Covent Garden paid its respects in 1956, with Amy Shuard and Sylvia Fisher. Oscar Maciel, director of the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco and panel spokesman, said the multicultural leadership must formulate new strategies. Harry Hoffman (Dustin's father) drove up from La Costa to pick up his son's trophy but was told Golden Globe rules would not allow it. Even as we grouch at MOCA, we realize that the museum is a victim, as well as an architect of its times. The bassoon, of which Pizzi is one of the mercifully few jazz masters, was deployed after intermission, its froglike sound applied to two brief originals and to "All the Things You Are" Pizzi's only bassoon feature utilizing the strings was "Song for Grandpa" in which we also heard that rara avis, a studio violinist who is also a capable jazz soloist, Richard Greene. This looks like a place that can't miss, a charming villa with remarkably good, reasonably priced food (appetizers $4 to $8, entrees $6 to $15, set among the giant office buildings of the Irvine hub.

Venetians eat so much fish-I thought that food would be perfect here" But then she hired a Florentine chef, Gabriele Tani, and the result is a menu that is neatly divided between rice and pasta, fish and meat. Rondo, 7966 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, (213) 655-8158 Open for lunch and dinner, Monday-Saturday Closed Sunday Beer and wine only Parking on the street All major credit cards accepted Dinner for two, food only, $35$60. A turbotin (baby turbot) grille with sea urchin cream sauce, for instance, was impeccably fresh not long ago, and perfectly cooked; and the thinnish ocher-hued sauce was just what it claimed to be, with no raffish additions, no tricks. The paintings are from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, whose collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early modern paintings were acquired primarily by two Russian businessmen who collected art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It runs through June with appearances by some newer, more esoteric, jazz innovators. We live at a moment when classic modernism is comatose and chic new-wave styles are largely unsatisfying. After all, this is the generation that grew up pushing the fast-forward button, the generation that's not supposed to be able to keep its minds on anything for more than 90 seconds.

Nevertheless, Manning brought to the high declamatory passages a vaulting heroism and dispatched the hissing-humming-snarling effects, as did the instrumentalists, with theatrical conviction. (Macnaughton was replaced by an 18-year-old actor, Jeffrey Combs. A July 8 date has been added to Luther Vandross' engagement there too Tickets go on sale Monday for an added date (Aug 17) to Sting's Greek Theatre run Dio will be at the Pacific Amphitheatre on Aug 16; tickets go on sale Monday. In the taxi en route to see Hughes, the cabbie asked her for a date-that's how interesting she looked "Never happened before" she said She always makes an effort when she goes up for a movie. This crowd consisted of compact disc fans, and the store-Covent Garden Records-was tailor-made for them. Among them: Frank Rothman, chairman of MGM/UA, whose stock is controlled by businessman Kirk Kerkorian; 20th Century Fox chief executive Barry Diller, who left the chairmanship of Paramount Pictures in part because of differences with corporate heads at owner Gulf & Western; MCA/Universal's Lew Wasserman and Sidney Sheinberg, regarded as show business's most stable and successful conglomerate executives; independent producers David Gerber and Leonard Goldberg, the latter of whom this week turned down a top-level ABC programming position; Jeff Sagansky, who left a programming slot at NBC to become production chief at Tri-Star Pictures, jointly owned by Time Inc, CBS and Columbia Pictures Industries Inc, a unit of Coca-Cola, and ABC Inc.

Scott may throw himself to the floor as a 6-foot, 2-inch grunion "hunk" in the throes of spawning bliss. It had the possibilities for some great fun and that had been rather lost. Live Aid II looks like it's about to land in the Rose Bowl, but opposition to the locale is anticipated from several Pasadena homeowners who live nearby. It has a sort of dusty-gelatinous flavor that is not at all unpleasant OK, you can think about the texture again.

Kobin, noting that the station also plans to expand funding efforts in "the vital financial community of Los Angeles" but that the greatest percentage of potential corporate underwriters for public television is based on the East Coast. All musics are created equal, but some are more equal than others The records keep on spinning. . "Sure, there's 'La Cage aux Folles' Let's face it: That show (about a male homosexual couple) isn't exactly what you'd call our kind of show" Even so, some dinner theater operators have been making attempts to depart from what some call the "old war horse repertoire" and to present shows that also will appeal to those under 45. But what about Blackwell's scheme to finance his film by faking an on-camera suicide? Or his big-screen videotapes of an actress impersonating his dead first wife to allay his guilt over her suicide? Or the scene where Blackwell forces Molly Grainger to strip at gunpoint, and videotapes her-as blackmail leverage with her network? (Pure sexism: Would they pull that with Harry Reasoner)Coming hard on the heels of "Power" "The Imagemaker" (Beverly Center Cineplex) is another scathing, but oddly idolatrous, look at that modern bete noir of liberals: the big-time political media whiz. The lean, elegant director who has specialized in films dealing with personal struggle found himself in the midst of political strife, when he would have preferred to deal with artistic matters. Must have this year's style in dress, in telephone, in computer, medicine, war weapons, diet and hair-do and/or music. Based on the World War II diary of an inhabitant of the Vilnius ghetto in Lithuania, it is described as "a tribute to the relationship between persecutor and persecuted" and tells how Jacob Gens, ghetto leader, battled the Nazi extermination of the Jews by placing them in jobs necessary to the war effort-even starting a theater to help salvage their will to live.

For all her charm, however, there's a chronic pensiveness in Gong Xue, which the neighborhood housewives soon attribute to the woman's loss of her mother, who committed suicide rather than denounce her husband, imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution. The script went through additional drafts incorporating more romance, more jeopardy and more visual elements. According to Grass, the lyrics usually aren't political in nature, but songs concerned with everyday life under apartheid inevitably acquire a political meaning. Rubber-coated plaster waste molds were made of the clay forms, which were then cast in bronze and assembled Welded joints had to chased. "I worked in markets before like Dayton (Ohio, which has less than one million people, and there were six religious stations that all seemed to make it. She as a woman was perfectly coordinated with her moment in the life of film. It is forever true that those we anoint as stars reflect one way or another the envies or aspirations, the dream-wishes, of the audience.

Klien and Grumiaux, in their cool, clean-limbed interpretations, eschew both 18th-Century stylistic practices and Romantic indulgence. His use of stunt flying as a metaphor for this flight into the abyss, however, is rather more obvious and less successful The real surprise is Bain. Forman will be the basis, Hemmings also announced, of the Forman Family Fund, an endowment fund to strengthen the association's economic position, and "will not be spent within one season, but alloted over several" As for the future, Hemmings told the lunching press corps that he intends that MC Opera, "by the end of this decade, is producing 10 operas in five performances each, spread over a six-month winter season" MUSIC AND DANCE PEOPLE: Kent Nagano will return as music director of the Ojai Music Festival, scheduled for May 30-June 1 at Libbey Park in Ojai. Patrick Bissell, the familiar Nutcracker-Prince, resembled Christopher Reeve as a terpsichorean Superman He danced with ample muscular pizazz and exemplary control He was courtly, dashing, almost charming.

Clad throughout the film in little more than a red satin corset, the statuesque Julie Newmar plays a veteran of the streets, long on advice but seemingly short on customers. Barbara Stanwyck, whose acting career spans more than six decades on stage, movies and television, will be awarded the association's Cecil B. "We saw this as a way to double or triple the number of people we can reach" with the famine relief song, he said. No complaints about the performers,who work without amplification, at some loss to our understanding the lyrics.

The video vividly portrays the consequences of driving and drinking, as a group of partygoers in a car run a stop sign and a pregnant woman is killed. That's why cassettes are so nice-nothing is cut" MORE OLD MOVIES: The 1949 Italian film, "The Bicycle Thief" which always gets votes when critics assemble their all-time Top 10, is available this week, only with subtitles, on Corinth Video for $69. 95. Nevertheless, at a top price of $47. 50 for musicals and $40 for dramas, theater attendance so far this season has dropped, reportedly by as much as 25, with paid attendance falling below 50% capacity. 11-Tears for Fears' "Songs From the Big Chair-in my Top 10) No 26-Stevie Wonder's "In Square Circle" (Tamla. When was the last time you saw a TV-movie musical based on a hit pop song? This two-hour production is a fleshed-out dramatization of "Copacabana (at the Copa" a hit single for Manilow in 1978.