To minimize our human reliance on referential clues and emphasize the abstractness of his works, Johnson refuses to title them and even to identify them with respect to location. Los Angeles' Olympic officials have sought formal permission from the state attorney general's charitable trust division for a change in the Amateur Athletic Foundation's bylaws to permit funding a festival Approval must be given before any votes can occur And that appears to be moving along without a hitch. American Ballet Theatre will be at the Orange County Performing Arts Center next December in a one-week "Nutcracker" engagement, Mikhail Baryshnikov, company artistic director, announced Thursday. In a phone interview Wednesday, Smith said his Pacific Symphony duties had overlapped substantially with those of Keith Clark, who is founder and music director of the orchestra, based in Fullerton.

(Sample quote: "Why aren't there more Woody Allens" Ayeroff asked " 'Cause there's only one Woody Allen There's only one person who has my perspective. Better these people should go to Beverly Hills to Burger Hills on Canon, a Cassel's clone that improves on the original-the same type of potato salad and homemade lemonade, the same hamburger grease from the griddle hanging in the air, but better meat, tastier rolls. "There are always so many interesting things to do-and I have a hard time saying no. They are found up front, where a big corner booth is usually reserved by high-profile movers and shakers. simply proof (why) Alan Thicke couldn't work in syndication and now it will show he can't work on the network" "Charlie & Company" (CBS, Wednesday at 9 p. m) "is on the air simply to prove that Gladys Knight and Flip Wilson didn't age well. On a gray Down East Thanksgiving time morning, it seems entirely appropriate to put E. B White high among the honored memories.

What the study sought to learn, JWT's Gilson says, was "at what point would our media environment become less effective if we increase (non-program) clutter dramatically. I'm hoping George Wein will bring me back to the Nice Festival, where Jimmy and I worked last year" (Jimmy McPartland, her trumpeter ex-husband, still a close friend, continues to play occasional gigs with her) Meanwhile the awards keep coming. "But then there is always a show like 'Song and Dance' where color doesn't matter and they can use my talents" he adds, ever positive. Although the three were separately produced and are relatively harmless by themselves, they had an unintended insidious quality when clustered. To minimize the damage, the Rep will reprise "Rap Master Ronnie" the Garry Trudeau-Elizabeth Swados musical comedy spoof of the Reagan Administration that drew sold-out houses during its fall run.

Those sermons and more tonight on "60 Ministers" "The CBS Evening News" Dan Rather's strong contract could be a problem here. There are few TV success stories gaudier than Don Hewitt's Hewitt is The Creator. That's the genre I want to work in" After Harlin convinced the American company Cinema Group of the project's marketability, the film maker found himself working with the kind of budget unheard of in Finnish film making, he said. In reality, it is "dropout settlement" to cut the costly red tape of FCC hearings, according to Roberts. Four of the surveys were conducted in the Lansing area and one in a Detroit suburb. BEETHOVEN: VIOLIN SONATAS NOS 1-4, No 9 Isaac Stern, violin; Eugene Istomin, piano CBS Masterworks I2M 39680 (two records) (digital.

Colin Garland sums up the island's social history and natural splendor in a dreamily delicate triptych called "In the Beautiful Caribbean" "Jamaican Art" does not deliver a great revelation of genius, but it's a solid beginning and a responsibly organized show. The Olympic Arts Festival pointed out the hollowness of a lot of our crowing about what a great theater town Los Angeles has become. They can't thank enough" "We're not computerized to the extent that other organizations are" a symphony spokeswoman said of the absence of names on renewal notices "It's quite a hindrance not to have a system internally. According to the curators, the amount of publicity on the AT&T and other projects in both the professional journals and regional and national press is what formed the basis of their selection for the exhibit, rather than an arbitrary poll of a jury of architects, critics, academics and historians. He introduced me to Peter Brook and the Royal Shakespeare Company "I didn't care much for writing theater music then I was more into Cage and Stravinsky.

Said Brokaw: "Well, his act is based so often on his role as father and husband, and the series is about a father with five kids It just seems that Bill Cosby is identified with fatherhood. The Nicoise developed a version of their own (and Nice still produces some of the world's best pizza. His priorities now are teaching promising junior players and marveling at his two toddler sons, whom he worships with paternal awe. Another problem was how to sculpt a meaningful story out of the seemingly random victims of beatings, shootings and torturings she interviewed during the month of filming in and out of the black South African townships. When she arrived in South Africa in 1985 to find that black children, some as young as 4, were being detained and sometimes beaten by government police, Sharon Sopher-a former 12-year veteran producer with NBC News who became an independent documentary maker-did two things. Details of the programs and participants were announced Tuesday After opening ceremonies outside City Hall, at noon on Oct. I feel bad about it because that's not the kind of part I write" Kasdan's next project may not be one he both writes and directs.

Well, that's the word from Prince's publicist, who insisted, "Things get blown out of proportion in this business The fact is, we have to do some transition shots And we'll shoot another video for the film" A Warner Bros PR exec echoed those sentiments And went a step further. It follows a familiar Diebenkorn format-capping a vast expanse of luminous blue with a high horizon line of architectural allusion-but presents it as a freshly thought-about, lucidly realized concept. KCRW-FM (89. 9-Once a sleepy unknown hidden inside a converted classroom on the campus of Santa Monica College, KCRW has grown into one of the finest and most eclectic public radio stations in the country under the guidance of ex-KPFK program director Ruth Hirschman. In the expressionist tradition, he used a high-key, emotive but limited palette of blue, puple, green, orange, yellow and red in vigorous markings in shallow impasto. "Die Nacht" is done in by a monotonous lack of tension. "He obviously told the orchestra 'not too sentimental' since their playing is very fresh.

until just before midnight, celebrities from the movie industry read out the lists of five nominees in each category and then opened a sealed envelope to reveal the name of the winner. He paused, then gestured at the surroundings of the festival "They have this ". The concert, a three-disc album and audio cassette and a film held the promise of millions of dollars to aid the children of Bangladesh Americans responded generously. Ryan starts out as the traditional "nice cop" softening up suspect Hall with a cup of coffee and a chance to shoot the breeze. Or maybe they're just too embarrassed to go to dance classes. This certainly wasn't your average, ordinary, obligatory fling for the experimental black sheep of the local music department This was Big Stuff.