By the time USA for Africa arrived in Nyala, soldiers had beaten back the mob with leather straps and rifle butts. NBC deemed the material to be in bad taste and excised it from the broadcast, prompting Paar to quit as host of the late-night show for 25 days. The news from the CBS front: The network thinks it can overtake NBC in prime-time ratings and win this season; the return of CBS News' new "West 57th" series might be delayed until the ratings race ends in April, and the era of prime-time soap operas may be ending. The program primarily was filmed in Newark, for two reasons, Moyers said. Whatever Thompson can find on the drug-testing controversy she rat-packs away, skimming the text for names and places. Brown and Bellows pulled most of the major prints during lithography's earliest days, in the first decades of this century. With critic Paul Goldberger whom he takes out of the familiar streets of New York City and plucks down in a shopping mall in Houston, Stern is dutifully obsequious. Just like the sweep of American architecture it explores, the eight-part PBS series "Pride of Place" that premieres Sunday night at 10 on KCET Channel 28 is confused, clumsy and parochial It is also stirring and provocative.

Then Yates began calling the various program directors in the individual disciplines to ask how the cuts would affect them. American pianist Jonathan Bass, winner of a first prize in the American National Chopin Competition, will appear in recital at USC, next Sunday afternoon at 3. It ends up, after nearly three cutesy-pooh hours, being a thudding quasi-tragic allegory. "That's when I heard my first Charlie Parker record" Marillo said, "and immediately got turned on.

According to a Disney spokesman, NBC decided to telecast "Dumbo" Monday night and refused to alter that decision. For Aquino, too, the American media was a way to get TV coverage, since she was mostly ignored by Philippine government-controlled stations. We're not going to get the hard rockers, the 12-year-old punk rockers. Dinner, including service and wine (a costly investment here, is about $50 per person. "It's a conversation piece with you older people" the boyfriend tells Cosby, prompting cheers, laughter and a nationwide groan of recognition from millions of fathers across the country. "I think there's a vague influence on the music" said Mallinder, who spends most of his time in London but returns to Sheffield to record at the group's Western Works studio/headquarters.

So the lyrics are really about him" A few months ago, before "St. ABC said that Reagan, a former ballet dancer who has authored articles for several national magazines and has worked as a film critic on a radio network, will be involved "with a variety of entertainment programs and various services within ABC Entertainment" No specific assignments were disclosed, however. "A couple of weeks before I go somewhere I do all the research" she said. Again and again Sherman dissolves the traditional barrier between performer and viewer with a good-natured, childlike innocence that's difficult to dislike He isn't just a performer-he makes us his friends, as well. Having arrived in Los Angeles with an amazing traveling circus that has already played in Denver and Philadelphia, Grooms and his crew were feverishly rebuilding familiar pieces and creating a major new one at the Temporary Contemporary. "She's down to earth" he said of his old classmate (they were in homeroom together in high school "She's always wanted to come back here Everybody here knew she would. As you peruse his big, vividly colored canvases, you find letters, crosses, lips, eyes and nudes cohabiting with Egyptian heads, primitive masks and all manner of squiggles and slashing brush strokes.

Four spoke with Calendar about Laff Stop, telling a favorite anecdote or explaining how that first booking at the Newport Beach club was significant in their careers. Defiant, cynical and at the same time vulnerable, they are quickly read but not easily forgotten (Asher/Faure, 612 N Almont Drive, to June 22). "The format for most of the programs will follow the Boston Pops format, slightly modified in San Diego terms" Atherton said. The one great irritation, however, is learning new translations. Minus the visual trappings, one acutely senses the drawbacks. In that number and the equally disarming "Tom Traubert's Blues" Waits showed he is no less interesting when he is gentle. "I think we've done an amazing job in launching this initial season with all its uncertainties" he said.

Earlier this year, longtime Top 40 bar Joshua's Parlour in Westminster began periodically offering concerts. There also are networks featuring Christian talk formats, but none featuring a KYMS-style contemporary Christian music format. . Both here and in William Forsythe's "Love Songs" on Wednesday, Rodriguez brought to music that didn't need dancing a special depth and urgency. First, he gives us a prologue, narrated, via tape, with crisp British inflections by his wife, Valda Setterfield. "But I've not much right to complain" Feiffer said, summing up "I've picked my shot. The Bowery Theatre's production of "Gaslight" has been extended a second time, through Sunday. . 7 and 8 at 8 p. m, San Diego-based Jay Miller will offer a pair of performances of his brand of mime at the Theatre in Old Town.

Serving Houston since 1992. universalwiringCertified Used Ferrari'sThe Rarest, Most PRISTINE Ferrari's at the Best Prices. I think everybody needs a feeling of security, of having a place in society, just like the body needs nourishment. Based on the real-life exploits of 28-year veteran of the L. A. P. D. The least important thing is how good you are with the audience-that is taken for granted. Where docudrama goes, controversy is sure to follow. Then came Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in Berkeley and L. A's own Wolfgang Puck of Spago. Nothing was as gripping as Bruce Springsteen's singing an impassioned "Who'll Stop the Rain" to wheelchair-bound vets at a Sports Arena show nearly five years ago, but it's nearly impossible to hit that kind of peak when you barely have time to play a couple of hits before moving on.

She's still a striking woman, but her singing was pale, wan and often off-pitch. He was still feverishly tracking down details when airborne reporter Donna Dower checked in to relay her location for the next fast-approaching bulletin "I didn't hear you, Donna I was checking out a fatal. I worked with him again a few years later" Over the years, promoters tried unsuccessfully to convince Purple to reunite Invariably, one of the leading opponents was Glover. We always joke that if you get to be a superstar, you can drive an autobianchi-a small, cheap Italian car. "It'll shut up in a minute" Short, stocky and with gray hair too tousled to accept the term wispy , Paley is standing in a living room crowded with plants, possessions, a paleolithic piano, a prehistoric television set and hi-fi, brochures for past and future peace conferences and, at one end, the first new couch she ever bought.

And, as British producer Paul Mills, one of her oldest friends, says: "Ava still has some mystery attached to her-unlike most of today's stars" She's tickled to be playing Sharif's wife, she says. It's like when movie cameras hit the general public and people said, 'I'm a star, I can do this' The medium has some possibilities other than 'I can be a geek' " As a result of that discovery, tonight's second installment in the series-the program begins at 8- will mix popular recent rock videos by Dire Straits, A-Ha and Mick Jagger with less widely seen works from video artists including John Gibson and Michael Scroggins. Woodruff is anchoring from the "primary location" at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md, outside Washington. For years Ravel had trouble sleeping and might have sensed his dulled mind.

But the most frightening part of the legacy facing Joady (and all Woody's children) is the prospect of Huntington's disease, the hereditary illness that wasted and killed his grandmother, father and half-sister. "There's no such thing as a festival where things don't get done at the last minute" Wlaschin said. Momotombo , named for a Nicaraguan volcano, has strips of beef laid around a cone of rice, encircled in a forest of plaintains and topped with a hot salsa "lava" La Plancha serves delicious fruit drinks. "What's popular and what gets recognized goes in cycles, like fashion or anything else.

Peterson's aim is for his audiences to leave a concert feeling good about what they hear regardless of their musical experience "We want the widest range of audience possible" he said. Few of us will ever get closer to China than a wok. "Cat's-Paw" will close a two-week run at Seattle this weekend. They're trying to bait me into saying something nasty about Luther but I don't fall for it" When he's not sounding like Vandross, Jackson's sultry style closely resembles Billy Ocean's That's easily explained through two links to Ocean. "We're reducing the number of films from over 180 last year to around 130 features from more than 50 countries this year" Wlaschin said.

You just know it's only a matter of time before that tube is going to smash onto the lab floor-and that it's going to unleash some terrible catastrophe. The fourth finalist, a strong pianist who had made a good but not spectacular showing the day before-he had opened weakly, then warmed to the task, without at any point showing any potential winner's stripes. But the show must go on" Bonnet and other French officials insist that the show is going on without extraordinary security measures being taken. "We decided to do a six-month tour and fund it ourselves" she said. But the bread on the sandwiches is double baked; the matzo Brie is generous, buttery and absolutely wonderful; the waitress suitably sarcastic and, when I begin to browse the deli case, the man behind the counter makes unmerciful fun of me.

Ruby can scream "I want killers! I want killers" and mean it, yet pride herself on giving food and shelter to her urchins. He has depicted himself in "Artist in Greenland" a 1960 canvas that offers a key to the mentality at work in "The Enkindled Eye" a retrospective show of 80 paintings at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art through Sept 1. Cool appraisal of the few fortunes and many misfortunes of the Los Angeles Ballet would have to suggest that the troubles began at the top With John Clifford. "It's the only thing of its kind in the country" said student David Shamir, a 24-year-old guitarist from New York, as he emerged from an ear-splitting jam session in the school's bomb shelter. Once Venice's town hall, it now houses the Beyond Baroque Foundation, a literary arts organization where a poetry reading is the sine qua non of career building for local poets But first you have to get there. If Robert Morris were out to remind us of present death, he is peculiarly well-qualified to manage the job.