Only one other film, "The Turning Point" in 1977, was shut out despite garnering 11 nominations. "This was a movie I couldn't get to talk about for nearly 10 years; now, I've got $15 million to make it" Gilliam said that if at any time one of the studio heads suggested participating in the creation of "Brazil" beyond their investments, he wouldn't have made it. Officially, he's come for drugs, but maybe he hopes that Sherri will get interested again. Laguna Beach's Tavern by the Sea is the veteran among the three, having featured changing art shows for about two years. Keech, who does desserts for both Spago and Chinois on Main, is constantly innovating to meet the demands of her customers. Hollywood is many different things, and we try to show a side of it that isn't seen too often" The trashy gossip factor is not the only novelty Hollywood Tours has up its sleeve. As McCall sets tiny pictographic images and symbols adrift on vast pastel expanses suggesting sky or water, he loses them in untethered aspirations (Simard/Halm Gallery, 8006 Melrose Ave, to June 8).
"But we feel it was a fun show and that, in 1985, nothing happened that would make the country upset" "Donahue" is broadcast live to 100 stations, is carried on a same-day, tape-delayed basis on 78 other stations and is telecast the next day or thereafter by 39 other stations. . It's full-blooded and juicy" And said the BBC's Cotton, admiringly: "I don't know if we could ever make a 'Dallas' " Is peace really at hand? The Thames acquisition of "Dallas" has raised speculation that Thames will also try to wrest the popular "Dynasty" (pronounced "Dihnasty" here) from the BBC when its contract with Metromedia lapses "Definitely not" promised Cullimore. In 1984, Ablah installed 25 Moore bronzes in all five boroughs of New York City. Even though "Flashpoint" and "Heaven Help Us" did poorly at the box office, both are selling well on videotape. Hunt loves the Midnight Star, where she has built a ramp behind the bar which makes her the physical equal of the place's raggle-taggle clientele-since she's already their calm superior, it seems only fitting. That director Joan Freeman does it with such skill makes this movie seem all the more repugnant A feature debut could scarcely be more cynical.
After being invited by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee to bid on the movie, after getting 20th Century Fox to pay the $1-million rights fee and after spending more than two years preparing to cover it, Greenspan found himself standing on the track alone. She will open an exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art in July. She didn't write movie criticism until she was 35, but did live a "checkered bohemian life" working as a seamstress and a cook. must have sensed the album was a lost cause from the beginning because there were almost no ads or other evidence of even a token promotional campaign The industry reaction after "Non Fiction: We told you so No one wants to deal with serious matters in pop anymore "Nebraska" didn't help matters. Tuesday: Ron Boussom struts his stuff in George Kelly's "The Show-Off" at South Coast Repertory Martin Landau takes on "Dracula" at Royce Hall. Small crowds of nascent artists sat or stood along the hallways, looking over lines, poring over scores, biting nails.
In practice, however, the show is about the current state of American politics, cultural predilections and museum practice. He seems to have fun staging the BMX races-which take place on a twisty, trap-laden small-town obstacle course called Helltrack, and supposedly pit the country's top BMX specialists against one another (along with one determined home owner. And I don't dare mis-spend any more of it" He asked to be released from his contract. The larger-than-life-size portraits went public last weekend when an exhibition of Avedon's six-year project, "In the American West" opened at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum, which commissioned the work. This week he proved himself a first-rate conductor of second-rate music. . Accompanying the Moyer promo was unidentified, seemingly live footage of anti-abortion protesters that left the impression that there was some sort of hot current protest occurring. Recently in New York, Toback saw one of the movie's rare showings on TV The 91-minute film was chopped to 70 minutes "It wasn't a bad censoring job" he said "If I had to cut 21 minutes out, I'd do it that way Of course, I don't want to see anything cut out.
The present extravaganza, however, reflects recent scholarly concerns with Caravaggio's immediate predecessors and contemporaries in Italy. These productions received their premieres Wednesday night at the Capitol Theatre on the first program of the 1985-86 Ballet West season. Two pillars of Los Angeles' performing-arts establishment are without their key managers and may not have full-time day-to-day leadership in place for weeks or even months. There is much that is lovely-the ability to sustain soft tones, for instance, in the familiar and demanding "Sigh, sedges, sigh-in the 1975 program. Over the years, he's suggested various songs to such artists as Elvin Bishop, the J Geils Band, Bonnie Raitt and Peter Wolf. According to industry gossip, he was the first choice of ABC Sports this year to replace Don Meredith in the broadcast booth for "Monday Night Football" which makes its preseason debut this very next Monday at 6 p. m.
LONDON — A letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to the woman identified by recent scholarship as his mysterious "Immortal Beloved" sold for the equivalent of $67,100, Sotheby's auction house said. It was learned this week that McCormick, a heavily recruited former director of the Chicago Film Festival, and Wlaschin, a former programmer with the London and Chicago festivals, were preparing for a scaled-down Filmex to begin March 14, but it was scrubbed by the board at the urging of Jerry Weintraub, the board chairman. But always, he went on, "there remained in the back of a youthful mind the suspicion that I might be wrong" The war proved that he was right to suspect he was wrong. Des Barres said the Concert That Counts would help end the myth that drugs and rock and roll are synonymous-a situation Des Barres called "the Keith Richards syndrome. It was a far cry from Madonna and Nancy Reagan, but the long-awaited talent lineup of the "Concert That Counts" was revealed to the press Thursday. It was all live and spontaneous and fun, and that was all that mattered The attention to TV stars past was a grand idea.
Three 1975 drawings provide black- and-white references for six new works that blossom in color and transform what was probably a rather bleak view into hushed beauty. In all good conscience, I feel free to say this much: To be an effective international film juror, I would suggest studying chess from Anatoly Karpov; knowing a minimum of three languages; learning T'ai Chi, and in chain-smoking juries like ours, studying breath-holding from "The Philadelphia Attraction" Beyond that I can say only, ninch. . I saw that I was a guinea pig: I was the first thing the school officials were allowing audiences to integrate for. Verdi's "Otello" will open the season, in the Pavilion of the Music Center, Oct 7, with subsequent performances scheduled Oct 10 and 12 Also at the Music Center are Strauss' "Salome" (Oct 9, 13 and 18) and Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" (Oct 8, 11 and 14.
And it was silly to put Gothic arches on those rolling platforms, making them look like Anglican tea carts. Both films tell their simple, even innocent stories with a visual sophistication that's startling in its contrast to such material. Her back at the V of her kimono is flawless, and as the younger one gazes at its luminous surface she is moved to put her cheek against it. On a good night he could conceive of an hour's worth of music, rather than just the next chorus.
And, as one delay followed another, a few developers came forward expressing interest in restoring the complex. Finally, in 1981, Franklin Life reached an agreement to sell the complex and adjoining site for $6. 3 million to the development firm of Ratkovich, Bowers & Perez, which under direction of Wayne Ratkovich had recently completed the successful and sensitive renovation of the Oviatt Building downtown. "In the first couple of months, I was already performing, but I had quite a bit of coordination because I was a wrestler and I played football and tennis What I didn't have was feet and technique. It is hopelessly sold out for an evening of new music, sponsored by the New Music Group of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Repeat: new music. So we see Marilyn standing astride a subway grating, dress whooshing up "The Seven Year Itch; Carol Burnett in cleaning-lady drag, Fred Astaire in top hat and tails, Gene Kelly swinging from a lamppost a la "Singing in the Rain" Like Humel figures and Toby mugs, this stuff appeals to the collector's "get the complete set" mentality. "The Sculpture of India, 3000 BC-1300 AD" (at the East Building of the National Gallery to Sept 2) is elegantly aristocratic. This anti-nuke lineup boasts Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Longo, Claes Oldenburg, Red Grooms, Joan Brown, Keith Haring and John Baldessari, to name a few. The second is "War and Remembrance" novelist Herman Wouk's sequel to "Winds" on which Curtis once again will serve as producer and director.
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers return to the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach on Sept 21. was born when his mother was the biggest TV star in the world. Which company wins the smaller-is-better contest by a silly millimeter doesn't matter as much as the growing practicality of video cameras and "camcorders" for the average consumer. He has assumed a role that transcends the White House, the Oval Office and party politics He has donned a mantle more awesome than any other He has become America's anchorman.
In addition to his teaching duties-including private instruction to 10 graduate students in composition-the Italian composer will complete at least two works involving student musicians and the electro-acoustic and video facilities at the Valencia conservatory. The residents also argued that the project would clog the narrow hillside street with traffic, add students to already crowded schools and prompt intensive development in the neighborhood bordering Elysian Park. Eighteen months ago, Roesler and Thomas negotiated a deal with the heirs for the exclusive right to sell manufacturers on the idea of using Dean's name and likeness. Her technique was hardly the most reliable to be encountered on the stage of the Royal Ballet. He and Wally George are the same-they are both tools of the commercial rock scene. It's easier to identify the sources of Fishbone's volatile vaudeville, starting with the original funk ringmaster, George Clinton.
The "We Are the World" recording session last January introduced us to the age of Pop as Benefactor. That's why I'm so pleased to be doing this play (Tom Stoppard's Broadway hit "The Real Thing) in Seattle It opened last month "I'm loving it" she said. Director George Cosmatos "The Cassandra Crossing) marshals these forces with the gusto of a Westmoreland, the warmth of a Patton, the wit of a Zhukov But "Rambo" is a movie with absolutely no inner life It's a series of exhortations punctuated by bomb bursts. Thomas' background is as a painter with an interest in formal issues, hence the compositional strength of his color photographs. Pay-per-view, incidentally, is not entirely new: The Dodgers experimented with a coin-box regulating viewership of home games shortly after moving to Los Angeles in the '50s-Scrambling: An estimated 1 million satellite dishes now are in operation, bypassing cable operators to bring pay and other channels into the home. Their teacher, full of platitudes about progress and humanity, gives them a friendly send-off The kids don't buy it for a second.