Sydney May Morrison, the Megaw's artistic co-director, directs here, and has this to say: "Sheldon was highly instrumental in the development of 20th-Century theater in America. To the Newport Harbor Art Museum, for its ambitious and wide-ranging Contemporary Culture Series of music, art and performance. A middle-aged gent with a mustache and top hat sits stiffly on a chair holding a prim little blond girl on his lap in "Innocence Is Not Enough" He doesn't touch her or even ogle her, but we know he's a lecher. Michael Winslow (the walking sound effect from the "Police Academy" trilogy) presents the Oscar for sound effects editing. Following is the tentative schedule (subject to change) for the 58th annual Academy Awards presentation, to be telecast on ABC starting at 6 p. m Monday, L. A time: Revlon, a major sponsor, "presents" the Oscars A minute of commercials, commencing with 30 seconds on J. C Penney diamonds Greeting by co-host Robin Williams. 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.

Alabama guitarist Mark Herndon saluted the attack on Libya on camera as the quartet picked up its fifth straight entertainer-of-the-year award when he said, "Godspeed, President Reagan, I think you done the right thing" But backstage a few minutes later, Herndon turned his comments to the group's ever-growing stockpile of country music awards: "If I've got to buy a U-Haul trailer to haul these (awards) around, I don't care This is what we work for all year. In a surprising development Friday, the executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic said he would remain at his present position rather than assume the post of general administrator and artistic director of the Paris Opera, as he had announced a week ago. His vigorous style is strictly from Napoleon III, but his subject matter-as in "Bob and Brenda-looks like an outtake from a porn flick. So did Colee, he said, who shared with the artists a vision of a tableau combining the hotel's original style with an up-to-date and indigenous sensibility. "Now 200 million Americans know about it" Glass said. ABC had free-lance radio reporter Julie Flint, and NBC had Englishman Chris Drake in Beirut when the TWA Flight 847 hijacking story broke. Top Parisian maitre d' Charles Boyer goes to extreme lengths to pursue his unrequited love for Jean Arthur, a Kansan whose rich, intensely jealous husband (Colin Clive, of "Frankenstein" fame) is determined to quash their divorce on the eve that it's to become final. And the conversation flows from topic to topic like a verbal stream of consciousness.

It has the sound I love more than anything-that '40s, dreamy quality, written to epitomize the separation of lovers in the war: the longing, the nostalgia, the coming home. When she sat down with the pianist for a quick chat, they touched fingers and she called him "Volodya" the Russian diminutive for Vladimir "Do you remember my mother" Horowitz asked. "Imagine trying to design a computer system for a place that won't open until 1991. At the same time, their once-prim balletic rituals give way to a neat yet frenzied network of maneuvers involving the chairs For Gordon, the prop is more than a gimmick Much more. "We assume the actors can play anything" He added, "Of course, their parents might be shocked" In Chinese, the ideographs for "Fanshen" mean "to turn over" or "to upset" This critical moment in modern Chinese history, as the Japanese occupation army was withdrawing or surrendering and the civil war between the Communist and Nationalist forces was reignited-with the outcome still in doubt-was re-created by an American author, William Hinton, in his 1963 book of the same name.

"She is an extremely qualified executive who is hard-nosed and that's very important" said Ned Tanen, Paramount Motion Picture Group president. Korean businessmen and students, even government officials, know dozens of Japanese songs-and sing them in bars and clubs But formally lifting the ban is another matter. Edward Weston, Equity's western regional director, refused to comment on the case until he has seen the ruling, adding, "It is very, very complicated" Weston also declined to comment on the union status of the actors in "Fatty" first show to play the Tiffany (and to spark the controversy that led to the court action. "I wouldn't want to go through this ordeal again" Jeanne Murry said, with a shake of her dark hair "It was really the biggest trauma; you have no idea.

Despite the revolution compact discs have triggered in the record business, record stores partition off CDs from regular albums, cassettes or videos. "Haywain '85" is on show at Crewkerne, England, about a week by hay cart away from the 19th-Century master's beloved Dedham Vale in Essex. . For skirt-hiking, high-kicking entertainment with a heavy dose of anxiety and eager-to-tease intensity, you won't do much better than the group's sassy centerpiece Christina Amphlett. Nothing is original, though the core of the movie seems to be a quasi-homosexual mentor-pupil assault: Ryder is as fixated on Halsey as Bruno on Guy in Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (Whenever police or toll-takers are around, he goes coy: grabbing Halsey's crotch, tenderly caressing his hand or batting sullen blue come-hither eyes) Beyond that, you can express only disgust at a movie that deals with pain and fear in such an empty, squalid way: which gives us a scene where a woman is ripped apart and focuses not on her suffering, but on the hero's dickering with the villain. But it's going to work, and it's going to bring the world together for a single cause in a way that never has been done" Mitchell, who is in charge of producing and marketing the worldwide concert telecast, continued during an interview this week in his Marina del Rey office "The concerts are what everyone is talking about now But they're just the starting point. I just can't stand another hipper-than-thou kid lounging around making style out of smirks Well, look again, that isn't what you have.

The ABC executive, who announced the proposed miniseries last year, said that the network hasn't "resolved the budget situation" yet, but probably would know next week whether "Amerika" would get the green light to start production. The 16-year-old Zal is probably best remembered for her Emmy Award-winning performance as the molested daughter in "Something About Amelia" that aired in January, 1984. That, in fact, is what he's saying in "Iceman" Beware the prophet Suspect the savior Abjure the man who has seen the light. Mann had been away from the show for several months, filming a theatrical movie, but is back overseeing its quality control, Tartikoff said. Severino said it was the first time the station had ever failed to run an "Afterschool Special" from its parent ABC network and, as far as he is concerned, it would be the last. In the last few years, however, USC's vaunted dramatic films seemed to have settled into a comfortable, golden rut.

"We (the First Chamber Dance Company) were the last company that Jose personally staged it for" Bennett said. NEW YORK — The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced expansion plans with a design by architect Michael Graves that would more than double the size of the museum, adding 134,000 square feet to the 83,500 square feet of the existing building, designed by Marcel Breuer and which opened in 1966. It will be packaged for sale, but no arrangements have been finalized. Karol, whom Glassman describes as an "insolvency expert" Payton's petitions against the Motown deal say that "there appears to be.

Scorn not the steadily developing musical life of Orange County. "By going through my grandmother, about whom I really didn't have to invent a great deal, I was able to say things that were troubling me , using her life as a facade. Identity is not a fixed thing" Elaine Kendall took some respite from the heavy mantle of being a prominent local literary critic by writing a romantic comedy for the stage called "Prizes" which played the Megaw Theater in 1979 and was later adapted into a musical. He stressed that neither he nor the pops board wants to significantly alter the financially successful pops formula-12 weeks of outdoor concerts at Hospitality Point, Mission Bay, with weekly fireworks and food and drink service in cabaret seating. How delightful it is to hear Browne speak the Queen's English-what a pleasure to see her size up Gallagher, then exclaim with relish, "What a fraudulent young man you are". But, in fact, it already has broken even, assuming it attains the ratings levels it has promised sponsors.

They walk around juggling plates, whispering to each other sometimes in Italian, sometimes in Spanish, and wearing an air of having invited you over to dinner. Anyone inclined to doubt this proposition-or agree with it for that matter-must mush right up here to the Asian Art Museum and see "Spectacular Helmets of Japan" before its final day next Sunday If that proves impossible, get your hands on the catalogue. Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi may have become known to most Americans only recently, for example, but junior Kadafis have been occasionally populating TV shows for years as Arab cutthroat villians getting their kicks from menacing the helpless and innocent. Margaret Houlihan-as the legitimate byproduct of the world of entertainment protected by copyright.

Knowledge of electronics doesn't mean you are creating art" One approach to curbing this dilemma is to hit the industry head on, he suggested. It is all a simple misunderstanding, a lapse in communication, a misperception of the facts. Businesses no longer wanted the fancy Wurlitzers, which offered only 24 78-rpm selections. cities, did "fair" business) However I'm told it's busting records all over Europe" Lemmon formed a close friendship with Mastroianni during the making of that movie and, during a break from filming, journeyed to Venice, a city he has always loved. We can expect to see the people next door involved in action-adventure stories.

"Maybe one day I will have a real restaurant" says Graciella Checchini in her richly accented voice, "but I don't consider Rondo a restaurant It's so small it's like my dining room. During the next five years the agency expects to spend about $2 million annually on art in the downtown areas under its jurisdiction. When Fantasy released a live Creedence album (recorded in 1970) three years ago, it received extensive airplay and climbed on the national charts. The '60s were a time of real optimism in England; London was swinging, and there were the Beatles, the Stones, Mary Quant-all of it. The greatest enigma this year involved the unpredictable prominence of the Atlanta Symphony It is a good, middle-class orchestra Robert Shaw, its maestro, is a solid and serious musician. "How many know where England is? Raise your hands" A shy showing.

David Settino Scott sets mundane contemporary themes in the format and style of pre-Renaissance paintings. All this, and data emanating from the CIIED (Current Intelligence Indications and Estimates Division, naturally led to a lot of high-level briefings. The others are Abel Moya, Hector Torres, Art Valenzuela, Jess Valenzuela and Emigdio Vasquez. Artistic director Robert Fryer confirmed that he has nailed down "Wild Honey" as "definitely our first show of next season" This Michael Frayn translation of Chekhov's "Ivanov" (Frayn is the author of "Noises Off" and "Benefactors" currently on Broadway) will be directed by Christopher Morahan "The Jewel in the Crown) and will feature Ian McKellen in the title role. Simple, yes? In the closing month of 1791, beset by the physical ailments of 35 difficult years, and encroached upon by new debilitations, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's body deteriorated and succumbed while his mind gave in to delusions, depression and paranoia Simple, no. since Fonda was Greenwald and Hume Cronyn was Queeg at the Ahmanson some two decades ago.