The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art has lost its new director. Even if one of his four nominations don't turn into victories for him, Richie was guaranteed one reason to celebrate Tuesday. Steve Baskerville, the awesomely affable weathercaster on "The CBS Morning News" is standing atop the tallest building in St Louis, wearing a St. All delectable features of the female anatomy had to be accounted for Breasts were forever a focal point And I must say I can see why. In the wake of a number of recent work-related injuries to stunt people, an attorney who represents several of them said he will ask the state Legislature to enact stricter safety guidelines. "That would rob me of the satisfaction of talking to aspiring artists and passing on testimonials The secret is not to ever sing the last performance".

Tickets for two other Greek shows on go sale Monday: Weird Al Yankovic (July 26) and R. E. M (July 27. There is a move in the industry now toward increasing the standard film speed from 24 pictures per second to 30-not to accommodate theaters, but to enhance the product for the coming era of high-definition TV. But now I think they're OK" LIVE ACTION: Tickets go on sale Monday for three Pacific Amphitheatre shows: Sting (Aug 21, Dire Straits (Sept 8) and the Rick Dees Comedy Show (Sept 21. He didn't take his clothes off when Playgirl photographers asked him to pose for their February pictorial on men in broadcasting His reason, Edwards says candidly, is his career. Also at LACMA, through June 15, are paintings by contemporary realist painter Sandra Mendelsohn Rubin This is the latest in a series of Gallery 6 exhibitions. "There are too many things that look like hidden agendas involved with this" Exon said he would support a ban on pornographic lyrics if the recording industry did not "clean up your act" he told Zappa "I've never heard your music" Exon said. "For us now, where we may be put in a position where we may not get paid.

The actor makes it all one person, but in any play you could pull out one (key) speech and that's that playwright. With so many titles to fit into a 15-week period, many distributors still are wrangling for screen space Details on some films are also subject to change. Reading his speech from a TelePrompTer, Reagan was magnificent, showing again his wondrous way with TV It remained to be seen whether Monday's U. S attack would diminish Kadafi. Mitchell, who serves as chairman of the Hall of Fame, having established it when he was president of the TV Academy from 1980 to 1983. While "American Storm" is about turning away from drugs, the title tune is about battling against the hustling and scheming of the record business. Soloists were out' That's what they told me" the affable pianist explained during a break from rehearsals for a 66-date cross-country tour that begins Saturday at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo.

And Billy Idol's new album, "Whiplash Smile" is due out next month. . Yamaguchi touches greatness again on Sunday, May 4, as coordinator of the second annual "Great Chefs of L. A" event at Le Bel Age Hotel, to benefit the National Kidney Foundation. This is worth it already" The Terrible Trio closed out an informal poll taken among the fans Monday by agreeing with the poll's very unofficial results: "Color Purple" best picture; Nicholson, best actor; Goldberg, best actress. Moments of effective stagecraft-and the dedication of Eisenberg's eight-member dance company-seemed beside the point: Didactic art that offers only snap judgments and superficial impressions can't be trusted. He said morning newsman Chuck Moshontz will remain on board, adding that the station is hoping to eventually expand the morning team to a trio "if we can find the right person" to team up with Donahue. . There is a lopsided look to his composition, as if asymmetry and controlled chaos is a normal structural schema. The daughter will now don the costume of Matilda of Tuscany, while her mother will pretend she's Matilda's mother.

Michael: I like all of the new stories, and the art is fantastic I'd see it because I really liked the "Dark Crystal". Picked up by Orion Pictures television division, "Behind the Sunrise" is scheduled to air here later this fall, Frederick said. Khon can be as spectacular as a procession of 25 red, blue- and gray-masked monkey-soldiers-wearing ornate, sparkling costumes in matching colors-ending with mass balances on one leg (the free foot again held up and turned out) and forceful hopping on it. The first coin-operated phonograph appeared in 1889, and soon music fans were hearing their favorite songs, via individual listening tubes, in phonograph parlors.

Estimated to cost $350,000 and funded by AT&T, "The AT&T Performing Arts Festival at the Kennedy Center" includes the world premiere production of the musical "Shout Up a Morning" about the legendary "steel-driving man" John Henry. There are so many people here who didn't get to see it the first time, and it's a great feeling to know that so many people here are already aware of it". In the radio area, two commercials for the Wendy's hamburger chain captured awards. You can feel your brain cells turning to dust but you watch anyway"There's a bright spot, Godley observed drolly, to MTV presenting what this pair considers junk: "It means when our stuff is played, it looks great by comparison. Apparently he did, for a series of portrait drawings to illustrate a book of his writings, but he became dissatisfied with John's treatment of his chin (a sensitive point for Joyce) and with the artist's spare, linear style which escaped Joyce's failing eyesight. .

Johnson, "the Photography Department" at the College of Marin north of San Francisco, is visiting the San Diego area while on academic leave. "Myself, as principal, and our guidance counselor have our hands full with some very serious problems" A first-grade teacher, Sharon Hibbs, said the children had become more verbal, more precocious, and better able to understand spoken words. For those who forget how Mom used to be portrayed, see "Blue Denim" at the Harman Avenue Theatre. Along with partners Len Sasso and Tim Ryan, Otwell is writing programs he hopes will help musicians and computers become comrades rather than adversaries. Before anyone can sigh at the sweetness of it all, the stage is usurped by the macho corps bearing sticks for a pseudo-Indonesian war dance called "Illuminations" This gives way, and not a moment too soon, to a pagan number, "Heliogabalus" which pretends to represent Africa as the participants crawl on all fours, give each other piggy-back rides and fuse to imitate animals.

"I also know it's dangerous to invite people to make any comparison between myself and Elvis (on the album cover) because I know who is going to come off second best. For instance, in the case of the grape-peeling incident, Gorman explained, "I might have said that, but I doubt anyone would actually do it for me" If what had been expected was something from the public-relations files on Gorman-perhaps an animated, gregarious, outrageous and even insane artiste -Gorman in person was a total contradiction He seemed not quite over his summer illness. "Natty Gann" may have been created with the thought of giving young women a heroine to admire. The Footlockers, a Los Angeles-based three-member dance ensemble that gave Minnelli additional support on her dance numbers, opened with a 25-minute exhibition of "locking" and other street-dance styles that the trio combined with gymnastics and martial arts movements. . 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. Arts advocates, however, still seek as a long-range goal more than $25 million-or $1 per capita-from the state budget alone.

For the Russian spacecraft Leonov Mead designed for "2010" he said, "I put together a vehicle that looked clunky. Artists, feeling they have to be scruffy and intransigent, battle the public over official commissions. It's very difficult to do in today's market" Over the years, the Vienna-born Zinnemann, whose first Hollywood job was as an extra in "All Quiet on the Western Front" worked and corresponded with virtually all the legendary studio moguls. I don't think anyone has succeeded in that area since the early Disney features" One of the main reasons so many of those features failed to involve an audience was bad writing: Writing for animation-rather than animating-seems to be a truly lost art. Centerpiece of the celebration, Saturday night, was a musical Festschrift-the presentation to the honoree of brief pieces written by colleagues and former students for the occasion.