"This is the real thing" Thirty minutes before the USA for Africa entourage arrived by Cessna jet at Nyala, Sudan, the last stop before El Geneina, there was a food riot Nyala is where the railroad ends. Timothy Johnson urged the kind of "war on AIDS" that the Reagan Administration has been reluctant to undertake. When Donald Duck cartoons were released abroad, Nash had to learn to quack in Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, German and French. In one segment, there was a "barbecue show" where friends and members of the studio audience were invited by for burgers and laughs.

Starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray, it's one of the best movies about the Korean War Next week on Nostalgia Merchant at $19. 95, "Mr and Mrs. "We're not that far ahead" he also cautioned during his session at the Century Plaza Hotel with out-of-town TV writers. Amid Jordan's constant joking, Gary Douris, the actual pilot who flew the plane to the film site, introduces himself and asks Jordan, who also is in charge of the demolition effects that will be exploded around the aircraft, if he would mind giving a briefing since Douris will be at the plane's controls. The four players delivered this seraphic and aggressive performance, closing its Beckman Auditorium program, without visible or aural strain. From "Royal Hunt of the Sun" through "Equus" no director until Milos Forman "Amadeus) got it right. Iona Brown, music director of both the Academy of St. Morales says the pair will give the show a true Southern California look.

Nevertheless, at a top price of $47. 50 for musicals and $40 for dramas, theater attendance so far this season has dropped, reportedly by as much as 25, with paid attendance falling below 50% capacity. Among the the antipasti there are the usual carpaccio , mozzarella caprese , prosciutto and melon, but there are also interesting soups, like zuppa di moscardini , an almost-stew filled with tiny squid in thick spicy red broth. Lately, blockbusters have been peaking fast in the rental market and then fading. But the fans lost interest after passing 30, and silence set in.

While going through Lennon's archives in recent months, Goldberg came across what she calls "a beautiful chronological study" that includes depictions of his relationship with the Beatles and with Ono. A Center spokesman said Wednesday: "We are pleased that our hopes to bring Miss Price to Orange County and the Center are nearing fruition. She's heard it all before and is well aware of the similarity between producers and Rodney Dangerfield-neither gets any respect. "I may go down as the most arrogant son-of-a-gun who ever lived" he'd said during our final visit, "but I have terrific friends) One of them described John's final days as peaceful, with only his heart giving any signs of struggle: "You can see it beating like a caged bird" The struggle is over and the bird has been set free, but the disease rages on. "General Hospital's" ratings skyrocketed, and with them, ABC's daytime ratings. John Martin, assistant director of the conservative American Legal Foundation, says that the Federal Communications Commission has reached a conclusion on the Foundation's "news distortion" complaint about "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception" The complaint was filed in January, 1983.

A deeper answer might be that O'Neill's gravity strikes young people as novel and impressive-a tone of voice they're not used to in a time that stresses the importance of not taking anything too seriously, even if you believe in it. It was time to apprise the CRA of the situation" That's when the CRA suggested closing the operation. My reward is in the historical contribution I can make" It all began soon after his arrival in Los Angeles in the late '50s when Ault met Kemp Niver. Herrmann, Durning's earnest, gentlemanly aide, is saddled with the job of picking an innocent fall guy who quite realistically may end up dead, or at least stretched considerably as two skilled arms of the CIA grab for him.

In the mid'70s, German musicologist Fritz Oeser, with a little help from an American conductor named Antonio de Almeida, managed to piece together a big, sprawling, serious, fascinating, too-generous, still-not definitive "Hoffmann" package that purports to approach the beleaguered composer's actual desires. The most famous of them was "The Man With the Golden Helmet" now no longer accepted as an original Rembrandt. Earlier this year, longtime Top 40 bar Joshua's Parlour in Westminster began periodically offering concerts. First broadcast by Padre announcers Jerry Coleman and Dave Campbell from the San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium parking lot during the 1981 baseball strike, "Fantasy Baseball" combined a sports foray into the realm of radio's "theater of the mind" with a live audience of 3,200 invited guests who pulled up beach chairs and partied in the stadium parking lot throughout the imaginary game"We don't want to get too anxious about doing 'Fantasy Baseball' because we hope there won't be a strike" KFMB spokesman Joan Hiser said, "but we're ready if it comes" KFMB, which broadcasts all the Padres' games, created "Fantasy Baseball" and "Fantasy Football" trademarked concepts, as a promotion device when the regularly scheduled programming was disrupted by strikes. But now I'm not so sure" MUSIC: "Sun City" a videocassette about the making of the "Sun City" music video and the single, has just been released by Karl-Lorimar at $19. 95 This 45-minute cassette also includes the "Sun City" video.

For all their off-screen intensity, Beatty and Hoffman (we'll do this alphabetically, their agents can duke it out for top billing) have given their most accessible performances in comedies; Beatty in "Heaven Can Wait" which earned $50 million in rentals in 1978, and Hoffman in "Tootsie" which pumped $95 million into Columbia's account in 1982-83. It was as if I had broken a taboo-maybe one of the last taboos! There was an unholy coalition: people who thought the story was so boring that it shouldn't be filmed and those who believed Proust shouldn't be touched. But a number of critics say there is sometimes an arrogant subtext to the way business is conducted and that often they're too tough on prices paid for their own good "They are so tight on deals" says one prominent agent. (Survey figures add up to more than 100% because some members listed more than one interest or area of expertise) NARAS President Michael Melvoin is also a jazz musician, as are several other NARAS officers, but dissenters say that the organization continues to be dominated by pop/rock members. "Peak Performance" Kartes $19. 95. A film executive, Marcia Nasatir, discussing why Hollywood novels normally don't do well, once asserted to one of our writers that "truth can only be told in fiction" In "Final Cut" Steven Bach disproves the axiom.

OSLO, Norway — A member of the Norwegian Parliament Sunday nominated Bob Geldof for the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for masterminding the Live Aid rock concert to help relieve famine in Africa. As the orchestra whips up the wonted stormy prelude, a Victorian figure in gray strolls out to a side stage He looks uncannily like Richard Wagner-himself. Since using state money for a porn cassette-even an educational one-would have caused a furor, Decker went to a private company, HIS Video. It is not known if the Love Boat will pipe Tom Brokaw aboard. Here the dancers brought emotional and stylistic authenticity to a complex, eccentric vision. (Warner Bros) THE CRAZY FAMILY-Japanese comedy satirizes materialism with its tale of a family's woes-which occur after they buy a home in the suburbs.