OAKLAND — As June Gutfleisch, outgoing director of the California Confederation of the Arts, opened the organization's 10th annual convention here, she inadvertently sounded the real keynote of the occasion. Harris Laskawy and Christopher Murney are as loathsome a landlord and cabbie, respectively, as you're ever likely to have the misfortune of meeting. On this first outing by his Brass Fantasy band (eight horns plus drummer Philip Wilson, the emphasis falls on exploring the textural properties and tonal colors of the all-brass format, with the flaring trumpets and whooping trombones near the end of "Lament" and the ominous, low-pitched opening to "Nonet" the most noteworthy. That means action "Cobra" "Raw Deal, sci-fi and horror "The Fly, comedy "Legal Eagles, teen tales "Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and teen idols (like Prince in "Under the Cherry Moon There're more than 125 films scheduled A compilation by Pat H Broeske. Anyone who was not a practicing ascetic in the '70s should have no trouble recognizing the character of Mary Brenner, a former fashion writer and divorcee. But it's safe to assume that most Americans don't see that contradiction. The simplest theory explaining the media mix of rock, roll and charity bypasses the topic of politics altogether. Can she have the same impact on prime time? "I've had the prime-time commitment for about a year" Monty says, acknowledging that ABC backed her before Capital Cities took over the network.
Earlier in the day, the Young Conservatory was well represented-with an abbreviated version of its production of Delia Ephron's amusing expose of the vagaries of childhood, "How to Eat Like a Child" directed by Diane Doyle. Julia Child says that sauces are the "splendor and glory of French cooking" so caveat emptor if you wish for a transcendent meal The desserts, on the other hand, are stratospherically good. The West Coast premieres are Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol's "Ghetto" currently being performed at the Chicago International Theatre Festival by an Israeli company-and Mark Harelik's "The Immigrant: a Hamilton County Album" presented in association with the Denver Center Theatre Company and announced here last week as the season opener "The Immigrant" (Aug. Dressed entirely in beige, with dark glasses and hair pulled back into a loose ponytail, she strode inside, greeting Gordon Thompson (who plays Adam) with a kiss.
Particularly embarrassing are Stern's cerebral genuflections to his former professor at Yale University, historian Vincent Scully, and to his professional patron Philip Johnson. This is true, I believe, because there is a chance to give kids some understanding and guidance while they are still young and impressionable, and before they have fixed their ideas in stone-or destroyed their ideas by being stoned" But that doesn't mean Scott wants to stay in Saturday morning television forever. "On strictly a pop scale, she is far from the stature of Chrissie Hynde or Laurie Anderson, but her personality and ambition make her infinitely more interesting than a Pat Benatar. Jankowski seems every bit as devoted to the integrity of CBS as a medium of news and information as either Paley or Stanton. Some are more vivid than others and, in fairness, their variety, the lilting tempo set by director Dennis Romer and the fine work of the actresses-especially Chinn and Combs who manage to inhabit the remotest corners of their characters, however different-make this show pleasant, if not stirring. "This guy liked the way I looked and he liked my name (his surname is Forte" Fabian explained "He didn't chose me because I was a great singer "I was happy to go along with it My family needed money.
17 at the Old Globe Theatre, pianist Andre LaPlante April 11 at Sherwood Hall, and guitarist Pepe Romero May 19 at Sherwood Hall. Jack Welpott's beautiful, melancholic woman seem the very models for an entire generation of femmes fatales. One shows esoteric singer Kate Bush trying harder than ever to match her complex music with compelling visuals, while the other finds some new hotshots not trying very hard at all-on purpose. I like Prince as a person and I think he's a nice stylist, but he's not really a singer to me. If you think about it, it (the lack of women pianists) can't possibly mean that there aren't any of us who can communicate" End of chagrin. On what seems to be a perpetual, brilliant sunny spring day in episode after episode, we are taken on a marvelous visual tour from sea to shining sea, albeit with the East Coast and New York City in particular sharp focus. For a fee, some businesses will duplicate European tapes to VHS or Beta-format tape; check under Video Production Services in the Yellow Pages. .
This is the long-lost "fourth" Velvet album that stayed unreleased for 15 years, presumably because it was ahead of its time It still is. Just how surely these kids' feet were placed on their future paths became all too clear. Negotiators were working in Sacramento Tuesday to decide the fate of the California Lottery's "Big Spin" weekly television program. Kathleen Hegierski offers a vivacious Olga hardly discomfited by the awkward descending phrases Lisa Turetsky introduces a hearty Mme. Modern technology may soon make possible what was only theoretically feasible during the Vietnam War-live telecasts of battles in which conventional weapons are used "We're not too far from that now" says retired Maj Gen Winant Sidle, Gen William C. It also supposes little and provides intimations of musical evolution that are a far cry from anything so cogent as a history. The small storefront has been beautifully designed by David Kellen and Josh Schweitzer (who are also responsible for Rockenwagner, Border Grill and City Restaurant.
She blackmails him into agreeing to put her out of her misery as a lonely, aging and impoverished woman. I was at the University of Buffalo at a good time, when Gregory Corso and John Barth were there. You have to broaden out your experience and what you see of the experience of other people into something perhaps more dramatic or more accessible. There are a few deft moments of comment: The black reform mayor in 1985 was the "colored" soda jerk 30 years earlier, and may have been pushed into success by one chance remark from Marty.
Caras may anticipate a specific image, or act spontaneously on what he sees "There's no method in that respect. Yet "Letters From Marusia" also with echoes of Peckinpah and Leone (and even, it must be admitted, Jodorowsky, is a work of intuition, boldly stylized but never self-consciously derivative. Many films from smaller companies will be relegated to the drive-in circuit or a quickie week at the minitheater at the local mall. Peter Sellars enters his spacious but windowless Kennedy Center office, late from a lunch, looking like a life-size bowling pin.
The painful shedding of youth is dealt with in two very different dramas on TV tonight. However, getting their shows' gritty realism in sex, language and violence approved by the network censors, some of them say, is tantamount to open warfare"It's a terrible war too" said Bochco, easing back in a brand-new couch in his office on the 20th Century Fox lot. The advertisers' association represents both TV and radio advertisers, and all the major advertising agencies, totaling 180 companies in all. . He then danced with an impressive list of companies from both camps, frequently cast in the role of the outcast-rapist, lunatic, drunk. Stepping onstage at the end of the more than two-hour program to acknowledge a sustained standing ovation and looking more radiant than ever, Taylor, 54, said spiritedly: "I hope you're not bored I hate to see myself on screen, so I've been dying. The biggest one in some seasons is "Song & Dance" at the Royale.
Don't look for any world-shaking innovations either in the solos or the arrangements; nevertheless, as an example of present day big-band jazz with strong links to the past, it's an invigorating set, with bristling work by Gary Smulyan on baritone sax, Gary Pribek on tenor and a rhythm section that cooks with the help of the pianist Jim McNeely and the bassist Dennis Irwin. And although it is dark and suspenseful, "The Journey of Natty Gann" is not incomprehensible to young viewers, as I thought "The Black Cauldron" was likely to be, nor nearly so unpleasantly threatening to children as some aspects of "Return to Oz" obviously were. Getting Sam to simmer down and keep his emotions in check is this album's major accomplishment. . The artists fairly wallow in paint, thus distinguishing themselves from the Keith Haring variety of American painters, who uses the brush as a drawing implement and canvas as posterboard. In most performances of "Coppelia" Swanilda and Franz are silly, endearing lovers. Several months ago, Gordon, who will be 50 in March, was advised by doctors that his heart was ailing and that he should have bypass surgery.
"You Are What You Eat" MGM/UA $29. 95 Salesmanship thrives in the home-video market This is a "video companion" to "Dr. His largest works like "Cheryl aus Baltimore" are dark-toned mixtures of old Die Bruecke iconography with Abstract Expressionist scale and Cubist architecture. In film after film, he counseled an acceptance of one's lot in life. The most prominent AIDS play in town, "The Normal Heart" may have gone overboard in emphasizing the political dimension of the disease. There was Richard Gere doing "King David" as The Loin Ranger. "Possibly many more people think I'm Whitney, but they don't come up to me and ask for an autograph-Whitney's autograph I remember at the Grammys, people thought I was Whitney.
Alan Barker conducted a solid pick-up orchestra sensitively in all of the above. IMPERFECTIONS IT'S ALL TENTATIVE This listing isn't intended to be definitive. I think (the July 4 date) is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" The matter should be sorted out this week. The duo's first album of 13 songs is slated for release by the end of this month, Nixon said, and will consist mostly of originals styled after the music of blues greats like Hooker and Wolf, but mongrelized with latter-day urban awareness and a healthy dose of humor. The Sawdust board has even won the ultimate acceptance: Its members have been asked to meet regularly with the other festival boards to deal with such problems as the massive traffic jams on the Canyon road But things weren't always this cozy. "With all the advances in synthesizers, people are now talking about a 100% duplication of acoustical instruments within a few years" Polisi said. The antiphony of Vivaldi's Beatus Vir setting for double chorus and orchestra was nicely done, though Hill had trouble starting movements evenly.