"So when people give me reasons, I tell myself, if you'd listened to reasons, you wouldn't have made 'Rocky' " Winkler has been listening to reasons on an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' "The Last Temptation of Christ" which Martin Scorsese would like to shoot in Israel. The Spago overflow crowd Monday night will be across the street at this Dome 16 None of the winners ever do this when told to keep it short 17 Nous" a nominee in 1983 18 Meryl never returned here and everybody cried 19 Bill Hurt's step-grandfather. "Many people think we're just Indians and cowboys out here, so that's what we gave them" said Joe Onofrio, the troupe's director of marketing and communications. The single comes from her debut album, "Do Me Baby-on Capitol Records-that's faring well on the pop charts It's No.

I took two classes a day and then went to six a day" he said. One has the feeling, however, that if this exhibition were on view in Los Angeles it might not play, in the same sense that certain theater pieces that make perfectly good sense in London are incomprehensible in New York. Indeed, the Chengdu Acrobats balanced more people on a single bicycle at the Olympic Arts Festival last summer than were seen during the entire Magic Mountain press preview Friday. 5 announcement of Emmy nominations for prime-time programs in the 1984-85 season. Not only did the music emerge fresh and unhurried, but the three works by Czech composers actually seemed to benefit from the unbroken flow.

"I suppose the better odds are on NBC now" But CBS, in trying to remain No. The official word from a label spokesman is: "Considering the past sensitivities of several Midwest record store chains, we have made a judgment decision to omit the list of homosexual age-of-consent laws from future pressings of the record" AND NOW HERE'S THE NEWS: Two members of Duran Duran-John Taylor and Andy Taylor to be exact-have taken a temporary break from the Fab Five (that's temporary , Duranies) to put together a band (and a new album) called Power Station. Even though his vocals have always contained a strong element of "blue-eyed soul" Medley said the move to country, which began with his 1984 "I Still Do" solo album for RCA, was a natural one "Musically speaking, I haven't made a shift at all I'm singing the same as I did in the '60s and '70s" he said. In a setting of burnished gold she encircles Jiro, the swish of her rich kimono audible as she methodically closes one barred shoji panel after another, finally pouncing on him and placing a dagger at his throat.

The movie, based on an actual incident, was a campus favorite partly because it had something for almost everyone: minority rights, feminism and class struggle. It took us four months to get going, but once we did, I think it gave a lot of people courage" Apparently so Peg Yorkin's L. A. Museum director Hugh Davies and senior curator Ronald Onorato, who conceived the exhibition about a decade ago and have worked on it intermittently since then, take special pride in being the first to use the artists' drawings-a total of 51-in an exhibition to convey the artists' intentions. Also awarded were the Frank Capra Achievement Award to Jane Schimel and Abby Singer and the Robert B Aldrich Service Award to Elliot Silverstein. Chong and Rhee play a sort of Tae Kwon Duo: two buddies who meet on the vicious schoolyards of Los Angeles, strike up an intense friendship (so intense that at one point Chong tries to divert Rhee's love life by buying him hookers) and are soon part of a traveling squad of teen-age Ninja bodyguards, a crack quintet that eventually runs afoul of some big-time Hollywood coke dealers they've been hired to protect There's no question of logic or depth here. On the down side, only "Cafe Macedonia" escapes visual garbling. I'm not quite sure what God had in mind when he kept me around, but I know I'm still here for a purpose" Despite the seriousness of last year's physical crisis, Lee looks and sounds in top form.

Fully in control of her life and subservient to no man, Shug helps Celie (the central character) realize that redeeming oneself involves changing one's consciousness. 5, "Stand by Me: A Portrait of Julian Lennon" is scheduled for release by MCA for $29. 95. 12 by Pergolesi before the "Suite Italienne" by Stravinsky, one of the numerous arrangements the mileage-conscious composer made of excerpts from his ballet "Pulcinella" Stravinsky professed that "Pulcinella" was inspired by music of the Italian composer, although now it is generally known that the music Stravinsky borrowed was not authentic Pergolesi. What the two films share-in addition to women as their pivotal characters-is subtlety, a perception of emotion and behavior and a knowledge of human character so deep as to be almost subliminal.

"You want to say, 'Wait! Wait! We're doing a really great job! Why aren't more people watching' " John Hillerman, the veteran actor who portrays major-domo Higgins on the show, expresses much the same feeling, acknowledging that even though he hasn't noticed any decline in fan reaction to him or the show, the dwindling Nielsen count "has been frustrating in the sense of doing excellent work and not getting the ratings you'd like" "I think it will be good" he said of the move to Saturdays. The idea was valid, but the winds and brass too often overbalanced the slender strings Still, when things went right, the playing was quite jolly. . But he will continue as the San Diego Symphony's composer-in-residence at least through the 1985-86 season. "I was doing the saxophone tracks for this movie, 'End of the Rainbow' when the star of the film got another job" Pizzi recalled recently "The director (Laszlo Papas) asked me if I acted. With Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi, Isa Danieli, Maria Luisa Saniella, Patrizzia Sacchi, Bruno Esposito Running time: 1 hour, 44 minutes MPAA-rated: PG (parental guidance suggested. .

But in any event, audiences are listening more intelligently. "But I'm going to bring in the tops in musicals and Vegas-type acts. But when asked his preference for the ideal display piece, he deadpans, "Brahms' Violin Concerto" The Los Angeles-born musician is well aware of the instrument's repertorial limitations. It goes as far back as the songs of Stephen Foster) And as far forward as USA for Africa. "We had no idea what was going to happen, but it came out all right"If you pared down the late-night talk shows to just their stand-up segments-comics performing five-minute routines before chatting with Johnny or Dave-you'd have something like "After Hours" a 30-minute program produced by Fullerton's Group W Cable.

While his fans suffer to work back on the freeways, Morgan is pulling in seven-pounders "We're talking fresh water here" he said. "The Orange County celebration is the latest in a line of truly marvelous showcases" Ives said in a telephone interview from his home in Santa Barbara. "I sat back and said, 'Never again; life is too short' " He, Amy and Max took a six-week vacation, somewhat interrupted, but Spielberg says that after the interruptions he was drawn back to the itinerary, not back to work. "The $25,000 Pyramid" which has won as best game show for three years in a row, will be challenged this year by "Wheel of Fortune" "The Price Is Right" "Family Feud" and "Jeopardy" Its host, Dick Clark, also a winner last year, is also a repeat nominee, along with Pat Sajak of "Wheel of Fortune" and Bob Barker of "The Price Is Right" "Donahue" which picked up last year's Emmy as best talk/service show, this year faces "Hour Magazine" "This Old House" and "New York's Master Chefs" And Phil Donahue, who won as best talk show host last year, was nominated again, along with Gary Colins of "Hour Magazine" Fred Willard of the cancelled "What's Hot! What's Not" and Dr.

The fire that gutted Radio City on Nov. The well-publicized dispute over the program didn't appear to give a major boost to its Sunday ratings. You're better off to fly there and charter a boat" So, two months ago, he unloaded his private ketch-22. Even a Baroque iconoclast, however, can admire the poise and the eloquence of the best moments in the score, not to mention the bravura performances and the witty, stylish production Horne triumphs even when she is silly and raspy.