One big band that did reach my ears, albeit on a tape, was Loose Tubes. In addition, each facility will provide 60 nondancing "supers" or extras, to fill out the stage action. Simultaneously friendly and threatening, "Sequi" (whose name has no significance outside the artist's accounting system) is both familiar and foreign, natural and expressionistic. "I write, and then I read it and if it stinks, I throw the pages away. That seems a trifle inhospitable, but it afforded the Japanese a nice breathing space to develop a distinctive culture out of what had been a tradition dominated by foreign influences, mainly Chinese.

The patented process, called color spectography, is a relatively inexpensive way to color, frame by frame, old black-and-white films and TV programs. Wanna kick off 1985 in style? Have we got a theater for you! The Los Angeles Metropolitan Community Church building at 1050 S Hill St downtown is for sale. Since 1976, Baca and some 250 teen-agers have been painting the massive work during intermittent summers Completion is slated for 1987. The Pointer Sisters, who've practically lived in the Top 10 this past year, are about to go "home" again. The big and obvious question is how ABC will change and how these changes will be apparent to television viewers. There will be three orchestral concerts in Pacific Terrace Theater, Nov 23, Feb 20 and April 3; two pops concerts in the Arena, Feb. So essentially you have to feel they're seeing something very valuable and very good and smart "And Brandwynne loves her work.

But these marriages of convenience between commercialism and wishful thinking should, even in retrospect, be judged for what they did. It was his two Scarlatti sonatas, in fact, that sounded less idiomatic on his guitar than Mozart's Sonata in G, K 283. That produces a howl of a scene that should remind everyone just how wonderfully funny Harper can be. And all through the South, there was only one place where we could stay. Having drawn these characters so well, screenwriters Michele Quill, F Fairfax and Firth let them tail off too abruptly. Instead they selected one without any gunplay, slugfests or squealing tires.

They went, as Lancaster noted, to "every studio, every major independent, every minor independent, every guy with six bucks in his pocket" Said Byck: "Most of the movie companies said, 'Hey, this is really great This is brilliant We just can't make it. Darin died in 1973 at age 37, a victim of his lifelong heart ailment Mercer was 66 when he died three years later. But no flickering phantoms intrude because Tune and Walsh work as freshly, inventively, definitively as Berkeley in the '30s, Kelly and Donen in the '50s, Astaire throughout his career. Those encores were Paganini's Variations on a Theme by Rossini (on One String; David Popper's "Dance of the Elves" and Schubert's Introduction, Theme and Variations, Opus 82, No 2. .

You don't, in short, get a lot more entertainment or information by watching Dire Straits than you do by simply listening to the group's records. A Westwood One spokesman said Friday that the network has already collected $200,000 in sponsor fees for the broadcast and expects to receive another $50,000 before airtime. The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art will celebrate Los Angeles designers and artists with a three-day fund-raiser, called "Fashion Show" and "Five & Dime Clothing Sale" on Friday, Saturday and next Sunday, to benefit the institute and its projects. One of Barcelona's two or three best restaurants (and the only one meriting two stars in the Guide Michelin, with rumors abroad that it may soon get a third, making it the first establishment in Spain to achieve that) is Neichel, an elegantly furnished place, part men's club and part San Francisco modern in look, whose Alsatian-born owner-chef prepares highly sophisticated contemporary French food based on Catalan raw materials-marinated monkfish and green pepper salad, seafood pot-au-feu with sea urchin cream, pigeon stuffed with crabmeat and truffles, and the like. Then there are the city's two top "establishment" restaurants-either one of which might be called the Chasen's or the Ernie's of Barcelona-Reno and Via Veneto. He left me standing in the open doorway, listening to the sudden stirring of wind chimes, and wondering if this is what other writers refer to as "being visited by the muse" I opened the envelope and slowly withdrew its contents Incredibly, it was a special Dec. Judith Blegen, soprano; Florence Quivar, mezzo-soprano; Chicago Symphony and Chorus conducted by James Levine DG 415 137-1 (digital. As a writer, does he feel a need to segregate himself? "I've got two children growing up, 19 and 16 The house is full of animals-and I've got a wife.

11 performance will be the Korean soprano Young Mi Kim; Leona Mitchell, previously announced, will sing the role Oct 8 and 14. The decision to end the show was made Thursday, six days after four CBS-owned television stations, including KCBS-TV in Los Angeles and WCBS-TV in New York, said they were dropping the series because of its low ratings. "I think that the artists in all businesses (movies, television, music) are the same It's the suit people. Artists need studios, nonprofit organizations need exhibition spaces and dealers need galleries. Plays Tuesdays-Saturdays at 8 p. m, Sundays at 7:30 p. m, with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30 Closes March 10 Tickets $15. 50$21. 50 135 N Grand Ave 972-7654. . Apparently exasperated, Wood then tried to slip the guitar around Berry's neck But Berry ducked away before the task was accomplished. The Jazz Aid concert, subject of many reports and denials over the last several months, has been postponed from May 15 to Aug 26.

Left, a younger, unpolished Rick Dees in his "Disco Duck" days in Memphis (circa 1976; right, Dees' "Solid Gold" PR photo presents his current look. . The leader among $79. 95 movies is "Rambo: First Blood, Part II" which has sold 425,000 to distributors and retailers. It also made those risks a significant element of the museum's exhibit, said Tracy Robinson, the show's coordinator. MPAA-rated: R (those under 17 must be accompanied by parent or adult guardian. .

So, video companies usually don't release many major videocassettes. Where our bicycle tire went flat, you might say, was in the idea of symbolizing your movie success by dolling you up in the dark shades, the flashy ring, the chains and the pendants, including those accursed items identified with a social malady that is ruining lives. "As tough as that was-and believe me, it was tough-this is at least twice as tough and-more than that-far more complicated, far bigger, sequences far more difficult to do Massive. "Maybe that shows where the need lies in Tanzania" Belafonte philosophized later. In place of reticent psychosexual innuendo, it dealt in specific definitions.

Watching the play in the 1980s, the viewer can come up with any number of other great communicators since '39 who led their people into disaster. As for Forward, there's a moment at the curtain call, as he launches into the porter's speech from "Macbeth" when he seems on the brink of creating a Shakespearean character Otherwise-oh, dear. Ravel, in the Sheraton Grande Hotel downtown, inaugurates a series of monthly "Grande Evening" dinners Friday with a five-course feast including baby artichoke hearts stuffed with bleu cheese and grilled noisettes of venison, at $40 per person (or $55 with wine La Tasca is new in Encino, specializing in seafood John C. So we'll definitely go out-but there will be no saxophonist, because nobody can replace Wayne. "Not only in my work as a player and conductor, but in everything I do, it is necessary to use one thing in different ways, to adapt one skill for two activities" he explained recently "Kendo, for example, teaches me to swing my arms I can use that as a conductor So many people waste so much time" Not Ohyama.

The County Museum offering looks to be an embarrassment of riches, ranging from the famous to the obscure. What's amazing is how quickly the imagination kicks in, when the senses are convinced and the actors are involved in their roles. They have found them in the area bounded by Island Street, Broadway and 4th and 9th avenues. Forty-two minutes in length, it sprawls purposefully through constant changes of mood and pace. On these centenary programs (noting the 100th anniversary of Liszt's death, titled respectively "Liszt the Poet" "Liszt the Transcriber" and "Liszt the Virtuoso" Wild will perform 32 works by the Hungarian composer/conductor/pianist. And it was as Aida that Price, a youthful 57, bade farewell to opera in general and to the Met in particular Thursday night. A neat trick, like getting a chicken to say how nice it was to have been eaten by a fox.