Most of all, it's fascinating watching the macho men telling the "girls" they know what's best for them. One is the irritable stage manager (Gregory Itzin, a clod who won't brook any interference. Choreographer/director Gary Mascaro has been selected by Elizabeth Swados to choreograph "Beautiful Lady" the new musical by Swados and Paul Schmidt, featuring JoAnne Worley. The trees were felled to make room for a new building on campus. (Paramount Pictures) GETTING EVEN-The city of Dallas is held hostage: If $50 million isn't paid, deadly chemical gasses will be released It's up to industrialist Edward Albert to help save the day Audrey Landers, Joe Don Baker. 4 (Piston; Symphony in C (Bizet; Szell, "From My Life" (Smetana Nov 6, 7, 9-Daniel Lewis, conductor; Michele Zukovsky, clarinet.

We are always a child in the house of our parents, no matter how long we live. He begins by consulting leading scientists and examining the skeletal remains of the animal. Set to Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" Francisco Martinez's "Three Men" began formally, promisingly, with powerful reaches and extensions by the three that developed into muscular lifts and other interaction and, increasingly, into over-literal Christian imagery-a danced passion play, in fact. AND NOW HERE'S THE NEWS: Remember "Born in the U. S. A" the Paul Schrader screenplay whose title became the name of Bruce Springsteen's mega-platinum album? The film, which begins shooting in Chicago late next month, has a new title"Around the Corner to the Light of Day" which is also the film's title song, written by Springsteen himself (we can't wait to see how it's going to fit on theater marquees.

I remember we once met to pitch him a story idea and there he was in Bungalow 9 at the Beverly Hills Hotel, with this whole entourage including an interpreter. The story isn't mocked, but we aren't swept into it, as we were with the RSC's "Nicholas Nickleby" The battle at the barricades suggests a tableau vivant at the Laguna Pageant of the Masters, and the scene where the smudge-faced little waif stops a bullet is as corny as a scene from "Birth of a Nation" Clearly, the aim is to restore us to a state of innocence, to take us back to a time when such effects drew real cheers and tears in the theater. There was every reason to include footage of the Challenger explosion and the reactions of McAuliffe's family and other launch spectators in news coverage on the day of the tragedy. Combined, they create stars, the metaphysical cosmic embodiment of the creative sexual activity of the universe. In a pungent harmonic style, Ginastera produced a thoughtful but attractive virtuoso piece. He sought funding directly from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which, in turn, successfully urged the MacArthur Foundation to underwrite the program with a $450,000 grant.

At least not this year, when, in its 16th annual Awards Ceremonies for Distinguished Achievement in Los Angeles Theatre 1984, it demonstrated that while critics may be well able to comment on theater, they're not unfailingly skilled at mounting it-even at a flossy event such as an awards ceremony. What is interesting is his determination to show that a fat woman can be attractive-and is (in the shape of actress Marianne Sagebrecht, as she overwhelms her man (Eisi Gulp) with food and sex and bubble baths. They were to produce a credible, old-fashioned "Ring" a "Ring" unencumbered with stagy shadows, philosophical murk and modern intellectualism. and it was just something" At that point, the woman became so emotional that she could barely continue They called in from everywhere. In a prepared release, Hammer said: "This new center undoubtedly will make UCLA pre-eminent for Leonardo studies in the United States and perhaps throughout the world" The gift provides for the establishment of the Armand Hammer chair in Leonardo studies Its first holder will be Prof.

Reports were made on everything from prime-time entertainment to the work of the "football overrun committee" But most of the material was pretty dull, predictable, or both-with one unexpected exception: CBS News. None of this affects Xiao very much, for he is badly spoiled by his saintly father and is captivated by the rich kids in his class. According to Bradac, the turnouts, while fluctuating, have been better than expected for this kind of attraction: 65% of overall seating capacity in 1981, 55% in 1982, 60% in 1983, 74% in 1984 and 69% in 1985. These actors aren't doing "Scenes from 'As You Like It' " They are doing the whole play, including some parts that usually get cut. Maybe I'll go for a ride out in the hills A 110 across the hot farm land. Simon Estes, who plays the crippled hero of Catfish Row at Lincoln Center, is fervent, sonorous, musically and dramatically impeccable yet, in the final analysis, curiously remote.

But even some dishes that were perfectly cooked had problems. But examining summer movies on the basis of quality is akin to navel gazing. (Rebecca was a dickens, wasn't she) While the abridged production is nicely diverting, it could have benefited greatly by an English casting Excellent Good Fair Poor. "We're on our way to 6,000 subscriptions" Myerson said, "out of a possible 15,000" Asked to define goals, she hesitated. Catchy pictures accompanied by such declarations as "We Americans have plenty of education" "Here in America, we love machines" and, most pointedly, "We love to talk" clank along like cars on a colorful toy train, leaving viewers to ponder the tortuous line between infantile exuberance and noxious superiority Karen Shaw's social comment takes a subtler turn. Times photographer Jayne Kamin was accosted by a family of pickpockets, but grabbed one and held on until her wallet was returned.

A few of the bits seem to be missing-such as necessary details about the wacko waiter at Roberts' hotel, convinced that the American is CIA and has the power to induct him into it as well Or greater clarity in Scacchi's attempt to frame Roberts. " 'The Night of the Generals' Tanz commits suicide when faced with disgrace and humiliation after being discovered to be a murderer METHOD: Todtentanz Professor, I'm sick about this. While its somewhat bigger siblings are reaping the benefits of increasing audience shares and fund-raising revenues, the 28-year-old Pasadena City College station is still scratching out an existence in the San Gabriel Valley. "42nd Street" plays Tokyo, but what was the last Japanese show you saw? New York needs Broadway even more than the nation does. Freeman, who died after a stroke in May, 1981, "arranged everyone from Bing Crosby to Bobby Darin" said event coordinator Evelyn Freeman Roberts. "We went to an economic summit one time and meantime Lebanon was invaded.

Other times, he will pick a spot for its available light or the presence of arc lamps and he will play graffiti shadow against actual shadow. And that wit-with its veins of human guttiness and perception-creates a core of hope. Faure's radiant Requiem has received within recent months as many entries in the catalogue-all, astonishingly, available on compact disc-as it had in the preceding decade. 595, with Gerard Schwarz and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra twice this week. "It can be a weapon used to humiliate, to degrade, to control. "And when I was originally approached the first year to do this one, I said I'd be interested only if it emphasized independent film" The first festival failed to convince him of its dedication to independents, Redford said, so he dropped out of active participation, although his name continued to be listed as honorary chairman for the next five years. SACRAMENTO — There were moments last week when one might have wondered about the California Arts Council and its friends in the state Legislature: With such good friends, who needs an opposition? Little plagues were stirring in both houses.