a fireball fall from the sky" Minutes later, ABC, NBC and CBS-they hadn't been airing the launch live, save on the West Coast broadcast of NBC's "Today-dropped their regular programming. They're not getting older-just maintaining their lead on the rest of us. . For three years the Beasley has tickled local funnybones with this juried exhibition, tempting a raft of artists to go for the sight gag, the trompe l'oeil effect, the double-entendre and the visual pun as a means of making an artistic statement. In recent years, Broadway ticket prices have risen at an average rate of 13% per year, according to the study. The marriage of music and video-such a happy, prosperous one in the pop world-was bound to be consummated in the arena of new and experimental music, as will be evident at Joan La Barbara's solo vocal program at the Los Angeles Theatre Center on Monday.

Given all that, you would expect work bristling with slogans, symbols and aggressive hostility. So I made sure to ask again" The management of the foundation and the reading series had changed hands by that time, and Bogen did get to read last summer, to a standing ovation. This Western and film noir are cult B films that live up to advance notice and then some. Griffith's classic 1924 production of 'America' " Warner Bros is wrong on at least one count The press release failed to mention that in 1972, Jack L Warner-the same Jack L. It is a company that brims with bright promise and with young, eager bodies, a company proud of an eclectic repertory that favors the risks of adventure over the safety of the so-called standard repertory, a company that specializes in short ensemble pieces rather than long star vehicles, a company that is accustomed to the triumphant substitution of energy for finesse.

But we hope to have a single corporation, or a partnership of companies, lined up by this summer" he said. Bell, a former vice president with public station WQED in Pittsburgh, was executive producer of "Kennedy Center Tonight" the widely acclaimed series that was broadcast nationally from the John F. His trademark works in the past have been pieces like a big solid ring divided by a light that made it seem to float, great swags of gray felt somehow suggesting prehistoric animals and odd, cage-like structures. "Ironically, it's those least at risk who fear crime most" she wrote. Bonnet acknowledged that the overall 900-man Cannes security force-police and private guards-is about 25% above last year, but said that was partially due to a larger film program this year.

Program topics include panel discussions by artists and film makers on the nature of "image making" corporate executives examining new ideas in office design, and five furniture designers exploring the essential and ubiquitous chair. Against a Gene Moore backdrop of a single rose, six men in mottled green tights bound and vault exultantly, never losing the pulse of the music by William Boyce (from Symphonies 1, 3, 5, 7 and 8) that gilds their movements, much as those pseudo-Baroque fanfares gave a classical patina to the events of the televised Olympics. The premiere of "Light, Part 20" found Takei dancing an improvisational solo full of wistful, childlike gestures and passages of explosive rolling-kicking-falling action. "We are an 80-year-old institution that is taking a hard look at itself right now" The 38-year-old music administrator was in town recently to address the local chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and to attend a reunion of alumni from the prestigious New York music school. Apparently, no one has mentioned that to the California Youth Theatre. God forbid" "Andrei" said his production designer Stephen Marsh, "is very definite about what he wants He wants a piece of reality.

I have a quesadilla , topped with truly awful guacamole; it costs an astronomical $12 (well, their rent is high. This place does considerable breakfast business based on eggs, chorizo, potatoes and beans in various burrito combinations or as a single big combination plate. "Oh, no, I didn't do that" said Bremen, now free on $1,500 bail. He complimented me and talked about what I needed to work on and he helped me a lot. Hope could keep fairly constantly in motion just visiting the schools, hospital wings and other venues that are named for him, including the handsome Bob Hope Theater at Southern Methodist University, where he did a long seminar on comedy last year that was taped and is now being edited for use in other classrooms by Hope's daughter Linda.

Patricia Goldman-Rakic, professor of neuroscience at the Yale University School of Medicine: "The premise of modern neurobiology is that the brain is the organ of consciousness. I prefer it to be empty of meaning, empty of content" says Katz in a catalogue essay noticeably devoid of biographical material. Well, Katz's wish is probably sincere, but it is impossible to paint-or live-without meaning, so avoidance becomes a significant theme in itself. The death of a physician-uncle who had been addicted to opium prompted her to write the script for "Narcotic" the first of their roadshow vehicles. I think I'm still healthy" Mazursky, 55, has certainly come a long way. It is the third in the Grande's long-running New Films From China series and will play for two weeks.

Ten singers selected from the winners of various regional auditions will sing in that event at the Met, and each will receive $5,000. This oddly various crew are the "Eliminators" and their target is (are you ready for this) a mad scientist who wants to rule the world Actually, that's not quite the cliche it sounds. The troupe always labors to bring home serious social and political themes, but they're expressed with a raffish cartoonish energy, witty portrayals and costumes, and-not least-inspired musicianship. If all had gone as hoped, this "Don Carlo" would have made its way from the Silicon Valley to Long Beach immediately in 1984. "When I was a kid, one of the things I think I was afraid of was belonging to something, because if you admit you belong to something that means you've got some responsibility. Of the remaining seven artists, six have made it into the top 100.