Slatger attempts to integrate the specific iconography of the Southwest Indians with a broader urban expressionism that is characteristically brash, emotive and highly physical. As they like to say, this one is based (albeit loosely) on a true story. Let's say it's more human, less didactic, more delicate, even though subtlety is not its strong suit. Unlike the cutthroat battle for ratings that often rages among commercial secular stations, officials at Orange County's Christian stations have voiced only words of brotherly love for their competitors "We are all headed in the same direction" KWVE's St Peters said "We've all got the same message. Here they absorb them: "Hate Paper Doll" gleefully perverts bubblegum-pop, "Green Eyes" balances a glowing romantic tribute with a biting, memorable chorus, the dislocated imagery of "Find Me" comes with clashing dissonant chords worthy of the sonic sound sculptures of Glenn Branca (as do the closing instrumentals on this record Raw power has rarely sounded this graceful and articulate. "The Beethovens would be a vast undertaking, and there's already a bunch of good quartets out there playing them now" he commented. Later painters of the Yosemite region, such as Christian Jorgensen, Harry Cassie Best and William Clothier Watts, showed a more restrained and less romantic approach to their subjects. Artists throughout history have been inspired by California's spectacular mountain vistas.

Herb Ross (the film director) wouldn't even let me finish my sentence before he said he'd help" "It was as if they were just waiting to be called upon" Sinatra said. Yet while he obviously admires the man he portrays, McIntire said he has modified the show over the years to give audiences not just a vicarious encounter with a President, but also a glimpse at the man behind the myth. "Highground" at the University of New Mexico, seems to lift a circle of lawn and set it back down at an angle. "So far, it looks like the Russians are downplaying it" In Kuralt's view, this "poses ill for the cultural exchange.

The public should demand that the media be good, not liberal or conservative. We'll come and watch' But the organizers told us we were to perform Hey, we're demonstrators, not performers. So let's graze, bearing in mind that these are samples from an ever-changing menu. Breads. I can do that too' My first instrument was the guitar, which I picked up at 11 But the piano kept drownin' me out, so I switched I was a fractious kid I worked on a farm with my dad and granddad I was playin' while drivin' a tractor Later I worked a government farm I could make that tractor sing I quit at 17 though.

and keyed to Stevie Wonder's "Happy Birthday" For Black Talkies on Parade festival and reception information: (213) 737-3292 or (213) 733-9511. . "It is a very, very good voice" said Kurt Adler, the former general director of the San Francisco Opera who has coached Voigt "If she handles it right. Sources familiar with the closed-door board meeting said that Jackson urged his fellow board members to revert to "We Are the World" as the theme song for the May 25 coast-to-coast handholding event, in part because Jackson believed the song that he co-wrote with Richie was divinely inspired and the true theme song of the international drive to end world hunger. Kragen had unveiled Marc Blatte and John Chauncey's "Hands Across America" as the 1986 anthem for America's homeless and hungry at a press conference Jan 16. Koppel is state of the art, a regular rocket, so good at the toughest interviewing job on TV that "Nightline" would collapse without him. The next day he was at the 100 Club, one of London's oldest jazz joints, backed by the English Sound of 17 orchestra. Kirk Douglas' maiden voyage into TV spokesmanship is for the $6-billion Sperry Corp, but he's not hustling home computers.

"I have my credibilty as a reporter to think about" McKenzie explained. The general theme is how women emerged from the background to being active instead of passive historical figures-though this is not a feminist tract. William Lee, director of Bowers Museum in Santa Ana for the past 3 1/2 years, will resign his post on June 30 to spend more time with his family, he said in a phone interview Thursday. So does Jessica Tandy, who came to see it the other night-she thought it wonderful.

It has excerpts from her novels and diaries and scenes between her and her husband, and her lover. But Los Angeles-based pop bands Oingo Boingo and Wall of Voodoo will continue with their scheduled European appearance schedules, in northern Europe and Britain, respectively. . Filmex technical director Gary McVey explained that the culprit is the platter projection system used by most modern theaters-a sort of giant reel of film that eliminates the need to change reels and synchronize projectors. CLOSING NOTICE-Most candid press release of the week, from the Laemmle Theatres group: "Due to lack of public interest, the remaining programs for the Neil Simon Festival have been canceled" The festival, which opened six weeks ago and closed last weekend, was to have continued each weekend morning at 11 a. m through June 30 at the Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica. Three of the best known Northern Renaissance artists are represented. "Cloud 9" the comedy at the San Diego Repertory Theatre, will be extended through July 20. "As for my stuff, it's starting to get treated as if it were published fiction, since it's got a lot of narrative to it.

That gave Tutu the parity on TV that he and his fellow blacks are denied in their South African homeland, where they are not allowed to vote, own property or choose where to live. There wasn't time then but later he came to London, sang and appeared in my then-company, 'Gilbert & Sullivan for All' " Adams says he is enjoying this production particularly because, "I don't do that much G&S anymore"The hearty laugh and ever-smiling offstage presence remain; age seems not to be catching up with Donald Adams. From one who has been on the road since 1951, the year he joined the D'Oyly Carte troupe, it is positively alarming "The road? I love it. What is surprising is the relative weakness of the Japanese artists. "I didn't have television as a child, but what I did see tended to be very good. Seeing them from the rear, as you often do here, you can't help feeling a little sorry for them-no matter how savage their exploits. "But given the competitive pressures in news today, it's plausible" Robe, who wrote and directed "News at Eleven" is exactly right about high-stakes competition potentially leading the news media astray And, too often, the potential becomes reality.

Rosalind, the central figure, has a lot to teach Orlando about love-his idea is simple and true blue. "We decided to try to take over the Golden Bear's clientele" Although the operators of the Golden Bear have said they hope to reopen the club in a new location, Lipp said, "We've heard that too, but we are not concerning ourselves with it. This company of usurpers lacks the authority of its mission and social station-though Carl Reggiardo's suave Antonio has an excellent moment when he views the sleeping king Alonso and exclaims a conspiratorial, "What might" (Reggiardo is exceptional. Jessica Myerson's office, in the room that once held the playhouse's extensive theater library, looks as if a tornado hit it This bothers the artistic director not a whit. Instead, this collection of songs, dances and recitations for soloists and ensembles is formless, surprisingly mild, and very American. His musical strategy is to give the audience's ears and eyes a tour of the new hall, and the first note isn't the only one he hopes heads will turn for. At the inaugural concert at the Orange County Performing Arts Center on Sept.

His trips are often to Los Angeles, which he finds reminiscent of Kyushu, the southern island of Japan where he was raised and where most of his commissions were until the mid'70s. "Music critics hated Smash Hits" said Tennant, an editor/writer for the magazine from 1982 to early 1985. As much can be surmised about the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's revivalist look at the art of Rockwell Kent (June 28-Sept 1. "I was a good basketball player" recalled Leskanich, who still moves with athletic grace. As much as any event in pop cultural history, "We Are the World" brought together, even if for a few magic moments, the normally fragmented pop audience in a way that almost seemed impossible in this cynical age. USA for Africa's Benefit Recording Garners Four Awards, Including Best Record; Phil Collins Wins in Album, Pop Vocal and Producer Categories "We Are the World" was such an obvious choice for record of the year in Tuesday night's 28th annual Grammy Awards ceremony that it seemed almost anti-climatic when the envelope was actually opened. Three weeks simply is not enough to perfect the intricacies of Shavian comic character and timing, especially with as disparate a company as this.

I invented another game, and I survived through three decades" The New York-based composer (in residence at the Valencia school for the current semester) most definitely "invented another game" as immediately will be apparent at the first CalArts concert on Friday. Picture quality is reportedly similar to that of standard VHS and Beta, while the sound matches those systems' hi-fi versions. She rationalizes the male refusal to pose nude this way: "Playboy has relied more on skin and we have relied on the man and what he's all about. Elgart created movement that was inherently emotional-that needed no mime-signals to communicate.

Indeed, he says he finds himself "in the grateful position of being able to choose the projects I want to do" Recently, he says, he canceled his first Pelleas, in Debussy's opera, scheduled for this month in Lyons, France. (Any foreigner was a Zip in New York in 1942, when Armando's father brought his family from Calabria and set up a restaurant in the Bronx) "It combines Lou's insignia with my background" They begin carefully. He lives in a mansion with his regal widowed mother (Irene Worth, in an ultimately heroic portrayal, who firmly believes that her late husband's eminence will protect her, which is why she has remained past the time when it was still possible for Jews to get out of Germany. "The New York International Festival of the Arts will serve to remind all nations and their peoples that man's achievement in the arts transcends national boundaries and can be a uniting force in a world beset by political sociological and economic problems" Perez de Cuellar said. Gerard Murphy undertook both sides of this tag match, and it was always clear whether Goliath had pinned David, or (hooray) the reverse.

"Even some of my friends still refer to me as 'the drummer-like some guy with no name and a carpetbag who wanders around the South" The main purpose for Drummers' Network is to provide free job referrals for its members. They don't stop moving, so it's hard to get a still image of them" While the New York City Ballet remains his first priority, Caras is also looking into other photographic opportunities. English actors who have worked in Hollywood dutifully cry that they hated every minute of it, then talk wistfully about being able to get back soon and hate it again first-hand C P. Our attitude is that we're going to do everything possible to satisfy the national requirements. Not having seen Susan Anspach in the role, I can't compare Archer's performance, but she made me believe her Westchester housewife-which, given the behavior assigned her by playwright John Ford Noonan, is some trick. It's not the showy Los Angeles typified by Broadway shoppers, leather-skinned surfers, Westside yuppies, Hollywood starlets or any of the other stereotypical constituencies favored by East Coast writers.