"Shy" is a study of the lives of a group of local junior-high instructors: best friends Janine and Nadine (with Nadine seeing herself in Janine "20 years down the road, disappointed with life, not having taken chances she could have; radical Leslie, who has just returned home; home economics teacher Connie-Marie (who's black) and the coach with whom she's having an affair "But Kennedy is there" argued director Devorah Cutler "First of all, he's on Dallas soil-their soil But to them, he's always there, in the background. Were they as successful as the Impressionists? Absolutely not. The New Mexican food includes a 16-ounce Porterhouse for $8. 95, Oysters Rancheros $4. 35, Rocky Mountain veal "oysters" with cole slaw and potatoes, chicken-fried steak $5. 95) and enormous breakfast dishes served in sizzling skillets. As to what form such new programming might take, even the talkative Turner refused to be pinned down following the panel session. Speaking both English and Chinese, he dominates his every scene (as he did as the Neanderthal in "Iceman. Should the plan succeed, it will enable the society, which houses priceless collections of burlesque and vaudeville scripts, among countless other show-business artifacts, to continue preserving some dying arts and function as the unusual center that it is.
Alice Walker's book "The Color Purple" gives us a powerful feminist theology. Two excerpts from Kohs' opera "Amerika" showed more response to changes in character and emotional context in the accompaniment than in the declamatory voice parts. Although no successor to former resident pops conductor Matthew Garbutt has been appointed, ultimate responsibility for pops programming has been assumed by Atherton. Siebert's program will feature the premiere of a composition by San Diego State University music professor Brent Dutton. Television has always marketed myths, shaving off the unpleasant edges of reality to make the sitcom images on the small screen acceptable to advertisers and audiences.
Eileen Bowser, curator of the museum's film library and a vice president of the federation, said the State Department employees with whom she spoke about the matter "never gave me any reasons" for the visa denial. The intention, presumably, is to keep the evening theatrical; to avoid boring us with words words words. On the way: Bob Dylan's "Empire Burlesque" R. E. M's "Fables of the Reconstruction" Bryan Ferry's "Boys and Girls" Style Council's "Internationalists" John Anderson's "Tokyo, Oklahoma" and Kid Creole's "In Praise of Older Women" LIVE ACTION: Frankie Goes to Hollywood's June 14 and 15 dates at the Hollywood Palladium have been moved to the Greek Theatre. Andrei is light" "I see him both ways" countered Eric Roberts.
When they joined the community college faculty last September, only two students had signed up for the Shakespeare course. Ostensibly a solution to an alleged land dispute between Navajos and Hopis dating back to an 1882, the law in the film makers' view is simply a convenient way to remove Indians and pave the way for development of mineral and energy reserves on the reservation. Results will be incorporated into a report to be presented in November to the group's governing board for adoption as policy. Prayer sessions and Bible-study workshops drew the smallest congregations while the biggest crowds packed the auditoriums for a parade of political and religious celebrities, ranging from a Scripture-quoting President Reagan to Pat Boone singing about aborted fetuses. But to mix up gross-outs with gags you need a good curve ball-the jokes should have a real spin to them That weird comic rhythm is missing here. And when it comes through New York, it has to be reviewed by one man-whoever is writing the review for the New York Times. Luring his audience with broad humor and cartoonish vulgarity, he rewards viewers with lush, vibrant painting and such hilarious details as brilliantly painted toenails and a halo of stars on his black Venus.
Determining the lethal elevator seems a cinch: the middle one-which begins its ominous activities with what seems a warning incident. "It's the end of an era, man" said 26-year-old KRTH deejay Rick Scott, one of those RKO employees given walking papers this week in the station shuffle. He's managed to put Vietnam pretty well behind him until he loses his job. The 12 events will be offered in two series of six concerts each. To let a minority (of the community) have that kind of power is amazing"Gerald Hirshberg, chairman of the Port District's art advisory board, which backed the choice of Kelly, also commented on the aggressive criticism, which included the testimony of young children, local artists and art dealers who told a Port District hearing that the Kelly work would ruin Embarcadero Park. Ross Stretton, himself a Romeo on occasion, brings nobility to the passing passivity of Paris.
That production dramatizes Patton's restless, unhappy life after World War II, a life cut short in late 1945 by a collision in Germany between his staff car and an Army truck. It allows them to laugh and cry, to be heroic and pathetic and self-sacrificing, to sing a sentimental hit tune just moments after a grand-and grandly delayed-entrance, to recite the tragic utterances of Phaedra, to luxuriate in amorous gush and, after sniffing poisoned violets, to die a slow and pretty, ultra-operatic death. We have a duty to enforce the law" MIDNIGHT MADNESS: Walt Disney's Touchstone Films division will host New Year's Eve "sneak preview parties" for "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" the first of two Bette Midler movies commissioned by the studio's new administration. That didn't stop it from being a hit in 1928, and a semi-hit when the Actors Studio revived it in 1963, with Geraldine Page. (Paramount Pictures) GETTING EVEN-The city of Dallas is held hostage: If $50 million isn't paid, deadly chemical gasses will be released It's up to industrialist Edward Albert to help save the day Audrey Landers, Joe Don Baker.
Without congressional intervention, however, the Institute of Museum Services might be dismantled. He looks now like a true Midwestern farm kid, with a solid build and an added 30 pounds of pugnacity. Darlington on Pinter's "The Birthday Party" (1958: "One of those plays in which an author wallows in symbols and revels in obscurity Give me Russian every time" J W. (The eventual Polo was Ken Marshall) Nobody would blame Patinkin for the split; the project turned out abominably.
The singer was headed Friday for a concert tonight in Waterloo, Iowa, but he was on the phone to Farm Aid organizers repeatedly-and members of his tour organization overseeing last-minute details. I must read the script, think about the dialogue and work with the writers if there are changes. Since his move to Los Angeles in 1965, Kanemitsu has soaked up the light and space aesthetic of Southern California and applied it to the sumi and hake traditions of his roots. Arbus started life as Diane Nemerov, daughter of a family that owned a glossy and successful Fifth Avenue department store. Then came Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in Berkeley and L. A's own Wolfgang Puck of Spago. Designer Cliff Faulkner is redoing the set to fit the Mayfair's proscenium stage The show previews Nov 19-21. SPACE ACE GRACE: Reach for your telescopes. And people in other communities that haven't been as hard hit can be a little more detached in viewing it as a piece of theater" he said.
Add $3. 9 million in direct donations, $3. 4 million from T-shirt and other merchandise sales, $3. 1 million from television licensing fees. In 1973, finding no support for his musical "Boy Meets Boy" "In London, if you don't have a star, you can't get your show on, Solly returned to the United States and aligned himself with an Off Off Broadway theater. In pop music so far this year, the right man for the job is-a woman. The Orange County Performing Arts Center's operating endowment drive has reached $39 million in "gift commitments-far surpassing the originally announced $20-million goal, Center officials said Wednesday.
There will be special programs focusing on newsreels, early experiments in color-e. g, "Lillian Russell in Kinemacolor-and in sound, a tribute to Jack Oakie, TV before 1950 and an especially enticing offering, titled "Behind the Scenes in Hollywood, 1919-1949" The opening program is tantalizing in itself, "The Animal Kingdom" (1932, which is also being presented in New York as part of a tribute to Myrna Loy, plus "The Royal Family of Broadway" (1930, starring Fredric March, Ina Claire, Henrietta Crossman and Mary Brian and co-directed by George Cukor and Cyril Gardner. And South African musicians are encouraged to play Western pop styles, limiting mbaqanga (pronounced oom-ba-KWANG-a ) music to township bars. Post-intermission, cellist Jean-Claude Gerin took center stage for C. P. E Bach's Concerto in A, another lyrical bit of fluff. "This is both exciting and scary at the same time" Steel said Monday, on her way to the Hagler-Hearns fight in Las Vegas.
"Between you and me, I blowed 'em out of the tub" Gobel said. Her relationship with Megaw Artistic Director Elaine Moe proved satisfying enough that they collaborated on a musical about women in history called "Stepping Forward" which played New York's Quaigh Theatre earlier this year under the title "To Feed Their Hopes; it opens Thursday at the Mayfair in Santa Monica. My God, it's really the end of an era we're talking about here" Dalton confirmed that Barkley quit because "he was getting a little burned out. In the last year, more and more home-video companies have been assembling packages of roughly 20 to 30 titles-mostly of movies a year or two old-to sell from $20 to $30 each.
But the process scared him and he put the script away, only to pull it out later when his finances turned sour. Eventually, he coasted onto the MGM lot in his Cadillac and-courtesy of Fields, who provided office space, a secretary and administrative overhead-became a producer That was three years ago. Bob Hope presents Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Buddy Rogers for 50 years of service. On one occasion, though, when someone suggested eating at one of the city's newer "California-style" establishments, she allowed as how she'd rather not, reportedly saying: "I get so sick of that kind of food. Once Levin was safely on his way out of the Middle East, CNN Senior Vice President Ed Turner related his and CNN's protracted 11-month effort to secure Levin's release. As she began singing some operatic roles-Angelica in "Suor Angelica" Flora in "La Traviata-she found she had the "big voice" that opera demands.
It wasn't long before the column began to have enough shape and substance to bind together my diverse thoughts. Three stellar supporting couples-Cynthia Harvey and Ross Stretton, Susan Jaffe and Kevin McKenzie, Leslie Browne and Clark Tippet-stretch and collapse and contort with stylized finesse, even with abiding conviction. "My allegiance was to Ned" Hughes acknowledged in a phone interview. Even before "Gung Ho" hit theater screens March 14, ABC committed to airing six episodes of the half-hour series without a pilot. During a routine 1983 review of royalties paid on the film's videocassette sales, Maureen Holden, the WGA's administrator of residuals, made what she considered a startling discovery: Screenwriter Bob Bonney apparently was being grossly underpaid on his share of the film's royalties. It's not that Osborne has lost his appeal; he just needs to shake up his act. Bryson portrayed Hepburn at her Connecticut family house, pruning trees, cooking chicken and studying a script with her hair in curlers.
If he'd just let Nicholas Kazan's script stand by itself, it would be stunning enough. Also being considered are an increase in the membership of the Cultural Heritage Commission from five to seven, with the majority made up from professionals in the field, and a sliding-scale increase from a minimum of one year to a maximum of five before demolition of any potentially historic buildings can begin. "Mondrian saved me, and I feel very grateful" he said, standing amid his show of improbable truck sculptures at the Jan Baum Gallery "I'd been so down. Best actor: Jack Nicholson, "Prizzi's Honor" (5; William Hurt, "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (2; James Mason, "The Shooting Party" (1. Gifford did, and still does, make too many mistakes. As always, though, Cosell goes too far, blasting both as virtual incompetents.
Didn't she introduce "The Charleston" in the 1923 Broadway musical "Runnin' Wild? "Yes, that's right" Welch replied, "but I'm not a dancer I just sang the song, then those terrific dancers took over. Bouzy Rouge in Newport Beach will serve fish couscous, for what is said to be only the second time ever in America (which I highly doubt, on April 21, and a special Cajun menu cooked by a guest chef on April 28. Both the material and forms Honda uses are threatening: Barbed-wire is shaped to simulate parts of armor such as the shields and thigh and shin guards you might see in a Kurosawa epic. Faced with a kind of didacticism in the score, the chamber group took a disastrous course in performing it: They made no effort to interpret the work and instead let the many, many notes do the talking. Leonid Hambro has always displayed a fondness for anything unusual and maybe a little silly in the normally stuffy world of music- serious music.