CBS opted not to go with "My Blood Brother" with Charles Rocket as a successful executive and Joe Regalbuto as his idealistic, '60s-ish pal. The fireworks created by the friction produced some of my best work"Everyone knows that variety is the spice of life, but Les Hooper may know that better than most. Performance artist Liebe Gray is on a teaching mission at the Los Angeles Childrens' Museum. 27 at the Carter as part of the Globe's Play Discovery Program. . Siqueiros, who for a time lived and painted here, was a dedicated supporter of the Latino arts center. "With some 8,000 people attending weekly pops concerts, we didn't want to lose those folks, but we do want to attract as wide a variety of people as we can" Atherton said. Kaukonen, now 45, and Casady, three years his junior, first teamed up in a series of garage bands in Washington while both were still in high school.
Recently, though, he moved to more routine quarters, and spread his pursuits across three studios and an office. The conceit is to create a fairy-tale world, in spite of the play's sophistication. But when I'm on stage, there is only one diva' " At the time, Simmons was wearing thigh-high stiletto boots, an "incredible" Las Vegas-type showgirl costume with see-through bodice, a huge headdress and a cod-piece Bettman calls the Simmons character "a sexual smorgasbord He's like Dr No-in drag-with a stage show". And because Charley suffers from dyslexia and couldn't even read until two years ago, he had a simplicity which I hadn't found in other actors. San Diego Symphony music director David Atherton, on the other hand, is a bit of a Stravinsky connoisseur-earlier in the decade in London he conducted the complete works-and doesn't appear to be tempted by the obvious. It has also been the year of the Geneva Summit Meeting, when U. S.
After a while, you suspect that the only appropriate climax is some wild paroxysm of lunacy; after which, Halsey's eyes will snap open and he'll find himself back on the rain-soaked, nocturnal highway of the opening shots-with John Ryder just about to thumb him down again. Although the show intentionally presents disparate viewpoints, Holsclaw sees one overriding theme: people coping, each in his or her own way "It's not a passive show It shows people meeting the crisis and dealing with it. What she found after spending time at the program's focal point, a Florida rehabilitation center headed by Dr. In January, Sushi will present five events in five lofts and other downtown spaces, a performance project which was to have been presented in the new Lyceum Theatre in Horton Plaza But the theater's opening has been pushed back to March.
"Fever Pitch" is determinedly hard-edged, yet sentimental at the core. The benefit will be held at the Kronquist Gallery in Laguna Beach, where gallery director Cliff Wassmann said he hopes to raise $100,000 at the all-day event. The award-winning Akiyoshi is profiled in "Jazz Is My Native Language" a documentary by Renee Cho airing tonight at 10 on KCET Channel 28. The Mark Taper Forum is one of 49 dance and theater organizations from across the nation awarded a total of $3 million from the newly established Reader's Digest Dance and Theater Program. But the food is lovingly prepared and the atmosphere is warm. I'm not worried about overexposure from doing radio and TV at the same time I've been on the air and underexposed for 29 years You talk overexposure? Dr Ruth (Westheimer, that's overexposure. Jerry Jeff Walker returns to the Crazy Horse Steak House in Santa Ana on Feb 25.
And the Los Angeles company is only a whisker behind the Broadway one In some particulars-diction, physicality-it's ahead. She will be replaced by mezzo-soprano Sondra Stowe, a native of Los Angeles and a graduate of UCLA and CalArts. The problem commercially with Prine is that he has never found a place on the airwaves. Besides Iglesias and Cantinflas, Latino artists participating in the recording included Jose Jose, Jose Luis Rodriguez and Maria Conchita Alonso 1ST. Joshua is another battler from the Montreal ghetto, who courts and marries a quintessential WASP, Pauline (the beautiful but numb Gabrielle Lazure, and conducts an ongoing, full-scale war against the British/Canadian establishment.
"Chinese really want to see American films, but they are so expensive that there's not much hope we can spend our hard currency on films when we need it for Boeing airplanes China has no idea of who the great American stars are today. And I still have trouble with my feet"SAN DIEGO — Ask Tony Caligagan how he got started in professional dance and he'll smile and say: "I just dove in-head first" Nine months ago, with no job, no place to live, and only $900 to his name, Caligagan left San Diego for the Big Apple to compete in the fast lane of big-league dance. According to program notes, "Carnival" was "restaged" in 1978, "taken from the original 1950 choreography of 'Frevo' by Lester Horton' " yet "adapted in 1984 by Shirley Martin and revised in 1985" and "not to be mistakenly claimed as an original restaging-but as an inspired work perceived by the present Martin Dancers" Clear? Horton's legacy here was being both plundered and trashed. The tall, suave, silver-haired gentleman stands quietly at the piano. They say that he not only failed to eliminate the debt, but by urging the board to forgo a fall fund-raiser, by urging a postponement of the spring festival and by urging a merger with a group that, by its own account, is $8. 5 million shy of its $10-million funding needs, he has given the organization away.
He melts to her, melds to her, yet she's merely going through the motions-very minimal, untaxing motions-without much presence or even energy. If Nancy Reagan thinks it should be held in a residential neighborhood, maybe she should have the rock stars perform in her backyard" Besides the 16 stars reported confirmed for the concert, another 27, among them Whitney Houston, the Dream Academy and Sting are listed in the "expected" column of a talent lineup sheet. . In this medieval allegory, a disillusioned knight plays chess with Death Subtitled $39. 95 "To Joy" (1950 A violinist copes with living after the death of his wife Subtitled $59. 95 "Wild Strawberries" (1959 An elderly professor reflects on his life Subtitled CBS/Fox, $39. 95 (212) 819-3200 "Winter Light" (1963 Doubts and despair plague a small-village priest Dubbed $69. 95. "It's the time of the year when high school and college students want to have a good time and party" CHP spokesman Jon West said "We want them to make it to their future". Paley will be co-written with San Francisco investigative journalist David Harris and will be published "later this decade" Bantam Books Inc, announced here Wednesday. I have so much to learn about songwriting that it scares me sometimes I want to be good-great even I'm far from that now" There's more Morgan produces too.
It will feature scores of concerts, exhibitions and workshops, plus an arts "Imaginarium" fair created especially for this celebration. An estimated two dozen stations-including KCET Channel 28 in Los Angeles-are selling limited commercial time. "See, to some people the sense of accomplishment is all a matter of cars or suits. "Lady Jane" has a sense of immediacy but also old-fashioned, heart-tugging appeal, cinematographer Douglas Slocombe's moody lighting, Allan Cameron's production design and Sue Blane and David Perry's costumes contribute crucially to the film's richness. Through the friendly conversations between Mr- and Celie near the end of the book, Walker shows that his salvation has also necessitated a change in his consciousness. Just released by Atlantic at $29. 98. Summer is usually a blah period for home video, with so many people on vacation or spending time outdoors. Indeed, one discovers that her company occasionally tours with reduced forces: "Lateral Pass" to be seen here in its full theatrical version, nonetheless has two trimmed-down alter egos; "Glacial Decoy" has been danced, without projections, as "Decoy; "Set and Reset" tours with a more compact collection of overhead screens than was introduced in New York; "Opal Loop/Cloud Installation 72503" lost its fog effects to become just "Opal Loop" here two seasons ago; "Son of Gone Fishin' " was danced here without Donald Judd's usual startling blue and green backdrops.
CBS' first-string broadcast team of Pat Summerall and John Madden already is on duty. (The screenplay, co-written by Stallone and "The Terminator's" James Cameron, oddly combines Cameron's zingy paranoia with Stallone's muscle-flexing optimism) At the end, when Rambo, asked what he wants out of life, screams hoarsely that America must recognize and accept Vietnam vets, it seems less a logical response from a fatigued (and mud-spattered) hero than Stallone yelling his guts out to audiences everywhere. Predictably, the group, having had very little time for rehearsal, restricted itself for the most part to common denominator songs such as "If I Should Lose You" and "Lover Man" On the latter, Griffin at one point silenced the rhythm section and played an entire chorus unaccompanied-swinging without a net, so to speak. We said, 'This she should do, even if she's not paid a lot of money' The point was to get something under her belt that was different" Since then, Grossbart has charged ahead with his plan to make Bertinelli into a mainstream star. Since it's been fashioned by two of the all-time experts at distaff comic relationships: writer-director-producer Allan Burns and star Mary Tyler Moore, collaborators for seven years on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show-you may begin by expecting a lot of it. Sheryl Donchey thinks that Bobby's shyness wasn't altogether a matter of indecision. One problem has been the lack of a master catalogue of the holdings of the many public and private film collections in the United States.
AROUND TOWN THIS WEEK: Guenther Schneider-Siemssen, who will design the new production of Verdi's "Otello" scheduled by Music Center Opera this fall, will present an illustrated lecture, Thursday night at 7:30 in the Crocker Center Towers, 330 S Hope St, downtown. Although a long-legged female dancer makes a striking presence on stage, "big" women are something of an anomaly in ballet and even in its more liberal sister, modern dance. So far, Lincoln has been a breath of fresh air, literally and figuratively, for these veterans of the intensely competitive and sometimes spiritually dampening Southern California music scene. Profound is the word for the Underground Railway Theater's production of Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale" in which bountiful feats of illusion mesh with the traumatizing effects of war, imagistic surprises blend with strong social protest and every stereotype one ever held about puppetry is turned on its head. Williams is a black feminist theologian who has taught women's studies at Harvard Divinity School and is now a lecturer in the religion department at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. "As soon as I got to New York, right away everything just started clicking" he said in a recent interview "It was like it was fated to be.
"Now it's turning into a script which I'd like to direct in Canada. It will be staged in La Jolla from June 1 to June 28, then will open July 15 in Washington. Best Tropical Latin Performance: "Palo Pa Rumba" Eddie Palmieri. Having someone else come into the mix was the last thing wanted by co-executive producers David Lancaster and Dann Byck, who is Norman's husband.
specializes in what he calls "blue wave" groups like the Harman band-acts whose music is blues-based but does not rigidly adhere to traditional blues styles. And why should it? At 57, the veteran Gilbert & Sullivan singer, principal basso of the D'Oyly Carte Opera for 16 years (1953-69) of its Golden Age, is making a whole new career-in grand opera. Airing at 8 tonight on CBS (Channels 2 and 8, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" is a flat, cliched, silly three-hour celebration of the high-living film swashbuckler who died in 1959 at age 50. This conflicting combination of artifice and truth is common coin in the Photo-Realist realm and Ginder separates himself from that pack by cutting his paintings into the shape of curved arches and treating the sky in a highly subjective way. (She won for "Coal Miner's Daughter) "I guess I have been on a soapbox a bit" she says, referring to the political content of "Missing" "The River" and "Marie" "If you're going to toss and turn about things, it might as well be about something significant.