I try to do it with a sense of humor, and make it entertainment. "I had no idea this would happen when I started working" the convivial Young said at his Van Nuys home recently. She is the fantasy of every white male who believes that Asian women find Asian men unattractive and would rather go out with white men and will do anything for them. But that's all I can see" With his flamboyance, it's sometimes difficult to see his private side-a point he realizes. Elegant in white satin, the composer of Bette Midler's 1979 hit "The Rose" was a perfect choice for the formal opening of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel's Cinegrill.

In its purest form, it utilized foodstuffs that were practically free: leftover scraps of bread dough cooked in the leftover heat of the local baker's oven, the tomato (which grows like a weed all over the region) and a kind of cheese, mozzarella, made from what curd remained when all the good cheeses had been produced. We think that this radio station can be a top radio station with this new format" When asked about the mass firing at KMGG, ex-general manager Nelson would only say, "Amazing, isn't it" Morgan, who is under contract with the station until June, had no comment. . John Travolta cavorting-the publicists claim reporting , dressed to the nines-in "Perfect" backed by Chippendale's boy dancers and lots of beefcake gyrating in aerobics scenes. Unfortunately, the first ambitious step of the new regime-10 performances of "The Beggar's Opera" by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis at the renovated Embassy Theater downtown-turns out to be a dangerous stumble And that puts it kindly. There was no trace of Springsteen's long and colorful stories between songs, Prince's ambitiously metaphysical stage theatrics or Michael Jackson's dynamic dance productions Musically, however, Dire Straits has few peers. The affair made headlines in Europe, but only landed on the inside pages here, and I've not seen any discussion of it in American theater journals. At the top of the heap of observers is someone called the Hollywood Novelist It's a misleading label.

The festival was at once praised for having brought so many exciting foreign companies to town, and resented for having raised audience expectations that couldn't possibly be met on a daily basis. Eddie Van Halen must get tired of this. "Perhaps because it's such an ensemble show" he said, "and after all I've been in quite a few musicals, like 'Meet Mr. "Listen" he told them, "why don't I write a script about a studio which has bought the title to a best-selling sex book and doesn't know what to do with it? In other words, write about the situation you're in now That could be funny" Grodin is a persuasive talker After listening to him, everyone agreed it was a good idea And off he went to write the script. That would please the new team running ABC, taken over in January by cost-and-profit-conscious Capital Cities Communications. Producer Steve Arndt and host Mike Pearce, sitting in their office the day they learned about the award, were low-key about the national honor "Well, it's amazing to us" Arndt admitted.

MIXED CASTINGS-Film director Nissim Dayan may be adding new tensions to the explosive situation on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "We don't quite understand the situation" an official at the Peking Bureau of Culture said. The sculpture, located at Crocker Center and visible from Grand Avenue, was dedicated late Thursday afternoon. 10, the council approved the first operating board of what is formally known as the "Civic Theatre of Irvine" Three of the nine members are UCI officials (William Lillyman, executive vice chancellor; Robert Garfias, dean of fine arts, and Joseph Huszti, music program chairman.

After, the Kronos ensemble gave, with guest artists Sally Chisholm (viola) and Fritz Magg (cello, a revival of Arnold Schoenberg's "Verklaerte Nacht" For both the energy and suavity of the performances, it was a special evening; a bonus lay in the fact that the approving and attentive audience contained a large number of composers. He speaks slowly and quietly, carefully choosing his words or abruptly stopping if he has nothing to say on a particular subject. "I never thought people would still be talking about it 40 years later. I was once acquainted with a woman as beautiful as a sunrise and modest as a swan. It is also no service to architecture-the impact of which this Mobil-funded series purports to celebrate-that Stern and those he interviews tend to view structures as primarily historical and aesthetic objects rather than structures housing particular human activities, such as working, worshiping or raising a family. "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. But he couldn't and didn't take the part, and he probably would have been disastrous.

Luis Puento, whose first feature it is, came out of television. Or is it? It is steeped in the classical repertoire's classic ploys: A father trying to secure a proper match for his daughter; a daughter whose heart is set on someone else; a chain reaction of tricky maneuvers exploded in a hilarious chase and an inevitably happy ending. Word was out that Taylor, bass player of Duran Duran, was there. The hunks are heavily perfumed and all seem to smell the same-the club must have a regulation scent. Set for Friday's finale are South African President Pieter W. He manipulates clay as if it were thick impasto; stippled, almost crusty surfaces imbue his muscular figures with a simultaneous sense of stasis and motion that's compellingly dramatic and stolidly heroic. Nelson did OK Lone Justice's being on the bill, but he did it sight-unseen.

It's possible to be both a doer and a thinker, this painting advises, as it measures a Bible, atlas, globe and writing implements against a statue of Hercules and martial arts accoutrements. "When they first did it in London early this year, I was, of course, in attendance, as I always am. "America" with its opening Dylan-cum-Springsteen harmonica notes, is a sarcastic account of American tourists in Vienna, while "Munich Girls" is a wonderfully witty look at the evolution of a pop sound-in this case the street-wise Lou Reed approach. Priced at about $2. 5 million, the "Doryphoros" is the most expensive single purchase by the museum in its 70-year history. . "I don't see how anybody could say it isn't" Tom Capra, news director at NBC-owned KNBC News, takes a far milder view of Dunphy's $100 contribution: "It seems to be a minor infraction. At the end of the month CBS/Fox is putting out the Michael Keaton comedy, "Johnny Dangerously" and "Garbo Talks" starring Anne Bancroft; both $79. 98 Some interesting oldies are on the way. The gift "is one of the most significant corporate gifts to a museum in the nation" said Ray H.

The latter song is about a girl who works in a restaurant-just like her mama did, but wants something more out of life, possibly even a singing career. What Hemingway offered, for a while at least, was a way of living and creating in the new world, of trusting one's senses to reveal the truth of one's experience, of finding what you were capable of in extremis, of discovering the value of life in the face of death. On Sunday, an audience of 500 boarded the landlocked liner for an evening of 18th-Century salon pieces played by the East Coast-based Aulos Ensemble, as part of the Chamber Music in Historic Sites series. "Our next responsibility is to make it as full and dimensional as possible. People who have nothing better to do go to television shows all the time and feign intense pleasure at what they see. I was just finishing taking class and he said, 'Hi, Tony, very good work' Well, it nearly floored me, because I didn't even know he paid any attention to me, let alone that he knew my name" With the dean of black dance as his mentor, Caligagan made enormous strides in the Ailey idiom although, as the 24-year-old dancer observed, the personalized coaching was aimed at strengthening Caligagan's dramatic thrust, not the kinetic side of his performing style "Ailey doesn't correct-not your technique He really emphasized the emotional aspects" Caligagan says.

Due to this bizarre coincidence, the network and the production company said that they felt it was "in the best interest of the project that another actor be cast as John Lennon" in the three-hour movie, "Imagine: The Story of John and Yoko" No replacement for Lindsay, a virtually unknown British actor with scattered British stage and television credits, has been found so far, Michael O'Hara, a spokesman for NBC, said Wednesday, but he said both the network and Carson Productions "are looking again at this very moment" Production is scheduled to start July 8, but O'Hara said there might be delays if another actor isn't found to play Lennon soon Kim Miyori will stay on to play Yoko Ono in the film Miyori, a Japanese-American actress, played Dr Wendy Armstrong on NBC's "St. George Deukmejian stuck to his original budget blueprint and gave the California Arts Council just the $11,692,000 that he had initially planned for fiscal 1985-86. With exhibitions of this quality, Grossmont College is regaining its importance as a visual arts venue after a period of regrettable inactivity. What does that convey to children? Lots of little Hulk action dolls are now on sale across America, and miniatures of the Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff and Junkyard Dog, too.

"After we got the report in early January, we immediately began making changes" Drummet said. It was always the intent (of USC) to act only as the seed sponsor, to help get the program under way" said Anne Kimbell Relph, executive director of the USC Orange County Center. The concussion and heat could be felt 30 feet away as the gasoline-assisted burst blossomed into the night air "I don't want that big a fireball" said Douris. I was knocked out by these films" Said Renee Valente, president of the Producers Guild of America and honorary chairwoman for FOCUS: "We have to give something back, and recognizing new talent is crucial. I mean, I was around kids in school who were having nervous breakdowns.

Before play's end, she's organized a strike and stood her ground This is no wimp. MEXICO CITY — City Hall authorized a 50% hike in the price of a ticket at the city's best movie theaters. Not everyone dotes on the Schumann symphonies, but in his tenure here Atherton has shown a certain affection for this repertory. The suit charges that the studios practice discrimination against women and minorities as directors and in related job categories. Instead, this collection of songs, dances and recitations for soloists and ensembles is formless, surprisingly mild, and very American.