There were rumors then that Cagney was grossly fat or gravely ill or both, and he wanted a credible witness to say it wasn't so. He could be a snotty little kid, and he's really down to earth "For me, children are the best thing I ever had. They'll connect "via satellite" to Houston, Denver and San Francisco. 31 deadline for Podesta to gain endorsements from all three governments for the Bowers shows. "It was frustrating to have guitarists or bass players who would come to rehearsal with their books because they were actually studying to be archeologists, or who just wanted to drink through the entire process and couldn't remember the chords once they got on stage.

"Brazil" is richly visionary-even if Gilliam's extremely bleak vision is enough to require cold compresses and warm toddies before you are feeling yourself again. She had small parts in "Star 80" and "Ghoulies" and has two new films awaiting release"Road Trip" directed by Steve Carver, and "Summer Release" directed by Terry Carr. "Belated Flowers" screens tonight at 7:30 and 9:15 in the Fox International's "Masterworks of Soviet Cinema" series (information at (213) 396-4215. ART KIDS: Speaking of children, a group of high schoolers is essaying the improbable-performance art, that peculiar, once avant-gardish, now aging strain of art that animated itself and leapt, figuratively and literally, off the wall a decade or so ago. With it is one of the best offerings in the series, DeeDee Halleck's 27-minute "Waiting for the Invasion" composed of interviews with U. S citizens living and working in Nicaragua. In between there might be roast goat ( cabrit , tender and almost spicy, to be sprinkled with lime juice and gnawed off the bones, or maybe fresh local snapper ( sarde ) in a restrained sauce of onions and butter with a little lime juice, a few baby potatoes, a bit of sweet red pepper and the odd chunk of tomato Danies does not hold with overusing tomato. What there was was a vaguely spicy tomato-based sauce of some kind, good mozzarella-like cheese, thin slices of Italian-style ham, and lots of uncomfortable-looking little kernels of corn On the pizza.

He's one of the very few comedians of the past couple of decades who has carried the American heartland into big time media success without being a flag-waver or an unconscionable pitchman. With unflagging interest, we followed the crowded adventures of the arrogant Mesopotamian ruler, Gilgamesh-living through his own youthful lust for power, confronting the wrath of the gods, discovering friendship, then pain, then powerlessness, to end up a much chastened and wiser old man. Ralph would ultimately eat his crow and come crawling to Alice on his knees, but only after one of his classic explosions "One of these days, Alice, one of these days Pow! Right in the kisser" How sweet it was And still is. . There were enough crisscross lighting effects on stage to guide a spaceship back to Earth.

While their first love is contemporary music, the founders are all well-rounded, successful professionals intent on turning out graduates who will be the same. CBS is making available a 30-minute radio version of the series that KKHR-FM (93. 1) in Los Angeles will be carrying at 5:30 a. m Sundays starting this weekend. The differing stances of Montreal, Montreux and Monterey reflect both the business sense and the personal tastes of the promoters. And that's considered OK" The Textones' Karla Olson, one of the most articulate of these New Patriots, went through much of the same idealism-turned-to-disillusionment of many in her generation. . If we're going to stage a work, please, let's have the verisimilitude of theatricality" Foss arrived in San Diego last week from Amsterdam, where he sang the role of Abraham Lincoln in minimalist composer Philip Glass' 1984 "The Civil Wars" "The reception of Glass' opera was incredible" said Foss. "If they found me fearsome and aloof, it's because they made too many assumptions and I ended up answering their questions with questions" Whatever Tudor's iconoclasm, he occupies an exalted place in the dance world. In a stunning surprise for the state's arts community, Gov.

We are not a gang of conspiring revolutionaries, thumbing our noses at the Pop Establishment Well, maybe we are a little Which might explain the dream I had that very night. "Of course, all this time we were exploring everybody else" said Byck "Orion, Columbia, Triumph. "We look forward to working closely with him" Rubenstein was introduced officially at the CPB board meeting on Friday, and said he was honored to have been selected. They literally embody India, teeming with its 750 million souls. Sometimes they get mixed up with thoughts about culture shock as in "Desire" where a brown-skinned nude girl confronts the cool marble contours of the Venus di Milo. The plot is further complicated when Braddock-with the Spanish police, headed by Fernando Rey, in dogged pursuit-stops in Madrid to pick up a fresh car.

Luckily, he decided to film the trip and take along as his guide and co-director Southern-born Robert Parrish, the veteran film maker and one-time editor for John Ford. "But there are now some interesting things on offer" he said. But he was by then hooked on radio and, in his spare time, started a weekly poetry show on W2XR (later WQXR, producing dramatized readings. Like they say in the song, "That's en-ter-tain-ment" The next sweep month is May. I have done so well in these roles, I have no wish to change" Dimitrova said. Based on the Old Testament tale of Jacob's favored son whose jealous brothers sell him into slavery, the musical is a pastiche of cabaret, Western hoedown, '20s jazz, calypso and rock 'n' roll.

Also scheduled for the program, sponsored by Global Media Ltd. I'LL DRINK TO THAT-Among topics discussed at the recent CBS affiliates convention in San Francisco was the fight by CBS and other broadcasters against a potential ban on beer and wine ads on radio and TV. A three-judge appellate court panel later denied CNN's appeal of Leval's reluctant decision That court ruled that "no case. NEW YORK — In a continuing effort to establish itself as a showcase for American films, public television's "American Playhouse" series plans to present a "movie festival" this summer.

My grandmother and my dad have both told me the same story (the one Dick recounted" Later, while sitting with her father she added, "There are a lot of things that have been fictionalized, technical things. "And then they did it again"Sometimes it pays not to advertise. He loves, too, the taste of griddle grease on the burger buns and the specially made burger buns themselves that fall apart in your hands-essential to the fast-food burger experience, he says. And if I had a job, that's what I would be doing tomorrow morning" He went on to touch on the hottest topic in radio these days-payola-telling how he had recently been approached by a local television station to appear disguised, on camera, to talk about that issue.

Teeming with indignation, she said, "I have nothing against them, but let me say this: We were first in everything. In reality the logs were an interesting sculptural demonstration of relative scale, but they set off a fuss over everything from ecology to fears they would break through the museum floor. NEW YORK — Richard Serra's retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (through May 13) leaves little doubt that he is among the most powerful and pure of living sculptors. The group will play tonight as scheduled at the Hollywood Palladium. . This is a refreshingly adult, quirky and demanding film in which a bright, reflective woman attempts to reconcile the contradictions, injustices and absurdities that confound every thinking person living in any society; to label this a feminist work is to restrict its meaning RECOMMENDED. .

Sitting beside original works by Henry Moore, Auguste Renoir and more, multimillionaire George Ablah discussed the art he's loaning to Century City for an outdoor "sculpture walk" He spoke not from a spacious office suite or mansion anteroom, however, but from the lush interior of his private jet. Titus sang with easy power, especially as the line ascended, and found no reason to fear the awkward flourishes at the end of the formidable second-act aria. The strong supporting cast-Patricia Johnson as Marcellina, Donald Grobe as Basilio, Ivan Sardi as Bartolo, Klaus Lang as Antonio, Gudrun Sieber as Barbarina, Loren Driscoll as Curzio-remained unchanged. His contact with artists led to "passionate self-education" in art, according to Marks. That's the reason why a lot of guy bands are guys" Observes Hoffs, "There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender. He is immaculately dressed in custom-tailored suits, opts for a touch of flair with colored and striped shirts with crisp white collars, and adds a little extra heel on his shoe to boost his trim 5-foot-7 frame. Now that Ricky Skaggs, at 31, has matured into one of Nashville's hottest musical exports, what he'd like to tackle next is organizing an American country music invasion of Europe.