"At what point" he asked, "do we say this represents a certain amount of credential here" He was less cranky and downright philosophical about the tight ratings battle between his show and "Today" When NBC's dawn effort was dominant, he said, "my attitude. Hundreds of TV performers and executives will gather Sunday evening at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to watch as entertainers Steve Allen, Jackie Gleason and Mary Tyler Moore, former CBS President Frank Stanton, producer Fred Coe, puppeteer Burr Tillstrom and family entertainment mogul Walt Disney are inducted into TV's Hall of Fame. And, of course, there's the financial support: 250,000 listeners, 25,000 subscribers, dozens of corporate underwriters and a yearly budget of $3. 5 million Yet life at KUSC hasn't always been so comfortable. District Court jury in Kansas City concluded in 1983 that Craft had been fraudulently misled by KMBC officials and awarded her $500,000 (which she had wanted reinstated when her case was retried.
Yet, these women (Mia, O'Sullivan and the excellent Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest) and their men (Woody, Lloyd Nolan, Michael Caine, Max Von Sydow) are both individuals and types. An interview in this Sunday's Calendar with the controversial operatic stage director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle was written by Martin Bernheimer, Times music critic The byline was omitted during production IMPERFECTION He hated cliches He despised concerts in costume He abhorred star egos. Beginning 20 years ago with the Velvet Underground and continuing through more than a dozen solo LPs, he's proved himself an unusually consistent writer. He then danced with an impressive list of companies from both camps, frequently cast in the role of the outcast-rapist, lunatic, drunk.
Singer-actor Burl Ives, national spokesman for the Kennedy Center arts education programs, will appear at a concert devoted to multicultural songs and dances March 19 at the Santa Ana High School Auditorium. He briefly considered "Celebration" but dismissed it as "too prosaic" There are precedents for opening-night programs that link a new hall's purpose to both tradition and contemporary culture. Indeed, as Christie and '60s faves Mary Wells and Peter Noone reminded their predominantly 30s-ish auditors of adolescence, first loves and youthful optimism, all quibbles about the heat, the wait or the last-minute confusion-which had threatened to cancel the event more than once-vanished. In both works, Bilson played with his customary vigor and technical aplomb, presenting, in the wonderfully deep, rich slow movement of K.
On a winter's day in San Juan Bautista, a rural hamlet 35 miles south of San Jose, Valdez is holed up at home, pushing around words and phrases, puffing cigars, racing to make his deadline to ready "Badges" for Los Angeles. His position was created as part of a curatorial staff expansion before the opening of the museum's Robert O Anderson Gallery, slated for next November. PARIS — "My story is not a terrible tragedy by William Shakespeare" says Georges Bigot as Sihanouk, a smiling, padded buffoon who struts the length and breadth of the Theatre du Soleil's huge space in tiny, rapid steps, like a puppet on a short string threatening to keel over Never believe it. Newsdance They're young They're beautiful They're hip They move They groove They rip They're action They're traction They're pure satisfaction Don't give them any lip. I'm thrilled because it will take a magician to light this-and Lori is just the one to do it.
Television has always marketed myths, shaving off the unpleasant edges of reality to make the sitcom images on the small screen acceptable to advertisers and audiences. Asked if a majority of guild negotiators might rescind their recommendation of the contract before Monday's vote, Pierson said, "I doubt it very much". Actually, the refusal came from James Nederlander, the commercial theater owner who controls the Civic Light Opera through a nonprofit organization called the American Corporation for the Arts. "There is very strong sunshine there in summer, so my images relate to that bright sunshine and strong shadows" he explained in fluent English. 20 and opens nationwide seven days later, has Dudley Moore as Santa's chief elf, John Lithgow as a greedy toy manufacturer who tries to corrupt him and David Huddleston as Santa himself The film was directed by Jeannot Szwarc. The Bulgarian diva has been a regular in numerous European opera houses for nearly two decades, and has appeared extensively in South America, too.
Soon after, she was noticed on the Rome set of "La Dolce Vita" and was offered a part From there she zoomed into a jet-set life. Woven works-wall-hangings, rugs and garments-in earth tones and geometric patterns predominate Of special interest are Moroccan "crazy" rugs. Can she have the same impact on prime time? "I've had the prime-time commitment for about a year" Monty says, acknowledging that ABC backed her before Capital Cities took over the network. I don't need that" The only time she gets discouraged, she said, is when she goes to auditions and producers say, "I thought you'd be a blonde like your mother" "I want to be accepted for myself" she said.
Theatre 3-a thrust stage in a stark Greek-amphitheater setting (downstairs, with 323 seats, a blue door and black seats that veer straight up the side of a steep incline-premieres the English-language production of "Nanawatai" by William Mastrosimone, about the Soviets in Afghanistan Philip Baker Hall plays the Soviet tank commander. 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. But what made everything work was the group's unflagging artistry. More than two years after Guerrieri and Ordway made their deal with Chrismas, a federal judge ordered him to deliver the two Rauschenbergs to the New York couple. It would be pointless to suggest that Jo Jo Dancer isn't Richard Pryor, and even Pryor himself admitted that the movie ended up being a closer parallel to the events of his own life than he had planned "It's close, real close" he said. The demand for tickets was so great in London that thousands of English fans traveled to Paris, where admission was apparently easier to obtain. "And because of that, people will continue to come to Humphrey's, both out of habit and to keep abreast of what's new in the worlds of jazz, pop, and rhythm-and-blues"SAN DIEGO — It's only March, but already the local jazz scene is bracing itself for an all out concert war this summer.
The fact that not a month passes without a bushel of new Mozart releases is heartening It indicates that civilization is not dead. He has assumed a role that transcends the White House, the Oval Office and party politics He has donned a mantle more awesome than any other He has become America's anchorman. "I know that two people will be watching us from up there (pointing heavenward: our dad and Walt. "There are a lot of opportunities in Orange County for classical musicians" said veteran drummer Frank Amoss, who has performed at the Bash every year since it began in 1971 and is chairman of this year's event. Richard Kiley is a convincing Claudius (though less so than was Derek Jacobi in the 1977 BBC production of "I, Claudius" on "Masterpiece Theatre, cowering behind a curtain in terror of being assassinated, only to learn that he is the murdered Caligula's successor. "I read a lot of books and talk to people who have been to these places That helps me make choices.