"This bridge has inspired great artists from Jacques Caillot to Joseph Mallord William Turner" he said. "Reaching the Summit: Mountain Landscapes in Southern California 1900-1986" explores the approaches of artists past and present in an exhibition on view through April 27 at both the Laguna Art Museum's South Coast Plaza satellite facility and Saddleback College Art Gallery in Mission Viejo. But-this being American musical comedy, not "Nights of Cabiria-those streaks of darkness sometimes played a little speciously. The exhibition, "Neo-Tantra: Contemporary Indian Painting Inspired by Tradition" (Tuesday through Feb. Two relative unknowns, Forrest Sawyer and Maria Shriver, now co-anchor the program. "I find this so poignant" she said, moving on to William Henry Jackson's school portrait, presenting Indian students dressed in white people's clothes while one of their number holds a tomahawk.

NBC's bid to unseat CBS as the prime-time ratings champion got off to a zippy preseason start last week as three of its new series placed first, third and 13th in the audience popularity ratings, figures from the A. C Nielsen Co showed Tuesday. In this month's issue of the English pop journal The Face, a writer asks, "Does the success of '19' mean that the 'liberal age' is back and that the British public will agonize over the plight of 'murderers' instead of their victims? Or would a record about the average age of Vietnamese civilians killed by the Americans have done just as well" Hardcastle, who says he expects to give a portion of the record's royalties to veterans' groups, was caught off guard by the criticism. Status heads the menu at the Polo Lounge where patrons are seated according to their rank in the entertainment hierarchy. For once-and longtime Ojai-watchers do keep score-the sun shone consistently over Festival Bowl in downtown Ojai during the three daytime concerts.

With their triple-threat attack-syndicated newspaper reviews, local and national TV-industry insiders say these verbal counterpunchers have emerged as two of the most valued critics in the country, ranking (they say) behind Vincent Canby of The New York Times and the critics from Newsweek and Time. In a rare burst of activity, the band has a single out and leader Greg Burk has released a long-play solo cassette. Under the proposal to be discussed at a City Council hearing tentatively set for May 20, the monies from the reduced rent would pay for renovating festival facilities and boosting allocations to cultural programs. The action brought an abrupt end to all music activity at the club, which over the last 25 years has hosted hundreds of major rock, folk, jazz and comedy performers "Justice was not served" said Richard Babiracki. "Acting? It's nothing complicated. Spurred into action by influential parents and teacher groups that have voiced concern about alleged "pornographic and sexually explicit" lyrics of many current hits, the National Assn.

Dunphy, now at KABC Channel 7, remembered "The Big News" as "the most-watched TV news program in the U. S" and Keene as "a walking weather almanac" Nervously pumping one leg as he sat chain-smoking, Keene, 59, recalled the inglorious affair-a memory he has never come to terms with "It was a blow A tremendous, tremendous blow to my self-confidence. This is a good, old-fashioned, no-nonsense movie, intriguing and suspenseful from start to finish. But some volunteers have since left the museum in protest, charging that the city has assumed full control of the Charles Bowers Museum Corp. Hansen's store of facial and vocal expressions conveys this far more than the play itself, which is awash in the impressionistic bubblings of a woman trying to defend and extinguish herself.

Rockets packed with artistic rationalizations are being readied. The play is very faithful to her fluid conception that the only fixity in our lives is the past, and that we can only look at life through memory. The pay-per-view service offered by Request via United Cable will enable viewers to see such films as "Cocoon" "To Live and Die in L. A" and "Rocky IV" as yet unavailable on such pay services as HBO and Showtime. But the first three times Bogdanovich called for a meeting, Elliott's TV work schedule intruded and he canceled.

Despite the quick construction, Disneyland officials denied that Videopolis was created in response to Knott's Berry Farm's successful Studio K teen-age club, which opened in 1984. As with Bach, Steuerman awoke artistically for the more epically scaled Beethoven. You'll see that people can still have a good time with me" POP MUSIC: There's not too much available on the home-video market for heavy-metal addicts. But where's the best one? And what does that mean? What I've discovered, looking for the answers to these questions, is that a good burger seems mainly a matter of concept.

"General Hospital's" ratings skyrocketed, and with them, ABC's daytime ratings. Then afterward, John came up to us and asked if we wanted to play. As the boys get in deeper and deeper, the film moves unsmoothly and unhelpfully-most of the time it's an act of will just to figure out where we are, in Mexico, by the beach at Venice or somewhere in between. What Halloween really requires is its own equivalent of Bah humbug! (Boo humbug) Beady-eyed and commercial as it is, Mother's Day in all its calculated sentimentality does at least honor mothers. From deep research she recaptures the flavors of centuries ago, before powerful infusions of new foods and condiments from Asia and the New World forever altered European cooking The location is a natural. that everyone was going to lose interest and it was going to move onto the back pages Yet the situation in Africa was getting worse.

and included three location interviews around town for "Profile of a Gang Leader" a 30-minute program that will air at 6:30 p. m Sunday and will repeat at 10 p. m Wednesday. The constantly growing collection includes more than 200 pieces of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture, but Hopkins expects to "prune and adjust" as well as enlarge the cache. Remaining as ruins or partial restorations are baths, an amphitheater and foundations of a river bridge. Today there're opera companies in dozens of cities-San Diego, Houston, Seattle, you name them. Frances Sternhagen, an American who starred in the play "Homefront" in London last summer before bringing it to Broadway, said she was paid the same low salary as British members of the cast. 'Nobody quits my band' he said, 'You're fired' I said, 'If you fire me you have to pay my way home' He said, 'No, you quit! Pay your own way' " IMPERFECTIONS The only advantage of this disaster was that Gibbs met Dorsey's drummer, Louie Bellson, who in turn introduced him to Lionel Hampton. In addition, he is the new music director and conductor of the Northwest Chamber Orchestra in Seattle, where the ensemble plays a season of eight pairs of concerts at the University of Washington.

"But Sam, because he had been out of sight for so long, still hadn't fully connected with the pop audience, who knew his songs-which were being redone by all the English acts-and his records, but didn't realize they were all coming from this one man" "For a while, the rest of the world just seemed to forget about Sam Cooke. In between, there are famine, pestilence, destruction and death. Recent credits include award-winning film and television scores, best-selling records and a ground-breaking tour of China immortalized in film and on disc. The three-night run of "Sins" concludes tonight, while "Peter the Great" a four-part miniseries, ends Wednesday night. Built around the theme "If You Really Love Music, Play It" a half-dozen 30-second ads scheduled to air on MTV will feature rock guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen talking about various ways music has affected his life. Bedford, a native of Yorkshire, England, has long been a leading man at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada.

In fact, probably no more than 10% of jazz CDs make full use of the astonishing accuracy of pure digital recording. He ended up with English director Peter Yates, fresh from an Oscar nomination as best director for "The Dresser" (How short are memories in Hollywood? Only months before "The Dresser" was released, Yates' name had the stain of "Krull" one of 1983's summer flops, all over it) Vanoff, his heart again beating a steady rhythm, says he's now eager to direct a film himself-probably Gage's "The Bourlotas Fortune" with Gage producing-but he acknowledges having mixed feelings about moving from TV into motion pictures "There is a lot less bull in television" he says "There is no time for backbiting or game-playing. Mercer took off for Roosevelt Hospital to give the inaugural speech for the opening of the new Duke Ellington Cancer Center for the Performing Arts (Ellington was a cancer victim. There's a tacit alliance between mobsters, politicians and businessmen"And the cops and the courts are the grease that make the moving parts operate" he says. This super-secret "Black Vault" had only two other employees (Dorian Harewood, Mady Kaplan) and was run on the general plan of Club Med underground, where the shredding machine mixed a passable margarita and dope plants replaced the poinsettia as the Christmas flower. All the elements of the quintessential Reagan speech were there-the personalizing vignettes, the quotations from the terribly convenient supportive letter (this one from a "young girl about to be bat mitzvahed, the tear-inducing anecdotes (a private truce in a German cottage on Christmas Day, 1944) and of course, the reference to John F Kennedy Dan Rather would have loved it He really should have been there. .

"My dad never pushed me to get involved in baseball as a career" the younger Campanella explains. There are several old radio shows on audiotape-some worthwhile, some not. With Morgan Freeman, Isabell Monk, Carl Lumbly, Clarence Fountain and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, J J Farley and the Original Soul Stirrers, the J D. "My parents never pushed me" insists the younger Jasinski, who uses his middle initial (L for Larkin) to distinguish himself from his father. The mother, who has been raped in a grave by a vampire, sits in a room with her little baby. I'm not going to talk circles around you or flabbergast you with my wit You won't die laughing at anything I say "I'm no David Lee Roth (the former Van Halen star He'll dazzle you He'll give you great quotes He has the pizazz to do a great interview-I don't.

Another questioner wondered if leading actor Thomas "Randy" Oglesby was frightened when a bomb blast in the script sent bicycle parts plummeting to the stage around him, fallout from the dozens of two-wheeled antiques dangling artfully, but precariously, overhead He wasn't afraid, of course It was all carefully planned and choreographed. He seems to be saying something about a life that is a sad blend of the transcendental and the ordinary. The Monkeys can ape the modern English romantic jangly-pop style of groups like Orange Juice and Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, or slip into a reggae-meets-Stax melange like the group's S&M song from the recent EP "Sweet Murder" (which features Jamaican rapper Eek-a-Mouse Dr. You don't sit back and admire his craftsmanship on his finest tunes because you're too absorbed in the song On the new songs, you admire the craftsmanship.

In San Diego, "there were crowds at our openings but no sales" Sigmund said. "Bring on the Night" Sting's concert movie, will be available April 2 on Karl-Lorimar. Colbert raises her hand like a child volunteering to clap the erasers. Gilliam says Sheinberg wants to change the ending, which shows the system winning over the individual, and end instead on a positive note. These same gallery directors have complained that San Diegans aren't good art collectors.

Voigt's rapid advance has caused some friction between them, she said Still, he writes and calls her often After Merola ended Aug. Thus for Q there are a vertical steel plate with a negative circle and tail, a solid ring for the letter itself and a solid circle (paradoxically) for what we usually perceive as negative space. SAN DIEGO — The Mark Quint Gallery (664 9th Ave) is presenting three shows by three artists representing three very different aesthetics. There were no early clues as to how the evening would turn out. What happened is that we got so caught up in making it weren't looking at it objectively enough A few songs could have been taken farther The whole thing was convoluted and confused It could have been done a whole lot better. "They do have the many years of being the top rock station here in town, so it could be a long time before they start to suffer. Does Trudeau ever think or worry about that? "No, and I don't think Al would either" he says "I think you just have to follow your instincts.