ROBYN McGEE Long Beach We are still in the dark ages sexually. Reiner's training was in the theater, which means he has an actor's full-bodied sense about how to shade an expression. Screenplay Neal Israel & Pat Proft, Peter Torokvei; story by Israel & Proft Camera Vilmos Zsigmond Music Thomas Newman Production designer Josan F Russo Associate producer Sam Crespi-Horowitz Second-unit camera Frederick Elmes Sound design George Budd Special effects coordinator Philip C Cory Stunt coordinator Ed Ulrich Laser technology designer Ron Cobb Film editor Richard Chew. The plot was really 'It Happened One Night' with the given that men would get married to men in the '30s, that it was socially acceptable and respectable. The theater is to be reopened as an arts center in about 14 months.

Even such talented folks as George Segal and Claes Oldenburg come to contribute to a sense of franchised homogeneity when encountered in every museum fur modernekunst in Deutsch-bloody-land. "I find it hard to communicate it sometimes, to relate what I want to see and, not only that, to get what I want to see That's the craft That's why I'm a beginner. If you are the mob doody in "Our Family Honor" you wait until your victims are together in a deserted garage and then shrewdly drive your car at them, shooting at them from a distance, out of the window of your speeding car, making sure the cop can identify you if you don't kill him (and of course you don't. Then, two months after the disastrous debut of "Monsignor" Isaacs got the rights back.

All evidence suggests that Lancaster's swimmer had been a self-absorbed, insensitive WASP heel; yet as he heads deeper into his maze, the more sympathy he evokes. Factor in beefy bassist Cronos' raspy vocals-which stick out like a sore throat-and you have supremely ugly metal that just doesn't get any heavier. . Disconnected from discernible motivation or context, this kind of dancing comes across as rant: an overload of feeling without a definitive artistic shape. It is performed to showcase the diminishing but hopefully glamorous glories of a Sills or a Sutherland or, at the very least, an Evelyn Lear. And with an opening weekend box-office take of more than $7 million, "Gung Ho" looks as if it may go over the fence too. Laced with medieval magic, it has stalwart knights and tremulously fine ladies, heavy-hoofed horses who might have clattered straight out of German fairy tales and broadswords so heavy you or I could never heft them Most of all, it is a bold, beautiful, marvelous vision "Ladyhawke's" makers have been canny.

Music (provided by Arranger Gregg Johnson, Rob Miller and Larry Stein) and lyrics by Miyamoto and Seton conveyed the message that despite diversity we can live together There were no cliches It was all fresh and new. A ridiculous, outrageous, yet at times surprisingly engaging LP Who would expect to find Wallace's tenor sax hysteria, Dr. In fact, one of the band's problems was that it never had a lead singer until 1979, when it finally hired James (J. T) Taylor. Mavis and Emil (Terri Treas and Josh Taylor, Hollywood megastars on vacation, get word that their old comrade Edward (Joseph Gallison) is living nearby. Flawless in its performances, impeccable in its sense of period and marred only by an overly insistent score, "Maria Chapdelaine" is a celebration of French-Canadian culture by one of its most esteemed film makers. Friday and Saturday at the Forum Theatre, 650 Laguna Canyon Road).

Man Ray, who sought to reveal "the shapes in one's head" used rayography, overdevelopment, over-enlargement and photograms to get the effects he wanted "I do not photograph nature" he said " I photograph my fantasy. Producer Earl Greenburg said ratings were strong in some markets but are "irrelevant" this time of year at any rate. In the spring of 1960 Murphy had gone down to the local Democratic club to volunteer several nights a week. The Independence Day fete was to have included a salute to Vietnam veterans. 10, an exhibit of Feuerabendt-Steinberg's "Cards" a series of oversized greeting cards with handmade envelopes, will be featured. You can't break the rhythm-if the first act doesn't come in at 1:04, you're in trouble; 1:06 is a problem. Silver got PBS' "American Playhouse" to back development and hired Wesley and Jerrold Freedman, who has worked mostly in televison, as director "Native Son" was originally slated for TV.

A different matter, though, is the championship series matching the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics. Soprano Jeannine Altmeyer will sing her first Bayreuth Bruennhilde this summer. Figueroa St, (213) 624-1800; you can read the sign from at least a block away Getting to it, however, is another matter. "I know that (Lindsay's) doing a lot of careful investigating. Having her materialize as she was in the 1940s, as Lemmon returns to the blue-and-yellow tiled Galleria where they courted, is an ill-chosen idea. "There are two reasons for the switch: one is money, the other is financial" chuckled Alan Resnick, district manager for Landmark Theatres, the Santa Monica-based chain that operates the Balboa as well as the Nuart, Vista and Rialto repertory theaters in Los Angeles.

I never went back to that class, though I felt I needed help with my work, and the companionship of other women" The year before, Hunt had presented the same piece in a graduate workshop with Anais Nin, sponsored by International College. "It stays in the pigeonhole" he says, "with the pigeon" PLOTTING ON: Stanley Kramer is out as director of "The Conspiracy" a film about an assassination plot against Pope John Paul I that is to begin shooting in Yugoslavia in February. It has been axed because of low ratings, a CBS spokesman said Friday Its last broadcast is scheduled for Oct 15. -Truman's buzzing the White House, while his wife and daughter stood on the roof "It's kind of your private turf" Reagan said of the jet " It's a better office than any I have.

Both gifts were given in memory of the late Lorser Feitelson, an artist, collector, scholar and teacher who was very active in the art community of Southern California. The first half is pure-and dexterous-sitcom: funny, solidly rooted in character and reality. Davrath's second volume contains 10 French folk songs also arranged by Canteloube, an intelligent filler; Te Kanawa sings Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 for soprano and cello The cellist? None other than Lynn Harrell. . In the United States, he said, somebody evolved the "bizarre notion" that plays were written for critical approval. It was the first time the former Miss Universe had seen the video footage of her first (and, she hoped, last) up-close and personal contact with the great whites. And if that pony girl in the chorus of "Sweet Charity" at the Ahmanson looks disconcertingly familiar, that will be model Carol Alt, who has made hot summer days hotter, or at least more interesting, with her poses in the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated The Civic Light Opera musical opens Friday. . Charles Moed, a USA for Africa official who returned two weeks ago from a six-week inspection tour of USA for Africa projects in the Sudan and Ethiopia, pointed out that the foundation would receive just as much or more criticism if it spent the "We Are the World" money fast but ineffectively.

It's the Mary Magdalene story again, still potent enough to bring tears to the susceptible, including me, when cued by the show's big song, "Memory" This is a serious swipe from Puccini on Webber's part and quite a brilliant one. It's a way of getting others involved as well; volunteers are absolutely crucial to the operations of this foundation" Formed last summer, the AIDS Services Foundation is an Orange County organization directed by Steve Peskind and Randy Pesqueira. Hooray and whoopie! There'll be a sequel to "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre! Filming on "2" begins in four weeks in Austin, Tex Tobe Hooper (again) directs, from a screenplay by L. M Kit Carson, for Cannon Pics. As Lachman tells it, Tartikoff, while puttering around the house, came up with the idea to merge the shows, thereby de-emphasizing Spencer's teen-oriented escapades and at the same time bringing back the lovable coots from "Not in Front of the Kids" Lowe was replaced by Ross Harris, who had a major role in the film "Testament" The show also took on Harold Gould and Frances Sternhagen as Spencer's grandparents and dropped Ronny Cox as Spencer's dad Mimi Kennedy remains as his mother, Doris. She recalled knocking on studio doors, screen-testing everywhere, but being told "your nose is too big.

Sacking has largely ceased in this decade, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of the Mimbres Foundation, a preservation organization spearheaded by veteran Los Angeles artist Tony Berlant, who is also credited as the inspiration behind the present exhibition The cultural community owes Berlant a rather deep bow. Then every day at 4 o'clock I'd take it down because they had basketball games in the gym, and the art would have been mashed by the jocks. She went on the air without touching home base and contradicted an earlier report by Keene that the westbound San Bernardino Freeway was blocked by an accident Keene cringed "Oooh, don't say that , Donna" he said. That Ashkenazy remains a neophyte conductor is tellingly evidenced in Dvorak's Cello Concerto (London 410 144-1.

Here figural imagery fuses hallucinations in and out of geometric design. The Hags, with its outrageous approach, might find it easier to win audiences in more artistically liberal areas such as New York or San Francisco But Dead prefers working in Orange County. Even the image of Sihanouk as a dangerous innocent is itself dangerous Theater is, in its way, as manipulative as politics. There's so much horrible violence in the reality all around us that if you can't weave a web of mystery and glamour to protect you from all this horrible reality. Appearing as heavies are Bill Brinsfield, as a citizen, and Nat Modica, as the school board's lawyer. The Spring Membership Appeal will be aired on Channel 50 between Saturday and March 16.

Each piece was laid carefully onto celadon plates, along with a little square of baked egg with crabmeat, and then handed across the counter. There are others who go for burgers loaded with stuff that doesn't belong there, such as those who rave about the Rolls-Royce Burger at Kathy Gallagher's-an overwrought contraption of hamburger patty, chili, bacon, cheese and heaven knows what else. When was the last time we heard George Segal complain of his difficulties in overcoming prejudices against Plaster of Paris art? The truth is that quality overcomes materials. Hargreaves, a proper Victorian if ever there was one, arrives on the Berengaria accompanied by her wistful, dependent young companion (Nicola Cowper, only to attract a gaggle of reporters and photographers that would be the envy of a movie star.