"He's one of those brilliant players who's had maybe two formal lessons in his entire life. When he left, the deejay jabber and the commercials increased, while the one thing KROQ has always prided itself on decreased: new-wave pop that no one else was playing. Besides recording demo tapes, singles, EPs and albums for local rock bands, Gopher Baroque does a significant business with such projects as in-house jingles for Knott's Berry Farm and local businesses as well as pre-recorded music for South Coast Repertory's stage productions and other commercial work. Our incipient composer-in-residence understands the impact of the grandiose gesture, but he also knows the dangers of overstatement. "Reach Out" the anti-drunk-driving music video produced by local real estate developer and composer David Blanchard, won a rare Award of Distinction and received the Best of Show Award at last weekend's International Television and Video Assn's local awards ceremony.
In fact, Dees seems "on" and desperately driven during most of his waking hours and sometimes even when he isn't awake. 'I feel as if time is expanding exponentially" Mary Stuart Masterson said unexpectedly I wish I'd said that. . Kovinick said one of his aims is to give exposure to less familiar works. And Rep Six, the Taper's 1986 Repertory Festival at the James A. He provided her with "Anastasia" a theatrical challenge in which she could convey the alienation, disorientation and despair of the mysterious woman who survived the Ekaterinburg massacre. This was not a popular or particularly logical notion, but it may have accounted for the haphazard way in which positives and negatives collided at this institution. According to Patty Herbst, who organizes art exhibits at Piret's restaurant in Costa Mesa, such galleries are part of a trend that has moved west from New York.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Pinafini (8612 Beverly Blvd, 854-3039) has barely opened its doors, but if the owners manage to keep things the way they are (and this, it seems to me, is a big if, it will probably be a long time before they close them. (Carol Brolaski did the costumes) It is not an image or an evening easily shaken from the mind. Only VHS machines in the $1,000 price range can pick up stereo TV, whereas Sony makes a $650 Beta model that does Now there are a few more hitches First of all, hardly any TV programs are produced in stereo But that is changing. "Witness" was already a go at Paramount Pictures with Harrison Ford attached when Weir was approached. The immediate cause is that her ex-husband (Michael MacRae) is coming for dinner, the first time she's seen him in years. It pretends simply to be informing the reader that the artist in question is a female.
Kragen said that he was pretty much resigned to the possibility of blank stretches, especially in west Texas. Bargains: Beginning this week, you can buy "Splash" the Darryl Hannah-Tom Hanks comedy, and "Country" the farm drama starring Jessica Lange, at the reduced price of $29. 95. "It got to where after some shows, I would just sit and shake for a couple of hours A lot of people will never know why we closed. In 1984, the Meliora won both the Fischoff and Coleman National chamber music competitions. Lepeshinskaya, a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater in the 1940s, who nodded with approval during the performance. "I know I have changed but I still work and play" he said with a grin.
11, 1930 The romance of a carnival barker and the daughter of a penny arcade proprietress is well told in the screen version of Marie Baumer's play, "Penny Arcade" now known as "Sinners' Holiday" Grant Withers as Angel Harrigan and Lucille La Verne as Ma Delano are well cast, but the most impressive acting is done by James Cagney in the role of Harry Delano. This is the kind of rough magic-prevalent in medieval times-that scholars and theater people at UC Irvine are striving to exert on modern audiences with "The Plaie Called Corpus Christie" a historical re-creation of the English pageant theater being presented through Oct 5 at the Fine Arts Village Theatre on campus. screening, to bring us up to date on the fate of Raoni and his people. Each of the three virtuosos more or less goes his own way as regards rubato and dynamics. The Blasters' Dave Alvin bemoans what he sees as an absence of compassion and common purpose in the country, and-in "Common Man-portrays political hypocrisy and public disillusionment.
" "Clan of the Cave Bear's" Daryl Hannah also is safely before the cameras, opposite Robert Redford and Debra Winger in "Legal Eagles" So the success/failure of "Clan" (her first film since "Splash) won't immediately affect Hannah's career. "I'd get a script, I'd look at something this thick-he held his thumb and forefinger so they were almost touching"I'd throw it on the table and I'd say, 'Fine, I'll direct it from my house' That's not even a scene for me. Kohs, who turns 70 on May 12, has been a member of the USC faculty since 1950. The way it is shown is not the only way it can be done and be useful That's hard to get across on video. The Taper production will be the first English-language version of the play, with Sobol present for some of the rehearsals Davidson directs Wilson's "Burn This" (Jan 22-Feb 15) is "a hard one to describe" Davidson said. NEW YORK — Director Arthur Penn appreciates an honest critic, and he says one of the most honest critics he ever knew was Jack Warner, the head of Warner Bros.
The band performs at other venues, and will be at the Sacramento and Los Angeles festivals, but The Depot has been its home base since 1977 and Norris has been singing with the group since 1982. "But he also said to me, 'I made peace with Israel, but I want also to make peace with all Jews in all the world, and for the moment you are the representative of these Jews'. The box office couldn't do anything about people who had walked up to buy tickets, but they tried to contact everyone who had written in" Everyone but Helen Amestoy, who had ordered-and received-her tickets via a mailer that had included the wrong date"No one called me" she confirmed over the phone Tuesday, "and I thought their handling of my inquiry was very cavalier" As for Weissler, "That is not my box office" he said from New York "I can't control what they do I am not aware of this. I've had two meals at Arzak recently, and at each one I asked the chef himself to let me taste some of his own favorite dishes. They live on that borderland between fact and fiction that is the realm of enchantment. Certain works were obvious to Saddleback Symphony conductor Barry Silverman when he began putting together a spring concert program of "accessible" American music: Saturday night's concert at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo will include: -A little Copland "An Outdoor Overture" and parts of "Appalachian Spring" and "El Salon Mexico -A little Bernstein (dances from "West Side Story.