"There's more interest in the music over there than in the States. "In a circus, everybody knows when you've made a mistake like that I got a lot of dirty looks I really try not to do that I really, really try not to do that. Ross, who makes his local debut on Friday at the Lingerie, doesn't have fond memories of his Sun experience. "You're telling me that you can make food like this " But indeed he can-and, best of all, it's food that is very much his own. Mike's hot. Both figure in Medici's solo work, "Dread" opening Wednesday at Theatre East. If they see something that looks amateurish, even if the subject is worthy, they'll flip past it.

Although his appearance was brief, Ives demonstrated that he has not lost his touch: His voice was as assured, as mellifluously gentle as ever, his no-frills style still disarmingly direct as he regaled the children with "I Bought a Goat" and "Little Bitty Tear" But the song that brought down the house was the one most identified with Ives, and the one that sent the children into a clapping sing-along It was, of course, "Blue Tail Fly". "That's my seva , as we say in the south of India-something you enjoy doing" said Ferguson, a musician trained in the classical tradition at the French conservatory of music in Montreal. Wesley Brustad, executive director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since December, says his first four months on the job "have seemed like four years-very frustrating much of the time. ' and within three minutes they're getting so personal I want to walk over there and wind their clock" Goodman said, his easy manner temporarily fading. " 'The Color Purple' is only one of a handful of films in the history of the academy to receive the extraordinary total of 11 award nominations. He was dressed like a gaudy gaucho, and with any sense of theatricality he could have pulled off a full-blown, semi-mythical character a la Willy De Ville.

Nielsen audience estimates, Oscar '84 was seen in 23. 4 million American homes and was easily the big ratings winner in the April week it aired. Photography is by the remarkable Bernard Lutic, whose hand-held work in the battle scenes is particularly thrilling, as are the contributions of the editor, Stuart Baird. As he talked about his experiences in musical comedy, he was still reeling from his show-stopping performance as the wily cat Mistoffelees, a role he danced on Broadway before joining the Los Angeles cast of "Cats" a few weeks ago "I love doing the show" he said. Stax-style horn charts and mesmerizing string arrangements also help the Church sound fresh among the growing army of '80s flower people.

There's also a film of his performance as the doctor in the National's "Three Sisters" Olivier at his most tender and most playful. David Brokaw, a spokesman for Cosby, later referred to this difference of opinion as "a case of preference, not a source of tension" This is the closest the relationship between Cosby and his co-workers ever comes to being tested. The irony of the "We Are the World" success is that the single was virtually ignored in a year-end poll of the nation's 200 leading pop and rock critics. Conductor and pianist obviously agreed that the scale should be intimate, the aura lyrical, the textures transparent, the phrasing elegant. -A "black musical experience" featuring the Brookinaires of the First A. M. E Church, H B. And when he's alone, Sachs (Philip Anglim) has the audience to chat with.

Both Packwood and Ferris agreed on one point: that most legislators fear television. British cops aren't allowed to carry guns, except by permission The series is very British, except for me It has more grit and more violence than an American series. Added Apregan: "Support acts often tour with the headliners and they are presented to us as a package. Many stock analysts say the reason the networks have been so eagerly eyed in recent months by outside companies is the FCC's decision this year to increase from seven to 12 the number of TV stations a company can own, subject to certain restrictions. What they thought didn't matter" Her pop music career got off to a rocky start. "THE NEW RULES" Irma Thomas Rounder.

Billed as La Barbara's homage to Native Americans, the piece conjured up a sort of department-store Druidic rite of passage where vocal sound is the sole key to self-identification, the first circle of initiation into stranger mysteries. Although the couple have been engaged for almost a year, friends say that the decision to marry this weekend was made just this week. (That popular two-hour program (7 to 9 p. m) airs Monday through Friday. She even duplicates the wordless Kay Davis vocal on the original 1946 version of the Ellington title song. As Stewart Woodard, president of the newly formed Orange County Center Dance Alliance depicts it, the prospects for "first rank" dance attractions in Orange County "are exceptionally promising" "We (the Center) have the chance to be the premier showcase of dance in the region. In "Period of Adjustment" it's as though the author could sense an impending accumulation of hokey-ness as he threshed out his feelings about the healing power of love and trust and the need to adjust and reconcile. "It's a great humanistic story, and I am passionately devoted to it" Winkler says.

He has built his own, impeccable stock company of actors: his "autobiographical" Phillippe Noiret, who has become known to Americans chiefly through Tavernier films; Jean Rochefort, who is the perfect foil to Noiret in both "Let Joy Reign Supreme" and "Clockmaker; the less well-known but splendid Jean-Pierre Marielle, who plays a tragi-comic Breton Don Quixote in "Joy" and twins in the mordant "Coup de Torchon" and the lovely Christine Pascal, exquisite as the Regent's pet whore in "Joy" ardently political in the contemporary "Spoiled Children" Those who saw Tavernier in action last fall in Telluride remember him as an ebullient champion of popular-to-pulp American books and movies, yet two of his own best films, "Let Joy Reign Supreme" and "The Judge and the Assassin" are "period" pieces in which he has transformed historical events into actions of the greatest immediacy. For the rest, here's a week-by-week glance, random and incomplete, at items of potential interest: THIS WEEK: Friday: John Steppling's "The Shaper" reopens at the MET Theatre, new home of the L. A. "The Feitelsons bought what they liked and what they could afford, eventually amassing a surprising and interesting group of drawings" said UCSB art history professor Alfred Moir, who organized an exhibition of the Feitelson collection in 1983 and produced an accompanying catalogue. Master artworks from two different epochs visit San Francisco: The M H. He said he simply "explained a few specifics" about the CBS affiliate board's intention to soon file with the Federal Communications Commission a petition opposing Turner's takeover attempts.

Favorite subjects of the artist are multiple reflections of crowded street scenes and reversed signage in shop windows, themselves full of curios and mannequins. The 40-year-old director, whose new film opened Wednesday, has been junketing across America, helping promote the third installment in his popular Mad Max series, all starring Mel Gibson. On her brother's evidence (he died just as the book was being finished, she was hard as a skate blade, with a stevedore's vocabulary, a miser's instincts and a large capacity for men and, later, alcohol The love of her life was Tyrone Power, who got away. They have nobody to hang onto" In a sense, neither does Adams. (They are gallant about this echoing band and its equipment, snaking across parquet floors, rattling the French doors) We are wound up to worry about the success or failure of the Paris concert The concert will be 50% new material. The great 19th-Century Romantic ballerina Marie Taglioni learned her technique from her danseur father Filippo. "We find in our work at LIFE that people are responding to the need once they are made aware of the situation-not just by giving us food and money, but also by volunteering their time.

A two-hour TV movie based on the series recently was aired, and old episodes of the program have been rerun on Tuesday nights. "There are certain elements that are constant whether you're writing a news story or a best seller" said former ABC head Rule "You have to have certain things in there There has to be a beginning, middle and end There have to be characters that are appealing It's what you want to do with them that counts". Schumacher, who has been an art director and costume designer before writer and director, has a lethally fine eye for detail. In one of many ironies surrounding what has become a bedeviled project, Zyman had flown here from his company's Atlanta headquarters to assist in a press conference Thursday announcing Coke's newest Spanish-language celebrity spokesman, Cantinflas. "The smaller the bank, the fewer guards come to bother you" said Gardner) When it was finished two years ago, "We all agreed that the one theater it should open in was the 68th Street Playhouse, and they wanted it. The example I can say is my son (15-year-old Marlon, who lives with her on Long Island.

According to artistic director Gregory Smith, Miller and Canfield were guest artists twice during the last year-in Smith's "Nutcracker" at Christmas and in the February repertory programs. There wasn't the self-recriminatory or rancorous exchange one would have expected Their grief was too great The future of them both had been swept away. "It picks up at Pearl Harbor and goes all the way through World War II The other one is just a prologue 'The Winds of War' is half a story. Advertisers look at the ratings and say, 'Well, this is all I'm going to pay you' " insisted Max Sklower, vice president and general manager of ABC-affiliated KOAT-TV. Roger Roloff introduced a young, mellow, lyrically oriented Wotan who nearly made it through the final farewell without tiring. Sports Reporting: "Fred Gallagher Olympic Reports" KNX; "A Night at Rasslin, Oct 84" KRLA.

That's how one former CBS executive sums up the current status of the three major television networks. Walker subjects black culture to the authority of feminist issues. "And if network news doesn't fulfill its promise and doesn't establish that you can get from the networks in news and documentaries what you can't get from local stations, that will imperil the whole concept of network news" When interviewed, Friendly hadn't yet seen Home Box Office's much-publicized docudrama "Murrow" which portrays Murrow's career and the correspondent's relationship with Friendly, Paley, and then-CBS President Frank Stanton. As much as any event in pop cultural history, "We Are the World" brought together, even if for a few magic moments, the normally fragmented pop audience in a way that almost seemed impossible in this cynical age. USA for Africa's Benefit Recording Garners Four Awards, Including Best Record; Phil Collins Wins in Album, Pop Vocal and Producer Categories "We Are the World" was such an obvious choice for record of the year in Tuesday night's 28th annual Grammy Awards ceremony that it seemed almost anti-climatic when the envelope was actually opened. Because the show is scheduled to run until midnight, Hodge said, every effort will be made to ensure a safe and worry-free atmosphere "We will have a lot of security at the concert" Hodge said. Eventually he learned to make it work with his own personality "It was a wonderfully freeing thing But it didn't do much for my career" That was in 1963. The spring in his step, as well as the brightness in his voice, attest his sincerity.

In other works, Kippenberger pokes fun at the Soviet work ethic and, in a deliberatively glitzy piece, announces "Siberia Hates You" His irreverence applies to social issues as well as aesthetic ones, but he's clearly an insider in the world of art and his knowledge shows. When Salieri wrote his Requiem in 1804, he intended it to mark his voluntary withdrawal from the world of opera and other trivial pursuits. Then it disappeared, attaining the oblivion it probably deserved. "Marta just did Mother Ginger" in a local production of "The Nutcracker" "And that's traditionally a man's role" Jiacoletti said "I lost a job. "I can tell them how to work with museums and deal with other art professionals" she said.