Fond of Yorkin but not eager to interrupt the holiday, she lifted the Colin Welland script and said, " 'Boy, I hope it's not too terrific' But it was, and I said, 'Roger, you'd better read this' " Like the part in "Carnal Knowledge" the role goes against the leading-lady image. From Collins' lips to Simon & Schuster's pages, "Lucky" is the very long, lascivious sequel to "Chances" her 1982 Mafia opus (the one insiders called "The Godfather Goes to Bed. These talented independent dancer-choreographers are ready to fight back with the weapon they wield best-modern dance. 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. "If we have any reason to exist, that's what I thought it was". Imagine if Porter had discovered that the three New Yorkers also wore the same size shoe He'd never recover They'd have had to throw a net over him and cart him away. "I was this tough little rebel as far back as I can remember" he said.

Joseph (Jock) Yablonski didn't die in vain when he was murdered 16 years ago by the corrupt leadership of his own United Mine Workers union. In a deep, electronically altered voice to provide the proper authority, God tells Prince he wants this woman for the wrong reason. This would all amount to mere rhetoric if the Smiths didn't have some great songs. This was the source of her son's bad conscience and feelings of self-hatred that would fester in him to the end of his life. But it was "All My Children" an ABC serial, that collected the lion's share of nominations, picking up 19 of the 183 No other show got more than eight. But what are the film's chances of winning? Hard to say, but by no means could it be considered a favorite. But Woods, who has lived in Sacramento for more than 20 years, turned the job down.

A theater benefit for the AIDS Services Foundation-featuring "Falcon Crest" television star Susan Sullivan as "guest celebrity-will be held Thursday evening at the Forum Theatre of the Festival of Arts complex in Laguna Beach Thursday's 8 p. m. He designs sets for ballet, paints the ceiling of the Paris Opera and lives on the Riviera. The project languished, however, when Beatty and Paramount were unable to come to terms. Could the occasional balletic punctuation, awkwardly grafted onto the frantic, funky posturings, qualify as a new genre? Could the bare torsos plastered with glitter represent an advance in creative design? And what about the dancers, encouraged to give their expressive all no matter how embarrassingly sappy? The evening-long revue began a half-hour late and ended with Sallid giving an inept, grandiose speech: "This day has changed my life I want to dedicate this concert to peace and world hunger. We're sticking a funnel in them and siphoning out all that bad energy They're docile and exhausted after the show They're not out looting and pillaging.

Instead, during the 20 hours a week she devotes to library programming-she spends the other half of each work week as a reference librarian-Ritz works on new segments of "Library Land" and "Book Talk" Each month, with the aid of library staff and a largely free-lance technical crew, she produces a combination of three new half-hour segments of the two shows. Set in an Oregon farmhouse kitchen where resistance to change makes it seem at first to be a period piece (it's not, the play tackles a rather major subject: the passing, or passing up, of life itself. What has the terrified David done? Why is he here? Just now, David is being readied for a television interview. 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. Paramount's "April Fool's Day" did modest business with $3. 4 million in grosses. The latter are held together by concealed pins and epoxy, creating a fragility and sense of delicate balance that parallels some of the glass works of George Geyer.

He also knows how to tell witty, disarming stories that personalize the songs in ways that never destroy their (or his) mystique. John Hiatt more or less laid out his turf in his opening song Saturday night at the Palace. Generous row placement facilitates the traffic of passers-by, and, although we are trapped in the awful era of so-called European seating, there are aisles here Blessed aisles. Artec Consultants Inc have made the crucial acoustical decisions The stage has no conventional shell. Raising money for a charitable cause, the comedy show to be held Thursday morning at Fullerton College could well be subtitled "More Comic Relief" even "Laugh-Aid" As it stands, though, the performance featuring three first-rate stand-up comics-Geri Jewell, Tom McGillen and Bob Worley-carries the name "Comedy Show 2" and will benefit United Cerebral Palsy For Jewell, the show will have special significance. Music director Henry Holt, who has been named acting artistic director, said that preparations for the company's seventh season-its first at the Wiltern Theater-will proceed as planned Reached at her home Friday, Dordick refused any comment.

Accompanying him would be four California artists-including the two who had painted the jet. Said Vasa, whose four laminated acrylic color prisms now occupy a window in Wilson's office: "This doesn't happen every day He (Weisman) will do things nobody will think of. The museum has also operated a satellite facility since October, 1984, at the South Coast Plaza Mall in Costa Mesa Under the present agreement with C J. Although a look at Saturday-morning TV might suggest the contrary, quality animation is not a lost art. This unprecedented tour is, according to Rhinesmith, "a major objective of the President within the context of the Geneva Initiative" Further cultural exchanges are in the planning stages, though Rhinesmith declined to give any details. . Stone said that the man "hung around for hours" constantly fretting that the Boss was late Finally, the reserved tables were set free. Very wrong; any day now, the typical American family may be just one person.

With the barrage of information about tendencies and patterns, you can't help marveling at how complex and scientific football wagering can be. The other is "The Guide to Sports Betting" (Granite, $19. 98. 29 the Los Angeles Philharmonic will present the premiere of a commissioned work by former composer-in-residence William Kraft, as well as Beethoven's Symphony No 9. "I've always figured that because we've continually done so well, there are going to be other people trying to produce competing series" Weissberg said. The network's role has been both paternalistic and democratic, with its annual spring planning conferences more closely resembling a town hall shouting match than a stockholders' meeting. These are the people you see at parties wearing lampshades on their heads-probably to hide their lobotomies. Earnest musical conversations are taking place in the formal studios and offices.

She makes a pass at him because he's Spenser, but he turns her down because he knows that her zeal can distort her and turn her into a loveless monster Well it can . . "Dracula" last fall's Mainstage production, got the program off to a good start, bringing in $7,000 during a sold-out run. Indeed, even the most casual visitor cannot view the works exhibited with indifference. We've waited a long time to be chosen, and we feel we're more than ready" said Lis Dungan, coordinator of the Orange County "Imagination Celebration" which starts Saturday for a two-week run. We play the most important parts, the melody and harmony" Richardson admitted that the group has tapped out a few percussion parts on its instruments from time to time. Life was a still-picture magazine, but Hoffman's documentary team unearthed a surprising quantity of film, including Margaret Bourke-White, who had shot Life's first cover in November, 1936, recalling in 1970 how she had finally persuaded Gen. In fact, it grew into a money-making monster-not unlike Cosmopolitan magazine's resurrection a dozen years earlier under the guidance of Helen Gurley Brown.

Black also plays the piano prettily enough to pass as a former concert artist. "But Terry Gilliam is not Steven Spielberg" Sheinberg's decision to respond to Gilliam's charges seems as much a matter of pride as a desire to set the record straight. The warm chicken salad, an unappetizing vat of lettuce topped with nuts, tomatoes and bits of undercooked, underseasoned chicken truly did look like something from a horror movie. The San Francisco quartet is a highly unorthodox practitioner of metallism, apparently influenced by more extreme bands like Motorhead and Discharge. If they had asked me to put on a mouse suit and go work at Disneyland, I probably would have done it" Soon after Eisner and Katzenberg arrived at Disney, they met in a vacant office with Brian Grazer, producer of "Splash" Disney's biggest box-office attraction since "Mary Poppins" After a brief discussion about plans for "Splash 2" Grazer offered up another idea for something called "The Last Secret" Recalled an incredulous Grazer: "Five minutes into the pitch, they said, 'That sounds great, that's fantastic, let's do it' The next day, the papers were drawn up. Meanwhile, the storm Keene had been tipped to was raging outside. D" David Schultz climbed into the ring and body-slammed the groom while McMahon and Lord Alfred expressed disbelief and disgust Later, at the televised reception, Dr.

Nevertheless, one had to admire the wide catalogue of vocal techniques upon which she was able to call and among which she moved with such quicksilver facility. On the face of it, one tends to assume that these peculiarly contemporary and spectacular manifestations are the subject of the recent art of New York sculptor Robert Morris. "The new show" Green explained, "will attempt to relate what goes on to the lives of ordinary people by bringing in other elements, such as the Administration, various constituencies and video reports from around the country "It was clear that a totally fresh approach was needed. Consider the Pacific Symphony in its newer role as impresario. they want to believe" Two brothers at the NBC meeting, Pep and Lloyd Cooney, seemed to bear that out. Francis Coppola and George Lucas are executive producers of the film, which will be distributed domestically next fall by Warner Bros.

So to be accurate, we're re-creating the furniture and having special clothes made in Morocco, where they still use the ancient technique" Half the cast will be American, he says, and he hopes to announce names in about a month. Marshall, Sean McClory, Howard Hesseman, Julius Harris and the others. Mamet is ensconced in his Vermont home, sculpting the script, and not taking calls. Affiliate stations each receive copies of a "viewer's guide" to "Peter" a sort of study guide typically distributed to teachers; a five-part behind-the-scenes mini-documentary on the making of "Peter" to be used on local news or talk shows in three- to five-minute segments, and a half-hour educational program about the show that local stations may plug into their schedules as they see fit. This horizontal layering of semicircles suggested a series of spheres; the openings and another set of vertical cuts revealed an interplay of illumination and shadow which changed according to time of day, quality of light and weather. Accompanying the exhibition is a monograph published by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago with essays by art historian/ critic Robert Pincus Witten and exhibition curator Mary Jane Jacob and interviews with artists and others who knew and worked with Matta-Clark. The show marks the first co-production venture for New York-based Mabou Mines, the acclaimed-and controversial-theatrical collective founded about 15 years ago by, among others, minimalist composer Philip Glass.

A sketch about a little girl (Pam) who wants to play baseball is overlong and predictable. Ablah's Gulf Stream II, docked near the Los Angeles International Airport, never left the ground during this recent interview But he hopes his art-for-everyone idea will continue to fly. I was used to the grind"She takes some criticism from classmates for her work in television commercials. Directed by Pieter Verhoeff, "The Dream" which was The Netherlands' official entry in the recent Oscar sweepstakes, is a beautiful, somber re-creation of an actual incident that occurred in 1895 in Friesland, a province of the Northern Netherlands on the North Sea. For more than a quarter-century, the academy faculty and staff seemed-one can never say for sure what goes on in other people's families-the very model of mutual musical support and organizational stability. Indeed, the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group's "California Choice" concert ran over two hours, with barely half the time occupied by the music itself.

Claudette Colbert doesn't actually play the daughter in Frederick Lonsdale's 1923 puff-pastry comedy about "the amorous extravagances of the very, very rich" At 80-something, she's got too much of a sense of humor for that. Howard said their arrival has created a new optimism among staff members. . The restaurant shows give emerging artists who have not yet broken into the professional gallery circuit a chance to show their work, Herbst says. The Spago overflow crowd Monday night will be across the street at this Dome 16 None of the winners ever do this when told to keep it short 17 Nous" a nominee in 1983 18 Meryl never returned here and everybody cried 19 Bill Hurt's step-grandfather. When we appear at Pompidou Center as fashion models for (couture designer) Issey Miyake, we're listed as 'Miyakemix' " Accustomed to group interviews, the four take turns chiming in, never dropping a beat in the steady flow of talk.