to the former wardens of places like San Quentin and Terminal Island than he was to the guilds' membership secretaries But that slowly has been changing. So although I was warned away from those sorts of things, I did start dealing with those subjects in a humorous but sincere manner And the feedback from listeners was good.

The easiest way out would be to make the black characters white, but that would destroy the integrity of the story. Rigid for a few seconds, he began edging toward the front of the stage, moving his head and arms in robot fashion to underscore the mechanical undercurrents of the night's opening song, "Building the Perfect Beast" The lyrics decry science's continuing drive to control every aspect of human biology and behavior. "Unsuitable for Adults" by British dramatist Terry Johnson, will play on the theater's Second Stage next March 14 through April 6. With Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance, Donald Moffat, M Emmet Walsh, R. G Armstrong, Dub Taylor Running Time: 1 hour, 54 minutes.