The little Balboa family is huddled in this huge, dark empty pretentious house, which has no marks of their taste. It was fun to watch"Such tactics, Ure conceded, were necessary to get the job done quickly "He did what he had to do. When he presses his driver to look at a photograph, the cab suddenly veers off the road; not until the film's conclusion do we return to this rainy night. What do you want to do" "Just tell him, 'We're too busy right now, thanks anyway' " the star said. When you try to pin something down, it loses its life" Cunningham was one of the earliest participants in the PBS "Dance in America" series and today has more than a dozen films and videotapes of his work available for sale or rental.
Debut solo exhibitions are as common as fast-food burgers, but it is rare to find one devoted to an octogenarian with a distinguished career stretching back nearly 60 years. Government officials here were quick to pick up on the strong emotional response to Live Aid. It was bup-bup-bup: "I'm very thrilled to be part of the Museum of Broadcasting Better than the wax museum My audience made me what I am today-a rerun. "We have always worked with the individual states to resolve the problem" an NEA spokesman said. One surviving half of a large stone sculpture depicts a Roman wine boat, an oared galley carrying wine casks, of which a famous whole example is on display at nearby Neumagen. The program is sponsored by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Rockefeller Foundation with partial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. As a result, there is a nicely unaffected, even vulnerable, edge to the performance.
de Young Memorial Museum hosts "The New Painting, Impressionism 1874-1886" Thursday to July 6, while "The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect" opens Saturday at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and remains on view through June 8. New Year's Day, KMET-FM (94. 7) offers its own suspect version of sobering Rose Parade commentary from Frazer Smith and the three members of the Firesign Theater. The executive director of the California Confederation of the Arts mentioned that possibility in a letter of "utmost urgency" to Gov George Deukmejian On Wednesday afternoon there was a hearing. Writer Alan Ormsby (who scripted Mandel's upcoming "Touch and Go) suggested the paean to dear old mom.
An Aug. If crowing about prices didn't seem so indigenous to Baker's infectious ardor and if he didn't love art more than money, the financial commentary would be a fatal deterrent to enjoying the amazing mass of material he has collected. However, Prince had always intended to contribute an unreleased song for the album, said Ken Kragen, who is producing the charity album. His photos were taken behind the barbed wire of Manzanar, where 10,000 Japanese-Americans, most of them born in the United States, were held for the duration of World War II. It leads one to expect a satirical ballet, a flight of bittersweet whimsy Kudelka gives us nothing of the kind. . Cable News Network says it plans to start airing reports on Sunday about life inside Soviet-backed Afghanistan, where more than 100,000 Soviet troops have been fighting U. S-supported rebels. With radiant tone and immaculate passage work, Marcovici surmounted all difficulties and clarified all structures in her virtuosic, impassioned but tightly controlled readings of the outer movements.
I'd taped the World and League Championship series for the last two years for use during the long winter. In presentations made Monday night, "Iceman" won the award for the outstanding production bound for New York, while Jason Robards, who starred in the production, received the honor for outstanding lead actor and Barnard Hughes was selected best supporting performer in a touring production "La Cage" was selected as best touring production. "Brazil" has been the subject of heated controversy with its releasing company, Universal. -His "Spring Rhapsody" composed in 1984, will be performed by the Philadelphia String Quartet as part of a local tribute to Indian culture tonight at the Embassy Theatre before an audience that will include Gov George Deukmejian and Mayor Tom Bradley. Temporarily liberated from commercial work, Avedon hired an assistant, Laura Wilson, who subscribed to dozens of small-town Western newspapers, called Chambers of Commerce and scouted for public events and work situations where large groups of people would gather. (and said, 'I'm going to be with this department for 20 years and this department is going to be a monument to me' " Rod Sakai began working for the city on July 3, 1977. What was his incentive to dig into himself and his experience or to learn how to work a crowd? Hit or bust, he was a star who came of age in a decade when the rupture between stardom and ability finally became complete as stardom fell into bed with media caprice.
Michael's and All Angels Episcopal Church at 3646 Coldwater Canyon, Studio City, at 8 p. m Saturday and 7 p. m Sunday. And I see no reason for me to be singled out just because these theaters are pleasant and comfortable. "I didn't even know where Afghanistan was, " he said, but the dusky playwright, who looks more like a carpet dealer from Damascus behind his black mustache than the 38-year-old descendant of a 13th-Century Neapolitan court physician (which he is, became obsessed with it. Using things that are nothing and making them something almost has a spiritual quality to it" McMillen, who shares space at the Laguna Beach Museum of Art at South Coast Plaza with painter Mark Stock through March 14, is best known for his fragmented miniature buildings made of dull colored wood, metal and paint that look as though they've been ripped from their foundations, victims of tidal waves, hurricanes or worse. Festivals often are locked into a specific number of plays announced ahead of time.
Vid-Dimension plans include a workout cassette-again led by De Anda-for pregnant women and entertainment videos featuring mariachi bands and comedians. As Paula Matthews, program director at KIQQ-FM, put it: "We were kind of nonplussed by it. Those who predicted long ago the steady development and eventual triumph of that mind can now be very proud, indeed. . We can't afford to produce specials or miniseries yet, so we want to find an alternative way to work with black writers on the West Coast" Although the network is available to more than eight million viewers, it still is not profitable and, according to Johnson, will not be until it has more than 11 million homes. As punishment for her truancy and generally rebellious attitude, Juli is frequently subjected to condemnation by a close circle of Magda's friends and colleagues in the party. He pops in a relaxed interview here, an hilarious bit of cinema verite there, and lets us watch as the small details of a vocal arrangement are adjusted and fiddled with.
But if the new direction (make that directions-with an average of three LPs a year recently, it's hard to keep track) had some of the punks a bit wary, the group's controversial avant-gardeisms seem to be attracting a mellower, surprisingly diversified new crowd. The Thiebaud exhibit, sponsored by a previously announced $100,000 gift from the Irvine Co, is the first of a series of 10 exhibits the company's pledge will underwrite at the museum through 1994. "CBS Reports" It's untrue that Turner would dismantle this venerable program because of its controversial 1982 episode attacking former Gen William C Westmoreland Turner is a strong supporter of documentaries So only one small change is likely here. (Burt Lancaster, originally asked to play the role, had to withdraw due to illness) Molina, a gay window dresser, entertains his friend, a political prisoner, with fanciful narratives drawn from some of his favorite old movies-and it is in these fantasies that Braga appears. Along with the freshly pressed suit he's suddenly allowed to wear again (no shoes, though, to ensure that the equilibrium remains slightly off, he is given an injection What, asks David Truth serum answers Victor Why, we ask ourselves.
A documentary is a record of our times-rich, poor, riotous, funny, sad It should record our times they way Charles Dickens did 'Oliver Twist' was a documentary 'Tale of Two Cities' was a documentary Dickens could write better than I can But, by God, he couldn't make a film about it like I can". Last spring it attracted highly favorable notices in the national press in Washington when it revived "Abdallah" a long-lost ballet by Auguste Bournonville, at the Kennedy Center. Mark Rydell, who had good and bad reviews for "The River" during its academy-qualifying run in December, including a thoughtful zapping from Sheila Benson in these pages, has learned, insofar as you can learn, to be philosophical, he says. The Peabody-Mason competition, in which he prevailed over more than 150 contestants, is Korevaar's first victory in a major music competition.
The next day, he hits upon a scheme to achieve instant popularity: He'll stand up to Gary (Frank Asher, the school bully, who will prove to be a coward at heart This doesn't work out as planned. In its purest form, it utilized foodstuffs that were practically free: leftover scraps of bread dough cooked in the leftover heat of the local baker's oven, the tomato (which grows like a weed all over the region) and a kind of cheese, mozzarella, made from what curd remained when all the good cheeses had been produced. Since 1978, when they debuted on the PBS series "Sneak Previews" this Frick and Frack and Mutt and Jeff-the "expansive" Ebert and the "imploding" Siskel-have built up a loyal following by giving a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" to new releases. It bulges with music books and magazines on the revival of interest in rockabilly in Europe and, recently, the United States.
"There are more than the ordinary amount of orchestras around the county. These musicians evidently think as clearly as they play; sharper definition would hardly be possible. "Life" (screening tonight only as part of the Nuart's Chinese Film Festival) is a dangerously pretentious title for any movie, but Wu Tianming's epic tale has a disarming simplicity. His work in "The Killing Fields" and as one of Dustin Hoffman's sons on stage and in the television film of "Death of a Salesman" has confirmed that Malkovich is one of the most intense and talented actors of his young generation (he is just past 30. "Space" is so long that just about every character in it gets to be a drag before it's over, and that includes narrator Laurence Luckenbill who solemnly drones on about "this minor planet" in "this least-ordered of galaxies" There are five major characters whose fates we follow from 1944 into the present, more or less, and whose lives have something to do with the quest to conquer space Fake people interact with real people At one point narrator Luckenbill mentions Lyndon B. She drives her husband away with her shrewish complaints, grieves resoundingly for him like Penelope at the loom while he's gone, then makes life hell for him after he returns. What is essential is that the chosen one make music; that he or she communicate through the instrument; that he or she command the techniques and resources of the instrument; that the sounds produced have color, variety, meaning and intelligibility; that the basic sound be at least pleasant, hopefully pretty or, best, beautiful.
And he might illuminate such troublesome issues as illiteracy and women's rights. "I said, 'The last couple of movies"Splash" and "Cocoon-have been good experiences, but they weren't always fun because they were so hard to do' " Howard recalls telling the star of his comedy "Night Shift" " 'I'd really like to do this movie, and I'd like to do it with you because I think we'd have a lot of laughs. 1/2 "The First Wave" is a workmanlike documentary that traces the British pop scene's evolution from the innocence of the early '60s (Gerry and the Pacemakers) to the psychedelic-drenched end of the decade (Cream. It began hanging out at trendy discos, watching all those linen-clad, rolled-sleeve boo-hoos paying top dollar to roll around in synthetic sound and snort neon.