Luckily, it shares the bill with a revival of "Quadrophenia" Information: (213) 478-6379, 479-5269. The Center for Constitutional Rights' "For Our Eyes Only" series concludes this weekend at the Fox International with Susanna Styron and Pamela Jones' "In Our Own Backyards: Uranium Mining in the U. S; Joan Churchill and Nicholas Broomfield's "Soldier Girls" (Saturday at 1 p. m; and Jacki Ochs and Daniel Keller's "The Secret Agent" and Pamela Yates and Tom Sigel's "Resurgence: The Movement for Equality vs the Ku Klux Klan" (Sunday at 1 p. m. But that confidence reportedly had decreased somewhat in recent months as ABC slumped in prime-time ratings. (The Really Useful offering is not available to Americans because the stock is not registered with the U. S. To cap the numbing effect, Lennon and his musicians play everything as if half-asleep, and the lyrics consist of little more than obvious expressions of mundane thoughts, questions, assertions and desires. I'm proud of my dad, but I want to build a career on my own" Connery, 23, the son of Sean, is the star of Showtime's "Robin Hood" airing Mondays and Saturdays during February (8 p. m Feb 17 and 24; 7 p. m tonight, next Saturday and Feb.
LA MESA — Once more the mighty American entrepreneurial spirit is manifesting itself against odds that could make a bookie have heart seizure-this time in the risky realm of commercial dinner theater. So we've rented space in Culver City and we're putting together programs I think Los Angeles is ready for something like this. It seems fully recovered from its ailing beginnings, official and unofficial ministrations by umpteen show-business doctors (another story) and has blossomed into a cream puff of an entertainment: sweet and sassy. Los Angeles may have a big appetite for touring shows like "Cats" but audiences for less extravagant fare here have declined since last summer. They are high-prestige, high-powered dramas: Eugene O'Neill's anguished "A Moon for the Misbegotten" Ronald Harwood's Lear-like "The Dresser" and Beth Henley's probing "Crimes of the Heart" The season opener is yet another off-beat attraction-the Orange County premiere of "Going to See the Elephant" the story of four 19th-Century women struggling with the realities of life on the American frontier. Saturday night at the Lhasa, an all-acoustic show starring ex-Plimsoul Peter Case and Dream Syndicate headman Steve Wynn-and stolen by Victoria Williams-made for three transfixing hours of eclectic entertainment. We would use the deserts of the Sahara or the Atlantic Ocean-but we have Russia next to us" The 26-year-old Harlin is something of an anomaly.
show without mainstay guitarist Billy Zoom, whose boots will be hard ones to fill. Her work on the first, "Liz and Mary" is more assured-perhaps because she also wrote it. The studio pulled "Silent Night" from theaters in the Midwest and Northeast after public protests against TV ads showing an ax-wielding man in a Santa Claus suit. "Certainly no one wants to face a rescission, but when one recognizes the competing demands on the federal budget, the proposal for CPB provides an excellent base from which we in public broadcasting can work with Congress" she contends. She was well-matched, on various levels, by Kevin McKenzie, who danced Basil with expected clarity, unexpected bravado, and nice, muted wit.
When she dances, her weight is back on her right foot while the left is bent at the knee, raised off the floor and turned out-a familiar enough posture from the tourist sampler programs and the dolls sold as souvenirs. "It took me 10 years to get my reading at Beyond Baroque" says Laurel Ann Bogen, author of "Do Iguanas Dance, Under the Moonlight" (Illuminati Press. Ted Danson "Cheers) also stars in the film, a comedy about a widow who discovers that her best friend had been having an affair with her recently deceased husband. And the finale, taken at an unorthodox but expansive and deliberate pace, sang forth in matching voices. She does not claim it by her dancing: tolerably secure but never particularly beautiful, musical or expressive.
Listening to it, it's easy to recall British writer Jan Morris' description of Sydney's rock music: "Often the thump of it drives the customers into a frenzy, and the bars are full of strapping young Ockers throwing their hands above their heads, whooping and beating their enormous feet" THE LIPSTICK KILLERS' "Mesmerized" (Virgin; import. 20, and the Bowl debut of the English male vocal ensemble, the King's Singers (Sept 10. Morgan is part of a wave of young black female singers who are having unprecedented success. The present group of 16 objects was made by pouring molten glass in an S-curve mold and knotting it while still malleable. Stripped of its resonance as first-generation kitsch, it now exudes the aura of historical masterwork.
Before that, the director had nothing but questions"Whether it's good or bad or successful or rich or poor, there's something in (European art) that we don't have" Bogart said. A pair of works are loosely structured after the shape of a simple chair, but strips of wood going this way and that eliminate the possibility of sitting down. On "The Juicer" "Cosby" staff writer-turned-actor David Smyrl blew his lines at least half a dozen times before a live audience and four cameras. "Some of those guys looked fantastic" director Gil Bettman told Outtakes "I'm talking falling down gorgeous. "This will make one hell of a television show" producer Alexander Cohen was heard to say through a microphone as he staged the evening's finale in front of a dwindling audience.
The seminar, "Radio After Radio" traced the history of "Boss Radio" to today's superstations and super-promotions. How does one explain a screaming, stuttering, slobbering comedian whose opening line, "Gee, it feels great to be here tonight" takes six minutes to be delivered? Goldthwait, who says he is not a stand-up comic but a "loud dancer" takes the audience through a kind of primal therapy-improv-scream session where the shock value alone often keeps them laughing. When the Resnicks, in turn, show up at Ellis Island years later, they are greeted less-than-warmly by the now prosperous Bittmans. Where the stone-faced musician seemed to encounter problems was in the right hand. Asked what characters on TV now reflected such empathy, Feshbach paused, then said, "the captain on 'Hill Street Blues" But, "unfortunately" he said that program is becoming "increasingly violent" Feshbach, who offered an overview of contemporary research on TV's effect on youth, said that researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have found that "aggressive children seek out aggressive TV and aggressive TV reinforces aggressive behavior" "Censorship is not the answer" said Susan Stuart Kaplan, director of community education for Action for Children's Television, in a luncheon address. Thomas Johnson's very beautiful exhibition of photographs continues through May 2. It dares confront the complexities of Shakespeare and the verities of eternity.
'I'm the kind of person who never looks ahead" Leslie Browne said recently, in a moment of self-reflection. Now Garfield's in Huntington Beach, a disco-video music club since it opened in 1984, is turning to live concerts to counter sagging mid-week attendance. VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY PROGRAM "The American Film Institute Salute to Gene Kelly" CBS "Late Night With David Letterman" NBC "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music" PBS "Motown Returns to the Apollo" NBC "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" NBC DRAMA/COMEDY SPECIAL "The Burning Bed" NBC "Do You Remember Love" CBS "Fatal Vision" NBC "Heartsounds" ABC "Wallenberg: A Hero's Story" NBC. Her American Film Institute short, "The Doctor" produced under the auspices of the AFI's Directing Workshop for Women, will be screened at Filmex this year. Yet here is in part the reality of the New York art scene where Matta-Clark came to roost. But one local arts activist, who asked not to be named, depicted the meeting this way: "I think they (festival officials) want some kind of united front to present to City Hall It would be a natural move on their part.
His biggest achievement was doing vocals for the 1981 single "Just the Two of Us" on sax player Grover Washington Jr's album "Winelight" The single made the pop Top 5 and won him a Grammy for best R&B vocal. Ashkenazy, Solti and the London Philharmonic Orchestra a few years ago gave us a dazzling recording of Bartok's Second and Third Piano Concertos. Getting beneath the surface of this giant dream factory is a formidable task. As Woodruff notes, a major focus of the inquiry will be "the role of government in protecting public safety while at the same time asking questions about protecting the civil liberties of victims, as well as the rest of us"The cool, elegant voice of anchor Judy Woodruff is the prelude. In their wide-brim fedoras and even wider-lapeled suits, they seem to have emerged from some place east of "White Heat"Their old nemesis, played by Charles Durning, still has an eye on them, and so does a mysterious assailant (Eli Wallach has replaced the late Adolph Caesar, who died even as he waited to do his first scenes.
Too busy to watch your favorite soap opera? Beginning Monday, you can listen at work or at home when a new telephone soap opera, "Fair Oaks" opens its lines. "Playing very small towns is not one of our options" Lenski says, "because we can perform only where there is a harpsichord. A Frankensteinesque relationship between the Professor (Zane) and the Fabricated Man (Jones) came closest to providing an organizing principle for the narrative, but even here the death of the Professor at the hands of his creature was inexplicably reversed and he rejoined the action. to midnight Monday through Thursday, 11 to midnight Friday and Saturday; AE, MC, V Menu prices, $4$12 THE GRILL, 9560 Dayton Way, Beverly Hills, (213) 276-0615. Some CPB board members said privately that they do not rule out the possibility that the NPR issue could be raised again before September NPR President Douglas J Bennet Jr. "You know 'The Ghost Breakers' in 1940 did $9 million, and Paramount was so happy that they broke out the champagne. Production costs are expected to jump from last year's $25,000-attended by more than 3,200 people-to $50,000, Hansen said.
Jean Blanchette has created a startling assortment of inventive costumes (it's amazing what that man can do with a handful of scraps. He has not yet clearly defined a mature artistic vision for himself, but he has obviously narrowed the field to the point that practiced viewers recognize a characteristic "Jay Johnson" look. A dramatically increased interest in architecture and design will come under review July 25-Sept 22. With American roots music making its mark in Britain, why shouldn't British roots music do likewise here? That seemed to be the theme of Wednesday's presentation at the Lhasa Club of British folk-influenced music by local artists. Evans "I don't compose; I'm a sounding board) writes a couple of pages of poetic words, then Livingston "The toughest part is getting started) sits at the piano and experiments with melodies that eventually fit. Widrich told a reporter of the Austria Press Agency that relations between the two men had been "simmering at the boiling point" for several days. . Who were those people walking around behind the curtains? But it wasn't an intellectualizing, find-the-symbol kind of evening.