"I intend to stop" With or without the eternal cigarette, there's a certain calmness to the one-time frenetic and overweight TV programmer. I've had lunches with him where all I contributed was a 'yes' or a 'no' or a 'really' Afterwards, he'd say: "I had this marvelous chat with Ralph" "I do chat a lot, I'm afraid" Gielgud said. My first interview as a green reporter on the entertainment beat was with film critic Pauline Kael I asked her a question She said the question was stupid I was devastated. We felt that art had the tendency to soothe the savage beast inside of us, it softened us-bluntly-and we thought, 'Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could somehow expose some of that 85% to art' " They envisioned placing parts of their collection where people who might never enter a museum or university art gallery could easily see the works. Sitting beside original works by Henry Moore, Auguste Renoir and more, multimillionaire George Ablah discussed the art he's loaning to Century City for an outdoor "sculpture walk" He spoke not from a spacious office suite or mansion anteroom, however, but from the lush interior of his private jet.

Hope himself will be 82 in May, but he doesn't look or act within 15 years of it. In front of the carrousel, Pintilie has installed a tiny railroad track that permits the characters-usually Carmen-to enter and exit riding a multipurpose cart. "They were often big and they were such strange creatures-unlike any living animals in many ways And their inaccessibility adds to their fascination. It would be a scandal if it didn't because without a doubt there is a larger audience for experiences of this sort than turned out. "Being out in the clubs all night after running the station all day can be a grind Sometimes I feel as if I'm waking up after I go to work". The Santa Ana-based Pacific Chorale is the third local organization to announce appearances at the center's 3,000-seat multipurpose theater, which opens Sept 29.

I think I tend more toward the classical repertory and style Our relationship is cordial now. The festival has always prided itself on being the best gathering of those who love film. Radio Documentary: "Chicago's Christmases Past" WBBM Chicago, James T Benes; "Greenlight or Gridlock" KNX Los Angeles, Frankie Highland; and "Exploring America: After Columbus" Norman Morris, Peter Freundlich and Mary Lou Teel Radio News: "News of the Day: Sept 13, 1983" J Chris Berry, CBS; "World News This Week: Feb 26, 1984" ABC; and "News of the Day: Oct 13, 1983" David Ysais, CBS. Jones, Blondell Cummings and others are developing new contexts and vocabularies for black dance, Los Angeles remains a refuge for the all but exhausted jazz-modern idiom in service since the 1950s A shared evening on the L. A. "It takes a long time to wreck it, too" New developments are especially sluggish in series programming.

"I think President Reagan is marvelous" At the very least, Reagan is a phenomenon. Los Angeles' first marathon will get extensive live coverage Sunday on KCOP Channel 13. In one aspect they are like the fluxing, self-admiring abstractions of Paul Jenkins; in another they are distant admirers of Oriental ink painting. Another Ringgold flag painting looks more subtle, but the stripes and some letters overlapping the stars spell out "Die Nigger" Among the "Heroes and Monuments" are various tributes to Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and athletic personalities. As they nervously faced Richard Avedon and his old-fashioned Deardorf view camera-in makeshift outdoor studios thrown up at rodeos and carnivals, truck stops and ranches-few of the subjects had a clue to his austere style or glittering reputation as a fashion photographer and portraitist. As Civic Light Opera subscribers have learned, a dearth of product too often results in tired revivals, dark theaters or both. Knowledge of electronics doesn't mean you are creating art" One approach to curbing this dilemma is to hit the industry head on, he suggested.

"Dancers dominate the stage, but skaters on ice feel minute; it's such a huge space to cover. Giancana wagered $500 at her $1 table, which impressed Phyllis, who was dating entertainer Dan Rowan at the time. He jerks rectilinear forms into twisted rhomboids and patterns them so the addition dramatizes form. Rose's work is rooted in Abstract Expressionism and 19th-Century romantic landscapes, but it dips into nostalgic use of found materials as well as contemporary mergers of painting and sculpture. First stop: Toronto, January, '85-eight months after the New York fiasco. (This will come as news to the National Enquirer) "Our tour deals with classic Hollywood scandals and most of them are funny in that they reveal these supposedly glamorous stars to have been painfully human people who engineered their own downfalls That certainly was not the case with the Manson thing.

It was the kind of food poetry that the Japanese generally reserve for only their most elegant restaurants. "At first it was very difficult-and not just for me" Talmi remarks "The orchestra had to adjust to my approach. There is no room in this conductor's vocabulary for easy bathos or for externalized brilliance. After the company returns to Germany, so will Flood-Murphy-back to Dortmund, where he is technical adviser with the opera company there.