Culver" In the past, Wagner said, ABC "fell in line with the thinking we had" on particular episodes only after "a series of discussions and because of the strength we had with the shows. The blues notes bend and slide in the way you have to hear and feel but can't really learn or read from music manuscripts. Essentially, it duplicates the 1884 Milan version, but it restores the original first act, in which the ardent hero encounters the troubled heroine in the forest of Fontainebleau. Today, he will unveil a collection of large-scale sculptures he's lent Los Angeles, installed throughout the Century City Plaza in the vicinity of the ABC Entertainment Center and the twin Century Plaza Towers. Seen from offices high in the Wells Fargo Building, the sculpture resembles an orange lightning bolt. They are a pair of opposites-one heavy and one thin, one balding and one with a full head of hair-that are seemingly made for confrontation. -Produce a monthly series focused on Orange County Performing Arts Center facilities and on other Orange County arts organizations, including interviews with star performers This series, to begin with live coverage of the Sept.

(Adams, Dunne and their friends are 30ish but seem already deep into middle-age angst ) Adams is more grown up than the others, but it's so hard to like her. "He was the closest to the Joe Williams-type singer that I knew, and he's been a great asset to us right along" Soon after Juggernaut had recorded a live album at King Arthur's, Pierce had to return to another role that had long been a part of his life, that of Count Basie's alter ego, filling in at the piano whenever Basie was ill. But before they exercise that freedom, producers and writers ought to look seriously at what it is they want to say and whether it can be said effectively in their format. "We usually get no more than 20 people at a time here, but it's steady, especially the afternoons. "See Below Middle Sea" runs March 21 to April 13; "Rat" plays May 16 to June 8. This year, for instance, we have a staff of five pianists for the 12 cellists. Designing it for a television special would give the Hall of Fame immediate stature, would promote the TV Academy and would bring in some money, he said. While the movie industry readies itself this weekend for the Academy Awards show Monday, much of the television industry will be convening here to honor its own at the third annual Television Academy Hall of Fame ceremonies.

"We're handling it as a routine fairness complaint that will be handled at staff level" said Bill Russell, director of the FCC's office of congressional and public affairs. IMPERFECTIONS As the jeep passes, Huston sees that it's "one of ours" and remembers that he is miles from the front. Like Wharton and Proust, Mehrten recognizes an unshakable affinity for things past. "It would have meant a bit of a cheat on the age-Greenwald is much younger-but at a stretch it could have worked" The difficulty was finding an actor who could alternate with Heston in the roles, although he also began to see that doing both roles and directing might have been overburdensome. "I hung art in the lobby of the bank, then in the gym lobby of the high school. It's nearly an hour's worth of footage of some cuddly and intriguing animals From Children's Video Library at $29. 95. But the "Vice" squad lost to a quartet from "Cagney & Lacey" This meant only 25 Emmy-sharers in three categories.

In the most oppressive bondage in the history of mankind, we still had enough strength and resiliency to laugh, and sing and have fun and develop as a culture" Anthropologically, Walker argues, "our tradition is an oral one. NBC and ABC cast an eye toward next season Wednesday and made plans to introduce several new prime-time series next month that they hope will catch on in time to be included on their fall schedules. These are not being discussed" Nor, for some strange reason, is anyone discussing the possibility of a Ponnelle production in Los Angeles. LAS VEGAS — Cable television seems to have rekindled its love affair with the movies.

"This is a very personal thing for the people at the station She had been around here for two years. The charge in fact was willful failure to file income-tax returns, a misdemeanor. His sense of purpose renewed, he returned to San Diego determined to make a name for himself on the local music scene, teaming up with Skid Roper, a fellow musician he met one night at Bodie's and immediately found something in common with "when we had a long conversation about (old-time country pioneer) Doug Clarke" Nixon said. One doesn't often hear Carl Nielsen's quirky and devilishly difficult Clarinet Concerto. The room was so dark I thought I should knock three times and say I was sent by Joe, but all I did was ask for a Perrier.

It's an overwrought hunk of theatrical anguish that emulates a great bird and sums up the struggles of an era even as it begs to be shut in a closet. The grain that finally trickles over 1,000 desert miles from Port Sudan to the Chad border camp of Asernea must be hauled by truck the last 100 miles Sometimes the trucks are hijacked by starving mobs The truck drivers escape with their lives if they are lucky. Given the vicissitudes of the repertory system, the director soon had to move on to other challenges, however, leaving his concept in the hands of assorted assistants and promptbook holders. This year, Ponnelle's eccentric, egocentric "Tosca" has become the responsibility of Matthew Farruggio. A legendary Vienna revival in 1948 found Ljuba Welitsch searing the title role. "Back in the '50s, I'd bought this old car for $90 and my wife and I drove back from California on Route 66.

I had lost my passion really, and I was devastated by it" An assemblagist with a rare gift for constructing epiphanies of plastic toys and cake decorations, Houston decided he needed a rest from the struggles of making a living as an artist. Wallace are collaborating, will be even heftier, an estimated 1,500 pages or so. According to reports, Survivor sacked Bickler, citing ineffectiveness. "Amelia" she said, was her toughest role because of the emotional level she had to maintain "I found myself going home depressed and drained I never went to work happy once I could never be happy; I always had to be upset" she said. The most obvious anachronisms were the strings' liberal and unvarying applications of vibrato and legato-including Brown's elegantly commanding solo work in the Vivaldi-and a lushly varied dynamic scheme. A brace of earlier masterpieces including the 1866 "Cabaret of Mother Anthony" and the Courbet-like "Bather With a Griffon" of 1870 demonstrate clearly that there was nothing wrong with Renoir as a straight academic painter.

"There's not a shortage of people who want to advertise on television" Schweitzer said CBS would not release the names of sponsors who pulled out. It'll be a combination of 'Hard Bodies' and 'Porky's 7' I'll be the star of it, but it'll be like an ensemble comedy with a lot of crazy people in it. Supercussion Plus was based at Santa Ana College for three years and still draws the majority of its members from Orange County. The new agreement ends speculation that the British conductor, whose star has risen dramatically since he joined the San Diego orchestra, would move on to fresh pastures at the conclusion of his present contract, which extends through the 1985-86 season, the orchestra's inaugural year at its new Symphony Hall (currently the Fox Theatre. "I don't think it (the cancellation) will have a major impact on the orchestra at this stage, however. Sick of hearing about Ozzy Osbourne-that bat-biting, allegedly suicide-inducing heavy-metal singer? You're probably no more tired of the way Oz keeps landing in the spotlight than his old Black Sabbath partner Tony Iommi.

They'd make a really interesting video" The interview and his narrative were culled from the highlights of an uninterrupted four-hour interview, which, he revealed, was the longest he's ever done. And this time, said Southland vice president Kenny Weissberg, the series will be bigger than ever, with more than 50 acts-ranging from traditional jazz trumpeter Miles Davis to the more commercial Windham Hill family of pop-jazz instrumentalists-scheduled to play from late April through October. The accompanying catalogue is the first comprehensive monograph on the artist. The first "MTV Video Music Awards" and Showtime/The Movie Channel's presentation of "Master Harold. Sure enough, no sooner had we walked into the hotel's lobby than Aunt Emily remarked upon its shabbiness. So successfully has Dutilleux transported us, via Carlos Saldana's rich Cinemascope images, to a world of beautiful lakes and lush vegetation in which people live in close harmony with nature that it comes as a jolt to realize how endangered this seeming paradise is-the jungle, we learn, is being cleared at a rate of 60 acres a day. The Rotten Egg says, in reality, this is what he thinks of you" But Rotten Egg or no Rotten Egg, the brothers Lowe and other awardees will continue to get coverage of some sort-if only via pin-ups, Weiss said.

"That's something I can really do" said Pizzi, whose own small-group records have produced such memorably pretty melodies as "Willow Creek" "Espressivo" and "Alicia" "I've been around a lot of good melodies and some of that rubbed off" he said, suggesting further that being "Italian and listening to all that opera" also may have played a role in his development. While the route from sideman to featured soloist to film composer is not all that unusual for those musicians who earn their livelihoods in the studios of Hollywood, it is a rarity indeed for there to be a stop at acting stardom along the way. The mutual pleasure enjoyed by these two men bringing out the best, the brightest and the wittiest in one another is by now a familiar and frequent sound. Later on, he says, "If I could find a producer who would do for me in 1989 what Cubby Broccoli did for Bond, well, now. We're worried about the how of that" The speaker was Robert Egan, director of new play development for the Mark Taper Forum, which this week began its monthlong New Theatre for Now, consisting of eight programs: seven new plays and one week of "micro-operas" "We're asking the press to suspend the traditional critical stance" Egan continued. Tindemans and Bagby comprise the two-member equivalent of a medieval pit band-and splendidly, through expert and apprehendable performances on medieval fiddle and harp, psalterium and organetto.

He recently orchestrated eight tunes for Ralph Burns' score to Richard Pryor's upcoming "Jo Jo Dancer" A call from Jack Elliot, conductor of the New American Orchestra, provided Holman with his latest commission, a jazz vehicle for tenor sax great Stan Getz to be premiered in April with the NAO. Jazz composer/arranger/bandleader/saxophonist Bill Holman's "seek work" plan is simple: He waits for the telephone to ring with another assignment-and, sure enough, it does. That is partly because the post-theatrical life of a film (on TV, cable and tape) can generate half or more of its income. And the great thing is, I've got all those highly professional film makers at Universal to help me And I'll take all the help I can get I know I'll be well into my depth I just hope I won't be out of it. Otton said he has been "well aware" of speculation that he might leave the Laguna Beach museum at a time when the museum was embarking on a large-scale expansion, including reconstruction of the museum's main site. " It's now evident from President Ronald Reagan's TV appearances that he has expanded and redefined the presidency.

I think it's a very nice honor" In the meantime, other artists and scholars were convening downtown or gearing up for coming events in a citywide triumvirate of art conventions. Here's another case of life imitating art. And then our place in North Carolina, near where my family-who watch our house when we are gone, which is much of the time-lives". Richard Stilwell commands most of the right credentials for the title role: a firm and dark lyric baritone, a handsome figure and abiding dramatic intelligence. "In fact, after I got my master's with Daniel Lewis at USC, I found my first podium leading the chamber orchestra at Mount St Mary's in West Los Angeles. The idea for a TV Hall of Fame had been kicked around before, but it was Mitchell, wanting to achieve something of lasting value while he was president of the academy, who took it up as his personal crusade "to celebrate the contributions that lots of good people had made to television and the fabric of the American way of life" On its merits alone, the academy conceivably could have established such an institution and only later have invited television to cover it.

The partnership with Santa Ana won final city approval this week. As was not previously announced, the title role will be sung by Sheila Smith. The Bowie album never even cracked the Top 50 when it was released in 1972 and the others stalled at Nos 3 and 4, respectively. Today, Jones and Zane live half their lives on the road and the other half at a cottage outside New York City. president Michael Gilano said Brustad "gave notice last Thursday and he left Friday. But the network will say only that it will "wait and see" about renewal, according to a CBS spokesman Keach's particular predicament compounds the problem.

The event is free, but a donation of $5 is necessary to buy a book of coupons redeemable for sampling various foods and wines Scheduled to perform between 4:30 and 7:30 p. m. In "The Artist Sees" two huge eyes on a black field radiate glorious, heavenly light. THICKENING PLOTS: Murder Mysteries Inc, an outfit devoted to participatory theater of the sleuthing kind, is adding anonymity to enigma. That's the idea behind the pace of 'Made for TV' We're so deluged with information all the time that it's almost impossible to get any perspective. Mitchell, who serves as chairman of the Hall of Fame, having established it when he was president of the TV Academy from 1980 to 1983. "I said, 'I think I'll be able to get back to work on it in two weeks' " he says "They said, 'Take as long as you need. "We had a tough time finding the guy" Isaacs said"To find a leading man who could stand up to Mary and also do comedy is hard" Levine said "We were skeptical of Farentino, but he's good" Isaacs said.