"We live in such a diverse, vast country that, to me, confining people in a single stage space never seemed to work. "Particularly as I didn't have to write any of my own lines" he said, "In the past, I've done that often Had to. It's quite easy to read these figures as marionettes, manipulated by strings in a vacuum, but they also seem to exist in a dream state. NEW YORK — Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein has been honored by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters with its 1985 gold medal for distinguished achievement in music.

"You can get a gig, and everything seems to be going great, then after two weeks you get fired and you wonder what went wrong. While men work longer, they also have more leisure time than women. Too many of them, he contends, "see black men as comedians or as big black bucks They're comfortable with that; they've gotten used to that. "The main difference between the East Coast and the West Coast is the concentration of art and galleries.

Because "L'Amant" began as a photo album, Duras says she said to herself that she would pay less attention than usual to her style. "If you are headed up by a black artist who's revered in Africa the way Harry is, you've got to expect a certain amount of staging" Rogol said. Underneath, he knew what he wanted: Not someone's niece from Ohio, but Peter, a married friend"Scenes From an American Life'R. Actors Equity President Alan Eisenberg said the arrangement, while helping to break ground, needs to be improved.

But the movie in its first week outperformed the other Christmas openings on a per-screen basis. (One of her attorneys, Natty Bumppo, said that she had earned the minimum wage of $3. 35 an hour until she received the 10-cent-an-hour raise) Reggie originally encouraged her to try out for the Playboy pictorial. It presents symptoms-most of which the public is probably already familiar with in a general way-without defining the disease and the root causes. When the occasion warrants, Isaac Stern invariably rises to it with eloquent speech. Visitors can buy the wares of glass-blowers, basket weavers, broom makers, blacksmiths, saddle-makers, not to mention handcrafted buggies from the resident wainwright. Many of them do very nicely, thanks; no benefits, real or symbolic, will be required.

In other museum matters, Davies confirmed that the book on contemporary British painter Francis Bacon, written by him and his wife, art historian Sally Yard, is expected to be published in the spring. I got my first taste at Felicin, a country restaurant in Monforte d'Alba. "It holds together so well that you almost get the feeling that it could be all songs by one band, just with a lot of different lead singers". "Whoopi Goldberg Live" (Vestron, $59. 95) is based on her one-woman Broadway comedy show of a few years ago.

Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) had agreed as of Friday to deliver messages during the show. Their newly formed limited partnership, East Wind Trade Associates, will release five albums by different Soviet artists in October. Before Gardel, Argentines danced to a music born of local and foreign influences in Buenos Aires waterfront dives. She could see the Gypsy encampment from the train she took every day from her parents' home outside Paris to the Russian school she attended in the city. The two women have already moved ahead to a wild weekend together in New York, a lasting friendship, reconciliation between Hannah Mae and Carl Joe (never seen on stage, and Maude's affirmation never to be without the society of friends again. Printmaking Society's ninth National Exhibition, scheduled for the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA, Jan. "He always encouraged me to do that thing which I loved the most" And that, he says, was film making.