And Zubin (the conductor's famous son) told me he had heard her, and said she plays quite nicely" Would the elder Mehta have booked a young musician sight unseen and sound unheard if the last name were Jones or Smith? "I never book an artist without hearing them first" he answers Well, hardly ever. His most frequent subject was Jewish peasant life and his nominal style was Cubism, a combination that seems a bit esoteric for general adulation. One could eat salads and eggs in a lively arena while discreetly kicking off one's shoes. "I never set foot in a liquor store until I was 26" If this all sounds pretty strange, it's the picture of life around rock stars that you get from much of "Rock Wives" (Beech Tree Books: $12. 95. The original musical "Robin Hood" gets the royal treatment from Fullerton Civic Light Opera-fabulous storybook sets and costumes, atmospheric effects and honest-to-gosh real sword fighting. "Ebla to Damascus" at the Natural History Museum to June 1 is a strew of ancient art from Syria.

"I believe that in photography the work teaches you about what your interests really are and who you've been" Meyerowitz says, explaining that he periodically surveys his work to discover "a center line" About 2 1/2 years ago, when he sat down with a big batch of color photographs taken with an 8x10 view camera during seven summers at Cape Cod, he found that the line was "a simple sigh" This "sigh" wafts through pictures of dreamy interiors, freckled kids hugging themselves, a hammock twirling in the wind and-most plentifully-through photographs taken at the ocean's edge. The night I went, singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop (he wrote the theme for "Tootsie) was the celebrity chef. USC's School of Fine Arts runs a small gallery rent-free at the Rouse Co's Santa Monica Place shopping center Shopping center developer Ernest W Hahn Inc. There may be an audience out there, but don't hold thy breath. "The suction of the crowd as they brushed past me to get her autograph almost took the hair off my hands" said Hamilton the other morning "I thought, 'I just don't believe this. Their attorneys contend that upholding the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066 involved false, misleading evidence and the withholding of evidence.

Those were two very heady days in Paris a couple of weeks (when he discussed the post with opera officials there. During last week's 34-33 squeaker over the Express, Kelly aced out Norm Van Brocklin's NFL passing mark of 554 yards set in 1951. "I've been amazed that whether we're in Boston or Denver or San Diego, the crowds laugh at the same jokes, and they cry in the same places" he said. The only female here that really affects you is the one Stone hates: Valerie Wildman as a promiscuous TV reporter.

The almost-immediate enthusiasm of the neighbors is an auspicious sign; within hours of the opening, a large and congenial crowd had gathered, and now it looks like it will never leave There are people who are not pleased with the place. A small, golden pavilion on a gold-leaf lake, in a golden world relieved only by wooden walkways, smudges suggesting a mountain range, the green of lily pads and a few bamboo stalks. the merchandise is secondary" The same could be said of synthesizer music, though the final verdict is not in yet. 15, a musical megashow hitherto promised but not pinned down. When the Oscar nominations were announced in February, and Steven Spielberg was not nominated for best director, several industry insiders interpreted that as a personal snub to the director, who was making his serious dramatic film debut with "Purple" From the day of its release, Spielberg's adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Alice Walker novel sparked controversy Feminists complained that it was sexist. But where a pioneer like Malevich made his statement in metaphors of theory, Serra states his in terms of intimidating physical reality. The artist's head is a skull painted on a slab of wood and tagged with the phrase, "Easy, but sad" In case we miss the self-confessed vulnerability that seeps from this wistfully humorous piece, the rickety fellow carries his flaming heart in one hand.

For I had just spent two years working on a projected miniseries about the Pharaoh Ikhnaton with Carmen Culver (who scripted the miniseries 'The Thorn Birds' which Margulies produced. June 28, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; June 29, Sha Na Na, 2 and 7:30 p. m; June 30, Los Lobos, 2 and 7:30 p. m; July 1, Cheap Trick; July 2, The Whispers; July 3, America; July 4, Patti Page and the Harry James Orchestra, 2 p. m, and Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles, 7:30 p. m; July 5, The Blasters; July 6, Philip Bailey, 2 p. m, and Amy Grant, 7:30 p. m. Nobody who scans Donner's output can fail to acknowledge that here is one Nordic personality whose sheer productivity is beyond question"From an office in what used to be the living room of a yellow frame cottage in a tree-shaded courtyard, Donner keeps in touch with film making all over the world. The play has been performed twice at John Muir Theatre and will be staged again at 3 p. m today and at 3 p. m Aug 25.

And the performances-Zach Galligan and Molly Ringwald as the doomed teens and Ellen Burstyn and Len Cariou and Marsha Mason and Paul Sorvino as their parents-are excellent. 'BOOK OF THE CRAZY AFRICAN' "The Book of the Crazy African" at Theatre of Arts, doesn't have much of a book It isn't very crazy, nor is it particularly African. Kahn, who represented Lee at his espionage trial, objects to a "fabricated" scene involving Lee's arrest on drug charges. For all of circle President Lee Melville's early assurances that there were to be no winners, only recipients "because every nominee is a winner, entire productions felt the crunch of going home empty-handed-to say nothing of the curious result attending Jack Elton and John Boswell.

"Out here we draw as many people as many major acts that have sold 10 times as many records" Elfman said. Examples: Simon & Garfunkel's "The Graduate" and Bob Dylan's "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" Today, this process has been reversed. In San Diego, "there were crowds at our openings but no sales" Sigmund said. Last year, Bogdanovich published "The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten 1960-1980" In it he wrote that Stratten was "the noblest person I ever met, the gentlest and the bravest. But the very bizarre nine-member lineup of crazies in "People to People" a player-audience improv sequence, was rich enough to last longer than it did (one of the panelists is a Wisconsin housewife who lost her only son to extraterrestrials, and the concluding segment, "The International Talk Show" where an Israeli comedian gets into a serious contretemps with the German host over the Max Schmeling-Joe Louis rematch, represents one of the rare comedic forays anywhere into the quality of nationalistic characters rubbing up against each other.

But in this case Catholicism and absentee landlordism held the people down. Yet whether in work or in life, it is the spirit of play and naivete that most engages him. The article made clear that the reservations were about the movie and not about Lowry's novel, which generally is considered by Mexicans to be among the best books written by a foreigner about Mexico. This one could use clarifying, too, though it shines in contrast to "Andrew" with convincing performances by Tony Allen and Rene Levant. But the performance Wednesday night at Phillips Hall on the Santa Ana campus-given as part of the college's first annual Fine Arts Festival-has its sociological message, too, no matter how understated and kept largely between the lines. He has the facial symmetry and pensiveness of an old Dutch master's warrior king.

But stardom-in terms of box office-doesn't always count, come Oscar night Steven Spielberg isn't the only one who knows how that goes By now, George Lucas has surely caught on. And maybe, if I were feeling really self-indulgent, I'd have an order of crispy, crackling Maui onion rings on the side. Carne desmenuzada , a Nicaraguan version of ropa vieja , is delicious shredded beef cooked with onions. "I'm here in Los Angeles, in a long-running Broadway hit, and for those two things to come together. At the harpsichord, Elaine Thornburgh proved unsteady of tempo, pushy about breathing with the singer and textually disinterested. You get to fight, fence with words, make love to a woman, be extravagant, and die on stage. "I was inspired to do a theater piece, because there are 600 lights hung and focused for action in this theater.

I just love it, that's all" McInnes said that despite his reputation as a rock 'n' roll deejay, he's always seen himself "as an air personality first, and a rock personality second" And that philosophy, McInnes said, is the reason he's managed to hang in there all these years while many of his mid-1970s contemporaries, particularly the patter-prone Top 40 jocks, have long since disappeared from the airwaves. Dudley also forced Jane to marry his oldest son, 17-year-old Guilford, to cement the coup. The album is likely to have many American listeners scratching their heads as they try to wade through Down Under issues and such references as "Alice Springs" "Kosciusko" and "Jimmy Sharman's Boxers" "We do seem to write about those kinds of things quite a lot" said Garrett, 31. Richard Williams, one of England's most perceptive pop critics, picked up on this unexpected national good feeling in his Live Aid review in Monday's edition of the London Times.

Bennett, who maintained a dance troupe of his own for 20 years, developed close personal and professional ties to Limon during his touring days. The festival board, which has called a meeting of cultural organizations for May 1 at the festival's Forum Theatre, is expected to propose that additional monies for cultural programs be distributed through a newly created nonprofit body. is expected to reveal plans in Los Angeles today to more accurately measure the size and makeup of audiences watching national network and cable-TV programming. Howard acknowledges his new status with the usual balance of humility and awe. But finally he parlayed his skills as a rider-he grew up on his father's Nebraska ranch-and his acting experience into a successful career, which lasted from 1932 to 1962.