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And in place of strong criticism for not moving the council's Southern California office out of Van Nuys into "a centrally located area of Los Angeles" (to make it more accessible to minority groups, as the Legislature stipulated last year, Ryan, in effect, drew praise for saving taxpayer money from the Senate subcommittee chairman, Alan Robbins (D-Van Nuys. Thus the first of these philosophic monuments emerged as a thing of fleeting thoughts and soft-toned soundings. 26, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is out to set us straight in a retrospective that proves that Grooms is, among other things, mature At 48, the artist has been in business nearly 30 years. Kate Capshaw will play the astronaut adviser caught up in the kids' adventure. "In my own view" he said, "I think it was handled with tender loving care" But Father John Woolsey, representing the archdiocese of New York, countered firmly that "this film does not objectively portray this issue It is very, very slanted to the pro-choice side. "Return to Oz" (Disney, $79. 95; Clint Eastwood's "Pale Rider" (Warner, $79. 95, and "Lifeforce" (Vestron, $79. 95, director Tobe Hooper's underrated science-fiction thriller featuring Steve Railsback, were just released. So it was a fitting tribute when, upon receiving the Country Music Assn.

But the joy of the work is a separate thing from the value of the work-which is what criticism is about It's easy for the "involved" critic to lose sight of this. See the hole in the stage floor? See that hole? That's the trap area. Charles Guedelhoefer, a Chicago structural engineer hired by Wolf Trap to supervise the repairs, told reporters that the crack discovered Jan. The rest will become Red Lobster or Olive Garden restaurants by May 31. But Todd was far from happy about the weekend overlap (last weekend) with the USA Film Festival in Dallas.

"There have been some script changes since then" Mandell noted "It's less surrealistic now. Particularly welcome is his collaboration with the Gabrieli String Quartet in a warm and joyous account of the Horn Quintet, K 407 The seldom-heard Horn duos, K. Cohen also said he probably will pass the Tony-show torch to someone else after next year's broadcast, when his contract to put together the programs expires. The other is Jean Bardet, of the restaurant of the same name, in Chateauroux. Until the eye reappears, the band member who wore the missing eyeball has appeared on stage wearing a black tuxedo and an oversized skull. . It turned out they both felt that the production of their records hadn't adequately represented their songs or vision. Most of us know "The Petrified Forest" primarily as a film, with Humphrey Bogart as the killer on the lam and Bette Davis as the young waitress pining to get out of this Godforsaken hole and Leslie Howard as the ineffectual Englishman doing a far, far better thing than he has ever done But Robert E.

The Charthouse-Malibu, 18412 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu (one mile north of Sunset Boulevard, (213) 454-9321. Up front in the hotel ballroom there was a "Dynasty" table starring Linda Evans and Emma Samms, who will play Fallon next season on "The Colbys" a "Dynasty" spinoff about the Los Angeles branch of the Carringtons. This landmark exhibition comes with a handsome catalogue containing crisply readable essays by Berlant, Steven LeBlanc, Catherine Scott and J J Brody. . But "At Close Range" is about the underbelly of the idyll, where the best these drop-out dopester high schoolers can hope for is a steady job fixin' Chevies for $10 an hour, when what they want are hot, fast cars and easy money.

Also exhibited is a large model for "Gates of Hell" unfinished at the sculptor's death in 1917 at the age of 77, the "Monument to Balzac" along with studies and variations, a model of the monument to painter Claude Lorrain, and a number of smaller sculptures including fragmentary torsos and dance figures, and portrait busts. SAN DIEGO — The emcee at the Improv on Monday night introduced them in unusually gushing terms: "You're going to love them, you're all here to see them tonight, let's give a big warm welcome to the comedy duo of Max and Ross" His remarks were followed by the obligatory round of polite applause. And a commemorative act, however sincere, isn't the same as an original artistic statement. Capped by a small-scale, revisionist production of Mikhail Fokine's 1911 "Petrushka" the stimulating four-part Long Beach Ballet program Saturday afternoon in the intimate Center Theater honored Fokine's major ballet reforms through an emphasis on customized dance expression. Also to be seen in action, the jaw-dropping Atilla the Haircutter. For those who savor being the first to discover the next wave of young writers, actors and directors, the new crop of films from the advanced film classes at USC, UCLA, CalArts and Loyola usually make pretty good browsing. Worker's Daily said the booming video industry must be regulated and noted that there is no national censorship board to examine tapes.

This is the right to cover Northern Ireland stories fairly and realistically" The government called for the banning of the program in a letter from Home Secretary Leon Brittan to BBC Chairman Stuart Young. Haley is always a deliciously nasty heavy, and Bobby Jacoby is terrific as Helm's feisty, imaginative little brother. Critics for the Associated Press and the Washington Post heartily approved of the effort, with the Post hailing it this way: "The program shakes, rattles and rolls the cobwebs out of the magazine format and reinvigorates prime-time journalism with irreverent and ambitious inventiveness" The nay-sayers included Howard Rosenberg of The Times, who said "the premiere was carried off with penetrating superficiality" while the New York Times critic said the program brings to mind "a supermarket tabloid set to music" Surprisingly, former CBS News President Richard S. That's just the start: The Children's Museum of San Diego is currently expanding to nearly 10,000 square feet, most of it donated, in La Jolla Village Square. In a business in which talking about the pictures usually is the business, the studio was adamant in refusing to discuss plans for its promotional campaign "It's a matter of policy" said one studio official. In Verdi's opera, Hines will repeat a role he has sung many times, that of the Grand Inquisitor; Siepi will appear as Philip II.

It also was treated respectfully by critics in the United States, while Albert Finney was nominated for an Academy Award as best actor for his portrayal of the drunken consul headed toward his destruction. He found us dangerously approaching a moral nadir: the nation "indifferent, complacent, greedy, bored, hungry for kicks, amenable to getting-along-by-going-along, comfortable with mediocrity, its aspirations venal and its governance sporadically avaricious, self-righteous, conniving, browbeating or paranoid. A Los Angeles collector wants Koshalek to look at a painting being auctioned off the next day. But I must say that after one rainy month of rejection in Hollywood, I hit a true low point The day I was attacked by a swan at the Bel-Air Hotel. If they take that course, he said, they then have to sue for damages in civil court. They showed Horowitz playing Scriabin in the composer's living room for the composer's daughter on the composer's piano.

"We brought down the wrong recording tape so we went through a crisis getting tape into the country because they have a 300% tax on things like that" reported Dan Doyle, Copeland's manager and the LP's producer. Twenty-thousand architecture and design professionals are expected to be on hand this week for the sixth annual Westweek, a three-day trade show that has grown this year into a grand effort to explore the common ties of modern design to technology. very soothing, very peaceful, very relaxing, very like being dead "It's about serenity being deadly" he said. William Livingston found just the right combination of ardor and vulnerability for Max, the composer. She sustains dignity even in moments of abject dementia, expresses pain and numbness with equal eloquence, suppresses heroic bravura in favor of histrionic truth. Winners included a pair of gals in bikinis who'd written the lyrics to "Born in the U. S. A" on the exposed portions of their bodies; a guy who ate six raw eggs, shells and all, and a woman who sang "Trapped" in Swedish.

The truth was that although we were consuming about 1,000 to 1,200 calories a day and expending a lot more with predawn-to-dusk mountain hiking, aerobic circuit training, swimming, tennis, weight-lifting, yoga and more, most of us were never hungry Not once. She served as assistant director for the Kansas City Arts Council for five years, then moved to California two years ago. Though made in Mexico for only $20,000, it's an impressive production. T roared out of the crowd to defend Lauper, who was being attacked in the ring What was Mr. Audience participation occurs, then we segue into a prison-break fantasy. In Orange County, the best CD selections are at Tower's three stores, the Wherehouse store on Harbor Boulevard in Costa Mesa, Compact Disc Warehouse and Compact Discs Unlimited, all of which maintain more than 3,000 titles on CD. "There is this incredible sense of proportion that the French culture has.

The Interactor record, which won't be marketed until the patent is approved, was developed over the last two years by Harvest Time, a research and development firm funded by venture capital. The thing is, you just can't fight this kind of thing, because by the time you tell people the real story, it's time to go" The "real" story, according to Wagner, is that he was "maneuvered" out of the music directorship by members of the Chorale's board of directors and by other Music Center powers, including Los Angeles Philharmonic executive director Ernest Fleischmann, and that his opinion regarding his successor was not sought or heeded. Exit Roger Wagner, grumbling-with Saturday's Los Angeles Master Chorale performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" The founder of the group and its music director for the last 21 years-known to speak whatever was on his mind to singers, administrators and media alike-is even less enthused about the prospect of becoming music director laureate than he was last November, when his successor, John Currie of Scotland, was introduced to Los Angeles amid much fanfare. To three Orange County acts that finally set foot on the amphitheaters' stages as opening acts, something that amphitheater officials have been promising for years. I do put my soul into these situations" Solomon did, however, go on to discuss the work in "Rosalind Solomon: Earthrites" She was at the photographic museum on a brief visit from her home in New York City. "There are so many films that don't get play in towns like San Diego. "It is my theory that there is, out there, a tremendous audience not made up of purists To that audience, music is music and they like it all".

Profits from both the single and video will go to the Ethiopian Famine Fund LIVE ACTION: Sammy Hagar will appear at the Forum on Feb 10 Tickets go on sale Monday. "There, we will present between five and 10 separate events, in different locales around the island" the dauntless impresario promises Information: (213) 746-0450 or 747-9085. The academy's final luncheon meeting for the season will be May 24, when the speaker will be Robert M. And only in time do we come to realize how harmonious a strict religion is with a hard existence-how it gives life a meaning it would not otherwise have.

Though only one-fourth of all cable homes are addressable, two pay-per-view systems were started up last week. The club features Springsteen music, beginning at 9 p. m, plus Boss music videos, concert footage and interviews. Already, three performances by opera satirist Anna Russell (in November) and two by soprano Renata Scotto (in May, 1986) have sold out. Pepe's often glossy approach to the music did not help: A lightning-fast reading of Sor's "Magic Flute" Variations, for instance, sacrificed phrasing and color for the sake of speed.

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