The 2 1/2-hour program concerned the long, bitter struggle between Palestinians and Israelis over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip within Israel's borders. Being able to drive home to Love Songs Along the KOST or Bubba Jackson Jazz over KLON or Bill Keene's mellow mai-tai traffic reports on KNX makes L. A unique. "In 1984, the light went on and I thought that with all these fantasy things going, why not give someone a chance to do a broadcast of a major college game on a commercial radio station" he said. "You see, programmers used to say 'this is only happening to me because I'm in Memphis. Eventually, Feldman fell into John Cage's circle, where everyone and everything seemed to influence his minimalist manner. But she says she had few complaints, and took special pride in her biographical roles, like Edna Gladney, whose story was dramatized in "Blossoms in the Dust" Madame Curie and, ultimately, Mrs. "But since Max and Ross began performing, I've found my biggest concern is whether or not they've practiced their lines, or did they come up with something funny today" Local comic Rick Rockwell, who helped the boys polish their act before their return engagement here this week, seemed almost as proud as their father as he watched their Monday night performance "They're both naturals" Rockwell said.

"The idea of street theater is one of the things that appeals to me most" said Houston, 32, while sipping coffee during an interview on Wednesday. The proposal calls for Breuer's dark gray unpolished granite building to be joined by a structure in pink granite of a similar color value. On the other hand, let's have a Bronx cheer for Arista Records, which has released a tackily packaged Barry Manilow greatest-hits compilation (of course, only after Manilow had left the label. In one respect, its exactitude might be attributed to envy-if one can't be Michael Jackson, one can appropriate the image of Michael Jackson. What would he do with the information? "At some point I will do something about it". "She's playing this real injured" he said, running the show's tennis scenes on a video machine that he used to critique her strokes while chatting with her about the style of their mutual tennis idol, John McEnroe Stewart has no time to teach people who aren't motivated. Black curtains drape a red-and-black chessboard stage, while behind a black scrim, another box serves double-duty as the Caterpillar's mushroom and the Cheshire Cat's tree.

It is 40 years since Raitt attained Broadway stardom as Billy Bigelow, the truculent carnival barker hero, in the original New York production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Carousel" He went on to play the leads in other Broadway musicals, such as "Magdalena" and "The Pajama Game" He starred in various national touring productions, including those for "Zorba" and "Shenandoah" He headlined several network television variety shows, and teamed with Doris Day in the film version of "The Pajama Game" (his only movie starring role. It's much more frightening than that because we are not talking about evil people, we are talking about a system that is slowly evolving" Early on in "Power" we see Richard Gere advising Fritz Weaver, who is running for the governorship of New Mexico. To some it was like the opening mob scene in George Cukor's "A Star Is Born" lasting from 6 p. m until after midnight. These odd juxtapositions make little aesthetic sense; instead they leave the impression that Petropoulos is in the midst of a transition and that the grid has become a decorative device, temporarily serving as a security blanket (Rosamund Felsen Gallery, 669 N La Cienega Blvd, to Aug 31).

A senator named McCarthy, calling the DGA a haven for Communists, turned members against each other. During a seven-month stay in Austin, Tex, he wrote "The Hitcher" Ohman and Red spent the next six months reworking the screenplay, deleting much of the violence that Ohman thought "repetitive" During that time, Red also attended the American Film Institute, where he made another small film, "Trigger" about a young man who puts explosives in toy frogs and gives them away as gifts. Eder said his most popular record sold 20,000 copies, which he described as the equivalent of a gold album in America Israel's most popular album ever sold 120,000 copies. "During the week, the men dance with men to practice up for the weekends, when they go to the ballrooms" Mayoral remembers tango competitions ending in fist fights and "there are even anecdotes of dancers going to another neighborhood and finishing the dispute with knives" he says. If I get any sun on my skin, it comes out in spots, spots even makeup won't hide It happened first in Barbados, a while back Now I have to be careful "I love London. Or whether I like it better in Oskaloosa, Iowa? Well, what difference does it make? What's the point " Mercifully, he supplied the answer "The point is that there are challenges within techniques. "Polka Dot Navy Taffeta Jacket" for example, is rather like the curtain of a stage that opens to reveal a midnight scene of frame houses and a young woman engaged in unexplained activities.

Henry Winkler, "All the Kids Do It" "CBS Schoolbreak Special" ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING, SPECIAL CLASS Dick Carson, "The Merv Griffin Show" Syn. The statistic is particularly sobering when one realizes that Janacek wrote his masterpiece in 1903. At the "Upbeat Live" event, scheduled for 1:30 p. m, Previn will be joined by Harbison for an introduction to this concert of "Music of the Americas" In a departure from normal practice, admission will be free to ticket-holders and non -ticket-holders alike. Paramount's two upcoming miniseries are the 13-hour "Space" based on James Michener's novel, airing April 14-18 on CBS, and "Wallenberg: A Hero's Story" April 8-9 on NBC. His work is currently on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County as part of its popular "Dinosaurs Past and Present" exhibition The exhibition, which will be on display through Aug. This, of course, gives way to some tongue-in-cheeky mod-rock gyrations for seven girls and four boys.

High adventure follows the heroine of Sidney Sheldon's novel through France, London, Amsterdam, New Orleans and Southern California Stars Madolyn Smith, Tom Berenger, Richard Kiley A CBS production "Dream West-Spring, 1986 on CBS; eight hours. In mid-October, MGM/UA will put out "Grace Quigley" an offbeat comedy starring Katharine Hepburn and Nick Nolte, which has never had a major release. The song was on demonstration discs or demos cut by Williams shortly after signing a publishing deal with Acuff-Rose in 1946. Such artists live on the borders of folk and primitive styles, and Surls is no exception. "Secret Cinema" concerns a young woman who is convinced that her friends have conspired to shoot a film of her life.

According to the alliance, the award is given "to acknowledge individuals or entities whose energies and leadership have contributed in outstanding ways to the visibility, the viability and the excellence of Orange County's cultural environment" The Times and the Register were selected this year, alliance president Patti-Gene Sampson said, because of the two newspapers' "exceptionally strong backing of the arts in covering and interpreting the arts and in significant financial support" The newspapers are also to be commended, Sampson noted, for the "more intensive staffing and other resources now being committed to reporting the arts" Both newspapers are represented by major gifts to the Orange County Performing Arts Center campaign. Would KNBC also present alleged news stories promoting daytime personalities on competing channels? Donahue's show hardly shrinks from playing the celebrity game, moreover, and many of its topics are more sensational than pertinent. She, too, spoke of an unfortunate "precedent" in having special line items for individual projects-which would, of course, take significant granting powers away from the Arts Council. Meanwhile, the council welcomed one new member (which brings it back to its full complement of 11-Bryan (Whitey) Littlefield, general manager of the Long Beach-based Budweiser distributorship for the South Bay, who was appointed by Gov George Deukmejian. 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. Although a CBS News spokesman said he didn't know which staff members were laid off, at least two producers at the troubled "CBS Morning News" reportedly were axed and another producer reluctantly opted for early retirement. Watching "The Andy Griffith Show" redux or rerun, is like snoozing on a porch rocker after a big Sunday dinner. The quotes will then be concealed within the framework of the house.

A machine-gun massacre of nine people at a nightclub is found to be tied to a scandal at the bank his beloved father runs, and he resigns from the police force to pursue the case on his own next week "Fortune Dane" is not as corny as this may sound. The project's seeds were planted in 1982, when Copeland went on a six-week West African tour arranged by the USIA. The mystery remains unsolved, both in reality and in Davies' operatic speculation. Cale's ambition is to see it released on a classical label, but he still has some work to do.

Some late pictures suggest he couldn't resist the urge to prove he could beat Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon at their own games. Reagan's staff asked that some of the 40 rock acts that Global Media planned to present in the 11-hour anti-drug concert be pulled out of the lineup, however, because of "offensive lyrics on previously recorded songs" according to Verna. The suite, taken from a ballet score and played for the first time Saturday night, does not boast much originality or innovation but proved nonetheless effective and appealing Granger opened the program with Schubert's Fifth Symphony. If the point seems weak, just ask yourself how "Porky's" might have done at the box office had its big scene been girls peeking in on a boys' shower room.

Matsuda and Martin announced their intention to leave the group early last month, citing individual career objectives as reasons for departing Both new players will take up residence in Los Angeles. Two top positions at the Joffrey II Dancers have been filled with the appointment of Richard Englund as director and Jeremy Blanton as associate director. Reading a book about Allan Kaprow called "Happenings" and taking workshops led by Los Angeles performance artist Steve Paxton helped validate White's ideas about performance art. Forgetting about 'Yentl' which was a different sort of story, I can't think when it's been done. Still, improvements are expected, and little 8-millimeter could very well eventually tower over the competing systems.

That voice deepened through long lean years of Berkeley radio broadcasts and film quarterly columns, and the result is pure idiosyncrasy So is her way of working. "I'd much rather try to make a horror film with style and artistic value" Feldman and Meeker decided to act as executive producers for "Hitcher" Why did Feldman want to make it? "Because it had artistic integrity" Then, it wasn't purely out of the profit motive? "Well, I'm in the business to make money. This year she began her second decade at UC San Diego's Mandeville Art Gallery, which, largely under her creative guidance, has become one of the county's premiere showcases for contemporary art. and marched for civil rights, for gosh sakes, so what else do they want from her? Even more critical, would Christopher let Mary bring her quilts to Hollywood? Do they have great farmhouses with spinning wheels on Sunset Boulevard? Do they allow goats? There are many questions to be decided on future episodes of The Big Silly. . Gardel is an unblemished and lasting Latin-American legend, the Argentine Sinatra, a macho, trench-coated singer who made the Argentine tango an international dance. One Lotfallah Mansouri-then a tenor, now a most successful director-impresario called Lotfi-sang the misunderstood hero. You owe the public and the studio your participation in promoting the film.

But the former European kick-boxing champ (two years running, in 1981-82) defends that approach to defining this bad-guy boxer"I think Drago's really not a bad, bad guy. for Public Broadcasting, the agency that disburses federal funds to public TV and radio stations, is due to climb $40. 5 million to $200 million next year and to $214 million in fiscal year 1988, the White House continues to press for a phase-out of federal support for public broadcasting by 1992. You just focus on that one scene, Denholm dying, endlessly, and don't be afraid to repeat yourself. Bochco likewise believes "Hill Street Blues" would have been better under his command if phrases like "hair bag" or "scuz ball-staples of the series' lexicon of euphemized street talk-did not have to always be substitutes for the real thing "You can't even say doody, you have to say poo. In first place, with 9. 7% (up from 9. 4, is beautiful music station KJQY-FM (K-JOY, 103. 7, the traditional market leader.

"Tamara" probably the most unusual entry since "The James Joyce Memorial Liquid Theater" earned five nominations. 'We take a stance like the Standells, like, 'Get out of here, baby I'm the best' And other girls can relate to that. Moreover, they were performed in the culture palace of Little Tokyo, the Japan America Theatre, which didn't exist when Ito worked here, but now, 24 years after his death, commemorates the fusion of cultures basic to his choreography. This gritty, melancholy song-the finest pop duet ballad in years-features McDonald's best singing since his Doobie Brothers days. Tuesday night, Joffrey had offered a Kudelka appetizer: the local premiere of "Passage" an ancient work by the young (now 30) Canadian choreographer. The event is being produced by Robert Jacobson, editor of Opera News magazine, and Matthew A Epstein. . painter Larry Cohen makes it right in about 15 large paintings of our wonderful panoramas.

Later he noted, wryly, that the quote had been "cleaned up for publication" So he went to Hollywood. He recently orchestrated eight tunes for Ralph Burns' score to Richard Pryor's upcoming "Jo Jo Dancer" A call from Jack Elliot, conductor of the New American Orchestra, provided Holman with his latest commission, a jazz vehicle for tenor sax great Stan Getz to be premiered in April with the NAO. Jazz composer/arranger/bandleader/saxophonist Bill Holman's "seek work" plan is simple: He waits for the telephone to ring with another assignment-and, sure enough, it does. This was the first time I asked actors to play multiple roles of young and old It was my attempt to break through physical restrictions There's a lot of music. One of the worst offending series was "Dallas" whose characters made drinking as routine as dinner. Friday it's happy birthday to Los Angeles-based German director Walter Wicclair, who turns 85. What the Theatre Center invades is some downtown turf that had been almost paradoxically gloomy, embraced as it is by the various and dynamic ethnic enclaves-Chinatown and Olvera Street; the vigorous Latino market center along Broadway to the west; Little Tokyo, with the Japan America Cultural Center and other handsome new structures, just north and east. What all these changes, including the Temporary Contemporary Art Museum tucked in the heart of Little Tokyo, have only begun to create is a central Los Angeles with an around-the-clock life whose excitements do not ride home with the commuters.