Perhaps the fact that these emotions aren't what an audience would normally expect to experience is what makes Schoenberg something of a difficult listen. Philip Skinner's Don Giovanni was an ingratiating smoothie, both vocally and gesturally; not at all a diabolical plunderer of flesh, Skinner's recreation resembled rather a romantic gambler on a roll too good to stop. Fresh from a "restful-nonetheless, working-Caribbean cruise, the entertainer returns to Las Vegas for a 12-week run starting March 10 at the Four Queens. But writing in 1939 it's possible that O'Neill was also thinking about another master salesman named Hitler and the mischief that his pipe dream was about to do.

You feel there are a lot more people out there supporting us" The best-known participant in "Inspirations" is former star skier Jill Kinmont Boothe, whose life after becoming paralyzed in a 1955 ski-race accident was chronicled in the movie "The Other Side of the Mountain" A teacher living in Bishop, Boothe was one of eight recipients of awards for excellence given by Soroptomist International of Brea, co-sponsor of the Brea exhibit. One approaches a show of new work by an acknowledged Los Angeles master with about equal parts anticipation and trepidation. What comes out of the kitchen is the same eclectic blend that chefs Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken perfected at the Cafe. In an instant we understand what has destroyed this family, how the rebuking child will never stay buried, and how they're tormented under something as close to a curse as the 20th Century can provide. Van Dyck (1599-1641) painted "Andromeda" in England, near the end of his life. Frank Basile leads the three-man band and the breezy Greek chorus (Dale Kristien, Gary Imhoff and Brian Dyer) with verve.

Sir Kenneth MacMillan's "Requiem" which opened the Los Angeles season Tuesday, tried to be novel and pious but, thanks largely to Andrew Lloyd Webber's bubble-gum score, ended up being trite and tawdry. Later, we follow Raoni and other tribal leaders to a meeting with a Brazilian government official, who assures them they will all receive the boundaries to their lands that they have fervently requested and which will remain sacred (but which, in fact, were violated only a year later Dutilleux will be present at 7:45 p. m Friday, before the 8 p. m. Imagine: Two days after arriving in a bizarre environment where they've been placed in a home and given job assignments, the family is sitting around the dinner table, eating blue and green food. But by wearing EGBOK buttons and T-shirts and drinking out of EGBOK coffee mugs, it kept things lighter, more manageable. On a feature film you quantify success with a box office gross. But no evidence exists that ICA has done any relief work in Ethiopia ICA founder L Joe Bass denies any wrongdoing. Wasserman was instrumental in selecting Valenti to represent Hollywood on the Potomac. Wasserman isn't clapping alone.

It's crazy what can happen in 20 years" "Script? What script? There isn't one" a bewildered Warner Bros executive shrugged helplessly. Combining psychological commentary and vignettes performed by actors, it's a guide to developing and nurturing gay relationships. Although she is most assuredly the heroine of the 25-minute film (and the sole person you'd let anywhere near you with scissors,it doesn't make her stay at chez Sassoon any less tormented. "I don't think it is for you" said the waiter when I ordered kung pao squid.

We have all seen how the trends (in support for ethnic arts) have blown hot and cold" said Ben Valenzuela of Artesia, whose works have been shown in Mexico and Oregon, as well as in Southern California. Around 5 that afternoon, my file cabinet went berserk, my tape recorder had a heart attack and the dog ate my typewriter. In the first, she struggled against a seemingly intractable body to walk: torso bent, legs twisted, hands gnarled. The local press is covering visual arts activities more broadly and intensively than ever before. In those days, Madame Mao wielded a big stick in the cultural arena and decreed that all traditional opera was feudal and worthless. In place of the hundreds of traditional scripts, she allowed performances of only eight "model" operas, all based on revolutionary themes.