Besides the annual marathon bicycle race that was saluted in the film "Breaking Away" Bloomington was hosting Mellencamp's first stadium concert. Is the smooth spiral inside some kind of mold? What's that stepped-wax thing, that looks like a wedge cut out of a model of a Greek amphitheater? Soon it is clear that what is in work here is not a product but a developmental principle. Their involvement underscored one of the underlying themes of the weekend shows: After years of being identified as rebels and mavericks in the public mind, rock's biggest figures have finally entered the Age of the Good Guy. After not seeing eye to eye with various pitching coaches, Eisley gave up the sport for music.
But Stratford's Lear, Douglas Campbell, turned out to be as thunder-voiced as Finney, and went on for far longer. SAN DIEGO — KGTV's Nov. His sister found him at 5 a. m. Inge's friend Jack Garfein called me to the scene a couple of hours later to help with the press As Inge was now half-forgotten, no press showed up. "We almost called it Zippy's" said Zippy, whose real name is Armando. "Artists can be pretty obnoxious when they're trying to get their career under way.
And the docudrama, with its synthetic repertoire and facts of convenience, is the most dangerous vehicle by which television can pervert, conceal and mislead. Tom Fogerty" But John Fogerty fans could rightfully claim this new billing is a little misleading. Thanks to superstar Michael Jackson, who co-wrote "We Are the World" with Kragen client Lionel Richie, the "Hands Across America" theme song may have been stillborn. This is not true for most black children" Three generations of unwed mothers and other inhabitants of Newark's black inner city tell Moyers "what happens to family when mothers are children, fathers don't count and the street is the strongest tool" Like most documentaries, "The Vanishing Family" is the sum of many contributions. Pittas came to Otis/Parsons with extensive experience in architecture, education, urban planning and design. "I think there is a finite number of people attending theater in Los Angeles, and we at the league are trying to change that" As producers work to increase audiences, they emphasize both the millions of tickets sold to blockbusters like "A Chorus Line" and "Cats" and the huge audiences that turned out for last summer's Olympic Arts Festival. The ordinary funkiness of a Scott Joplin rag brought us back to earth and to the end of the program For an encore, the ensemble repeated the rag.
The prewar compositions of George Antheil (1900-59) reveal a distinct American mechanistic aesthetic, where . sounds of a factory, of boiler plates, or any other clangorous noisiness" (Ezra Pound) are given uncannily accurate musical expression. Although the proposals for a $4-million renovation of Santa Ana High School Auditorium and a $20-million expansion of Bowers Museum are still strictly exploratory, the moves are considered the city's latest attempts to catch up with newer arts-facilities construction in south Orange County. Baumgarner, died last Sat" While much of the copy is on the softer side, Archerd occasionally breaks news. One could laugh at the creaky silliness of it all, or cry at the unnecessary abuse heaped upon a masterpiece The feelings were, as they say, mixed But all was not lost Far from it. Their presence also eased lingering talks of a rift between the England-based Live Aid project and the America-based USA for Africa group. He said he gave the Voice a copy of it-he still won't say where he got it-through an intermediary after unsuccessfully asking CBS to get it published by a CBS-owned book company.
The building has suddenly blossomed with billboards and poster boards promoting the Charles Bronson action film "Murphy's Law" Three years ago, Cannon's Menahem Golan was unceremoniously dumped from the Cannes film jury, reportedly at the insistence of an executive from another American company. "I kept imagining how I was going to explain this in logical terms, how I might tell this story clearly" she recalled "But there was nothing logical going on over there. We felt that art had the tendency to soothe the savage beast inside of us, it softened us-bluntly-and we thought, 'Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could somehow expose some of that 85% to art' " They envisioned placing parts of their collection where people who might never enter a museum or university art gallery could easily see the works. Sitting beside original works by Henry Moore, Auguste Renoir and more, multimillionaire George Ablah discussed the art he's loaning to Century City for an outdoor "sculpture walk" He spoke not from a spacious office suite or mansion anteroom, however, but from the lush interior of his private jet. Lucas has a lighter touch than Mamet's, though, and seems less inclined to punish his hero, here a young woman.
"He wrote down every light cue, every sound cue: he mapped out the production, the way you would a film. "We're not usually used for this kind of event" the officer said. Too, viewership falls off markedly after "Nightline" when "Eye on L. A" a clone of "Entertainment Tonight" comes on the air at midnight. So ABC's initial goals are to stave off affiliate defection in late night and hang on to whatever viewers Koppel has. Reza Abdoh, who is half Persian, half Italian, largely educated theatrically in London, and all of 21 years old, is directing a new production of Shakespeare's "King Lear" which opens Thursday at the Access Theatre.
And rather than indulging in mere gossip, this following seemed to insist on interpreting the Thompsons' art through the couple's private lives, and on trying to read the story of their relationship in their songs. Under various formula guidelines set by the council, the support ranges from about 10% to a maximum of 50. Monday and Tuesday) liberate the story from most of the stupidity, except for a grubby and deranged insurance investigator (David Keith) who looks off into space, stares at flames, carries an old clipping describing his mother's murder and mutters something about punishing Tracy as crazy music plays in the background. From its inception in 1975, the consort has been a loose-knit aggregation of instrumentalists and singers. What song would he open with? "Anything they want, if they'd let me do that" he replied. . Nancy Quinn, art resource teacher for the Fullerton School District, agreed.
She's doing a January special for HBO, based on the "Broadway" LP, and is negotiating to star in Mark Rydell's much-postponed film "Nuts" based on Tom Topor's play about a woman trying to prove that she was sane when she committed a murder Solters said nothing's been signed, but it's a likely go Sources at Warner Bros. "Ken Murray's Shooting Stars" Cinemagreats $19. 95. donated use of the Lido Cinema for the event, which begins at 8:30 p. m. I like to push myself as far as I can go-even farther than I think I can go" This weekend, Teroy is repeating his explosive performance as the brazen bartender in "Za Za's" a sassy ensemble number that brought down the house at the San Diego Area Dance Alliance concert recently. When can you move" In the front row, June Gutfleisch, executive director of the California Confederation of the Arts, the umbrella advocacy arm of arts organizations, artists and local arts councils, put her head in her hands. The increased costs, said board President Thomas Tierney, have been caused in large part by design additions approved since 1984 by the board. She also had attracted attention in another specialized, segregated, all-black opera, Virgil Thomson's "Four Saints in Three Acts" She had sung another black role, that of the Ethiopian Aida, in some of the best opera houses in Europe and America.