The New Zealand film industry is bright and burgeoning, but not so sturdy that it can't be dropped in its tracks when word of mouth about "Came a Hot Friday" (Beverly Center Cineplex) gets around. But if you're too sexy, people tend to overlook everything else" The Mary Jane Girls are often lumped in with Vanity 6 and Appolonia 6, the attractive female singing groups organized by James' rival Prince. And they know the hot, dangerous high of attraction, of hinting at experience you don't have-and aren't sure you really want Yet The setting of "Smooth Talk" is the unremarkable present Summer vacation Small town Petaluma, north of San Francisco. Among them: Miles Davis, Steve Van Zandt, Afrika Bambaataa, Bob Dylan, Gil Scott-Heron, Pete Townshend, Ruben Blades, Daryl Hall and Springsteen.

It started with a dinner for about 30 people given at the Center Club following the press conference. Among the headline acts scheduled at Garfield's in coming weeks are Etta James (Wednesday , Fishbone (Thursday, Tower of Power (April 23, Freddie Cannon (April 24) and Bo Diddley (April 29. Here are other weekend programs: TODAY: The Los Angeles Unified School District's magnet schools are the subject of "Choices '86" 7:30 a. m (11) and 1 p. m (4 Flutist James Galway hosts "Ireland and the Irish" a St Patrick's Day special, 1 p. m (7. "I think the new marketing team at Columbia is the best one in the industry right now" said Carliner, on the eve of the opening of his and director Walter Hill's "Crossroads" "There will be no ex-post facto finger-pointing here. This is an engrossing, virtuoso, one-of-a-kind film shot through with as much dark humor as pathos Co-feature: "Tales of Hoffmann" (1951 Phone: (213) 478-6379, 479-5269. .

According to Grass, the lyrics usually aren't political in nature, but songs concerned with everyday life under apartheid inevitably acquire a political meaning. A mysterious stranger becomes the "father" they both need, and they rejoin the world. The earlier material had afforded him the opportunity for some florid singing that was reasonably clear and accurate. In both works, the German conductor, now music director of the Detroit Symphony, kept the musical line in view while attending to pertinent details-and some of the playing he elicited from our Philharmonic had the unmistakable and admirable stamp of neatness. Only this camera happens to be on a satellite 22,000 miles in space, and its pictures will be part of the program of a unique conference inside what locals know, affectionately, as the Blue Whale. I would say in 1975, still 70% of our buying public were dealers. If you weren't among 1985's 11 million or 12 million purchasers of videocassette recorders but have plans to enter the video age this year, brace yourself for confusion.

"And now she has to be linked to this" Renee Richards-even now a work in progress. . They also set forth his persistent interest in the tension between chaos and order. If it was a good year for the color purple (thanks to Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen, it was a bad one for any movie with "death" or "dragon" in the title. The association operates the city-owned Gem Theatre, Grove Amphitheatre and Mills House galleries. . The Star most recently non-reported that the couple finally agreed on a divorce settlement because they hadn't wanted details of their three-year marriage revealed in court.

I tried to do (them) in other bands and people would just laugh" Polka in general is a fairly zany experience, admits Lacques, and one not to be taken too seriously. His Gannett executive status-combined with his lucrative career as a voice-over announcer for commercials, movies and cartoon characters-made Owens eligible for early residual retirement years ago. The men wear buckskin shoes or black-and-white shoes or blue-and-white shoes The women wear little felt bonnets and seamed stockings. In June, the wiry violist will conduct the 70-piece orchestra at the Round Top Festival in Round Top, Tex. The character around whom most of the story swirls is Rodrigo Borgia, who in the first episode became Pope Alexander VI, a title he earned the old-fashioned way: with duplicitous politicking and bribery.

For us, dance is a physical art and thus the positions that Lin abstracts from our dance traditions look strangely empty, juiceless-unless you see dance the same way that he does. This has become a historically valuable item, not only because of the breathless beauty of Merrill's whispered ballad vocals, but owing to the presence of Clifford Brown on trumpet. Once in a while you can even sing yourself into a corner, and have to wiggle your way out" She learns the old songs from records in the first instance "The sheet music is almost always wrong" she says. For the current best sellers that didn't earn a spot in the Top 100, I projected how far I'd have to extend the list to reach the level of their dubious achievement. Nichols made it a legitimate piece and Bartel has kept it legitimate" Bartel, acknowledging that the attraction for him was the chance to work with Nichols, says, "The Longshot" is a temporary digression from the eccentric material he prefers"This is the first film where I'm functioning exclusively as a director It's very much a Tim Conway film. As a film person, he yearns to be alone in the Platonic cave of the movie house, caught up in a stream of ever-changing images that are both bigger than life and true to life He doesn't want to squint to see, or strain to hear Above all, he doesn't want to have to pretend. The Federal Communications Commission ruling allowing for waivers on the forced sell-off of some stations made their attempt moot, Hoberman told The Times.

"Well, I think men are very nervous" in the presence, literary or otherwise, of strong women, "and they are wrong to be nervous, because their lives can only improve by relations with strong women, women with brains and ideas and feelings. So far the thing has gotten off the ground like a great big bird". Mitzelfelt led an urgent reading of Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" The orchestral playing, both here and during the choral works, ranged from energetic and clean to energetic and scrappy. "My interest in obelisks comes from my travels in Egypt in the '70s I work mainly in symbolism.

Thomas' background is as a painter with an interest in formal issues, hence the compositional strength of his color photographs. In 1973, he became director of the Sharon (Conn) Creative Arts Foundation, a summer performing and visual arts center Two years later, he took over the Bronx Arts Council. Most of the tickets for Russell's final three performances already have been sold, according to an opera spokeswoman, although tickets for the Nov 7 recital, at $20, are still available. Now video companies don't tape operas or concerts but merely buy the rights to American and European fine arts TV specials and remaster them for video. Nobody's in a hurry, so diners snuggle into the comfy chairs and commodious booths, staring about them while polished waiters hover. When a staffer hesitated sitting on the still-chalky floor, Bushnell told him: "Don't worry about your.