Her battle cry: "Put a mother in the White House" -Posing as a flash-frozen Howard Hughes at a New York press conference to promote an Abel-produced movie, "Is There Sex After Death" (The explanation is complicated, but suffice to say that a lot of reporters were trying to find the billionaire at the time) -Arranging a well-attended Watergate-era press conference for a mysterious woman who claimed to have had sexual congress with, well, congressmen. "When you go on a shoot, you're never sure what's going to happen. "I'm a human being and I'd like to be treated as a human being" she said. The easy-going businessman, most active now in oil and real estate, began collecting art in 1971 after a trip to Europe. A Global Media promotional brochure listed those artists and several more as "confirmed" "expected" or showing "strong interest" but a phone check with several of the artists' managers this week showed only some of them-including the Pointer Sisters and Toto-had made a formal commitment to appear. There isn't much that's listenable" An exception, he adds, is a recently completed concerto for him by Lalo Schifrin, who will be on the podium at the concert tonight "He's written an audience-pleaser" Karr enthuses "I wish the piece was ready for the Royce program I would love to play it in Los Angeles. David Ligare, with his immaculate updates of Greek themes, belongs in this exhibition, but does Joyce Treiman, whose varied oeuvre is woven together with fervid emotion? A Neo-Classical muse oversees most of Carolyn Cardenas' awkward products but not her drawing of an unkempt kitchen sink and overflowing cupboards.
Producer Richard Martin said he is close to making a deal with another director and that he still plans to go into production on schedule. Most of all, he's hampered by the actual facts of Cline's life, by a career that flourished-but would have soared had she lived longer-and by a love story that darkened and soured with time. No one contacted by The Times suggested or even speculated that the Kennedy clan had asked for and gotten cancellation of the story. "Because of my energy, I thought it essential for me to have a young husband. UCLA, incidentally, allowed the taped music to deafen the audience once again. Most commercial galleries take commissions of 33% to 50, according to Herbst. Martha Graham and her company were giving a lecture/demonstration moderated by New York Times dance critic John Martin, and in the audience was the great Ballets Russes choreographer Mikhail Fokine.
Born in 1870, Hart grew up near a Sioux reservation in the Dakotas and insisted on meticulous re-creations of the Old West in his films Job Application Form DownloadsFor employers only. And yet this voice ultimately forces her to choose to love the stepmother, to decide that this woman is the kind of mother she'd want after all" "By the play's end, it's not rosy, everlasting happiness" Caton noted, "but hopeful , which I think is far more wise-and real" Three cheers for the home team: Cal State L. A's production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Tood" has been selected as one of the six national finalists in the American College Theatre Festival, and will open the event at the Kennedy Center in Washington April 15-16. . (I don't think she was layered) The nerds had turned violent, criminal, viciously misogynist-the sorority girls had acted snobbish, the film makers seemed to be saying, so didn't they deserve a little mauling and humiliation? Then it struck me that Kanew and company had something much deeper in mind-probing the nerds' psychological duality, their "dark side" More layering! After that, I started seeing layers right and left. It was easy Tuesday night at the Forum to see how the gimmick-conscious Kiss has survived.
Time and again in his works O'Neill, one of the most autobiographical playwrights ever, had presented images of his mother and dramatized aspects of his feelings toward her. For a long stretch after World War II she was on the skids in America. Marika's life embodies what rembetiko is all about, yet this sweepingly romantic film is by no means a conventional biography. It is a film of considerable naive charm, but is so slow and repetitive that its long-winded 2-hour, 34-minute running time seems more like twice that To watch this museum piece is like watching paint dry "The Unexpected" screens Saturday at 8 p. m in Melnitz Theater. "As far as I know, there's not another bluegrass group that does what we do" Richardson said "Most bluegrass musicians are not classically trained.
But for many producers, network intervention has been the norm. Harry's search for the truth launches a free-wheeling and superbly sustained odyssey as distinctively surreal and satirical as that of "Brazil" So outrageous and offbeat is "Bliss" that it had trouble getting a release in Australia. And Spielberg has been nominated three times before, for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" "E. T" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark"The Academy Award nominations have produced more than their share of surprises this year, and an odd boggle of logic. Gwen Verdon will be staging some of the original choreography as well. At night he was able to say, 'Boy, I've come a long way' You had a sense that Merle was able to do the same thing-but with less amusement. He's a nice shlump with a lot of useful hitching tips "always travel alone" "always carry some cash) who makes sure that he dresses in his best finery when picking up a ride That, in sum, is the character. To get right to business, Franco's has a fire-engine red formula race car (the restaurant owner actually entered it in the '82 Long Beach Grand Prix, where it came in ninth) mounted on the wall at a steep angle, as if taking a sharply banked turn.
"You outweigh us" Norton agrees, "but we'll fight you anyway" The bullied Norton is a simpleton sewer worker who either follows Ralph like a puppy or enrages him with his imbecility. It's fun to listen to "Battery" at Second Stage. Brown "Taxi's" frenetic Christopher Lloyd, who owns almost every clock but Big Ben, and is all set to start up his own elaborate wake-up devices. Will the real "Miami Vice" clone please stand up? At the start of the TV season, critics pointed at two new ABC shows, "The Insiders" and "Hollywood Beat" each of which featured a pair of attractive young male do-gooders a la NBC's "Miami Vice" But neither of those new shows has the raw, sometimes shocking underworld grit that "Vice" now shares with CBS' "The Equalizer" seen Wednesdays at 10 p. m. The changes, while cosmetic in nature, are meant to "symbolize the beginning of a new era here" said Rohrbeck, who took charge of the NBC-owned station a year ago He complained of the old set, "It was ugly. And it's surprising too; from a design standpoint, the play has been thoughtfully produced. Probably had four or five meetings a day with whites and blacks" After Van Zandt returned to New York, friends suggested the best way to draw attention to the situation would be to put together an all-star recording project similar to USA for Africa.
Oh, Aunt Bee isn't around (Griffith said Frances Bavier, who played her, was too ill to participate. And it's a good, strong role" The woman she plays in the movie has just been released from an institution to which she was sent after being found guilty of murder but insane. Had we had Pulitzers for film before, perhaps they would have gone to sure varied American portraits as "Citizen Kane" "The Best Years of Our Lives" "Mr. It is the first time a company that includes a TV network has changed hands, and thus a milestone in the life of American media Generally, reaction is positive. She doesn't mind the grandmotherly image, as those TV commercials for Coronet Paper Products make clear. Renovation costs: about $500,000 to start, another $300,000 possible later Los Angeles Theatre Center-514 S Spring St Opening: September, 1985 Theater sizes: 499, 323, 299 and 99 seats Projected cost: $15 million Pasadena Playhouse-39 S El Molino Ave Reopening: on or before Dec 1, 1985 Theater sizes: 750, 99 and 52 seats Renovation costs: about $2 million.
(Lately, though, Wilder can be found down the street at United Artists' new headquarters, where he's just signed on as a special consultant. "Anyone who knows me" he said slowly, "knows the cynicism hides my sentimentality" It's why Wilder's refugee-freshness about America slipped into Garbo's Russian in Paris in "Ninotchka-or James Cagney's outsider in Berlin in "One, Two, Three" Before he was 30, Wilder had lived in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Mexico and Hollywood, and what he saw he used. The closest Marcos and Aquino came to debating was on American, not Philippine, television. Talk and laughter tend to be muted; this is not a bacchanalia. It's an interesting salad, but not one where you ought to root around for more dressing on your mouthful because this is one sharp salad dressing The final element of the style is grilling, of course.
A prize for the screenplay that best presents a facet of the American landscape would seem entirely reasonable. At lunch the sun comes pouring in, and at dinner time the lighting is refined Due Mille mixes the Mediterranean world with Los Angeles. His father was a pastry chef, and one of the early ventures in the Bronx was a pastry shop. Paciocco's, 1807 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica. (He caustically dismisses Baye's beauty as "fake Botticelli) There is a tremendous sense of intimacy and immediacy in this film. Over the years, The Times has printed countless interviews and feature articles related to Los Angeles Ballet activities. Anyone credulous enough to accept "Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera" as merely a PBS documentary about the 1984 Brooklyn revival of a celebrated postmodern music/theatre piece is ready to be sold the Brooklyn Bridge as well. "I suddenly had a child, and a husband who was climbing the walls" She also had a starlet career "Passport to Shame" 1959) that was going nowhere fast "I never wanted to be an actress I was married.
The American tradition in ceramics is only about 50 years old, and ceramists have been regarded as considerably below "real" artists in prestige. Yuasa's "Question" and "Towards the Midnight Sun" explore his interest in processing the sounds made by traditional musical instruments through a computer. Re-establish a sensible seating limit to equal that of the 76,000-80,000 capacities of other large stadiums in the NFL. . But fortunes changed soon after that, and the producer, 32-year-old Jean-Francois Lepetit, recently announced that he has signed an agreement with Walt Disney Productions to produce an English-language version of the movie that has a simple plot about three fun-loving bachelors bringing up a baby left on their doorstep Serreau will direct it with English-speaking actors.
When work is as evocative as this, you shouldn't be left dangling (without a title, but I don't like to lock the work up too closely because that's part of the richness" Puryear, who left New York for Chicago three years ago to accept a faculty post at the University of Illinois, has become an increasingly familiar figure in the East, but his current show is his first solo appearance in Los Angeles. Showing none of the effects of being eleventh-hour substitutes (for the American String Quartet, the Chester String Quartet made its local debut at the Wilshire Ebell on Wednesday. But where a pioneer like Malevich made his statement in metaphors of theory, Serra states his in terms of intimidating physical reality. "The murals will be a visual imaging of the Pro-Peace concept" Baca said.
You suspect it's these men and women who would be inspired by the existence of a Pulitzer; that the thought of "Pulitzer Prize Winner" on a movie's pedigree forever might be just the spur that moved a difficult project forward. For example, in fiscal 1973, CPB allocated 63% of its public radio funds to national program production through NPR and 37% to community service grants. Quinn and Kedrova put in a respectable first appearance in "Zorba" three years ago at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Three French films were among the non-English-language movies selected"Poulet au Vinaigre" by Claude Chabrol, "Detective" by Jean-Luc Godard, and "Rendezvous" by Andre Techine. . From the moment I decided to guide, I really had to know something about what the building meant: What do all these extraordinary stained-glass windows mean and why are they there? I had to find the answers to these questions, and I'm still learning. "You see, I had started to crack jokes about my CP (cerebral palsy) condition a lot back in high school.
We recognize most of his subjects with ease-directional signs and power-line poles along highways, vertical cement structures in a vineyard, a load of yellow grain or sand dumped on a gray road in the middle of a desert-but we must "read" his images with care to apprehend their beauty. Los Angeles, Farmers Market, Beverly Boulevard at Fairfax Avenue, Feb 14-17. Meanwhile, conductor Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra leave Monday on a 16-city North American tour. "We wanted to have the decision (about a site) made a month ago, but we kept getting great offers" a foundation representative announced a few days before the Waldorf-Astoria ceremony.
This two-record set gives Joel fans everything they'd want from this talented but highly derivative pop chameleon's catalogue, which means it moves from his Harry Chapin days "Piano Man) through his Frankie Valli days "Uptown Girl 23 THOMPSON TWINS, "Here's to Future Days" Arista. This lively and varied parade of seasonal puppets is all that's necessary for small-tot excitement. The judges commended it "for its lucid statement that it is loving relationships, not things, that make human beings happy; for its affirmation of the dignity and uniqueness of each individual, and for its moving depiction of the glories, the demands and the heroism involved in being a mother" In the hourlong category, the $15,000 prize was awarded to Tom Fontana and John Masius for an episode of NBC's "St. "Annie's Bodyguard-In development at Paramount, this action-comedy finds Murphy as a washed-up gumshoe with a fear of tailing people who is hired to protect a rich elderly woman living on an island off of San Francisco. It's afternoon drive time-that arbitrary radio time zone between 3 and 6 p. m. "I think the ball is moving the other way" said Donna Lipp, who shares management of Garfield's with Marc Trimble. Cable operators likewise are emphasizing how well cable complements the videotape life style.