Thirty-six young actors and actresses of varying sizes will continue their performances of a musical "Alice in Wonderland" through Sunday. Meanwhile, his ample constituency will be happy to hear, the restaurant remains open for business as usual-which is fine with me, since La Toque is one of the true originals on the local restaurant scene and since Frank's talent and integrity are substantial. After the network show ended, many local stations aired spots asking for money and flashing an 800 number-World Vision's. Wakefield recalls having his first discussion about details of the unspecified story in a car en route with Fox executive David Sontag to their first "pitch" meeting with NBC.

And when Harry's restaurateur pal (Jon Ewing) rightly suspects that Harry's wife (Lynette Curran) and his business partner (Jeff Truman) are having an affair, we see the couple immediately having a go at it on their table at Ewing's restaurant at the height of lunch hour (it should be pointed out that Australian humor, by and large, is a lot earthier than ours. Ferguson, as producer-director, spent nine months training three shuttle crews in Houston Footage from three missions is used. I think that says something about a cat's character, you know? "I mean, he did it for free to expose an art form he believed in, like a policeman who's not on the force anymore but still walks a beat to protect the neighborhood" (While Patterson was a paid employee at public radio KLON, his salary was not as high as that which he could have made at a commercial station) Patterson's mother, Ethel C Patterson, said her son took voice lessons as a youngster. The one character who is supposed to engage our sympathies is the son's wife (Kate McNeil, who boldly challenges the other three to stop pretending problems don't exist.

In khon (ancient masked dance-drama, for instance, the demon-hordes from the Hindu epic "The Ramayana" dance a martial ensemble featuring much the same formal repetitions in different directions as the Erawan shrine dances. Second place went to Robynne Redmon, a mezzo-soprano from Chicago $2,700; Deborah Voigt, a soprano from Anaheim, won third place $2,000, and Rebecca Sherburn, a soprano from La Canada, finished fourth $1,500. . They know about the protests from black groups, who believe that the film promotes racial stereotypes about the black family, that it specifically portrays black men as incorrigible wife and child abusers. The sort of conductor who takes a running leap onto the podium and directs in nothing less than upper-case letters, the youthful Keene pushed the orchestra at full throttle most of the evening.

The owlish, young film journalist who became a celebrity with "The Last Picture Show" has traveled a long road since 1971. There was a ban on tape recorders and photos from the audience. Winnie Mandela is such a beautiful, serene woman that only when she starts talking about her life do we realize fully that for the last 30 years it has been an unending ordeal, a cruel, constant test of the spirit that in the end has strengthened her. From the moment Victor (John Procaccino) stalks into the room, the equation is clear: predator and prey.

tour of 17th- and 18th-Century masterworks by Rubens, Van Dyck and others. "On two prior occasions these guys took out similar ads and they were warned that this was a breach of contract" the source said. More important, modern conductors may be daunted by Schubert's bold and sprawling fusion of lyricism and drama, by his abidingly heroic perspective, by the inherent need for expressive refinement, and, yes, by what Robert Schumann defined as "heavenly length" Modern conductors tend to fall into one of two basic traps when they approach the "Great" C-major symphony. Bono Hewson's "Silver and Gold" (EMI-America-This track from the "Sun City" LP is a raw, desperate country-blues lament that-along with the biting "Let Me See Your I. D" rap-shows why "Sun City" may also be the album of the year 3. They have long since been gobbled up by such Eastern institutions as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which owns 67. The first commandment of Avant Vaudeville, he has said, is "Thou shalt not bore" Galas' most well-known creation, Mona Rogers, had its debut in San Francisco in 1981.

Then, after intermission, an Ambassador spokesperson made an announcement. If you look carefully at Dennis Washington's evocative production designs, you'll notice that "Prizzi's Honor" is set in the past (a vaguely '60s period that's back again today in everything from furniture to fashion) But since the whole milieu is so foreign-not to say exotic-we don't feel "Prizzi" as a period film. Directors have become vehement about how their films are slashed for TV. Since 1964, he has been the sole permanent music director/conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, only the fourth musician to hold that post in the 97-year history of the ensemble. "But what we would like to do is to teach the African people how to be self-sufficient, how to raise their own food-how to feed themselves, and if we can achieve that, I think that is even more moral and more loving" Asner referred to the vagaries of timing and mood in Hollywood causes, pointing to the frustrated attempts that Mobley and Collins made at African relief just a year ago. "Under the Volcano" featuring the performance that earned Albert Finney an Oscar nomination in the recent ceremonies, is just out (MCA, $79. 95.

Television has been called "chewing gum for the eyes" MTV is a sitz bath for the brain Staying in too long surely leads to shrinkage. . Glenda Jackson, Liv Ullmann, Vanessa Redgrave and Julie Andrews have all found nudity a crucial enough element of a script to do it. At the La Jolla Playhouse, marketing director Robert Friend says that 24% to 30% of the non-subscription ticket buyers comes from Los Angeles. David Miller Jr's monumental wooden heads reverberate with authority and the best of the naive work throbs with life.

MPAA rating: R (younger than 17 requires an accompanying parent or adult guardian. . It makes no difference" Still, some time ago, a half-lifetime ago, Paley the poet became Paley the writer It was not the most auspicious of beginnings. Fannon said both measures constituted "good news" for public broadcasting because the Reagan Administration has sought in the past to reduce the federal allocation to CPB and has tried to eliminate the facilities appropriation altogether. . As Hodsoll kept saying: "Artist residencies can supplement but never substitute for regular, continuing high-quality arts education, guided and directed by professionally qualified teachers" Now with the ratification of the new "Arts in Education Guidelines" for fiscal years 1987 and 1988 beginning Oct. He suggested that the motivation for such excursions often has been "to show off that we can present the news from some distant dateline"NEW YORK — The news anchormen of the three major television networks agreed publicly on one thing Wednesday: It is increasingly difficult to know exactly how to cover the news in today's fast-changing world. "The opening numbers were nothing to write home about" acknowledged one high-ranking Fox executive, who requested anonymity. A few Cannon pix have garnered mixed-to-good reviews"Runaway Train" (a Golden Globe for Jon Voight last weekend, John Cassavetes' "Love Streams" Robert Altman's "Fool for Love" "That Championship Season" "Maria's Lovers" A rep for Cannon wanted to add "The Ultimate Solution of Grace Quigley" (with K Hepburn and N.

I interpret the corporate policies and the overall thrust of the ownership as providing quality entertainment" Arch L. Then I was told I would have to have the Public Arts Advisory Board consider it, and that board voted in favor of it. (You might expect even more, if you remember the successful movie-director debut of another MTM alumnus, James Brooks on "Terms of Endearment) The situation is promising: Two women, apparently complete opposites, strike up a friendship at an aerobics class. (The leading contender is 7-foot, 320-pound Robert Lee Baker of Florida. Assisting the New Mexico-based singer will be environmental artist Lita Alberquerque. Though he hasn't mentioned it yet, insiders say "Brigadoon" is Ted Turner's kind of movie "Brigadoon" like "Shane" might well come back. . Calderone (D-Alhambra) adding a $25,000 appropriation to Filmex for a Latino film festival.