"Martin and Channing are so much richer and more interesting than Leatrice and Sylvia that we tend to tune out the characters and become more absorbed in the women playing them" Hulbert wrote. John Taras' "Francesca da Rimini" which the company wisely left in San Francisco, tried to be profound and poignant but ended up being raunchy and silly. While the 12,000 festival participants were feeling the pinch of tighter security inside the Palais headquarters, life along the Croisette, the beachfront artery of this resort town, appeared to be business as usual. Weller himself still appears to be standing back and looking at it from different angles. When was the last time you looked at a menu and saw penne alla bolognese for $4. 40 or poll o al forno for $5. 60? "To have good dishes with second-quality ingredients, you must be a very, very good chef" says De Mori, "but it's so easy to have good food with good ingredients" And this food is good. -Clifford Antone No one could bring more of a curator's zeal to an art form than Clifford Antone, whose nightclub, Antone's, celebrated its 10th anniversary over the weekend.

Local groups such as the Beat Farmers, El Grupo Sexo, White Boy, Marshes of Glenny and 10-Inch Men have already performed since the concert format started on April 3. "Around 40 you lose your ability to jump" he told Times reporter Roderick Mann in 1983 "Then you must turn to teaching or something else". The Oklahoma singer sounds like the heir apparent to Patsy Cline's Queen of Heartache crown in these songs of lovin, cheatin' and losin What McEntire needs is a greater sense of personality. "Marta just did Mother Ginger" in a local production of "The Nutcracker" "And that's traditionally a man's role" Jiacoletti said "I lost a job. (Prize-winning documentaries have come out of USC recently, but from the broadcasting division of the School of Journalism) There are strong dramatic films on Saturday's program as well, in addition to two animated and two experimental works. The truly criminal part is that Nelson, who has turned in some of the most expressive vocals in all of pop, has become so lax with his singing that he renders even his own songs lifeless.

The most unsettling offering to be found is a three-cut power set from Led Zeppelin. (One has to wonder if these people are capable of happiness) Shakespeare never makes it clear why the Duke surrenders his post to the rigid Angelo (played here by a stern yet remarkably flavorless Tom Atkins) and goes snooping around the town disguised as a beggar monk, meddling in everybody's business and causing, as much as averting, several near disasters. A tall, taciturn man, Connell has spent four years laboring all day, every day of the week When he tried a brief vacation, he was miserable When he slept, he dreamed of his work He was obsessed The outcome, "Son of the Morning Star" the story of Gen. Geldof said he would do whatever is necessary to stop the pirate recordings of Live Aid.

Paul Knotter's "Witch Doctor With Mask" is a wonderfully comical pairing of a hirsute, woven mask with a blurry photograph of someone wearing a similar face-covering. Even more unusual is Dick's good-natured acceptance of his characterization. "This is my first of these, it is very nice" said Zoltan Etek, who was nominated along with Michael Westmoreland for their remarkable makeup work on "Mask" "It makes you feel very special being with all these people" The original idea of the nominees luncheon, as academy president Robert Wise told the crowd, was to create an event where all nominees were recognized as winners. The food is an eclectic hit parade of American and continental favorites that includes enchiladas, trout amandine , Creole-style fish, stuffed fried won ton, fish and chips; for lunch, there is spinach salad, pita sandwiches, pasta primavera and fish steaks Lunch 11:30 a. m-2:30 p. m, Monday-Thursday, 11 a. m-2 p. m Friday; dinner 6-8:30 p. m, Sunday-Thursday, 6-8 p. m Friday Reservations No credit cards Beer and wine Dinner, $15$30.

Jackie Gleason pointed to the unusual number of fine "reproductions" (revivals) seen on Broadway this season, bringing up the question: Why so few originals? Producer Emanuel Azenberg lauded his partner Neil Simon for having created "hundreds of thousands of employment jobs" in the last 25 years, and some in the audience must have thought, "My God, what if Simon hadn't come along" Though not overflowing with program material, producer Cohen didn't have time to put on camera the Tony award for an outstanding resident theater. The Frankfurt case was far more grave, but the dynamic was the same. Special Effects: Pina Bausch may have her faux hippo and Groupe Emile Dubois its caged white turkey but Cloud Gate can boast a wandering flock of exceptionally docile peacocks. Not one first-week review I saw was entirely complimentary, and a few were downright snide. Regaling a young girl with a story of how he foraged for tools as a poor young artist, he gleefully explained, "To get my brushes I pulled hairs out of cats' tails. She is a nice girl when she frolics with her friends, a nice girl when she stabs herself, a nice girl when she goes ever-so-slightly mad, a nice girl when she defies her ghoulish sisters to save the porteur she loves.

And he's not about to change styles now, even though he acknowledges that he could be making considerably more money-and landing a lot more gigs-if he did. Something's going on in Fullerton. This production had absolutely no cuts" The tour proved a sobering experience for Elder. If something is printed in an authorized book, then we assume it's true. He moved from youthful narratives to abstractions of Mondrian-like purity during his student days at UC Berkeley, to figurative works done under Fernand Leger's instruction in Paris and to Expressionistic paintings that he likens to Willem de Kooning's.

Some money also comes from production contracts and related services. It was canceled after only one show, although a second one was aired In trying to regain the A. C. Now, with one Emmy Award for a documentary on child pornography and two more for producing the Barbara Walters specials, the energetic 38-year-old Polson also has found time to turn a documentary about teen-age drug use into a book, and the two of them into a TV movie, "Not My Kid" starring George Segal and Stockard Channing, coming up Tuesday night on CBS. The menu, the same at lunch and dinner, does contain several hot seafood and chicken specialties but the bulk of it really does feel like luncheon food.

It aired on Saturday nights at, I think, 10:30, which made it the late, late show-customarily in those days British television had said its prayers and played "God Save the Queen" before American anchor types had cleared their throats for film at 11. San Francisco rock impresario Bill Graham, producing the concert here, predicted that sales of the $13 Live Aid T-shirts should raise $500,000 alone. Yamamoto, who is 37, worked for several years at 20th Century-Fox in Hollywood. . "There's nothing like it to make you feel like a piece of meat" To be in Newman's inner circle for a weekend is to observe some very unattractive behavior on the perimeter. After the war she wants two things from life: laughter and a sense of purpose. Wrapping Pont Neuf will continue the tradition of its successive metamorphoses by presenting a new sculptural dimension and in becoming, for a few days, a work of art itself.

Maureen File, director of programming and community affairs at Dimension cable, said that "Finding Home" which was produced in conjunction with South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, will be shown on June 14 at 7:30 p. m and June 16 at 6 p. m on Dimension Cable Channel 3. When actress Nancy Parsons reported to the set this time, the film-makers were shocked. Bennett, David Davis, Robert Lee Drumheiler, Jacques Bradette, "Evergreen" NBC Vic Symonds, Alan Pickford, "The Jewel in the Crown" PBS. The first was to return to Los Angeles (he grew up here, and was graduated from USC before he went to Germany in 1961; the second was to head an opera company" Now, Holt says, he has had a change of heart.

But playing in a revue was a bit like playing naked-no characterization, no makeup, no masks, no impersonations to hide behind. They're trying to blot out the commotion of film crews, the lights and the sounds as they prepare for a segment in Scene 139: a crucial, emotional jailhouse confrontation in which the accused murderer's mother, who is black, pleads with the murder victim's mother, who is white, for the life of her son, Bigger The framework of "Native Son" is race. But as Torcellini tells it, performing in "Cats" is even more of a challenge "It's the hardest thing I've ever done by far" he said "There's a lot of ballet in it. "We've also won some pretty terrific awards this year-among them, the top Disneyland (service) award, the three (Los Angeles area) Emmys. If we've lost faith in Detroit, we can still boast that Broadway builds the biggest and best musicals in the world. " 'Masterpiece' is an overused term" says Lumet, who co-hosted a tribute for Kurosawa following "Ran's" New York Film Festival premiere "But I don't think it's overused here. It doesn't matter that it's classy mainstream pop/rock and one of the year's better singles.

You might, while casually heading for the entrance itself, notice peripherally one or two small statues facing dead television sets-surely the work of a campus prankster. It is a sweet mime escapade in which the stage is strewn with decorous corpses and entangled with 16 characters, all of whom happen to bear the name Smith , or a reasonable variation thereof Then comes the quasi-ballet itself. I'd won a British Film Academy award for the film and that focused attention on me at a time when I just couldn't cope. She had small parts in "Star 80" and "Ghoulies" and has two new films awaiting release"Road Trip" directed by Steve Carver, and "Summer Release" directed by Terry Carr. Nothing like an all-American movie like, say, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to make a body feel proud of Hollywood and American cinema, right? A true Yankee production. Ruffin was dabbling in recording but was more interested in raising horses on his farm. The concert's dominant tone of rhythm 'n' relevance was set with the opening song, a lilting, Caribbean-flavored rendition of Bob Dylan's poignant "Forever Young" Naturally, at the end of the performance he got around to his mid'50s hits, "Banana Boat (Day-O" and the still-touching "Jamaica Farewell" in which he enlisted the willing participation of the 8,000 fans on hand for a massive sing-along.

In the accompanying book, they have reached back to the 12th Century to define the roots of song itself; observed the changes wrought by the developing technology of radio, recordings, film and television; analyzed six decades worth of transformations within the idiom; restated the contributions of black culture all the way back to Stephen Foster and minstrel shows; shown how popular song mirrored advances in literature, architecture and art, as well as changes in language and social values; and examined the parallel progressions in writing and singing. "I saw all my mother's old films on television" said Hargitay the other day "And my father always spoke a lot about her But I remember almost nothing he said. Every time he turns around there's another guitar whiz threatening to take over his title as the top hard-rock/heavy-metal guitarist of the '80s. In a current show of recent wall pieces, cubes and houses, that element of arbitrariness is submerged by virtuosity. In fact, Maness also played on the Byrds' landmark "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album in 1968 when country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons joined the group. Her promotion was announced Monday by Brandon Stoddard, ABC Entertainment president. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is transmitted through body fluids and destroys the body's immune system.

There are a few lame ones on the already aired premiere being rerun Tuesday and Saturday. "2 on the Town" host Melody Rogers received two Emmy nominations, as best performer and as best host-a category in which she won last year, along with co-host Steve Edwards. If anything, the maestro seems a bit bemused by all the fuss There is no narrator. Suddenly, a spotlight found Stoltzman in the lower level of boxes, and followed him as he bobbed and weaved among the crowd, playing a brief, witty Entrata by William McKinley-the composer, not the President. Yet in another way, the prize I received from Soupy-an autographed copy of his album, "Still Soupy After All These Years-is just as meaningful I accept as it was intended From one Soupy to another. . This is a surprise, for chef Joachim Splichal is one of the stars in the Los Angeles food firmament. and arts organizations not previously funded by COMBO" in preparing the grant proposal.

"My favorite audiences are the ones in New York, on 42nd Street. From the 18th-Century portraiture of John Singleton Copley to the mid-1970s photo-realism of Richard Estes, the exhibit touches just about every major and minor movement in this country's art history. Speaking for the festival board, Griem warned that if the city fails to agree to lower the rent-primarily by cutting the city's share of gross gate receipts from the current 17. 5% to the festival-proposed 10-the festival would consider shutting down in 1990, when the current 18-year lease expires. Only two members established substantial careers on stage and television after the series: Huntz Hall, who is still active as a star on the dinner-playhouse circuit, and Gabriel Dell, who has performed major roles on Broadway in "Luv" and other works. Suddenly, with the entry of the two harlots, suing for possession of the infant each claims to be hers, the dignified oratorio becomes a piece of lively theater: Each of the women, the one tenderly solicitous (soprano Jean Rogers, the other scheming and hypocritical (mezzo Della Jones, defined with cunning musical strokes and theatrical acumen that would do honor to a Mozart or a Verdi. Solomon's passionate, adoring Queen (soprano Nancy Argenta) is likewise a character of flesh and blood, whereas the Queen of Sheba (soprano Barbara Hendricks, who represents an admiring world paying tribute to the wealth and power of Solomon/George II rather than a royal dalliance, returns us to the symbolic world of Act I and the pomp of the Georgian court.