With Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, Jerry Orbach, Pat Hingle, Tovah Feldshuh, Hume Cronyn, Joe Grifasi, Peter Jason, Ji-Tu Cumbaca Running time: 1 hour, 37 minutes MPAA-rated: PG (parental guidance suggested. . So, I have to be conscious of the fact that the only person that's going to look after these two things that vibrate and produce what one hopes is a pleasant noise in the throat is the person who owns them" Since the start of her career, Norman has sung only those roles that she finds both vocally and emotionally appropriate. For 24 pleasantly vapid and intensely compressed minutes, Gordon explores the happy cliches of bloody mysteries. Up to then, my interest had been a few poems in high school, but in doing research for the recording, I read her published letters and she just captivated me with her wit and imagination.

Significantly, "Rocky" was made under the control of an outside director, John Avildsen. It shows Christopher Hoskins of Sebastapool, Calif-who happens to be black-in a dramatic leap. Executive Director Frank Talbot said dissolution of IMS could have repercussions felt far beyond the city limits. He asked the President if his red sweater (it looked great for TV; our President is nothing if not great looking on TV) suggested any special allegiance with the New England Pats. The performance of "The Creation" Saturday night served as a case in point. Can she have the same impact on prime time? "I've had the prime-time commitment for about a year" Monty says, acknowledging that ABC backed her before Capital Cities took over the network. 'GHOST ON FIRE' Michael Weller's play at the La Jolla Playhouse Director Timony Near Sets Thomas Lynch Costumes Jennifer von Mayrhauser Lighting Kent Dorsey Music Michael S Roth and Holly Near Sound John Kilgore Stage manager T R Martin Assistant Director Michael Greif Dialect coach Susan Leigh Casting Stanley Soble, Jason La Padura, Richard Pagano.

"The New Painting" celebrates eight Impressionist exhibitions held in Paris between 1874 and 1886. The Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" is the most spotlighted song in "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" And everyone's favorite track in "Wildcats" is LL Cool J's "Football Rap" But neither song appears in the films' sound-track albums. Indeed, Seidelman and Barish have affection for all their people, including those in smaller roles impeccably played by well-known denizens of New York's underground scene. It's like the movie was reborn" Harvey Keitel plays Jimmy Fingers, a multifaceted character who dreams of being a concert pianist while doubling as hard-boiled debt collector. It's being telecast only by KTLA, KTTV, KMEX and CBS and NBC, leading to the kickoffs for the Cotton Bowl on CBS and the Fiesta Bowl on NBC.

I see Reagan on television and say to myself, 'If I had written that character into a movie, the critics would have killed me for it. Golan says there is no chance of either of those things happening. Molly Ringwald presents the Oscar for special visual effects. The mellower, more exotic material in the middle was heightened with the help of especially noteworthy lighting and set design, which turned the stage into something different with each new song (at probably a fraction of the cost of the Simple Minds' Traveling Megawatt Show a few weeks back, which tried to make the stage look different every 10 seconds And, oh yeah nice suit.

And while the trio's moody and propulsive music would be perfectly at home on a bill with X or R. E. M, because of its religious convictions the group is eyed with suspicion by some members of the rock community. So much emphasis in rock has been placed on lyrics (particularly after Bob Dylan came along) that bands such as Dire Straits, whose chief strength is its music, are generally underrated. According to reports, Belafonte originally envisioned this as an all-black project "That's not true" he said "That's too limiting I do agree that black artists should be doing more. But as Segall insisted, with the exceptions of "Amadeus" and "Greystoke" "I can tell you that the totals are absolutely equal" "Places in the Heart" had 28 1/2 full-page ads in Daily Variety between Dec 3 and Jan 25 (when the nomination polls closed. The procession was led, of course, by Jules Stein and Lew Wasserman, whose MCA became a studio, Universal. "You can count on KLOS to cover the best concerts" KLOS had been active in the famine relief effort long before the Live Aid concerts. "Nightfall" a short Isaac Asimov story for which she has the rights, is among her highest priorities.

Thus the new production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof-which was made into a film in 1958 (with Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl Ives) and was done on NBC in 1976 (with Laurence Olivier, Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner "This is a revival of a classic That in itself has validity" Geller contends. "We've been looking to the Ahmanson (Theatre) as a site, since it would be less expensive to mount there. "Wish we could be out there with you" George said, "but we've got to go to the inauguration" Later, George's consoling co-anchor, Bill Kurtis, assured her that "the inauguration is fun, too" George seemed unconvinced "Really" she replied, half-heartedly. Then at 9 comes "The American Playhouse" production of "Paper Angels" produced by KCET. Rosalind, the central figure, has a lot to teach Orlando about love-his idea is simple and true blue. The music, especially Naudot's Concerto in G, is ingratiating. . Iron Maiden is one of the best heavy-metal bands going and this 90-minute concert film (drawn from a four-night engagement a year ago at Long Beach Arena) gets dive-bomber camera work and dynamic editing worthy of a "Star Wars" sequel Nevertheless, it's largely a bore.

It will be a compelling look at our times through the eyes of one of this century's most interesting and important figures" Grey said Paley will write "in detail" about "the many people who have touched upon his life" a list that ranges from Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Nixon to Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edward R Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Lucille Ball and Jack Benny. So far her experience on the legitimate stage, including the 18-month "Evita" tour, have been much more positive. "I think where there's a will there's a way" Tartikoff said of the license fee dispute. "The advantage of a fourth network is that people can do their own programming-they can come home and put on an exercise tape or a video magazine or a movie" he said. But her agent, Todd Smith of Creative Artists, bridles at the mention of the episode "There was no disappearance" he snapped.

Jackson's recent acquisition of ATV Music (last Sunday's Calendar cover article) was less than a thriller for 60 of the company's employees in London, Sydney, Los Angeles, Nashville and Toronto. Last November, several ambassadors, their wives and staff members attending the Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting watched the documentary in Geneva. NBC's top-rated "The Cosby Show" became the first major casualty of the two-day-old Writers Guild of America strike, as the network said Wednesday that the series had to shut down production because scripts for three remaining episodes weren't ready before the walkout began. "It's a role" says her agent, Peter Crouch, "that fascinates her.

(Cannon Group) EVILS OF THE NIGHT-Teens invades a private sanitorium and find themselves subjected to the film title. But things appear to be going so slowly for him in that role that he's probably reconsidering the title of his new album, "No Lookin' Back" There were plenty of empty seats Friday night at the Wiltern Theatre, and it wasn't hard to see why. In between are the usual nonpareil tweeds developed by Armani for Erreuno and the electric knit works of the Missonis. . Her nasty-girl gyrations can get overheated, but her sassiness is preferable to cold, technically proficient singers who don't have a clue about making a show visually exciting. She decides instead to make a film about that vital part of her life-and to find the man who shared it with her. "What made him depressed? A death in the family? (His daughter died when she was 5 and his brother, Otto, committed suicide) Illness? (He had heart trouble) Misunderstood by the public? Everyone gets that.