Above all, the playhouse was this ebullient place of energy and exhilaration that traveled from the sublime to the ridiculous without discernable injury. In each, Adams gave all the movement episodes the same importance; even the order of events seemed wholly arbitrary. Still, there was an aura of special excitement as fans poured into the cavernous International Fairgrounds hall, a huge, barren room almost twice the size of a football field that is normally used for consumer and/or cultural exhibits. There are isolated episodes of great power and they happen when peopled with actors who have the craft and talent to sustain them-such as the superlative Hecuba of Fran Bennett, the more erratic but capable Clytemnestra of Lisa Richards, Michael Holmes' intelligent Talthybius or Christine Avila's restrained, lucid Cassandra. There's dissent among the organizers-they spent too much money on this thing" As for home viewers, they can expect the longest show yet, Konrad said. If the ballet world does not quite suggest the financial and social intrigue of "Dynasty" the profession is frequently a family affair.

But it takes a real stretch of the imagination to envision these two men as friends, much less as roommates. Condon and Huston's underlying comment, on the interrelation of organized crime, business and government, seems as current as well, as this week's "Doonesbury-wherever it may be. A suggestion, then, or more of a reminder, that after seven years, everything is intact at Le Normandie (805-495-8900: the nouvelle- Norman- auberge fireplace; the menu (from the ethereal terrine des fruits de mer , a unique blend of homemade seafood pates, through salmon in Chablis and duckling with orange, to patisseries of the day, joyful and triumphant; even-what hath God wrought-the staff! Lachaumette is still there, still losing hair over imagined imperfections; Claude Farina, the chef who helped Lachaumette build his restaurant literally brick by brick; sous-chef Peter Thomsen, the Danish pundit of pate and patisserie ; Mounir (Monty) Issa, the waiter's waiter who could teach Mr. Because he's been away on foundation business in Chicago and Atlanta, last week was Rogol's first real opportunity to look at the suite: "Here we're going to put a conference table and I'm getting a new computer and-look! A real phone system! One that really works" he said. One can damn him for being a bad game player-or finally become angry that such games have to be played in the first place. Singer Pat Boone, president of Golden Orange Broadcasting and one of the founders of the station, was not named as a defendant. "Promising a track and delivering it are two different things" Most likely Kragen will again have to play hatchet man.

Katrina and the Waves' "Katrina and the Waves" (Capitol-Remember when ABBA was almost as big a target of ridicule as disco because the Swedish group's music was based on such sweeping, sentimental strains? But ABBA's sound was often remarkably appealing, and it's no wonder that bands have begun to borrow aspects of it: Katrina Leskanich reaches for it in the supercharged choral effects on "Red Wine and Whisky" and "Que Te Quiero" But the strength here isn't so much Leskanich, a powerful singer who lacks a distinctive edge, as writer Kimberley Rew, whose compositions include "Going Down to Liverpool" which was covered by the Bangles and is included in this package His best tunes have a likable, if modest, pop-rock twist MAYBE. . In all, CBS captured 23 of the 39 daytime Emmys, with ABC getting eight, PBS three and NBC one Syndicated programs collected the other four. KLOS refused to run ads for the film to avoid promoting Smith on KMET, according to David Miller of International Film Marketing KMET refused to run ads to avoid promoting KLOS. They are also, like other art forms, susceptible to criticism in their own terms and, watching five dozen floats roll by, you don't lose much time learning to welcome the wit over the pretention, the ingenuity over the mere elaboration, the soft sell over the hard sell.

She tried to separate her life on and off the set, but the role stayed with her even after production had finished. But the appealing modesty of this final offering in David Puttnam's "First Love" series is blasted by a final surprise twist-a twist that merely seems evasive in raising last-minute questions that must go unanswered for lack of time. Or a store so outrageous that one of its most successful promotions"Jewish Day-invited customers to "try bargaining our profit-conscious staff into giving you a deal" Corned beef sandwiches and other deli delights-along with free yarmulkes-were supplied. In Santa Fe, they serve as the easy pieces, conventional offerings to complement premieres and exhumations. This is not the kind of place that shows one off in the best possible light It's not a place you hang around in. Elsewhere" and David Milch, Roger Director, Steven Bochco and Jeffrey Lewis for an episode of "Hill Street Blues" Nominated for the $10,000 prize in the 30-minute category were Marc Lawrence for an episode of "Family Ties" Gary David Goldberg and Alan Uger for another episode of "Family Ties" and John Markus for an episode of "The Cosby Show" For the first time this year, the Human Family Institute also is offering $10,000 awards in two categories of children's programs.

Summer stock in the seaside town of Colwyn Bay led to the prestige trappings of Chichester Rep and finally the illustrious Royal Shakespeare Company, where he served with distinction, producing a memorable Coriolanus in a tour of Shakespeare's somber and overlong tragedy. We finished with a pretty little round of pumpkin cheesecake in a tangy ginger sauce, and I decided to see if I could persuade the RG to give Bocca one more try. Scheyer continued to represent them in the United States until her death in 1945. For Morrison, though, the process seems directed not by some logical progression from realistic to simplified forms, but by gut intuition The result is that works skip and jump stylistically.

As Angie, Bowen-Davies gives a disturbing, riveting, deeply realized performance that probes and uses up every scrap of character Churchill has offered. "Ah, the smell of pines and affluence" one longtime peninsula visitor describes the feeling But it is more. The dealer had bought the painting through a contract, which valued it at a mere $160,000, he said. . It is warranted, they contended, by "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest's" stature as what Bell calls a classic film, which would suffer if edited. "To me, the Missa Solemnis represents the most monumental work in the orchestral/choral repertoire" says the 71-year-old Wagner "Vocally, it's the most taxing thing I can think of I think the Credo is an exercise in survival So when I go, I'm going to see to it L. A. A shy, doe-eyed preppie (or to use the movie's parlance, a Richie ) , he's trapped in an almost cruelly insular world. A competent house factotum, he tried, without much success, to direct traffic in a jam of clashing cliches.

"They really haven't spent the time to work on the craft" Shakespeare can be intimidating. The festival was sponsored by WTTW-TV and the Central Education Network. Station managers who have utilized commercial messages-euphemistically called "general support announcements" or "enhanced underwriting-consider them a good antidote to public broadcasting's perennial financial woes. "Crisis in Central America" is intensely violent and gory in depicting nations where the line separating oppressor and reformer is sometimes blurry The terror and suffering, though, are graphic And for once the history is on the screen. .

Since September, however, the music director has been Rudolf Barshai, the former conductor of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, who emigrated to the West in 1977. It's no coincidence that these fresh-scrubbed vigilantes always keep a video camera close at hand to tape their exploits. He has lost nothing upstairs" Weide joked that, "I always thought, 'Well, they must prop him up at the last minute and shoot him full of steroids and just pray that he doesn't slip up' "But there was none of that. There were names from 26 other countries on the new list including Spanish singer Julio Iglesias. About $37,500 of the city share was divided among 12 "cultural or artistic" organizations last year, including $7,200 each to the Laguna Art Museum and city Arts Commission, according to Councilman Neil Fitzpatrick, a member of the city's festival negotiating team. The rotating repertory was scaled down to a standard series of one play presented after another. The award included a matched pair of concert guitars made by Ricardo Sanchis-Carpio of Valencia, Spain, and $1,000 Both Rosandich and Rubio are USC graduates.

Beckett says he had been looking for something to do with the back dining room, and "decided to fly with it" when he heard Herbst's idea. The father (Ed Asner) is a stubborn, domineering man who is not above using his only son's drug addiction (to morphine and amphetamines) to his own advantage. Not to mention taste: The concert began with a spotlight on a woman dancing bottomless in front of a huge cross, while Thunders deftly reeled off the cascading notes of "Pipeline" From there, the show dropped its X rating and gradually picked up momentum and intensity (interrupted only by a winning five-song acoustic segment. Among works in the exhibition are prints by Karl Bodmer and John Mix Stanley; drawings by William Hayes Hilton, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff, William Rich Hutton; and watercolors by Samuel Colman, Thomas Moran and Alfred Jacob Miller. This year's annual membership exhibition of the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies was selected by Howard Fox, the new curator of 20th-Century art at the County Museum of Art It opens Friday and runs through Oct 11.

Before the exercises run their innocent course-and they don't run very quickly-we have lusty yet prissy maneuvers by the male corps, demure maneuvers by the tripping and traipsing female corps, a coy but witty little duet for Yann le Gac and Kyra Kharkevitch, a potentially erotic duet for Ronald Perry and Nathalie Carratie accompanied ambiguously by six fleetly competitive, muscular gentlemen, and the inevitable send'em-off cheering solo for an erotic acrobat. He earns unreserved praise for the endurance, stamina, power and accuracy of his playing of Liszt. Nevertheless, the fateful Declaration of Independence was finally signed-a miracle of compromise that would make any politician proud. Starting 15 months after the films' play dates in theaters, Viacom will release them consecutively to pay per view, pay cable, network TV, then syndication to local TV stations. This is the season for face-lifted, rouged-up, hair-transplanted oldies, including "The New Newlywed Game" in syndication and ABC's daytime "New Love American Style" the 3-week-old offspring of the old (1969-1973) weekly comedy anthology series that pioneered the format for "The Love Boat" So much for glittering genealogy. On the local airwaves, meanwhile, a half-minute on KABC Channel 7 will cost the usual $500 during Super Bowl time.

Not that their excellence necessarily will advance their careers on TV. Whatever the production's flaws, they are more frequently the result of choice rather than accident. Complicating matters drastically for Tarshish is his sister (Hemda Levy, who returns from Jerusalem and commits the ultimate taboo of beginning an affair with the handsome Shawaf. With Taylor, there's always a squiggly joke lurking about and "Arden Court" had several. The subject is "period style" and director Tom Henschel's players display an awareness of its essentials, such as the need to speak up and not slouch. Paul Civic Center, when he and old pals Andre Cymone and Jerome Benton showed up at a show by Mazarati, a young band signed to his Paisley Park label. This summer, the long-awaited move to turn over the museum's operations to a new nonprofit organization-to be called the Charles W Bowers Museum Corporation-is expected to take place.

"When people go into a theater and they shut off the lights, it's as if they're entering the darkness of sleep and dreams. "I was absolutely shocked" said Daniels, who plays the disagreeable Dr Mark Craig on "St. It's her first opportunity to build an environment of corrugated metal in a gallery, and the opportunity wasn't wasted. In addition to traditional beef mandu , Little Dragon serves light fish dumplings, a vegetarian dumpling and something called the "dragon dumpling" Typical Chinese-Korean style noodles are also freshly made, but by machine, so they lack the character of the hand-tossed noodles available in many nearby establishments Little Dragon, 2897 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles (213) 383-0955 Open daily, 11:30-9.

She juggles specifically ethnic idioms and all-purpose romantic idioms gracefully She makes grateful use of the human voice. Fielding ignored the surface realities of time and place, forcing attention on the tormented protagonists. (If you want the unbelievably weird details, you'll have to take the tour) "What these stories mean to people is their own business, but we certainly don't intend to degrade any of the people involved. "Here, I had a chance to grow in a complicated, very demanding role.

"Not only in my work as a player and conductor, but in everything I do, it is necessary to use one thing in different ways, to adapt one skill for two activities" he explained recently "Kendo, for example, teaches me to swing my arms I can use that as a conductor So many people waste so much time" Not Ohyama. Like Woods, Kriegel used to cover far more than politics, he said. And the weatherman on those two shows will be another former KNBC hand: Kevin O'Connell. There are no surprises here-pasta is the usual Bolognese , vongole , primavera -and entrees run to eggplant parmigiana and veal marinara. CBS' Shephard confirmed that, "in terms of the energy, the music, the editing" the show is going precisely in the direction he has in mind. But a lot of people would say that a frivolous poseur is preferable to a pretentious one It's not all Setzer's fault. NEWLY PLAYING: Embassy Theatre-851 S Grand Ave Reopened May 31, 1984 Theater size: 1,632 seats Renovation cost: $1 million Primarily for music, opera and dance Theater unlikely but possible Henry Fonda Theatre-6126 Hollywood Blvd Opened February, 1985 Theater size: 863 seats Renovation cost: $1. 2 million Hollywood Playhouse & Cafe-1445 N Las Palmas Ave Opened February, 1985 Theater size: 240 seats Renovation cost: about $500,000 Projected: 99-seat theater, restaurant and bar by year-end Hollywood Post No 43 (American Legion-2035 N Highland Ave Opened as Il Vittoriale for play "Tamara" in May, 1984 Capacity: 130 Renovation cost: $500,000 New Mayfair Theatre-214 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica Reopened: January, 1984 Theater size: 350 seats Renovation cost: about $200,000 New Variety Arts Theatre-940 S Figueroa St Reopened: October, 1984 Theater size: 700 seats Renovation cost: about $500,000 Royce Hall, UCLA campus-Reopened: May, 1984 Theater size: 1,850 seats.