July 1 release dates of two potential hits, "The Jewel of the Nile" and "The Best of Times-were announced here last week Now, it looks as if there'll be some competition. But he sits ramrod erect-a lean, linear figure Giacometti might have sculpted; an ascetic in neat, nondescript garb. She doesn't always spell out debauchery, she just sets out the players and lets us expect the worst of them. Between takes, Steenburgen tried to explain the difference between discovering Nicole as a reader and studying her as an actress "What I read objectively" she said, "became personal. (This is a co-production with San Diego's Old Globe, where "Language" is headed next) JAN 23: "The History of Fear" Victory Theatre, Burbank. Others in the cast include Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane, Andra Millian, Michael Tucci, Diana Douglas, Claire Kirkconnell, Peter Nelson and Lainie Kazan. .

in the creative and performing arts" The winner of the national contest will receive an award of $5,000. There was an old arrangement of Mendelssohn's, but it was very bad Khachaturian asked me to transcribe his Concerto That's different, because the composer is living. M'Ocean leader Susan Harper (Stearns' wife) and her ultra-serious dancers offered solos and ensembles with such heavy titles as "Nascence" "Genesis" and "Voices" utilizing every cliched movement of the period: anguished writhings, slitherings under gauze shrouds, ceremonial processions, slow-motion reachings for the sky All pleasant and harmless and, in the end, shallow. New Guidelines on Arts Funding Accommodate Education Initiative and Preserve Residency Programs Six months after the matter of arts education erupted in a storm of controversy at the assembly's convention in Seattle, after months of negotiation, polling individual states and trading views on rewritten sets of guidelines, the endowment and the advocacy group for the state arts agencies have finally resolved their differences. "But I really don't realize what's in my head till I have to pull it out" She mentions getting some help from videotapes and also from the dancers, especially those veterans who have knowledge about what a certain choreographer might have set. "But from the day we started we always said we'd either do our music or do nothing.

There was talk of another television series in which he and his lads would belong to the Bel Air Patrol rather than the U. S Army, but nothing, I think, ever came of it. "You're Under Arrest" Miles Davis. Solo Jazz Female Vocal: "Cleo at Carnegie/The 10th Anniversary Concert" Cleo Laine "The Great Songs from the Cotton Club" Maxine Sullivan "Made in New York" Tania Maria "Meet Benny Bailey" Cheryl Bentyne "Sing Joy Spring" Janis Siegel "20 Years Blue" Flora Purim. They say the tide of Neo-Expressionism is running out in New York. His mother is a translator who once ran away from Russia during a four-year love affair with an American. 10(tie) "Living the Book of My Life" by Philip Michael Thomas and "The Firm" by the Firm. . The artist used sculptural elements and the light patterns in the museum galleries and corridors to change the viewer's perception of these spaces. But I think a lot of people liked "Little House" Even Steven Spielberg admitted to me that he'd once watched it" She is pleased with the movie, which is about an orphaned 16-year-old girl struggling to become a horse trainer and raise two little brothers at the same time.

However, he said that Opera Pacific has not yet entered into contract talks with the Orange County Performing Arts Center for the center's opening 1986-87 season. Special Edition expands to a quintet here with new arrival Howard Johnson and returnee David Murray. Personal favoritism was named as a factor in such actions as employment decisions, assignment changes, enforcement of personnel policies and changes in reporting relationships" Between 1981 and 1985, the report stated, the department's regular (full-time) work force declined from 49 to 45. Late-night menu of salads, omelets and more, from about 10 p. m to 11:30 p. m Tuesday through Saturday Reservations suggested AE, MC, V Menu prices, $6$15 (regular menu also available NUCLEUS NUANCE, 7267 Melrose Ave, L. A, (213) 939-8666. Cafe Cordiale, American Sampler and Partners and Company have a lot in common Their menus tend to be similar So, in fact, do their prices They even look a little bit alike. However, CBS said that a new series is being prepared for her "for future broadcast" It didn't specify a date or give details of the new effort.

It comforted us to know that a different kind of life existed. San Diego's new Horton Plaza center, also developed by Hahn, houses the fledgling San Diego Art Center for $1 a year. What we have now (before renovations) is what acousticians call 'coupled rooms' that is, a long stage house with a high-ceilinged auditorium" At least one acoustician not associated with the project agrees with some aspects of Meltzer's assessments. "If there's any frustration here, it's that we want to do more. Boris Aronson's picturesque sets and Frank Thompson's storybook costumes stay safely clear of kitsch indulgence. Florence Hufnagel debuts as Florence Kleiner, the feisty bailiff who replaces the late Selma Diamond's character on "Night Court" "An interviewer asked me: 'Do you feel a challenge taking over after Selma' And I said, I'd never seen 'Night Court' I'd never seen Selma I said, I'm not Selma.

"I gotta get the bus back up to Malibu, do you have an extra 50 cents or somethin" Estevez, wearing jogging clothes (he had run from his apartment to the pier, showed the contents of his pockets-a house key-and, smiling, apologized "That's cool Take care, bro" The two punkers strolled off. The pageant, the tableaux spectacle of celebrated artworks, drew approximately 136,000 visitors last summer-a sellout attendance for the 19th straight year-and grossed $2. 5 million. Paul Connelly does what he can to salvage Berlioz in the understaffed pit. American Ballet Theatre has been having a little trouble with tonal focus in its new productions this year. 6 will serve as an introduction to the widely varied kinds of films in the collection. tour that brings him and his new band to the Beverly Theatre tonight. He was open, to the point where he acknowledged that he had continued to free-base cocaine even after the free-basing accident that nearly killed him. Anger, frustration, alienation, bitterness-all these tend to spill out of the music, especially in the quartets.

But Ritz's play remains inert until the second act-and even then the drama arises from Ritz's choice of subject rather than his handling of it. John Severino, general manager of the station, said he opted to go with "Tom Snyder" because Snyder already had been preempted once this week-for a special about the space-shuttle program Monday-and he didn't want to bump another episode of the five-week-old talk show because "that breaks the viewing habit" the station is trying to build Snyder's guest Wednesday was a pet psychologist. And stylized and languid as Lewis' performance is as Cecil Vyse in the period film, he's direct, humorously mocking and all energy in "Laundrette" Behind these two performances, each of which, of course, profit by the existence of the other as a demonstration of Lewis' range, is solid British theater training at the Bristol Old Vic, touring experience with the Royal Shakespeare Company and work at the BBC. Both operas will be sung in Italian in a new production by Frank Corsaro.

And why should it? At 57, the veteran Gilbert & Sullivan singer, principal basso of the D'Oyly Carte Opera for 16 years (1953-69) of its Golden Age, is making a whole new career-in grand opera. But our listeners are apparently among the great majority who feel this was right. The 13-week shoot has proved physically taxing even for a very-taxable international company. Funding sources and ratios vary but, according to Ela, they break down roughly as follows: corporate and foundation contributions, 25; membership, 20; special events, 20; gifts from individuals, 15; government support, 10; earned income from shop sales and restaurant rental, 10. Dick Clair is terrific, though, in Buddy's "God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me-Oh-You-Do-I'll-See-Ya-Later Blues" with the little toy beep-beep car. Even though NRBQ now rarely employs its "magic box" in which crowd members would place bizarre requests to be picked at random and played, the band still takes the stage with no premeditated program. The ship also exudes a strong archeological presence, a mythic aura that simultaneously is grandiose and sad, as if an historical relic had been restored and trussed up like a dinosaur in a museum.

Focusing on the style of austere modern architecture that Tom Wolfe railed against in "From Bauhaus to Our House" Ojeda's urban cityscapes convert Gotham's unforgiving monuments to wealth and power into softly twinkling towers. In fact, it's so hard to get new artists played on the radio now that several major labels have postponed the release of many new records, preferring to wait until later this summer when radio formats may be less restrictive. It also outclassed Shimazaki's own, less distinctive choreographies "The Seasons" and "Tango" (both 1983. It spends little on new production, instead relying on a middle-brow mix of dramas and comedies from the British Broadcasting Corp, classic American films, taped performances and obscure docudramas.

He also could make appreciative use of some hoary operatic conventions that were not yet totally time-dishonored But that was hardly enough. (We are less convinced when this wimp turns into a raging racist) Tristan's voice is too flat, but she makes us feel the predicament of the nurse, too burned out to know whether to leave or stay Saboda and Bush make the play Saboda's Julius is a child, all right-in a white context But at the end he establishes his manhood in a single look. 1927-There is an attempt, never completed, to make the Community Playhouse the first fully endowed theater in the country Goal of the endowment: $300,000. As to how the Equity impasse has affected the rental of Holt's theaters, she said, "We have about 10 shows waiting for this thing to be resolved" One, at least, is undeterred A Waiver staging of W. Long, slow, very intense, visually beautiful in the way '60s Antonioni was beautiful, it is fascinating. booth on the convention exhibit floor spelled out one of the unofficial themes of the convention. After further entreaties from the producers, he will now try to do both.

None was either previously shown on television or makes use of stock footage. Without the Hawk, Furillo's ego runs amok-interrupting callers with irrelevant comments, oozing his love for the Dodgers, playing songs for Pedro "the Warrior" etc. As the sun starts to set over our city's many interchanges, giving a puce hue to the cloud of nitrous oxide that hangs over us, L. A's bone-weary commuters drag themselves into their cars for the long, arduous drive home. He directed and starred in films, became a body builder and posed for beefcake photos that became pin-ups in the gay community, and he led a private army of about 100 soldiers dedicated to the spirit of their samurai ancestors. In doing so, he came to learn as much about the business end of theater-and, later, of movies-as any producer Which meant that he couldn't be bamboozled by producers. "I think there have been times when Al felt it was time to move on too; I know there were other close calls" Barkley continued. The room fills with sighs and groans as students struggle to bend their bodies into yoga positions.

The Spago overflow crowd Monday night will be across the street at this Dome 16 None of the winners ever do this when told to keep it short 17 Nous" a nominee in 1983 18 Meryl never returned here and everybody cried 19 Bill Hurt's step-grandfather. Doubleday has reportedly stepped in to cover the fees-out of Nancy's royalties. . However, in spite of seven Academy Award nominations for her many and varied film roles, her current starring role-in Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful-marks one of the few times that she seems to have caught the full attention of the film Establishment. Winners are brought to Houston to work with actors and dramaturgs on staged readings of their plays Deadline is March 15 Write to: John R Pearson, Symposium Coordinator, P. O Box 270363, Houston, Texas 77277 QUOTE OF THE WEEK. You're talking as much as $60,000 per concert for the super-orchestras alone" said board president Knobbe. So if you don't see her around town-and you don't-that's what she's doing Writing.