However, one uniformed policeman working near the Palais told The Times he was one of more than 200 members of the riot-trained CRS-France's national police force-who were sent down from Paris. The argument for keeping it goes this way: Terms like poetess and aviatrix do, indeed, seem to have been designed with the hidden agenda of making women feel like fools for thinking they could compete with men. At one time it had 270,000 season subscribers, but that list has since dwindled to between 60,000 and 70,000. If the team struck out a lot-that is, if they had defect rates as high as 10-they could always put more runs across the plate later. The Japanese prefer to bunt their way through the production line by emphasizing quality. And LACMA responded to the Museum of Contemporary Art challenge of the plans for the Anderson Gallery. More viewers are watching the station than ever before, he said, pointing out that ratings for the first five months of 1985 were 43% higher than for the same period in 1984.
If William Inge were around to see the revival of "Picnic" at the Ahmanson, he'd have one or two reservations, but, in the main, one suspects he'd be pleased. Surely a restaurant of this quality deserves the chance to serve wine with dinner; after all, it's not as if there were a lot of neighbors next door to object to the noise. The pilot suggests the madcap style of a 1940s romantic comedy, but Butler and his actors occasionally seem to be trying too hard for the effect. The 48-year-old Shoemake, who arrived here from his native Houston in 1956 to pursue a career in modern jazz, began seriously composing in 1973 after a seven-year stint with George Shearing. I said, 'That's the blues' Pain is pain, hurt is hurt and the blues is the blues" While concentrating on his solo career, Medley and partner Bobby Hatfield, who have been performing periodically for the last three years, are cutting back on their Righteous Brothers shows. Like "The Trip to Bountiful" it is most often an intimate, loving, perceptive exploration of ordinary people and their often extraordinary resilience, courage, persistence and wisdom in the face of trials, disappointments and dreams that have had to be deferred or abandoned. Yet for all the tediousness of its overacting, the film has considerable expressive power, and writers-directors Cai Chusheng and Zheng Junli sustain their picture's large scale and scope.
Elsewhere" were renewed for next season along with the Thursday night shows, including "Family Ties" "Cheers" and "Night Court" Each of the Thursday night renewals was announced following the show's broadcast, with "Hill Street" rating some special hoopla: a viewer's poll was taken to determine which episode should air next week and NBC vice president John Litvack appeared to personally praise the show. . "Almost all the guitarists there were playing the same kind of old-fashioned licks, and no one was playing modern like Miles and (saxophonist) Wayne Shorter" It was the mixture of early idols, like Hall, and later ones, like Miles, that Scofield blended into the style he presents today. . Second, "The Third Dimension's" roster of 22 artists contains almost as many forgotten ones as sculptors who have remained in the international limelight. (Prize-winning documentaries have come out of USC recently, but from the broadcasting division of the School of Journalism) There are strong dramatic films on Saturday's program as well, in addition to two animated and two experimental works.
"Kyoko's House" the most powerful story of the three, is of a narcissistic young actor (rock star Kenji Swado) and an older woman (Yasuaki Kurata) who "buys" him and lures him into sadomasochism. Yet each blossomed persuasively (if a bit too quickly) into radiant, womanly lyricism-Rodriguez revealing a childlike shyness that suggested hidden depths and utter trust in her husband, Jackson with a growing serenity that gave the rapturous final duet unexpected majesty. They're simply crowded together like mute strangers on a rush-hour subway. That can drive you mad" So, mostly (except for a recent collaboration on a children's show, "Toby Tyler" opening in Seattle next month, Solly works by himself. Unfettered by common vocal narcissism and hoary stand-and-sing conventions, they threw themselves into the challenge with frightening urgency and obvious conviction.
I can't do it; it's about a girl" Currently, Page is preparing to host a benefit Feb. By other accounts, he was merely an 11th-hour peripheral player, happening onto the murderer's car only because he was assigned to check out some traffic tickets. McKenzie added that the company has about $10 million in assets, $8. 3 million of it in real estate. Simons have focused their screenplay instead on the Thrashes (played by Wayne Rogers and Mary Kay Place.
Hayes called ABC's reporting "pure garbage" The bankruptcy administrator has uncovered a "minimal" CIA tie to the Bishop Baldwin firm; in August, he filed a notice to sue the intelligence agency for $15 million. The photos look too doctored and collaged to have documentary authority and too artistically slipshod to make it as art. Ratings don't speak so well of the series: The second episode got a 29 share (compared to the first week's 34, making it the week's 24th-rated program (down from No 12. . Even the choice of candidates by the board-appointed nominating committees has rocked the guild's hierarchy. Butterfly McQueen is back in a reprise of her "Gone With the Wind" role, and Walter Huston is irresistible as a phony preacher. It has excerpts from her novels and diaries and scenes between her and her husband, and her lover. One even walked with a limp-which, rather than being a distraction, seemed to awaken the eye to study everyone's individual gait and body type.
A major aim of the exhibit, he added, is to "attack that barrier" "We want to show some of the threads of continuity between the two styles, between the earlier 20th Century and the later" Gamwell said. Phillips admitted that Gaylord was her "oldest child" as a film mother, but added, laughing: "I had him when I was a very young teen-ager". It could take several months before the high court decides whether to consider CNN's petition, he said, but "we would hope that they (court members) would make a decision before June" when the court takes a recess. What was made obvious by the presence of the likes of Mince, Van Epps, Eddie Miller, Bud Freeman and others was that we rightly admired giants in those days. In beating nearly 200 Southern California performers to win the recent Marlboro Country Music Talent Roundup, the members of Orange County's American Made Band are discovering that they won more than the opening slot at tonight's Alabama-Merle Haggard concert at the Inglewood Forum More even than the contest's $5,000 grand prize. Bergamo's "Blanchard Canyon" explores timbres in a field of five cymbals-nice music to daydream by More interesting were the non-premieres.
"But with the addition of these modern instruments, they are interested" Whatever the audiences think of this blatant play for the youth market, the Communist Party has given its blessing. It's funny , the Fisher family's war against that awful young blowhard who wants to marry their Amy, that ridiculous Aubrey Piper. But the basis of "Stick" by tough-yarn writer Elmore Leonard, was a little beauty of a story about an ex-con who finds himself completely out of step with the world after years on the inside. Of the umpteen-thousand pop titles available in album or cassette form, only a fraction have been released on CDs. Soon she was playing in repertory around the country, everywhere from Princeton to Milwaukee to New Haven, in everything from Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams Milwaukee is not New York, but cream rises.
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Five months of negotiations to secure First Lady Nancy Reagan's support for an April 26 anti-drug rock marathon at Pasadena's Rose Bowl fell through Wednesday over the issue of offensive pop music lyrics. They'll connect "via satellite" to Houston, Denver and San Francisco. "One is the market that says 'reach the masses' and the other is the sense of civic responsibility that says 'inform the citizens' It's just that every time they (a network)take an hour or two for a documentary, the competing networks schedule something that knocks them right off the box" Turner, who owns Cable News Network and Atlanta superstation WTBS, was speaking before the Hollywood Radio & Television Society last week, flanked by many of the most powerful executives in the entertainment business The subject was television. Andrews, who markets CBS records-including "We Are the World-throughout Africa, said the sale of any original recording is now the exception, not the rule. But when you look at Beckett's specific objections to ART's "Endgame" production, you wonder if he doesn't demand more allegiance to the text than it's in the nature of the theater to allow-more than would be healthy even if the theater could allow it. And, if done in an objective manner, it would be beneficial to understanding between our countries"Schiller and his executive in charge of production, Joel Katz, negotiated a series of treaties with Sovinfilm, which agreed to provide 21 leading actors, the facilities of Gorki studios in Moscow and costumes Even the Soviet army was marshaled into service And all for a prix fixe of 5 million U. S dollars. Mario Camus' "The Holy Innocents" (at the Los Feliz and the Monica) is at once an irresistible family saga and a corrosive, gratifying social satire set against Franco's Spain of the 1960s.
"I guess I have this thing ingrained in my mind that you get called for gigs" the chipper jazzman said during a relaxed conversation in the Hollywood Hills home he shares with his wife, Gaye. It would have been interesting if the script (by Swados and Paul Schmidt, who also translated the poems) had dealt with the decade when many of these people were actually making state artistic policy, but perhaps that's one more irony than the evening had room for. These mythical creatures were empowering devices, but they served functions both secular and religious. The London Times' David Robinson, who has covered many Hungarofilm weeks and has taken the trouble to learn the language, lets me in on the secret of ninch, a word I seem to hear frequently. exhibition took place in 1937 at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City.
Rourke's publicist, however, recalled being told by the producers that the interview had been too "one-dimensional) To call Rourke's opinion "unpopular" seems almost an understatement, given the barrage of bad press aimed at "Dragon" since its Aug 16 release. It is a blend that makes the work come across with the ideological rigor of the old Russian avant-garde. Performances Thursday through Sunday, 8 p. m, at 6468 Santa Monica Blvd (851-3771) through March 31. At 48, the cynosure of the American counterculture appeared to be wearing his age well.