Wouldn't it be great if drama critics got involved in the process? Not necessarily. They moved easily from the wit of the Reger (the first movement's ending brought chuckles from the audience) to the sublime probings of Mozart The encore was Mozart's Rondo in A. . "Tosca" Jones told The Times afterwards, would draw the largest chorus membership-75 out of its 120 singers The St. "It's satire" said Mull, the co-star and co-writer-with Allen Rucker "Whites should be able to take a joke. As for selling out, the closest he comes to Neo-Expressionism is in a black silhouette of a tarantula that occasionally runs or pokes a spiky leg through exuberant stripes and splotches of pigment. PBS has furnished an addendum to the program consisting of a discussion hosted by Betty Rollin, a former NBC correspondent who wrote a book "First, You Cry, later made into a TV movie, about her recovery from losing a breast to cancer. "Look Adam" says Adam's Mother, "it's Michael McCarty" She turns him so he can see the great chef Adam squares his shoulders and walks manfully over Adam's father snaps a picture.

USC's School of Fine Arts runs a small gallery rent-free at the Rouse Co's Santa Monica Place shopping center Shopping center developer Ernest W Hahn Inc. A spokesman for the union representing ushers and ticket sellers at Cleveland Stadium said management agreed to pay the workers an extra $1. 50 per hour for the night after Springsteen threatened to cancel his concert at the 65,000-seat stadium. Comparing current Broadway prices to the rise in the cost of shoes and groceries, as well as such non-essentials as the movies, league officials strongly defended what they consider a reasonable rise in ticket prices. "But a lot of people have some kind of keyboard in one room and their computer in another.

"Out of Africa's" seven awards included two Oscars for Pollack, as director and producer, and one for Kurt Luedtke, the former Detroit newsman who found the key to translating Dinesen's personal reminiscences into the kind of sweeping romantic epic that Hollywood seldom attempts these days. Jean-Luc Godard's new film, "Detective" is dedicated to Eastwood (along with John Cassavetes and the late Edgar Ulmer. "I don't want to try to characterize it one way or the other" Boies said. David Myrvold, as Orest, could do nothing with the character's lack of expression, but he sang with a polished-mahogany baritone. The middle is the Garden of Earthly Delights, which shows all these figures-humanity-having a good time The final panel shows the tortures of being in Hell.

There's no news, just an on-the-hour bumper report from Insta-Traffic and an occasional short interview with a black personality. The Egomaniacs, a splinter of the once-acclaimed, now-defunct Hot Flashes improvisation troupe, are appearing weekends through April 19 at The Theatre in Old Town. Looking robust and sun-tanned from his "semi-retirement" in Puerto Vallarta, Bennett reminisced about his experience with "The Moor's Pavane" during a break from rehearsals. I knew I had to move to L. A" That pushed painter Richard Sigmund out of San Diego to Los Angeles He had come here in 1978 to be an artist. But on this afternoon of reflection with his daughter Irene (the glorious Sabine Azema, who loves her father as deeply as she knows true art, he says gently that he was a little afraid that if he'd "admitted what was original in others I'd have lost my own little melody" In Jean Renoir's biography of his father, he reveals an extraordinary choice the painter made late, late in his life. He did all this, and much more, with dapper charm, with subtle wit and with deadpan glee Understatement: This is a difficult act to follow Kirk Peterson tried to follow it, conscientiously Danilo Radojevic tried to follow it, sweetly Now it is Gil Boggs' turn He is decent. The second half of the dictionary may see the light of day late next century, the Duc de Castries said.

The DIA, or Defense Intelligence Agency, and the NSA, or National Security Agency, pitched in, too And there were times even the INR got into the act. We're also stretching the capacity of the studio quite a ways. The album garnered rave reviews and wound up being named the best punk LP of 1983 by England's New Musical Express. There are several haunting images in Robert Altman's "Fool for Love" the film version of Sam Shepard's play about a complicated relationship whose difficulties extend far beyond the normal ones implied by the title. It's like growing a tree and cutting off the roots-now we're really feeling it at our level. "I want to make it a season that goes back to the old original ACT concept, which was choosing plays for the actors, creating challenges for the actors. Oddly, this hadn't been seen in London before, and most of the critics enjoyed its wisecracks, with special praise for Robert Morse as the pin-striped producer of a play engaged in terminal tryouts in Boston.

"It's an immense challenge and an exciting one, but for now, it's a whole new (geographical) area for me and another learning experience" Kendrick told reporters Thursday in Costa Mesa. Marketing Unlimited, $39. 95, (707-762-6800. If you're into racing car crashes, "Havoc IV" is faster paced and considerably more grisly than "Havoc V" which was mentioned here two weeks ago. They don't particularly work as either melodramas or exposes-partially because some of their creators, on some level, seem infatuated with their own villains. The new "Figaro" production, briskly conducted by Scott Bergeson and crudely directed by Goeran Jaervefelt, wasn't bad It just wasn't very good. If "Live" doesn't come close to fully defining Lennon's pop greatness, it is a welcome reminder of the courage and artistry of someone who refused to rest on the almost unprecedented acclaim of his Beatles years Inevitably, it also reminds us of the void he has left LIVE ACTION: Sheila E will be at the Universal Amphitheatre on March 6 Tickets go on sale Tuesday. Some, notably Tom Sherman as the son who sells out to the British just a little bit, and Jack Hamblin as his deeply churning, honor-bound brother, seem simply too young for their parts.

Her wood constructions, made of carpentry-shop scraps mounted on round-cornered tops of Spanish orange crates, are solid pieces of work but are far less prepossessing than the paintings. The work, directed by Old Globe Executive Producer Craig Noel, is still in its yearning stages, bogged down with a boring excess of word-play cleverness. The 16-year-old Zal is probably best remembered for her Emmy Award-winning performance as the molested daughter in "Something About Amelia" that aired in January, 1984. Originally planned for release last summer, it is the true story of a Canadian rowing champ of the 1870s. And his performance in it at London's National Theatre is being called one of the most mesmerizing seen on the stage in years. Locally, the County Museum of Art will inaugurate its new Robert O. We always felt Los Angeles needs a ballet company and deserves the best We still feel that way.

Obviously, there was a lot of behinds-the-scenes tiffing: The film was at MGM, then moved to the new De Laurentiis Entertainment Group and finally to Cannon Group. First round: Two males or females are given some basic information about three subjects of the opposite sex, and then are asked questions about each of the three based on their first impressions. Tall women are passed over in auditions in favor of smaller, more ethereal types, because their male counterparts (who generally are not very large) look a lot more impressive partnering delicate little dancers-particularly in choreography featuring athletic lifts and tricky airborne maneuvers. Then came word from the publicist that they preferred an interview about the play But our stage department did not Would Mr. Give her a hard-news interview and she dives like the Titanic.

Doolittle Theatre in Hollywood, will now run June 5 through July 13. Marsha Mason and Richard Dreyfuss will have the envelope, please, and present the Oscar for supporting actress. I don't know if anybody knows the answer" If other farmers questioned at the plant and in surrounding communities shared Eisenmenger's sense of cautious reserve about Farm Aid, the mood in Champaign itself was upbeat. Next we should have "Dance With a Stranger" directed by Mike Newell from a screenplay by Shelagh Delaney based on one of Britain's great crimes of passion. The one-time Gene Vincent sideman can probably play this greasy kid stuff while performing a major overhaul on one of his many motor scooters-and he never let's you forget it either. When you notice that the title is "Working in the Garden" it's irritatingly disappointing, like a really bad shaggy-dog story. "And because of that, people will continue to come to Humphrey's, both out of habit and to keep abreast of what's new in the worlds of jazz, pop, and rhythm-and-blues"SAN DIEGO — It's only March, but already the local jazz scene is bracing itself for an all out concert war this summer.

His final words were: "We'll section her" The physician's argot for a Caesarean section comes as easily to Kondon's lips as do the names of the painters from his favorite style of art, German Expressionism: Klee, Felixmuller, Beckman, Kirchner, Dix, Munter, Pechstein, Nolde and Schlemmer. The rookie casualties, some axed well before CBS unveiled its new schedule, include "Mary" a mid-season flop that starred Mary Tyler Moore in a newspaper city room setting. Shakespeare's "The Life and Death of King John" will be seen in a new TV production for "The Shakespeare Plays" at 1 p. m (28 "Newsmakers" is slotted at 5 p. m (2. I know all about drugs, but I don't touch them myself anymore" Stroud, 41, says that his most recent marriage-to American Airlines stewardess Linda Hayes-has reformed him "I threw away a lot of the wreckage of my past" he says. On an aesthetic note, Gurney remembers the play as his first successful experiment in opening up the walls of the theater.

Former editor-in-chief Peter Aguilar Knight questioned the claim of co-publisher Michael Gaylord (his partner is John Hecker) that C to C is distributed "internationally" Jones, Knight and Maurice Emmett Davis, the former managing editor, resigned before the second issue appeared in late August. Apparently Prince didn't get all the flower power out of his system with last year's mind-bender "Around the World in a Day" because his new one kicks off with a march of the toy soldiers featuring sawing strings, twittering flutes, fanfaring horns and images of "strawberry lemonade" You can almost taste the colors, man. She-Ra is "strong, powerful and athletic, as well as beautiful and glamorous" according to Janet Verklin, editor of She-Ra, Princess of Power, a Telepictures Publications magazine. One moment during Saturday's concert here underscored the difficulty of raising that consciousness and why it is too early to call the Live Aid shows a victory. In fact, I have worked on scripts elsewhere that did turn out to have, as they say, a life-and I found them not easy to review when they came to town. They insisted that their producers would never pass up the opportunity for a such an exclusive. Those in which figuration is all but lost in gesture seem to grope for content but never quite find it (Gallery West, 107 S Robertson, to Feb 23).

Theater 2 itself takes some getting used to as a dance space-the steep audience section gives nearly every seat a balcony view. The place is noisy, but the fish is always perfectly fresh, perfectly grilled. They've sent their daughter through medical school and practically seen their son through law school-Harvard Law School, if you please The Villas have got it together But then the guacamole hits the fan. But he seldom sees the productions he designs and regrets that he allowed a friend to take him to a matinee of his "Dracula" six months after it opened "I hated it" he says "Here was an old-fashioned play being camped up mercilessly. He stressed that neither he nor the pops board wants to significantly alter the financially successful pops formula-12 weeks of outdoor concerts at Hospitality Point, Mission Bay, with weekly fireworks and food and drink service in cabaret seating. To gather my best resources for each single activity" Kendo, he said, is just one of the methods he uses to stay calm and disciplined. Los Angeles Philharmonic principal violist Heiichiro Ohyama credits the martial art of kendo for facilitating his varied career as an instrumentalist, conductor, administrator and teacher.

"The photographs prompted a lot of memories to those people who are not of Japanese ancestry" Thea Rock, the museum's media specialist, said. Attendance at country concerts has been falling for two years, Luckenbach president Marc Oswald said. In shimmering white feathered gown and dated blond pageboy wig, Massina is a graceful glider and tapper while Mastroianni is determined but dangerously rickety on his feet. What (and who) becomes a legend most depends on entering into the mythic and going all the way.

Then I kept meeting Navy officers who said, boy, had they ever served under Queeg. ABC says it won't include the fund appeals because of its long-standing policy against airing direct solicitations for money. Piloting the tribute is Joe Musil, a Long Beach architect and theater historian whose own history with the Fox dates back to 1956, when at 19 he became its youngest house manager. Schaefer, DeLorean's life-story rights attorney, said DeLorean chose to deal with little-known companies over more established film entities because "it would give John more money up front, more creative control and a greater share of the film's profits than a number of other deals he has been offered" Schaefer added that San Francisco film maker Woody Clark, who last fall unsuccessfully attempted to win DeLorean's cooperation in a film biography, recently withdrew his offer.