in "Taming of the Shrew" to Christopher Reeve as "Superman" Two figures of Ronald Reagan-as a Hollywood movie sheriff and as President in a White House setting-were installed last winter. The Cannon films could generate as much revenue when they air on local TV stations across the country as they could on Showtime, which in some cases will telecast them years earlier. Schneier suggested that the movies will be worth more on commercial TV because of their more limited exposure on pay TV via their exclusivity to Showtime and The Movie Channel. On a worldwide basis, the recording industry is losing about $1. 2 billion a year to music pirates, he said. Titled "The Age of Caravaggio" it contains about 40 works by Caravaggio, 14 by his precursors from Northern Italy and some 45 paintings by his most important contemporaries active in Rome and Naples during his lifetime. It allows the film maker to stay in the creative process longer"The film project was resurrected in 1983 when the Caravan of Dreams Performing Arts Center in Fort Worth, Tex, opened its doors by engineering Coleman's first hometown appearance in 25 years. The local press is covering visual arts activities more broadly and intensively than ever before.

uh, natives on) Incidentally, the year's 10 worst movies (limiting ourselves to major studio releases) were: "Perfect" "Turk 182" "The Slugger's Wife" "Moving Violations" "Red Sonja" "National Lampoon's European Vacation" "Creator" "Transylvania 6-5000" "Just One of the Guys" and "Commando" The moment that seems to best sum up Hollywood's 1985 occurred in March, on opening day of the American Film Market. Huntington's original endowment for the sumptuous cultural center in San Marino Gifts already received include $1. 5 million from the J. But WMJC-FM's Magic Comedy Theatre, the morning disc jockey crew that thought up the contest that Bonsky won, is out in the cold. Has anybody at the Ahmanson been following the news lately? "Oh, dear" Mary seems to be thinking as she loyally puts herself through the play"If only I could write" Her best moment, oddly, comes when she's delivering a passage of twaddle from one of her most saccharine movies. Off to a hot springs resort to talk sense to a neighborhood runaway (Jun Miho, he's distracted by a chance meeting with a beautiful woman (a most affecting Komaki Kurihara, who has been teaching on a nearby island for 15 years. The finalists were selected from more than 1,000 submissions and the winners will be announced Feb 5, the school said.

Steina and Woody developed a set-up where the shapes in the video are affected by what sounds I make. He also is fussy, unintentionally funny, mannered, silly, self-indulgent and inimical to Verdi. Harlan can't do anything about being too old for the role, but he could take a harder stab at that godawful period in one's life when one's confusion is so great that it's comical. The imagery represents man's ascent-internally and externally-through three levels: water, land and sky" Brown said the work would have a "fluctuating light" effect, and a lapis lazuli-like blue overtone. Schweitzer for an episode of "Pryor's Place" and Charles Purpura for "The Day the Senior Class Got Married" In animated programming, the nominees are Jeffrey Scott for an episode of "Jim Henson's Muppet Babies" and Paul Haggis for "Zucchini" part of the "CBS Storybreak" series.

Donald Grobe, the silly-gander Basilio, deserved a comparable favor, but his Donkey Aria was consigned once again to the cutting room floor. Journalists will have assigned seats at 18 tables, 10 to a table. Boys weave silver threads of princely aspiration into their tweedier macho pipe dreams. The movie, starring Crispin Glover (the nerd dad in "Back to the Future) and Dennis Hopper, is being directed by Tim Hunter "Tex" "Sylvester) for the producers of "Desperately Seeking Susan" It will be released in August by Hemdale Releasing "It is a very powerful script" says producer Midge Sanford. Toback likes to tell the story of a student who approached him after seeing it in a film school class: "She said, 'I'm not a violent person but I'd like to take a knife and stick it in your face' " Made for just $1 million, it has earned, according to Toback, only $600,000 in this country but a total of $6 million worldwide.

Obey, whose sound was earthier and more primitive, conveyed a warm, benign personality, but he didn't command your attention like the radiant Ade. Better that "Saturday Night Live" die a peaceful death now than be a brain-dead patient kept alive by artificial means. "Business support for the arts has arrived at the point where I think the debate is over" he said. He insisted that I had all the vocal colors for the part, and he believed it would not hurt me "But I went into it carefully And I don't sing it too often. The troupe has been in existence for about two years now, but Julio is still trying to pick up two more dancers. Those offers, though, arrived before any public demonstration of talent, reinforcing for some of the contestants that the emphasis in "Miss Hollywood-so far, at least-is beauty. has a legitimate interest in maintaining Waikiki as an attractive visitor destination "Mr.

Accuracy is the main criterion for contestants, who will appear replete with wigs, makeup and real instruments to render passionate portrayals of everyone from '80s sex symbol Prince to the seminal '60s group, the Yardbirds. There are other signs of how tough the job of saving a continent really can be, especially from a Hollywood vantage point. Perhaps one day we'll simply tell the war makers to buzz off-we've got our own problems Not until modern life gets more interesting, though. Outstanding among the circle of friends is Lee Biolos, who also co-produced with Judy Welden Performances at 800 N El Centro Ave. The KTTV newscast will mean that Los Angeles viewers will be able to get news on the hour Monday through Friday from 4 p. m to 11 p. m There is local news at 4 p. m on KNBC Channel 4 and KABC-TV Channel 7, and at 5 p. m and 6 p. m on Channels 4, 7 and KCBS-TV Channel 2. for the Arts, and was curated by gallery director Lora Pethick Brown.

WASHINGTON — You are the artistic director of a new and extremely visible resident theater. CBS News executives had hoped her effervescent presence would help improve the program's ratings but such has not happened. A spokesman for the TV Academy said that the actor, who won three Emmys in the 1960s as the co-star of "I Spy" had requested that his name not be placed on the preliminary nominating ballot for consideration. As much as any event in pop cultural history, "We Are the World" brought together, even if for a few magic moments, the normally fragmented pop audience in a way that almost seemed impossible in this cynical age. USA for Africa's Benefit Recording Garners Four Awards, Including Best Record; Phil Collins Wins in Album, Pop Vocal and Producer Categories "We Are the World" was such an obvious choice for record of the year in Tuesday night's 28th annual Grammy Awards ceremony that it seemed almost anti-climatic when the envelope was actually opened. "Apocalypse Now" works as art regardless of anyone's particular feelings about the war. This was a movie, after all, and even in 1939, film makers knew the commercial value of a perky decolletage The scene was also historically accurate. But if I tell them about the value and necessity of freedom, how it is important to have a (musical) piece that manifests freedom-well, so many of them respond with incredible strength" Husa pointed out that his original reasons for leaving his birthplace were non-political.

Neumann's mellow dynamic scheme and essentially transparent instrumental textures actually make it easy for one to understand the English text Under the circumstances, alas, that may be a mixed blessing Yveta Synek Graff and Robert T. The gallery, which officials at the center say eventually will become a museum, fills an important artistic and cultural gap in San Diego with its strong exhibitions focusing on Latino culture and border-related issues. Perkins, who also portrayed Zal's mother in the 1983 film "Table for Five" had high praise for her co-star. Most actresses must weather their share of emotional storms on film, but you'd be hard pressed to collect a more devastating group of problems than Roxana Zal has faced in her short acting career. One of college radio's most important functions is introducing new performers. Eventually, the Cranbrook community included the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook School, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Kingswood School Cranbrook, Cranbrook House and Estate, Brookside School Cranbrook and Christ Church Cranbrook. Aided by the five-member M'Ocean Dancers (catch the pun) and the projected photographs of Sherry Black, Stearns took a large audience on a voyage back to the '60s, to the days of Profound Musical Statements in the form of grandiose cathedral chords surfacing out of an endless electronic white-noise whoosh. In the meantime, it's time to start looking at the artists as individuals. .

Mercifully, the deed was done. But the same principle applies to a Broadway show which has run so long that, as Henry Fonda once put it, "they've stopped listening to each other" After you've heard the line 900 times, you don't want to hear it again. The County Museum of Art has insurance covering about one-fourth of its collection, museum spokeswoman Pam Leavitt said "Obviously, the entire value isn't covered" she said. Thankfully, "Bliss" has much more on its mind than affronting bourgeois sensibilities. "Chuck has been working as our associate director, contributing to the repertory, and working with the dancers to improve the quality of the ballet company" artistic director Maxine Mahon said in a recent interview. What was once mostly politically oriented theater now has become more polished and less political-and sometimes performed in both Spanish and English According to Jorge A. And when shooting finished the other day-it stars Hal Holbrook and Lloyd Bridges and is directed by Glenn Jordan-he pronounced himself highly encouraged.

Both "Moonlighting" and "MacGruder and Loud" are "relationship shows" he said, dealing primarily with interaction between a man and a woman. He said he still is scratching his head over a name for his piece. I found an apartment the day after I arrived, and I got an Alvin Ailey scholarship" While studying at the acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Caligagan was chosen to be one of Ailey's instruments in the creation of a new work for the Royal Danish Ballet "I'll never forget the first time Ailey talked to me. Jill Giegerich just will not stop asking herself all the blue-sky questions. Eleanor connects through Lee Remick, whom I was prepared to dislike, only because of the gap in physical appearance. Suicide is a subject that most of us would prefer to look away from, but Norman engages it as boldly as a lion tamer going into the cage, and we're held. Several members of the audience, commenting on the show at its conclusion, branded as sloppy and unacceptable lead singer Jim Reid's "man possesed" actions-including stumbling about the small stage so much that he twice knocked over the band's drum kit.

It's true, but there were at least two earlier scripts-one titled "American Dreamer" by Gary Conway, another with the current title by David Engelbach. We would like to develop four audiences for four series-with a good deal of overlap, of course. My function is to guide the students, each of whom is working on an individual project" "I help them steal from Mozart or Puccini-not tunes, of course, but procedures, ways of solving problems" Himself the son of a musical journalist-the late Olin Downes, chief music critic of the New York Times from 1924 to his death in 1955-Edward Downes has been a critic, program annotator and lecturer on musical subjects for more than 50 years Yet no sign of burnout furrows his brow. "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me" Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell. It has excerpts from her novels and diaries and scenes between her and her husband, and her lover. In "Death of an Angel" Mancuso plays a mysterious messianic figure who wanders through the desert with a cross (and a cult following.