The Grand Rapids connection is Dennis Komac, formerly director of the San Diego State Art Gallery. Danjuro is the greatest name in Kabuki acting-as if Olivier, Irving, Booth and Garrick all harked back to the same ancestor. When KMNZ came into Santa Fe, they paid the highest price for any program that's ever been paid here" Despite the increase in viewing choices, 70% to 80% of the audience and the advertising remained with the affiliates. The show is "Sweet Charity" 20 years old and once-proven, but the seven-week engagement at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (beginning last week) is a kind of dry run for a possible Broadway return. With her face on the February cover of Artnews and a major piece about her in Connoisseur's February issue, Graves arrived recently in Los Angeles to unveil her largest outdoor sculpture, "Sequi" a 13-foot-tall, 20-foot-wide painted bronze that looks like a refugee from a botanist's hallucination. That should increase the number of smaller schools who can afford to send shows to the festival. Norman Cousins has made a crusade of the gospel that laughing is powerfully curative when you're gravely ill.

rivalry almost dominates the last two hours in Walon Green's teleplay, a fascinating duel between two strong-willed opposites with clashing mind-sets and visions of America There is L. B. J. Although she is most assuredly the heroine of the 25-minute film (and the sole person you'd let anywhere near you with scissors,it doesn't make her stay at chez Sassoon any less tormented. The wallpaper is pure '50s delight, a mass of great green banana leaves Waitresses are motherly and dressed in candy pink The griddle man sports a high toque blanche. Particularly Shakespeare's comedies, which seem particularly festive and restorative in Balboa Park. For three weeks now, he has been putting finishing touches on the revival of the show he conceived for Verdon. This country urgently needs such art again" The dual bill might play well at the Public Theatre's Los Angeles equivalent, the new L. A Theatre Center.

Producers like to bring a composer onto a film after the final cut so they don't have to pay for as many weeks. Given the current state of network comedy, those are commendable qualities. And in 1980, when he quit Neil Simon's Broadway-bound play "I Ought to Be in Pictures" the rumors started. Katz did not specify which they would pursue) A spokesman for Paramount Pictures said the studio could not comment on the planned suit, but The Times was able to reach most of the principals in the case. "He was a great, great, great artist and it's wonderful to see him get his due" said Alpert, who, like Adler, worked as apprentice artists and repertoire men at Keen. Van Manen's "Songs" of 1982 still seem a bit too cutesy for their moonstruck, romantic source, but one continues to admire the basic lyricism and the fluidity of the choreographic maneuvers.

The Times' reference to Barnes was not meant to imply that he is or was a hired killer in the employ of the CIA. Many, he says, forget that Capp "was considered an outrageous liberal in the late '30s, '40s and early '50s. But an incident earlier this year persuaded many French people that government control of television news is still extensive. She dropped out, however, over the issue of objectionable lyrics in the songs of some of the performers.

Claiborne Pell (D-R. I, saying he regrets any reduction in the NEA budget, noted that "arts funding is not exempt from budget pressure, but I would like to see the arts portion in the context of the President's entire budget" In Sacramento Paul Minicucci, legislative analyst for the Joint Legislative Committee on the Arts, appeared to take a similar stance. John died at home, according to his wishes, surrounded by caring friends who kept a steady vigil. Put Richard Nixon or Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter behind that same desk Monday, in front of the same camera, speaking to America under the same set of conditions, and public reaction probably would be different"My fellow Americans. When, for instance, Philip Jerry turned Beatriz Rodriguez upside down in their sensational pas de deux, Forsythe made it an act of scornful manipulation; however, when Carothers got upended by Tom Mossbrucker and Jerel Hilding in "Light Rain" it was just another improbable lift for us to gasp over. They may have achieved no conclusive answer, but they have opened the question so convincingly that it is no longer a certainty that the man from Stratford wrote a word, and every reason to suspect that he didn't. .

That's what makes the union of director Robert Mandel and "F/X" so bizarre. If a musician wants to honor the 100th anniversary of the composer's death, says Ciccolini, "that homage should involve something special" not the usual Romantic potboilers that commonly adorn recital programs. Neil Ahern carries out his duties as a neighbor, Lamar, with minimal efficiency, but Susan Herder, as county nurse Carmel, captures attention with her fascinating directness. "He counted wrong" Reagan was giving America the news, his news.

Now savoring his first full season as the 10th music director of the San Francisco Symphony, he has become almost everyone's hero at 59. In an interview in Woman magazine, she said can now walk but her arm and wrist are weak and prolonged activity tires her. "Only about two-thirds of the way through, when I see where I'm going, does it start to be fun". "We are doing nothing differently" Festival organizers say they are taking extraordinary security measures this year, and news accounts from Europe have predicted that Nice Airport, about 30 miles east of Cannes, will look like an armed camp.

A spokesman quoted him as saying he was "drowning in the pilot season" or in other words, readying various series pilots or proposals for same for scrutiny by ABC. NBC's eight-hour miniseries began with ground-breaking contracts-called treaties by the Soviets-between Sovinfilm, the state motion-picture agency, and Schiller, a Sherman Oaks film maker. He seems to have thrived as a resourceful outsider, with a hustler's love for long odds and a performer's zeal for every musical challenge. "The White Seal Coat" is a co-production between Theatre Exchange and the Theatre of N. O. T. E, which has an outreach program called Changing Chords. That persistent criticism seems to have been answered this year with the selection of the 51-year-old, Vienna-born Hollein, who has few buildings to his credit and, despite being recognized as one of the world's more influential designers, has published little.

Recently she went back to Nigeria, her first trip there in five years, to visit her grandmother Apparently, she's never quite comfortable there "That country is part of my heritage" she said. Harman band guitarist Hollywood Fats, whose nickname reflects his own rotund physique, wisecracked, "Gregory J. Our vision was too large for our community" The gallery-named TLK after Turnbull, Lutjeans and Kogan-opened Sept. Most everything it sets out to do was accomplished with considerably less fuss by such relatively minor early figures as Christian Rohlfs.

After all, Mary Lou Williams certainly would have received it before I did". A&E, he added, is a service "communities are proud to have" It is that thinking, presumably, that convinces cable affiliates to pay the network 72 cents a year per household and, more importantly, assign A&E a cable channel and get its programming before the public "Without their support" Davatzes said, "it wouldn't happen". This is competent, admirably decisive work concerned with precarious balance and making a heavy material yield airy-looking products Unfortunately, the art aims to please with stylishness. "We are in as good a position as any public television station in producing for the national schedule" Geller maintained in an interview That wasn't true three years ago. "The West Coast presence will allow us to develop relationships with the networks and cable (TV, as well as with potential co-production companies" Evans said. Viewer's Choice will not be available in Southern California for the time being, Kurnit said. For the Forest at Arden, where the banished and the discontented eventually congregate (Frederick is not a congenial man, the look is open and winter bright.