15 hours and 32 minutes, yet it was almost a non-event among Los Angeles film lovers. Had he been making $30,000 or $40,000 off every one of those drip paintings they wouldn't have looked the same". Despite limited distribution-60 theaters in 10 cities-when it was released in 1978, it has attained the status of cult classic. Lazaroff's latest endeavor is a $2-million, free-standing restaurant adjacent to the $80-million Grand Champion Resort scheduled to open early next year in Indian Wells, a few sand dunes down from Palm Springs. Gilliam says he made the movie everyone agreed he was to make and now Sheinberg wants a different movie. There would be no change in the 3,800-watt station's attitude toward its student help, which Shirk estimated is instrumental in producing "around 70% of what you hear every day" "The students still play a very major role in the station's operation" Shirk said. But then two wrestlers, Barry Wyndham and Mike Rotondo, started to use 'Born in the U. S. A' as their theme song and I liked it" Gary Shaw, 26, bartender, Thousand Oaks: "The Boss means America.
With various volumes teetering on the lintels, the sculpture has the unlabored look of an impromptu balancing act done by an assured veteran. That's 10 years from the time she began reading in public and attempting to be recognized for her work Along the way she had achieved moderate success. But even though Frias promotes as many as 300 events a year throughout Southern California and the rest of the country, his company doesn't have the widespread name recognition of such music industry giants as Avalon Attractions or the Nederlander Organization At least, not in the English-speaking community. Mancini will conduct a program of his music, including his themes from "The Thorn Birds" "The Pink Panther" and "Victor/Victoria" at 8 p. m May 30 and 31 and at 2:30 p. m June 1, at Symphony Hall.
The songs and styles in this 186-track collection influenced virtually every white rock artist of note: from Elvis Presley and the Beatles through John Fogerty and Talking Heads. Rudolph is getting better and better at creating complete worlds-like this one, getting ready to explode-then setting them to music, the very best music. There aren't too many entertainment shows doing better than it does" Sias says that Stoddard and ABC News President Roone Arledge have been discussing a second news-division program, and "there probably will be another hour of-I call it reality-based programming-in the schedule next fall, based on what Arledge and Stoddard are talking about. "You can't stand by while the goose that laid the golden egg is in danger of being killed. J udith Still Headlee, in a recent interview at her Mission Viejo home, recalled what life was like with her father, composer William Still Grant who died in 1978 in Los Angeles after years of fame-and later neglect-as America's first black classical composer.
ARTBEATS: The Nederlander (theater) Organization-San Diego Symphony legal duel over control of the Fox Theatre-Symphony Hall building now goes to court Aug 29, moved back one week. There'll be a third annual trad jazz festival in Los Angeles over Labor Day weekend. She is clearly fascinated with process, the building site rather than the finished structure. This peculiar hodgepodge of song and spoken homage to pop's dominatrix diva might have suited the self-absorbed spirit of the disco days.
"No one's mentioned any specific timetable-it could be weeks or months. USFL Football: Eastern Conference Championship, Birmingham (12-5) vs New Jersey (11-6, 11:30 a. m (7) (10) (42) Golf, Atlanta Classic, 12:30 p. m (2) (8. . In Atlanta, for example, there are now four independents on the air where there used to be only Ted Turner's fabulously successful WTBS superstation. "Triplets" one woman asked, a question undoubtedly shared by others. "Something had to give" Schwarz said, describing the traveling that marks his different directorships.
The Long Ryders' "Looking for Lewis and Clark" (Island-One of the year's best singles from the grass-roots L. A rock bands. When Atherton called for muted understatement, he received hesitation. Wherever else Miles Kreuger thought of searching for financial succor to save his Institute of the American Musical from eviction, Texas wasn't on the list Fortunately for Kreuger, Texas came looking for him. "It's plain that Prima Facie can't fail to become an important contributor to the new American drama" he wrote.
Last June, he left the Long Beach Symphony after 18 months as general manager. The poet-turned-rocker played four shows in Atlanta on her first U. S tour and Buck saw them all. At sunset, it glows golden and blends with the molten waters of the Seine, its volumes both enhanced and somehow disembodied. Mitchell, who serves as chairman of the Hall of Fame, having established it when he was president of the TV Academy from 1980 to 1983. As always, the classical order of her composition and impeccable execution is softened by the romance of filtered light and soft-focus presences.
CARDIFF, Wales — Baritone David Malis, who performs with the San Francisco Opera, won the second Cardiff Singer of the World competition sponsored by the British Broadcasting Corp. This second Barron-directed clip starts off with a short, curious sequence that looks like an ending from "Take On Me" then abruptly slams into a lip-sync setting that places the group in a cathedral where the pews are full of mannequins. In posthumous awards, Count Basie was awarded a ninth Grammy for best Big-Band instrumental performance, and Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans" was named the year's best country song. The Mies van der Rohe chairs are black leather and stainless steel, and coming soon is a black credenza. Locally, KABC-TV Channel 7's "Eyewitness News" (apparently not trusting ABC network coverage) sent Warren Olney to Geneva and also displayed a sharp sense of humor by flying in house comedians Bruce Hershensohn and John Tunney to soak up insights the way California sunbathers do sunshine Oh boy.
"Having already been nominated once and not come away with the award, I've already got that part figured out" Rogers, 35, said by phone Friday from his office "But I'm not blase-I'm much more excited this time. Linda Fiorentino is splendid as the massively arrogant Kiki, Marcy's sculptress roommate, the twisted sister of the piece. "I've recently received a grant from National Endowment for the Arts to write a large-scale orchestral work called 'Passages' Composing is still an essential part of my life". On "Arab" keyboardist Rich Ruttenberg played acoustic piano, delivering some lulling Bill Evans-ish lines before building to a dynamic climax. Barnes claims that he met with high-ranking agency officials at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Waikiki. The other is by no means niggardly, but Grooms' chaotic, Falstaffian art seems suffocatingly constricted therein.
At Tavern by the Sea, the restaurant provides the wall space and throws a reception for the featured artist. The pizza in question-and of course I must accept some guilt in this matter for having ordered it in the first place-was described as coming topped with "duck and chili" As it turned out, there was no chili involved-at least no chili in any sense that I understand the term There didn't seem to be much duck, either. Hardly anyone does, and the rational side of me, as well as the sentimental side, says it's foolhardy to let them go We'll need them again, as we've already discovered. With the move to Disney, the Tribune believes that it would no longer have "first call" on Siskel's time "He has done a great job for us" Squires added "It's a question of how much a person can do physically. (A previous engagement kept Silverman from attending an NBC staff victory party Monday night at the Sheraton Universal hotel) "I'm delighted" Silverman said "I think it's terrific. His demeanor may be a bit casual for a 16th-Century Franconian knight, but he looks like a blond Adonis and often sings like one. So far, 8mm has been used for home taping and making home videos because, until now, there were no prerecorded cassettes available Sony has just introduced 15 titles, ranging from $17 to $50 But if 8mm owners want movies, they're still out of luck Sony doesn't have a great film library.
As Warren pointed out, contemporary British films are doing well at both countries' box offices, however, and some hope glimmers on the horizon for the once-moribund industry "It's not all gloom and doom" she said. "When the doctors told me I would have to have the open-heart surgery, it scared the hell out of me and that's when my plan for the resignation started"Concerning the supposed tension with Diller, Gordon openly admitted that the two often disagreed, but said they had a good working relationship. What red tape in the world would stop the process of people starving to death? I thought the first thing to do was to get money to the people right now They can't wait until tomorrow. Another, for the Latino market, is the hard-core movie dubbed into Spanish. It is a superbly trained, classically oriented company that specializes in exotic pretension, spiritual subterfuge and stylized sexual athleticism. Fugua contends that Gaye owed him $613,000, $450,000 of it for producing Gaye's 1983 national tour, which was sponsored by Miller High Life Beer-Ron Russom, who contends that he is owed a $25,000 "finder's fee" for introducing Gaye to Miller Brewing Co. "We need to know" said Supervisor Ed Edelman, whose district includes the Fairfax area, "where these monitors are needed and how much it will cost.
Nothing's included that anyone should be ashamed of. Tom Driscoll, one of the most interesting of San Diego's under-appreciated artists, is represented by two handsome, abstract drawings in two colors and a third drawing that could be a study for one of his remarkable plastic foam wall sculptures. When war broke out in Egypt in 1967, he and his family left the country, settling in Paris for three years and finally returning to the Bay Area, where he taught at Cal State Stanislaus, UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. The pile-driver ego and visceral self-assurance that makes him so impressive can turn as flaccid and repulsive as limp intestines when it loses energy The plodding, boorish "Three Gourds" is just exhibit A Evidence abounds. Eugene Boutilier, executive director of the Southern California Ecumenical Council, which represents 14 main-line Protestant and Anglican denominations in the area. The gross is far larger-perhaps more than $10 million-but Gorman employs 11 people, including his housekeeper, gallery help and others.
Whatever else may be said of the Louvre project, one must admit that it mirrors the stupendous scale of contemporary culture. From acting and directing to set design and publicity, they have done it all. This makes the first part of the play funnier, for we can't see her wounds as clearly. Although Arledge contended that the segment was journalistically suspect, it was far less suspect, according to others at ABC, than his decision to yank it "West 57th" CBS. 'UNSUITABLE FOR ADULTS' Terry Johnson's play, at South Coast Repertory Director David Emmes Setting Michael Devine Costumes Susan Denison Lighting Cameron Harvey Technical director Ted Carlsson Stage manager Andy Tighe.