"Is that her? That her? Chaka Khan" a self-appointed leader of the crowd keened from the front lines "Chaka Khan! Chaka Khan" answered the crowd. Bossard said, "In relation to rock shows, groundskeepers concern themselves with one law: Murphy's. "I was going to confirm Jonathan's cancellation the day after I received the letter" Saxon added, "but-and I know this sounds like a bad movie-I was suddenly taken ill and had to be rushed to the hospital for major surgery I feel terrible about this. After noting some possible subtle sexual symbolism, the critic moved on to "Crawler" and broke the beam A rusty mechanical claw grasped at the air A long, necklike pipe with teeth in the end swung around A friendly punk girl shouted "Look out" but it was too late The critic was doused He chuckled in his chagrin "Well, poetic justice Ho-ho No harm done Just water, I think Old clothes anyway.
November releases: "Brewster's Millions" with Richard Pryor and John Candy; the James Bond adventure "A View to a Kill; the Chuck Norris thriller "A Code of Silence; "Vision Quest" starring Matthew Mondine; the Albert Brooks comedy, "Lost in America; and the biggie of the month, "Gremlins" which will be released Nov 25. CBS senior programs executive Harvey Shephard, a key figure in CBS' six-season string of prime-time ratings victories through 1985, said Thursday that he's joining Warner Bros as president of its television production division He will succeed Alan Shayne His announcement came two days after A C Nielsen Co. San Diego's new Horton Plaza center, also developed by Hahn, houses the fledgling San Diego Art Center for $1 a year. "At first, it was a matter of just being fortuitous and buying what we liked" Valerie Franklin said. Reading his speech from a TelePrompTer, Reagan was magnificent, showing again his wondrous way with TV It remained to be seen whether Monday's U. S attack would diminish Kadafi. Promoting itself as never before, the Sawdust this year shelled out $100,000-out of an overall $400,000 operating budget-for advertising, chiefly aimed at the tourist trade. His wrinkled shirt sleeve stretched far beyond the limits of his black jacket and he kept rubbing his tousled blond hair.
"This steak is rotten" said one friend, and I thought he was referring to the quality of the meat until I tasted it. You've come a long way, baby. "Your manias become science" declares a cutout strip of words running across Barbara Kruger's terrifyingly beautiful photograph of a nuclear blast. Among a list of distinguished participants are the names of pianists Jorge Bolet, Christopher O'Riley, Jerome Rose and Russell Sherman, scholars Nicolas Slonimsky, Alan Walker, Tibor Szasz and Jacques Barzun, singers William Parker and Victoria Livengood and violinist Aaron Rosand. Operating under an annual budget of $4 million, the Ohio company boasts an eclectic repertory of 44 ballets. However, Stacy Keach, whose "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" of 1984 went into limbo when he pleaded guilty to cocaine possession in England last year, will be back in a new version of the series when it starts life anew on Saturday nights this fall. The new owner is Arnold Levitt, a former chief financial officer with Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, who also publishes several sports publications.
At least that's the way they look in photographs and printed biographies: They don't see reporters or give interviews, guarding their privacy with a firmness worthy of Howard Hughes and Greta Garbo. " Bogdanovich said then: "My mind was totally taken up with the tragedy" The "Unicorn" book has resulted in at least one lawsuit-a $10-million libel and slander action filed by Santa Monica private investigator Marc Goldstein. ARTS OPINIONS: Most Americans are willing to pay $25 in additional taxes to support the arts. In 1786, Mozart wrote a diverting one-act comic opera, "Der Schauspieldirektor" "The Impresario, about an opera manager who had to mount a production but had no money. I felt a tug of sadness, because Silvers was an original, very individual comic personality who, before the series, enriched many a movie as a sort of one-man Greek chorus in big glasses and a bright suit He'll be longest remembered as Bilko, naturally. The new Griffith series may surprise some who expected him to return in a new version of "The Andy Griffith Show" or "Mayberry, R. F. D" especially after the recent high-rated two-hour "Return to Mayberry" reprise of that bucolic show. Norman Kaplan of "Here's to Your Health" "Sesame Street" the choice last year as best children's series, is competing again this year against two fellow PBS shows: "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and "3-2-1 Contact"CBS, which dominated the daytime Emmy Awards last year, jumped into the front-runner's position Thursday by picking up 82 of the 206 nominations for this year's honors-including 20 for its soap opera "As the World Turns" Three of CBS' Emmy-winning shows from last year"The Young and the Restless" "The $25,000 Pyramid" and "Jim Henson's Muppet Babies-were nominated again this year as, respectively, best daytime drama, best game show and best animated program.
"In fact" she says, "it was either this or have a baby" WHAT'S COOKIN: A special eight-course Iraqi dinner will be offered next Sunday at 7:30 p. m. What else do they know? And there aren't too many ex-cons around to correct them" While he was working with Konchalovsky, Bunker mentioned that he held a SAG card-from his acting stint with Hoffman. While many artists in the jazz world scramble to keep abreast of current pop trends and the latest in electronic instruments, singer/songwriter/pianist Dave Frishberg would rather be involved with the jazz that was popular in the '40s and '50s. Today's show features a group of teen-age boys on the prowl to lose their virginity, like the goofballs in one of those moronic drive-in sex movies. The earthy, brutal realities of his world are forever puncturing his pretensions to grandeur. Taffner, who successfully switched "Too Close for Comfort" to first-run syndication after ABC canceled it in 1983, believes that the distinction between network and non-network fare is disappearing. One person will say the perfect burger is at the Apple Pan, which means a thin-pressed patty grilled nicely to order, loaded with special sauce and mayonnaise, slapped into a toasted bun with some lettuce, tomato and onion, then handed over wrapped in paper-tasty fast food, maybe, but the perfect burger? Someone else says Cassel's, but isn't it the all-you-can-eat potato salad spiked with horseradish and the other freebies in the salad bar they like? It couldn't be those tasteless, oversized buns (well, at least the buns can contain all the giveaway garnish) or the beef itself.
Do you ever wonder how you are going to do it, whether you are going to embarrass someone or do it in your sleep" He said that when his father, Elias Leach, was dying, he told Grant how very important Grant's movies were to him "I feel I can go down and touch you" Leach said. The County Museum of Art has acquired 53 etchings by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, bringing to 77 the number of works by the 19th-Century expatriate artist in its collection. The University of Chicago, in conjunction with Casa Ricordi in Milan, is in the process of publishing a thoughtful, critical edition of the Verdi operas-an edition that scrapes away the nasty barnacles that have long encrusted the scores because of sloppy copying, misguided interpreting and faulty "correcting" of the original manuscripts. On a recent trip to the toy store, I counted lines of toy products corresponding to 15 kids' shows. Thus she won her second of many ovations (the first, of course, had greeted her entrance. The production of dear old, good old, sweet old "Giselle" currently revived-if that is the right verb-by American Ballet Theatre is a mess.