Yes, the singer leaped freely about the stage and reached out at several times to members of the audience, but it wasn't U2's Bono. However, Meyer said, "They caused quite a (pedestrian) traffic jam" He said that the theater management is not moving the film to keep it out of the mainstream but as a safety precaution. Nothing seems hurried no matter how fast the pace because she always emphasizes musicianship over everything else. The 158 presentations (more than 90 are free open-air events) encompass mainstream combos, big bands, fusion groups, reggae, blues, Cajun, bop, tango, a Zydeco group and a healthy avant-garde contingent. "Besides, in a few years we don't just want to say we were one of the 3 billion (sic) people who saw it on TV. Opie Cunningham-as Eddie Murphy dubbed him-is still high on life and, despite a mustache and thinning hair, looks boyish as ever at 32. Last week, Kragen said that the most recent low quotes his organization had been able to obtain on a premium for insurance covering the May 25 event was $6 million.

Big enough, in fact, to be a restaurant, which it has just become. All but Henderson had known each other since the early 1950s, when they were members of the same marching band in their native Houston. The show will be presented "almost live from Van Nuys" The in-studio portion will be taped every day at 5 p. m. They noticed, however, that Tuesday night's audience was less responsive than others. "Certain songs should be done in harmony; they're not complete otherwise" Her favorite selection is "I Suppose" because "it's more contemporary" Seated in the living room of the Encino home she has occupied for a decade, a two-pound Yorkshire terrier named Slippers in her lap, the singer talked about her early life and what led to her rejuvenated career. Quincy Jones has been a very busy man for many years, and composer/producer Fred Myrow is one man who's thankful for that.

"Our format is more consistent now than it was before" Marshal said "With the old format, we tried to please everyone. Destitute figures, clad in rags, slept under the remote porticoes of the government's Manila Film Center. Yetta Bronstein, candidate from the Bronx, she got a modicum of public attention, if only a few votes. Shortly after relocating in Los Angeles in 1984, they changed their group's name from Paris to Poison. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the murder of a black sergeant at a Southern Army base during World War II was turned down by several studios before Columbia Pictures agreed to finance and release it. He also organized a symposium of scholars to highlight the gallery's acquisition last year of a John Singleton Copley masterwork, "The Portrait of Mrs Thomas Gage" (1771.

Nirenberg and his musicians urged the piece forcefully, although some of the pizzicato punctuation was not as tight as probably desired. Unfortunately, Purkiss' imaginative touches, the subtleties in his interpretation, are obscured by Steven Wolff Craig's elaborate scenery and Susan Thomas Babb's elegant period costumes They are eye-filling indeed, but ultimately distracting. Reliving memories of her youth, Weisberg sets herself in the Art Institute of Chicago, amid Indiana sand dunes where her family used to vacation and in Perugia, Italy, where she lived as a student. Richards recently released a solo album entitled "The American Cowboy" on his own Young Oak Records label. .

The Peabody Awards, administered by the University of Georgia School of Journalism and Mass Communications, will be presented Wednesday in New York. Another collaboration under study is with Opera Pacific, the local organization that seeks to stage operas and musicals at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. But I think entirely too much has been made of Baroque pitch. Originally, to put Furillo and Davenport at the center of the episode, writers toyed with having them on a train en route to Washington, where Furillo was scheduled to testify. And it is the kind of story that Shallcross, Millar and Phelan-all with blue-chip reputations-fear would be rejected by a BBC beholden to sponsors. Hence the pressure that the new Danjuro admits feeling these days as he comes down the hanamichi (runway) in his 90-pound robes for a showpiece like "Shibaraku" He will have to extend himself to stay leader of the pack.

At least that's the impression of actress Jacqueline Brookes, who is playing the prescient widow, Mad Margaret, for Houseman in the Old Globe Theatre's "Richard" opening Friday "He's more understanding, patient But that's not his nature, really, to be patient" she said. The sheer imbecility of a guy in tights equating himself with World War II vets might be more offensive if it wasn't such a rare example of Dada at its most heightened and aggressive level 20. Both Holt and Kaufman said the production budget for this season was never formally approved by the board. No sooner was work completed, with 12 weeks of lost income ticking by during the renovations, than two consecutive box-office failures and McCallum's departure for a teaching job with playwright Mark Medoff at New Mexico State University created serious doubts about the Bowery's future. Beyond that, each show seems to have its own development history. It is precisely at the point of the characterization of Shug that the book and the movie part ways in delivering their messages about redemption.

So maybe on stage Reno is miraculously transformed into this electrifying bundle of energy who oozes charisma? Not really He's not a dazzling performer He gets the job done with a minimum of flash. Forty wooden soldiers paraded through "The March of the Toys" Just when all the spectacle began to pall, Richard M Sherman and Robert B. My father asked him to promise 'to provide for my daughter and not do anything that will make her cry' During our wedding ceremony, Ojiisama was so nervous that he dropped the cup with which we exchanged ritual sips of sake. Now, Garrett and Thomas agree, the next big challenge is to parlay the exposure and career momentum into a full-time job on television.

Before toasting Joe Montana of the San Francisco 49ers or cheering for Dan Marino being carried off the field on the shoulders of his fellow Miami Dolphins, listen to Stillwell Sunday on pay TV's Home Box Office (HBO: "When the ball was hiked, I was running up I've got this running back here, to take him down And these guys all crashed into my left side here. But omitting the demonic is characteristic of this generation of pianists. As KOCE executives put it, the Orange County Center collaboration could not have come at a better time for the station, which has seen its fiscal support and number of employees dwindle markedly in the past three years and is still faced with uncertainty over whether the Coast Community College District will retain operational control. "I will tell you in all frankness, I will try to keep IMS going" said Yates, chairman of the House Appropriations interior subcommittee, which oversees the institute's budget. The recent Soviet emigre here reaffirms the impression made in earlier concert appearances, that he is a pianist of both keen intellect and almost diabolic virtuosity. By the time of "The River" he started to see a certain universality in the sometimes desperate, disenfranchised people he was writing about. This represents the most substantial single gift of Old Master drawings in the center's 30-year history, adding works from France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.

And Joselson did not appear to be a pianist who is most comfortable in Mozart. Paradoxically the combination of reduced scale and bleak circumstance served to galvanize the art Wistful sweetness is replaced by expressive profundity. I'm suspicious of people who have all the answers" After "The Foreigner" gets on its feet, Lagomarsino will return to New York to direct a new Off Broadway play, "The Traveling Squirrel" "The title will be changed, of course. "We want to try something different, to put aside the usual talk about specific goals and see how this works out" explained station president William Furniss, who will be an on-the-air host with such personalities as Stephanie Edwards and Meredith MacRae.

When I left the (David) Gerber company-we were doing 'The New F. B. I-they had me shot and killed while sitting on a park bench" Sagansky said he received numerous calls about his "demise" after the "St Elsewhere" segment aired "A lot of people take that show very seriously" he said. All you have to go on are the people, their clothes, their stances and expressions, and even those suggest types, not individuals. If death from radiation, child abuse and divorced parents aren't enough, Zal now must face a faith crisis when her younger sister dies from a muscle disorder in "God, the Universe, and Hot Fudge Sundaes" a "CBS Schoolbreak Special" airing today at 3 p. m on Channel 2 (3:30 p. m on Channel 8. Now ABC has turned again to the former theatrical director to help revitalize another area that's hurting: prime-time programming, where the network, third in ratings last season, doubtless will still be when this season ends "My deal is very unusual" Monty points out. "Well, well, well, two of New York's finest little ladies in distress" the irked Cagney mused amusingly in one episode when their car broke down on a busy street, forcing them to wait helplessly until a police mechanic arrived The mechanic turned out to be a woman.

It's an unusual potpourri, and not altogether successful-but, in many ways, it's the most ambitious of the "First Love" films. He co-directed (with Donald Cammell) "Performance" a drama about the rock world in London starring Mick Jagger. Quick does create believable people in an all-too-familiar predicament, but the film raises the question of abortion without really dealing with it (Walter is pregnant just as she's decided to divorce. She turns to Jock instead and the rest, as they say, is (TV) history.

"They use violence to spice up the news and make more money, so why don't they share it" Landham, who portrayed a psychopathic Indian named Billy Bear in "48 HRS" said the KCBS-TV news show was particularly offensive because the footage showing him and another actor (James Remar) shooting it out with police had nothing to do with the story it was dramatizing. CAIRO — There was a roll of drums, the lights dimmed and the man in the tuxedo took the microphone "Now" he shouted, "the moment we have been waiting for. As for the book on Ol' Blue Eyes, Kelley said, "I'd love to talk about it, but Bantam (Books) has me under wraps" It'll be out "possibly in late summer". The legends might not be completely true but they are well known and to recount where they occurred is a kick.

She initially rented the space so that she'd have a place to work out and stay in shape, but soon the room grew into a beginners' class for tap. He scoffed at the suggestion, saying that he's mellowed-his illness serving as a pointed reminder of his own mortality And artistically and personally, R C Gorman cares little about how he's remembered. A jazz critic, interviewed on National Public Radio a few days ago, said he detected a rising interest in the roots of American jazz-early Louis Armstrong and his New Orleans colleagues, the traditional songs and styles that led on to everything else You don't have to look far for confirmation. But you can keep all the critical commentary" Jodi Tose, 26, Los Angeles: "He's true to his people and gives them exactly what they want He's no hero or anything just a great performer.

Last Wednesday, at the group's new home in the Melrose Theatre, the actors were asked to do a sketch (about a family's confrontation with lint) in the styles of John Hughes and Sam Shepard, among others. That noted, we see that Ellis is a hip artist, but is he a convincingly expressive one? Yes, for the most part. Having launched Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando on their screen careers, Zinnemann recalled that because of their training, Clift and Brando were similar"up to a point Their talent was incredible, but they behaved differently. This 1980 film tells with wit and sorrow of a movie company that has gone to the countryside in an attempt to film a drama dealing with this catastrophe; alas, the more intent the film makers become in re-creating the past the more insensitive they become to the natives and their present-day realities For further information: (213) 825-9261, 825-258l. . Sadiq's portrait is one of the few images here in which the subject is obviously aware of the camera.

Sias, ABC programming chief Brandon Stoddard will start deciding which of 26 comedy and drama pilots now before him will wind up as new series on the network's fall prime-time schedule. You have to know what your voice can do and know how to use it just right" Though Morgan has no immediate plans to tour, she's eager to perform again. Yet Solomon's vision is not morbid, nor do her works elicit pity. It features songs-about 13-taped last June at Wembley Stadium in London SNIPPETS: THE VCR explosion continues The machines are selling 75% faster than last year That's much quicker than predicted. It's dangerous sometimes because you can go out on a limb and fall off. Today's Trier unfolds layer upon layer of a history that began 2,001 years ago when the Romans founded the city. The lectures are free but there is a $3 parking charge in UCLA lot three Information: (213) 825-7315. .

He had a quick, warm smile for a photographer as he walked into the dressing room, and he even sat still for a few questions. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, having flown back to New York, was holed up in her apartment, putting finishing touches on her first novel. Then, a TV industry trade paper reported who owned the station: Johnny Carson, Neil Simon, Paul Anka, David Letterman, Joan Rivers and others. Pace has established musical subscription programs in 15 cities in other states-including Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Seattle-but none as yet in California, Wilkin said.

For evidence, she used three videotapes of the same "star" a woman talking to friends. NEW YORK — With the Royal Shakespeare Company in town for a Broadway run, British and American actors have resumed talks over union rules that keep them off each other's stages. "It's part of our new austerity approach" said new ABC President John B Sias. Yet even the four-hour works-sometimes called "mini-minis-usually have essential ingredients that distinguish miniseries from one-night made-for-TV movies, executives say.