The Camino Theatre stage resembles quaint old fairy tale illustrations, with David Maverick Lane's painted curtain, villages, trees, cottages and props all marvelously askew. Remember talking? There is music, but it is the calming music of the '40s The name may be recognized and then doubted. Actress Mimette Wishart gives Joan body and soul, a good performance topped in later scenes when Wishart takes the role of Joyce, Marlene's downtrodden but not beaten sister. Nichols meantime is doing Nora Ephron's "Heartburn" and Hoffman has another film for spring, 1986, called "The Ditto List" in which he'll play a divorce lawyer. Two other veteran one-hour series also were dropped, "Crazy Like a Fox" and "Trapper John, M. D" which premiered in 1979. For 24 pleasantly vapid and intensely compressed minutes, Gordon explores the happy cliches of bloody mysteries.

That's another story of national import, especially now that the orchestra and its musical director, David Atherton, have won so much acclaim in so short a time since rebounding from near-financial collapse. A more serious problem is that documentation, proposals and ideas have outweighed the art on view in this first "ArtEx" presentation. . As the cast of "Rap Master Ronnie" (all but Ronnie) sang: "Nuclear war right. Playing with "The Animal Kingdom" is a fresh print of "The Royal Family of Broadway" (1930, co-directed by George Cukor and Cyril Gardner. "I would like Coke and Pepsi to come together in this trifling matter, just as all the artists came together to complete this philanthropic project" Sergio Zyman, senior vice president of marketing for Coca-Cola USA, said Thursday in Los Angeles that his firm objects to what he called Pepsi's commercialization of the charity effort.

She says she wouldn't mind doing it again, either-because it was a respite from her real-life troubles Said Craft: "It's dreary being a Joan of Arc". KPFK-FM(90. 7, the free-form Pacifica Foundation station whose internecine factionalism led it to the brink of bankruptcy a year ago, is about to undergo yet another metamorphosis. Resettlement Administration (later renamed the Farm Security Administration, Lorentz made such landmark documentaries as "The Plow That Broke the Plains" (1936) and "The River" (1937, which led to a Pulitzer Prize nomination Lorentz also organized the U. S Film Service in 1940. "It's all about love and loss and you can't fake it; you can't pretend it's acting"A jazz critic, interviewed on National Public Radio a few days ago, said he detected a rising interest in the roots of American jazz-early Louis Armstrong and his New Orleans colleagues, the traditional songs and styles that led on to everything else You don't have to look far for confirmation. Observation from the inside, during a room-by-room inspection, renews Modernism's appreciation for the forms of technology. On the solo nights, there were some people who just showed up, played and then disappeared.

John Rambo-Sylvester Stallone in "Rambo" Qualities to consider: Commitment to American ideals Ability to live off the land Competence with weaponry and improvising Muscles and physical beauty Can withstand pain Even tempered Wit and personality Ability to speak a line. His return to the roots is a retreat, not a redefinition, and if you're looking for a new Gram Parsons, you'll have to keep looking. . Raiford Rogers had provided the thorny Rose adagio for a somewhat shaky Victoria Koenig (who sported a singularly unattractive red skirt representing the floral blossom and a silly green bodice with a single long sleeve representing the downside-up stem. Qualls and Elmore flew through the first act-25 minutes at the most. Cable operators will be able to decode those signals using special equipment not available to home dish owners. On the one hand, NBC joined other media in protesting-and rightfully so-the Reagan Administration's omitting reporters from the U. S. NEW AND COMING MOVIES: The worst-kept secret in the industry is the spring release of Paramount's "Witness" How it fares in the Oscar derby will effect its release date.

But, this time through, Clapton gave 'em what they wanted, unleashing a generous number of extended, high-voltage solos-much to the audible delight of the crowd. Oh, there may be small pockets (of adventurous opera-goers) here and there, but still, even after 25 years, the opera crowds here are relatively inexperienced" Campbell insisted that those "small pockets" are encouraged to visit the opera-but in a separate hall. Displaying not the slightest distraction, fatigue or incipient ennui, Perlman sailed but did not float through the beauties and intricacies of Max Bruch's G-minor Concerto and Pablo de Sarasate's "Carmen" Fantasy, assisted attentively by conductor Lawrence Foster and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Tozzi will appear with several UCI music faculty members, including soprano Nina Hinson, bass-baritone Marvin Hayes, pianists Nina Scolnik and Rosemary Hyler, violinist Brian Dembow, cellist Stephen Erdody and clarinetist Gary Bovyer. It starred Henry Winkler as a Vietnam veteran trying to cope with an American home front that, if not hostile to Vietnam vets, hadn't much respect for them-or feared them.

The sheer physical size of Borofsky's work dictates that he take up the larger of TC's two main spaces. Everybody sees your 'character' every day on the TV series or whatever as a certain character Why go on as the same damn thing? It's so boring. "San Francisco is still my home" For Ojai Festival information, call (805) 646-2094 or write P. O Box 185, Ojai 93023. His images of European statesmen, German politicians, society matrons and of a defendant's mother at a trial possess a dramatic immediacy and intensity that far surpass simple documentation. What about a show like "Cats? I haven't seen it yet, so I have no opinion I do know all about it It's a great novelty It has some great poetry back of it, because (T S) Eliot certainly knew how to write.

However genial he might normally be, Gano is not the kind of guy apt to be pleased when his faith causes people to automatically brand certain expectations onto him that. (You also wonder how the translators can handle more than one film a day, much less three or four) The sunless days take on a certain structure, up before 7 in order to breakfast in the vast dining room and walk or be bused to the punctual 9 a. m screenings. This is completely Lazaroff's baby, she says, as she plans food-finding trips to Spain, Mexico, and South America. Times were always hard, but the unification of Italy in the 1860s made them worse because the province of Trentino, where the Val Rendena is located, was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Not only is this a very important move for us to make, but these two positions have got to be among the primo jobs in the country". The unorthodox sculpture has an air of spontaneity about it, in striking contrast to traditional use of bronze, but Graves describes a two-year process of "very hard work" in her studio and at Tallix Foundry in Peekskill, N. Y.

But it has not been out long enough to be reflected in the charts. "She comes to every show" High points included the church-like intro to the Doobie-era "Minute By Minute" and an earnest version of "You Belong to Me" Mostly, however, the music was colorless pop. After two highly political solo albums under his moniker of Little Steven failed to ignite the charts, Van Zandt left EMI-America Records, expecting to strike up a new, more productive relationship with another label But he found no takers. Then we bring the playwright back in toward the end" Emmes and company thus sent Mason packing the second week of rehearsals. Plays Tuesdays-Saturdays at 8 p. m, Sundays at 7 p. m, with Saturday-Sunday matinees at 2 p. m Closes Jan 12 Simon Edison Centre for the Performing Arts, Balboa Park (619) 239-2255. .

The truth would have revealed a more disturbing-and potentially more comic-reality: the real-life Japanese plants in this country succeed-not because they terrorize their workers-but because they treat these workers better than their former American employers. "He's innocent! I'd stake my life on it" grunts Joey Bishop as Arbuckle's ever-loyal agent. Men without exception are absolute savages and suffer no consequences for their actions" Willis Edwards, president of the Hollywood/Beverly Hills branch of the National Assn. A nonviolent, non-sexual "wholesome family entertainment" in the Disney tradition can be offered to a captive, primarily adult audience of 2. 8 million-the number of passengers Disney predicts that the 20 subscriber airlines will carry throughout the month of April. collaboration" was announced for 1984-85, it raised a tempest over a semantic faux pas. SHOOT THE APPLE-Film production in New York City reached a new high last year with 78 features shot all or in part there, compared to 66 in 1983 The previous record of 76 features was set in 1981. But Seattle did see a portentous preview this summer in the isolated form of installment No 2: "Die Walkuere" Some vignettes haunt the memory.