Norman has still not mastered the art of pointing the French language to sustained comic ends, but the rich portraiture of the rest of the cast-Alliot-Lugaz as a chipper Orestes, Burles as a henpecked Menelaus and the veteran Bacquier as a blustering Agamemnon-more than compensate. Suzanne Harrer, 20, started out as Tricia and has since moved into the role of the ever-eager Judy. The characters in Swados' play are more alone than those in Cristofer's Their families are nowhere in sight One ex-lover comes to call, but it's a tense visit. "I said, 'The last couple of movies"Splash" and "Cocoon-have been good experiences, but they weren't always fun because they were so hard to do' " Howard recalls telling the star of his comedy "Night Shift" " 'I'd really like to do this movie, and I'd like to do it with you because I think we'd have a lot of laughs. They sold the project to MCA and Cinemax on the strength of the title alone.
The unwieldy, sprawling affair featured about two dozen musical performances and just as many speeches-the music courtesy of folks like Neil Young and Stevie Wonder, the talk from folks like Jon Voight and Whoopi Goldberg. He not only told his story to the news media, but also showed the episode to pro-choice groups-hoping, he said, to buffer the show from criticism. "Architecture and technology are the same things in the beginning. Though Dvorak was generally quite ethnic, this quartet is especially so" And the Haydn is one of the last quartets the composer ever wrote, coming as it did on the heels of Beethoven's first set of works in the genre, Weller said. The New York City-based Mendelssohn Quartet-appearing tonight at UC Irvine's University Center Heritage Room-has made quite a name for itself since its inception in 1979. June 20, New Edition; June 21, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble; June 22, Kris Kristofferson, 2 and 7:30 p. m; June 23, Jesse Colin Young, 2 and 7:30 p. m; June 24, Katrina and the Waves; June 25, Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers; June 26, Emmylou Harris; June 27, Lennon Sisters with the Harry James Orchestra, 2 p. m, and Planet, 7:30 p. m. You're the captain of the ship, the mother-you're the one who guides it, pushes it and brings it together in the first place.
In her letters, however, she emerges as a woman with a vibrant sense of humor who is always willing to give an honest appraisal of herself, warts and all" Bob Pennington of the Sun: "The great pleasure in this portrait is its fullness. The evening still might have been salvaged, to some extent, had the stage been dominated by charismatic personalities or by virtuoso singers No such luck. Singer Syd Straw (who'll be with the Golden Palominos in their local shows this week) opened with a short but sweet set of goofy, brainy, pretty pop, accompanied only by Eric Amble of the Del-Lords on electric guitar. . "My early pieces for orchestra didn't give the players that much to do" the 48-year-old New York composer confesses.
This book gets across the point that they don't have to go along and say nothing. Bankruptcy Code, asking time to restructure its debts and seek a buyer. . "We have gone from a 12- to 14-concert season to a 45- to 50-concert season. The works' overt primitivism masks an analytical undercurrent, that of expressing emotional states through an ongoing sculptural vocabulary (kinetic distortion, idiosyncratic balance and spatial parameters) as well as such archetypal concerns as power and the subconscious. In her 'Crying Out to God' (one of two pieces by the young choreographer on this weekend's program, you'll see a strong modern dance influence and some traditional Oriental posturing "This is not a pure Korean (dance work.
But Holm's stuttering, often ineffectual-seeming Dodgson conveys something much more difficult; a forbidden passion for the child Alice that he had the discipline and talent to transmute into enduring art. And there's Shepard's tale itself-about people whose search for understanding seems helplessly interlocked, though they can't seem to figure out whether their future would be best served by joining together or breaking apart. So, Richardson, born in Scotland, had little difficulty mastering the former minister's pronunciation "He always wrote his speeches in English" the actor said "He was a great orator He modeled himself after Winston Churchill. Then there is the case of Nickelodeon, formerly an island of kids-only programming. Graciette, a large and engaging woman, first asks the caller's birthdate, then serenely predicts her future in a Spanish heavily accented with her native Portuguese "After Nov. Think of it as an overdue merger of the art world's diggers and doctors In one camp are archeologists digging for buried treasure. "I was scared to death that I would blow it" said Berlin. May 10: NBC orders a pilot "I screamed" said Berlin.
The Pace-presented shows, which might include pop headliners, could also be booked the same season in Los Angeles, said Miles Wilkin, president of the New York-based Pace group. Though he sang lead on roughly half the Eagles' tunes, he was usually hidden behind the drums. "The Equalizer's" creator, Michael Sloan, struck a producing deal with MTM between the time he pitched "Equalizer" and the time CBS bought it as a series. 1 with advertisers a year or two prior to receiving that designation from the A C Nielsen ratings service. In recent years, Divola has photographed "blanks" (silhouettes in landscapes or studio set-ups, wrestled with the difficulty of weighing two images against each other in large diptychs and examined the impact of color as he turns a horse bright red or a woman's face blue.
Grossman/Holt bristle at the suggestion that, if they can afford to throw advertised cocktail parties, they might as well spend some of the money on actor salaries. Most of us have only the residual feelings that have lingered far longer than the smell of napalm in the morning. As television, the 90-minute "Dance Black America" on PBS tonight (8 p. m on Channel 24; 9 p. m on Channels 28 and 15) is deplorably slipshod. He subsequently co-founded and co-owned the Edge Gallery in Fullerton and became active in the Orange County Arts Alliance. "I think we gravitated away a little bit from what I always thought was our strength-the family and the interrelationship among the people in the family. The 42-year-old American pianist has been before the public for some 20 years as an unprepossessing performer and winner of some of the less glitzy competitions. She was a popular co-anchor, and when the male anchor-lead left, the station manager refused to give her the position.
Smith decided that a university radio station shouldn't have much to do with a university-outside of accepting its monies. In Kent's work, it's the landscape that reverberates: a threatening midnight-blue abyss in "House of Dread" a ridge of blue-white sculptured cliffs in "North (Greenland" a mystically charged sky with haloed clouds in paintings of Tierra del Fuego. Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain likewise took the solo route to limbo, while singer David Johansen made one magnificent solo album and three more progressively worse before he hung his hat in Manhattan, where he holds court as his alter ego, lounge act Buster Poindexter. Schuman's delivery of Rosmene's arias displayed a radiant and plangent voice of strong flexibility; De la Rosa sailed easily through the lesser hurdles given Clomiris. Koenig has been influenced by Oriental art and Abstract Expressionism and his current artwork perpetuates those interests. One of the best pianists in the business, like Marino an alumnus of the big bands, was gathered up the other day, as Noel Coward used to say.
The group's first single, "Johnny Come Home" was a Top 10 UK and European hit. This splendid, actually transparent, re-creation of the 1944 work closed a concert that moved uphill in concentration. The question is how much heed the audience pays to the theme, as against the shoot'em-up heroics, of "Rambo" Many in the audience will not have been born during the heat of the Vietnam convulsion in this country in the late 1960s Others will have only hazy grade-school memories. Rosenblatt told the group that he'd be interested if they moved toward a rock direction, but he insisted that they had to want to make that move. There, in the clean, modern high-rise offices of Greater Media Inc, KRLA will share space with its new sister station, KHTZ-FM (97. 1 It is a pairing that Greater Media calls "the L. A. He is currently writing a theatrical revue entitled "The Birth of Rock and Roll" Creole, 44, lives in Beverly Hills, is married and has three children.
The twosome, using the name Time Zone, has released a new punk-funk single called "World Destruction" ON THE TOWN: The Blasters, who sold out both nights of last weekend's dates at the Palace, gave the hometown crowd its first peek at most of the new songs from their "Hardline" album, due out Feb 25. "An artist tries to get people to understand something about the human condition and be true to himself in doing it He hopes everybody will appreciate it. An ambitious, imperfect film, it contained a stunning performance by Dianne Wiest as a battered wife, and it marked Mandel as a director to watch. The person who can keep the Oscar show to under three hours will be a (Good luck, Stanley) 32.
"VCR Theater" will address that issue, Chernin said, because it will be televised when most viewers would not want to watch a second station anyway. My cleaner-a master at the delicate art of light starch-started posting the ubiquitous 8x10s a few years ago. No wonder Schwitters' most popular work was an ebullient verbal love lyric, "Anna Blume" Every emotion in his work is experienced simultaneously with other contradictory yet balancing emotions, like those felt by young lovers-one is at once ecstatic and terrified, starry-eyed and vaguely discontented, strong as a tiger and weak as a lamb. Wall of Chicago, editor of the Christian Century, was set up by the communications commission of the National Council of Churches in 1983.