Two highly rated Japanese samurai films directed by Akira Kurosawa"Yojimbo" (1961) and its sequel, "Sanjuro" (1962-have been re-released by Embassy at $29. 95 Both, starring Toshiro Mifune, are like Westerns. She begins by saying the Public Broadcasting System's "Frontline" broadcast, "AIDS-A National Inquiry" (airing Tuesday on KCET Channel 28 at 8 p. m) will "depart from its usual format" Instead of the documentary's hourlong broadcast, Woodruff, "Frontline's" regular anchor as well as Washington correspondent for "The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" notes the program will last two hours (see adjoining story. These mini-pieces, 15 to 25 minutes long, condense the elements of full-length operas and will be presented as a single performance. South Africa will see the "Nightline" programs, too, apparently, for ABC says the state-operated TV broadcasting company bought rights to air them on a one-day delay. Petri, demonstrably the finest virtuoso to happen to the recorder since Frans Brueggen, lavishes her impeccable breath control, delicate tone and strong rhythmic instinct upon the obscure mid-18th-Century Babell and Baston works, makes a passable case for the transcription of the Handel concerto, and then simply shines in Gordon Jacob's suite. As expected, the press has become part of a saga that may occupy America indefinitely.
It began as "America Held Hostage" a nightly accounting of the hostage dilemma, a temporary program tailored to a temporary problem. He was directing the city's murals program, the Bridge Gallery in the City Hall complex and the city's municipal art collection. Its three '80s albums, "Modern Times (1981, "Winds of Change" (1982) and "Nuclear Furniture" (1984, averaged about one-half million in sales For a veteran band, these were just passable figures. "I'm not interested in being blown up out of proportion, but I'm not an avowed enemy of the music business" he explained. We've reinstated an avenue to the fantasy land that people would like to enter" Come January, this particular avenue will be closed for good. "He counted wrong" Reagan was giving America the news, his news. He first appeared here with the California Chamber Symphony in 1967 at the age of 20; his return visits have netted a number of memorable performances, especially in the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
The action of the horses running through the rugged terrain of Wyoming is a lot more interesting than that of the people trying to catch them. There will, of course, be no national commemoration of her birthday; nothing like the big plans for April 29 when, on the 87th anniversary of his birth, Duke Ellington will be honored by the issuance of a 22-cent postage stamp with his likeness. Beckett says he had been looking for something to do with the back dining room, and "decided to fly with it" when he heard Herbst's idea. The town created by the series is a deceptive vision of whites-only, conservative society where traditional values were never challenged.
But I do think there's a danger of atrophying if you stay there too long. Group: Fine Young Cannibals. Ever since he heard his first Charlie Parker record 30 years ago, Marillo, 50, has been an ardent student of be-bop, which reached maturity in the late 1950s in the hands of "cool" New York jazzmen like Al Cohn and Stan Getz. "Mary" which CBS had envisioned as its Wednesday night mid-season savior, began modestly and went down from there, drifting into the bottom half of the Nielsens. "My parents never pushed me" insists the younger Jasinski, who uses his middle initial (L for Larkin) to distinguish himself from his father.
A board-certified ophthalmologist with a practice in Chula Vista and Coronado, Goldman is known to San Diego audiences as the Gennaro Trio's first violinist. Knowledge of electronics doesn't mean you are creating art" One approach to curbing this dilemma is to hit the industry head on, he suggested. After Stacy's actor-brother James proved "too emotional" at the time to do the voice-overs, executive producer Bernstein said, Rich Little ended up with the role. Mail entries to Arco Center, 200 Oceangate, Suite 520, Long Beach, 90802, Attention Photo Contest For more information, call 435-8200. We began with a special appetizer combination called Tai Won On $6. 95, consisting of shu mai , fried shrimp, pork won ton, dumplings in a spicy sauce and little shrimp dumplings.
"There's a vicious circle in radio, in that you can't get hired unless you have an audition tape, but you can't make a tape unless you're on the radio" he said "This gives people a way to break that circle. Superbly visual-the cameramen were Gordon Pollock and Paul Ivano"Queen Kelly" is a work of barbaric splendor, its key setting-Owen's grandiose palace (Harold Miles is the credited designer-more Roxy than royal. They would cause traffic jams "Hordes of tourists would show up to see the stars) that would block emergency routes for ambulances and fire trucks 2 It could hurt the town's image. This represents the first independent American drama to film in the Soviet Union. I had been thinking about romance and the romantic sound of water.
He was sitting in his rehearsal studio in this community near Berkeley, giving his first formal interview since 1975. Carl Weathers, producer, knows exactly what he wants from Carl Weathers, star. It's a sad thing for any creative film maker to have to sit down and think, 'Is this the kind of thing millions of people will want to see-but what's the alternative? "And listen-here his face broke into a smile"I've made a lot of movies over the years (among them "Lady Sings the Blues" "The Entity, but this is the first time I've ever had a good review in the New York Times". In New York, protesters had called for a boycott of Ringling because, they contended, the circus' latest super attraction, a goat-like animal dubbed the "living unicorn" appeared to be a surgically enhanced fake. Ringling officials have argued that the circus' standards of care are as high as any in the country and regularly inspected by local agencies.
I hate the 'wise-guy movies' and the 'let's kill the gooks' movies. The small, wiry Angel and the statuesque, fleshy Dowdell danced skillfully but their movement distillations emerged far less distinctive and primary as artistic statements than the accompaniments. They have yet to find their own direction: some entries imitated Western films, some tried to be arty in the French tradition, many had serious technical problems, suffering from limited funds and piecemeal shooting schedules spread over years. As always, the Chinese delight in presenting familiar actions in strange contexts. They should start little by little" Also on the Nancarrow program will be music by Morton Subotnick, a composer with a theatrical bent, and Japanese native Joji Yuasa, a UCSD professor. "They (Universal) called and said they had not given permission for the film to be shown" Heidicker said, adding that the studio neither demanded that the screening be canceled nor threatened to withhold future support from the school's film department if it were.
However, the Oscar festivities got under way Saturday, a day the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences traditionally devotes to making all of its foreign nominees feel like winners. Cook seemed to be wearing every bugle bead, sequin and rhinestone on the Eastern seaboard, Carothers was at times nearly invisible in a black gown, long black gloves and a black feather fan large enough to strip behind (though she didn't. So what are you going to do" The solution, Luke offers, lies in a Tao saying: " 'Out of good comes evil, out of evil comes good' We cannot separate them, they're mixed, it's the gray area that is life" To hear him tell it, Luke has apparently been very happy during a career of more than 50 years. Susan (rock star Madonna, in a sensational debut) turns out to be an uninhibited, free-wheeling, lush-looking beauty in gaudy thrift-shop finery who lives by her wits; Jim (Robert Joy, her skinny sometime lover who understands her drifting ways, has a rock band. Other than that, the NOB&G is rather pleasant, classily old-fashioned, with lap wood paneling in nautical white enamel and a hexagonal white tile floor.
Forget consistency: Accompanied alternately by pianist Bruno Fontaine and an 18-piece pop orchestra, she was able to project an intimate humming vocalise without amplification, yet relied on a microphone and a noisy sound system to put over the full-voiced bravado of musical-comedy show-stoppers. The Telemann benefited from ample bravura and baroque clarity. Such deadlines lend a compulsive quality to the lives of movie composers. The production must have come as a shock to anyone familiar with editions regularly cranked out by the Metropolitan and New York City Operas, not to mention the one mounted here on two past occasions.
Studios don't save the next "E. T" for mid-July, when families are all at Disneyland, or driving across Kansas; they open it the minute kids are out of school That was the original plan for "Back to the Future" too. NBC's fall roster, which shifts eight returning series to new slots on the schedule, has 13 new and returning comedies, which a spokesman called the most in the network's history Three of the sitcoms are new. Miller and his "cast of 35" have confused humanizing with trivializing and quality with quantity. Each country that wants to submit a film makes the selection itself, working with guidelines established by the academy. Wednesday and Thursday the Beverly Cinema will present two of Shohei Imamura's finest, "Vengeance Is Mine" and "The Ballad of Narayama" while the Nuart's Thursday-evening offering in its Kurosawa series is "Yojimbo" and "The Bad Sleep Well"Arguably the finest Japanese film of the '70s, "Vengeance Is Mine" tells the true story of a rampaging murderer and thief (Ken Ogata, in a splendid and terrifying portrayal) who managed to elude the police for 78 days starting in the fall of 1963. In an agenda consisting of Stravinsky's Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la fee" the C-minor Sonata of Grieg, Falla's "Suite Populaire Espagnole" and the Sonata by Richard Strauss-all works that benefit from the sanguine emotional perspectives and hair-trigger skills of youth-Lin excelled, as might have been predicted, given his local track record.
Martin in the Fields, which opened a three-concert stand at Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, on Tuesday, remains one of the world's great string orchestras, a marvel of balance, polish and vitality. or would you rather be a pig" That merging of lyrics from different songs doesn't quite make sense, but it's funny somehow, the way things are funny when the mood strikes you and you can't re-create it-until next Tuesday rolls around again. But Tom Waits doing a TV commercial? Don't worry-the shaggy pop storyteller isn't hyping throat lozenges or a new line of pork-pie hats. This includes Wajda, who is working on a Polish-French co-production of Dostoevski's "Possessed" A previous Wajda film, "Danton" also was a Polish-French co-production. But after all the work I've put in all these years, I'm not about to say I was writing better then than now" In the '50s and '60s, Holman used to get lots of work crafting arrangements for big bands-from Kenton to Gerry Mulligan-and for singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee, who toured with orchestras. "I'm a Woman" by Leiber and Stoller had the audience laughing and applauding at Weldon's machine gun delivery of the pre-feminist lyrics. (Like a lot of Photorealism they are more like up-tight Expressionism than classicism) What Hall gains in believability she pays for with the absence of a fully tragic dimension in the work.