Unfortunately, these intriguing matters have not found an effective staging under Joanne Pottlitzer's direction, nor in her flavorful Spanish translation, which could use a trim. He feels self-conscious standing on stage alone with an acoustic guitar and singing something as introspective as "Here Comes a Regular" That's a refreshingly candid comment from someone whose band's mottoes are "So what" and "Why not" Yet, it's a barrier that the Replacements need to address if they are not going to shortchange themselves-and their audience. "And I adored 'Ike' because I loved playing that lady (his driver Kay Summersby She was terrific. "Entertainment Tonight" now in its fifth season, currently is carried by 152 stations, including NBC-owned KNBC in Los Angeles, according to a spokeswoman for the program It is produced by Paramount Television. He's so terrifying that you want to laugH"If Tomorrow Comes" begins with a suicide Three minutes later, there is a chase. Another problem McEntire needs to address is the discrepancies between the themes of her songs and the character of her voice.

And I still have trouble with my feet"SAN DIEGO — Ask Tony Caligagan how he got started in professional dance and he'll smile and say: "I just dove in-head first" Nine months ago, with no job, no place to live, and only $900 to his name, Caligagan left San Diego for the Big Apple to compete in the fast lane of big-league dance. Following Farm Aid organizer Willie Nelson's personal lobbying effort, the Senate Agriculture Committee voted 10-6 Thursday to renew federal farm price supports and income protection scheduled to end in nine days. "I didn't stay in San Diego long enough to be known, and now I'm a glorified chorus boy" he said "People don't really know who I am. There is no mystery, no fear and trembling, no startling imagery, no sense of period in David Kaplan's adaptation of Charles Finney's Depression-era book about the temporary transformation of a small town by a traveling circus. In the process, Longo often dramatizes poses and always standardizes attire into quite formal, black-and-white clothing.

Konstantin Zaklinsky, her prince, made much of an earnest, sympathetic, romantic demeanor; of decent elevation and lovely soft landings; of long, muscular legs and a pervasive aura of innocence. He is not officially off the payroll until the last week of June. Fassbinder's film "The American Soldier" About four years passed before Longo turned the vision of a man shot in the back into a monumental series of elegant drawings. I thanked them and told them I didn't need help to run it at a loss. It takes an angry man to write an angry play. If you want salsa, order something and it will arrive: A simple, vivid tomato-based sauce that doesn't sneak up on you, it's hot from the first touch like a steam iron.

Penny Marshall came on to tell us, among other things, that virtually every woman between 17 and 70 who is homeless and on the street has been raped. Valenti, speaking at a press conference at the Montreal World Film Festival, said he was "puzzled and saddened" by the decision of government investment controllers-acting on behalf of Canadian film distributors-to deny Disney's request. At the same time Ribeiro, in his innocence, attracts various prostitutes. The second play I want to mention is "The Debutante Ball" by Beth Henley. "It did well" Badham said, "but what I'll never know is how it would have done if, six weeks before we came out, 'Love at First Bite' hadn't opened and seriously eroded the vampire-film market.

I always put myself in the audience's point of view, to see how to (enrich the characterization) and make it more entertaining-and I love to dance at high speed"LA JOLLA — Jazz Unlimited has been a stepping stone to Broadway and other major capitals of the dance world for some of the best male jazz dancers in San Diego Barry Bernal dances the role of Mr. Citing a moral responsibility to those "we have obviously offended" MGM/UA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Frank Rothman announced on Thursday that the film studio will add a disclaimer to its controversial movie "Year of the Dragon" The disclaimer, at first, will be sent to Los Angeles and New York area theaters, where projectionists will be asked to screen it immediately preceding the film's opening credits. Philip John Taylor's script, which is more like an unstructured collection of the rawest gags and sketches, centers around the notion that there's gold in Chili Verde. "Then they see me, and they say, 'Why' " The answer? "I think they (Harlem company management) got interested in me" Graves explains as she relates how only a few days after Glen Tetley set his "Greening" on the company in 1980, it became apparent that the novice company member knew not only her small part (she was a second-cast alternate) but "the entire ballet" Soon after Tetley had requested Graves to be his ballet's rehearsal mistress, company director Arthur Mitchell asked the then 22-year-old if she would like to do the job "for everything else" "Since as long as I can remember, I've been able to watch things and remember what I've seen" Grave says-thus she works without notes "It's all in my head" she maintains. "So the first task was to make Jessica believable, and that meant stripping her of her natural elegance. Only Otowa's formidable presence keeps the film from falling completely apart.

We felt that art had the tendency to soothe the savage beast inside of us, it softened us-bluntly-and we thought, 'Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could somehow expose some of that 85% to art' " They envisioned placing parts of their collection where people who might never enter a museum or university art gallery could easily see the works. Sitting beside original works by Henry Moore, Auguste Renoir and more, multimillionaire George Ablah discussed the art he's loaning to Century City for an outdoor "sculpture walk" He spoke not from a spacious office suite or mansion anteroom, however, but from the lush interior of his private jet. MOVING RIGHT ALONG: Van Halen (whose new album is titled "5150" not "5051" as we reported last week) kicks off an eight-month American tour March 27 in Shreveport, La (with the possibility of some L. A dates as early as this summer. The world of Gershwin, Porter, Ellington and their peers, which he has happily inhabited since their music was brand new and he was a child prodigy, still holds an unquenchable fascination for him. Walter's work was thoroughly appreciated throughout his long career Yet he was never the object of universal veneration. There are a multitude of sins in "Sin of Innocence" a new TV movie airing at 9 tonight on Channels 2 and 8, but innocence isn't one of them. I really want to do that" (For the record, he was not paid for his Rolling Stone piece) Having now played a reporter, Travolta says he has a greater rapport with the scribes who come to see him. Peel) Silverton, who added such strength to Spago during their long stay there and then went off to take over the kitchen at Maxwell's Plum in New York City last October, are out of a job.

engagement in 22 years, the Kirov Ballet of Leningrad will dance the full-length "Swan Lake" and a program of highlights in Shrine Auditorium from May 21 to 26. On average, half of Los Angeles restaurantgoers order dessert, while only about 30% of those who eat out in New York are similarly indulgent. Sydney May Morrison, the Megaw's artistic co-director, directs here, and has this to say: "Sheldon was highly instrumental in the development of 20th-Century theater in America. "I had never taught, and I wasn't interested in teaching young actors" he said, "but I thought that maybe I could help them (the inmates) reflect deeply within themselves, within the privacy of their own minds"CHINO — Behind the barbed-wire-topped wall-securely beyond the metal detector, two electrically operated doors and another building-about 50 prisoners had assembled in a small chapel looking out on the virtually deserted yard.

Van Halen finally found out that Autograph was a fledgling outfit. His violin is, of course, strung with gut, rather than metal. To remedy that situation, Center officials say they are continuing talks with the nation's two biggest theatrical producer-operators, the Nederlander Organization and the Shubert Organization. Lead singer Holly Johnson wants to be a lively frontman, but ends up hopping haplessly about the stage as if leading an imaginary conga line. The whole mess might have ended in disaster had the heirs not had the brilliant good sense to allow the government first choice of works for the museum. During her brief tenure as chairman of the State Pardons and Paroles board, she discovered that Gov. How appropriate it is that Dutt plays a poet in this 1957 film, for it could scarcely be more poetic itself.

Just two months after Cannon Films proudly announced it had signed Dustin Hoffman to star in "LaBrava" Hoffman has reportedly terminated the agreement because of two unauthorized full-page ads that Cannon ran in Hollywood trade papers. The artist is Belle Baranceanu, now being honored with a major exhibition at the Mandeville Gallery at UC San Diego. We get compared to Los Lobos in just about every review, and if they were all white, nobody would ever say that. But $6. 75 for a coffee-shop burger? The Times' Orange County restaurant reviewer, Charles Perry, thinks that atmosphere is all, and favors the burgers at Ruby's on the Balboa Pier overlooking the sea. Dish owners have had the capacity to snatch out of the air for free what regular cable subscribers have to pay for.