"The visual element of the piece (devised with video artists Steina and Woody Vasulka) is almost like seeing the voice" La Barbara noted during a telephone conversation from New York "The basic video is scenes of Santa Fe (N. M) and Iceland. "He has for years" The demise of the popular standard and the onslaught of R&B, C&W, rock and other current forms began four decades ago, Charlie Shoemake said "We lost it (the classic popular music form) in the '40s. I'd like to see Orange County wake up and get out of that-singer James Harman. . Looking robust and sun-tanned from his "semi-retirement" in Puerto Vallarta, Bennett reminisced about his experience with "The Moor's Pavane" during a break from rehearsals. The Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters, Laguna Beach's famed annual summer attraction, is seeking to increase the share of festival proceeds that now go to cultural organizations, according to local art activists. The artist thought very deeply about all aspects of the productions so that his design for, say, "The Magic Flute" serves Mozart unusually well. "Return to Oz" This "non-musical, non-sequel" finds Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) revisiting the enchanted land of Oz to rescue the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion from the King who has destroyed the Emerald City Written and directed by Walter Murch (Disney) Opens June 21.
He had also shot "The Killing Fields" in Cambodia, playing a tough-minded photojournalist, but "Places" was released first and became his debut. (It's ironic that in this Disney-produced spectacle, Vinton's patented Claymation almost steals the movie) However, the framework surrounding "Return to Oz" is dark and, I suspect, terribly frightening for very young children. He still uses brightly colored, bold, referential images in what are apparently narrative sequences, but on canvas stretched on wood supports. "MacArthur's Children" Portrait of the changes in post-World War II Japan as seen through the eyes of a Japanese child Directed by Masahiro Shinoda (Orion Classic) Opens Friday. Penney's is taking the message to the shopping malls of the country. "But now that I got written up for it, I feel like I'm being watched-so I'm gonna be watching this real close myself" Chief Young said a city regulation passed last year empowers the department to permanently revoke a club's license if it habitually overcrowds its space.
Still in the planning stage, Rubino said, are Sunday afternoon jam sessions that he hopes will attract every big jazz player in the county. James Cagney won for "Yankee Doodle Dandy-not a gangster picture; Cary Grant was nominated when he went dramatic-not for his comedies And on and on. "There are two things I promised myself a long time ago: I won't work strictly for money, and I won't work on something where I have to give up control" he said. He was all set to follow "Space" with a series for NBC called "Mona Lisa" about the Italian Renaissance. They probably felt as if they were searching for a minnow in an Olympic-size pool, or examining precious jewels through the wrong end of a telescope. talk, and she'll show and tell "how some artists worked directly with dance" such as Picasso, Rauschenberg or Hockney-doubling as scenic or costume designers-and how others "were haunted by the theme" including Matisse and "of course, Degas" "It's curious, you know, ballet hit a new low during Degas' time" said Bernier, ready with bits of unusual information offered authoritatively.
WASHINGTON — The news for Hollywood in 1985 is that the entertainment industry shouldn't expect many legislative goodies from Capitol Hill, the state's junior senator said Monday. For one thing, Liam said, "There was a lot of pressure from our fans. WGA officials say that the New York chapter has an estimated 2,000 members eligible to vote, while the Los Angeles branch has 5,100. Make no mistake about it, they're intended to cash in on the celebrity that Worldwide Sports attained via Live Aid "It's been obviously good to me" he said.
The following month, the Museum of Contemporary Art will take up permanent residence in architect Arata Isozaki's intriguing new building, downtown in the Bunker Hill development. One look is all young Brad needs to search him out, to adopt a little of that swagger as his birthright, to follow his father into the family business-stealing. The raw stuff of "At Close Range" (Bruin, Chinese Theatre) is classically and grotesquely American, with an inexorable pull. Everything's fresh and light, suggesting that Shakespeare must have dashed this one off in one lucky afternoon: The construction is too perfect to have been labored at. It's a direct piece, but, rhythmically, an involved one, its interplay of rhyme and rhythm as impossible to notate as good jazz Ben R Caldwell's visuals supply a third rhythmic force.
"Back to the Future" A teen-ager travels back in time to 1955-the year his parents met as teen-agers-in a nuclear-powered car. Bonus clue: "Kiss of the Spider Woman" sounds like the title of one of her early movies 10 What the academy directors branch said to Steven 11 Wrinkled cookie monster? 13 The telecast usually runs too long by one of these 14. For the past five years, taking aim at the television screen on Oscar night has not only provided comic relief for members of the group but has also helped vent some of their frustrations about the business side of the art form they love. Kragen and the other celebrities and officials on hand for the press conference will be prepared to address the downside as well as the upbeat aspects of Hands Across America. The project will be funded with $100,000 from the ethnic minority line item in the governor's proposed 1985-86 budget. That Music Director David Atherton would even consider allowing a member-rather than a visiting soloist-to play this work with his colleagues testifies to the exceptional quality of the orchestra's musicians.
Along with El Grupo Sexo will be the droll "lounge music from Hell" of Mark Soden's Synth-O-Bar act. Most of San Diego's five college radio stations, which all boast eclectic formats not normally heard on commercial stations, share those difficulties: How do you boost listenership, and thus advertising revenue, when you are denied access to the public airwaves, and how can you have strong management when most of your staff changes from semester to semester? The first problem is unique to towns like San Diego adjacent to the border with Mexico, said June Butler, a public service specialist with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Philadelphia? The best-known rockers from there are Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker and Frankie Avalon-and the only way they deserve to get in a Rock Hall of Fame is with an admission ticket. If ever there were a group dedicated to such a laudable pursuit, the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, heard at Hancock Auditorium, USC, on Tuesday night, is a notable nominee. If you saw him on the street, you'd say: 'How can he ever play a woman' But he's strictly beguiling" She said "Bhama Kalapam" is a mythological dance, "and we'll be doing a scene between Satyabhama and her confidante.
Marie Windsor-yes: the Marie Windsor-plays a 1940s movie star with a teensy drinking problem who is trying a comeback via Equity Waiver theater, and by closing time it seems that she just might make it. The panel will examine the role of the artist as social designer, the use of metaphors in public art, audience accessibility and influences other than architecture on contemporary work designed for a specific location. But on the other side of the Atlantic, Rudolf Nureyev, who made his acting debut in Ken Russell's disastrous "Valentino" has decided that enough is enough "No more films for me" he says. Phone: (213) 825-2581. Olivia de Havilland, one of Hollywood's most cherished star actresses, will be honored with a monthlong, 18-film retrospective at the County Museum of Art. Orange County's Opera Pacific is trying to change-practically overnight-from modest local impresario to big-time Southern California producer of opera and musicals. The group's debut album, "The Power Station" sold more than a million copies and spawned two hit singles, "Some Like It Hot" and "Bang a Gong" Power Station, also featuring singer Robert Palmer, bassist/producer Bernard Edwards and drummer Tony Thompson, evolved after the two Duran members guest-starred in sessions for a Thompson solo album. Without Power Station there might not be an Arcadia. Opening act A Drop in the Gray sounded beefier live than on its recent debut album.
ATHENS, Ga. Meanwhile, we see trigger fingers multiply and the nuclear "High Noon" extend to the "stormy political theater" of Latin America, where such nations as Brazil and Argentina are on the nuclear threshold, abetted by West Germany and the United States. Then, in the financial fallout from the passage of Proposition 13, the orchestra's sponsor, Cerritos College, canceled the umbrella program (Music Odyssey) under which the ensemble was funded. Returning to the Pavilion of the Music Center on Tuesday night, the distinguished Spanish musician again reinforced her image, reputation and artistic persona. "Provenance" means "place of origin" but the funny thing about Janice van Horne's play at the Ensemble Studio Theatre is that we never really understand where its heroine (Gretchen Corbett) is coming from.
Pepper's" the Beatles' landmark 1967 LP that brought an arty consciousness to rock. He has co-starred on "Airwolf" and he will soon appear in a television movie. Although the narration always speaks of "man" conquering space and "man" waddling around on the moon, there are women in these men's lives: Blair Brown as the bright young Senate aide who marries Pope but has an adulterous affair with Sen. But Americans' chances to hear undiluted mbaqanga music-a blanket term for the music popular in South Africa's black townships-have been limited by distribution difficulties. For example, his dates this week as conductor/soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. "But that's why we call it Interactor-the child becomes the actor, the alter ego of the character on the record.