Parents today look back with amusement at how their folks came positively unglued over Elvis Presley's singing "One Night" or the Rolling Stones' invitation to "spend the night together" They also smile at how their parents warned against blood-splattered movies like "Psycho" That stuff is so tame by today's standards. I don't see things changing" The nation's oppressive political situation inspired "Music for Prague" Though the piece was written in response to the Soviet ouster of liberal Czech leader Alexander Dubcek, the 64-year-old musician noted: "I don't think of it as a political message for one country It is universal. In terms of domestic public opinion, though, the President's Rambo ramble seemed to have paid off gorgeously. However, despite the opening-night triumph of "Sins" in the national Nielsens, NBC, seeking its first season as No 1 since 1954, won last week's prime-time ratings race. Perhaps another conk on the head from the brothers Gibb could knock these guys out of their amnesiac time warp. . "Now, if APR can find 5 million people who want to listen to the Christian Science Monitor a half-hour a day five days a week, I say, God bless them". The spokesman said, "It's definitely, definitely off(Hoffman recently completed filming the comedy "Ishtar" for Columbia Pictures with co-star Warren Beatty in New York) Yoram Globus, president of Cannon Films, insisted that "LaBrava" is still on "There is no problem whatsoever" he told The Times.

The Salinas Valley ranch hands and vagrants tend to look arch and sound pretentious when framed by an ornate proscenium and flanked by the glitter of a golden horseshoe. "I look for dancers who have a lot of movement imagination and who are consummate technicians" said Lubovitch, whose company will perform Friday through Sunday in Royce Hall, UCLA. Designed to be light, open, calm-but-happening: This describes the restaurant as well as the food, with the late-supper menu and clientele tending toward the highly fashionable nouveaux "Appetizers" available 10:30 p. m. Even a middle-age theater critic can find refreshment in O'Neill's inability to shrug at life, even when he thinks he's doing just that. At MOMA a piece called "Delineator" consists of just two oblong steel slabs about 10 by 25 feet One lies on the floor, the other is attached to the ceiling. Brown approached the MTDB last spring with his proposal and was told to come back after he received endorsements.

But aside from his marginally nasty "Dali Salad" the work feels more like admiration than compensation Next charge Too entertaining. Today, we associate Kabuki with everything that is gorgeous, distant and august in Japanese art. "I suddenly stopped reading, and just said, 'You know, Mary, you can play anything You really can You can act rings around any actress But this is not on your level It's not up to your caliber' So you grasp what I mean about accidents" And casting. Newman, who got the bug while playing a driver in the 1969 film "Winning" was 47 when he took his first lesson, hoping to get a license, he says, and race in amateur events near his home in Westport, Conn. As she had earlier, the violinist played with a marvelously liquid sound and an unfailing sense of direction. The rhythms of daily life captivate Danish film-maker Jorgen Leth, who brings acute, understated powers of observation to his just-completed works, "Moments of Play" and "Notebooks From China" which will screen Tuesday only at 7:30 p. m at the Monica 4-Plex with Leth present. "West 57th" dubbed the "yuppie news" by sources both inside and outside of CBS, is reported by a quartet of fresh-faced under-40 newspeople.

He gave a performance of the first movement of a Mozart concerto before a sellout crowd in his hometown of Folkestone on England's southeastern coast. Bogen is talking about the politics of Los Angeles poetry-the activity of getting what often begins as very private writing into the public awareness That means readings, publication and recognition as a poet. The student government very much wants this to be a success and they are really throwing themselves into it Whatever it takes, they are going to get it done. Her best-selling exercise cassettes have made Fonda one of the giants of the home-video industry. "I went into some of the elementary schools where they had the little children in the second, third, and fourth grades" she said.

This kitchen has an air of extraordinary calm, especially when contrasted with the frantic bustle of the dining room. As a result of the controversy in the guild, everyone in Hollywood knows about Pro-Peace" Cushnir says Pro-Peace ended up with five different commercials, made with about $25,000 worth of donated professional services (from Panavision cameras to Art's Deli lunches, and all of them will get a free satellite ride to 650 TV stations across the country next week. In fact, it's the first ballet role I ever had to tackle" Mistoffelees is a master magician. It is a relatively straightforward, homophonic work, although Temianka's deliberate tempos created a pedestrian effect in the disingenuous outer sections. Messiaen's song-cycle from 1938, "Chants de Terre et de Ciel" provided the centerpiece of this varied program; the charms of these six songs lie in their evocation of childhood and its deep thoughts. What Bartlett did in Nice is literally a weekend classroom assignment in many schools.

Traditionally, one of the anchors has more of the lead, more of a presence" In the new format, she did not feel "a sense of competition" "We're not here to do the nightly rape, murder, fire stories" she said. Brisk and authoritative, her objectivity, thoroughness and professionalism made her presentation an exciting innovation. Thomas" and the blues "Unit Seven" The latter, which was Cannonball's closing theme for many years, served the same purpose here, with Sheppard in fluent form on alto sax. in San Francisco, has come up with a gadget that plays music at the proper pitch and tempo for the man in a hurry. Among the headline acts scheduled at Garfield's in coming weeks are Etta James (Wednesday , Fishbone (Thursday, Tower of Power (April 23, Freddie Cannon (April 24) and Bo Diddley (April 29. He likes classic religious subjects like "The Temptation of St.

In other countries there isn't even Pierre Cardin, so I came up with Levi Strauss-Levi's. That waiver, Pattiz told The Times Monday, was made on the condition that Westwood One be allowed to broadcast regular backstage news reports and interviews from the Philadelphia and London concerts. Herms is in fine, poetic form with such well-ordered collections of tattered found objects as "Genevieve" and "Babylon Box" Each exhibition has its own curator and catalogue essayist: Edward Goldman organized Crull's show, Marie de Alcuaz took charge of Strasen's exhibition and Stella Paul selected works from and wrote about Zlotnick's collection. . "In the past few years, I've been writing as much as I want to And that's more than I ever have. A center for the study of the works of Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci will be established at UCLA with a $1-million grant from Armand Hammer, the philanthropist, art patron and head of Occidental Petroleum Corp The announcement was made by UCLA Chancellor Charles E Young at a luncheon Tuesday at the chancellor's residence. Most of the regular suspects-robots, monsters, ghouls, vampires, aliens and wild-eyed slashers-have all been destroyed, incinerated or put on ice, perhaps being preserved for a sequel.

"It was one of those stick-your-neck-out type of things" Arndt added. In Andre Delvaux's bleakly brilliant "Benvenuta" (Monica next Monday, T&C on Sunday, Fanny Ardant hopelessly pursues the married Vittorio Gassman, and Yannick Bellon's "La Triche" (Monica next Monday, T&C on Sunday, another heartbreaker of subtle and devastating implications, finds middle-aged cop Victor Lanoux caught up in an affair with young musician Xavier Delluc. "A couple of weeks before I go somewhere I do all the research" she said. Available now, the Disney video-a-longs, the story reading series for children between 2 and 6: "Mickey's Discovery Series" "The Disney Classics" and "Winnie the Pooh" All are a half hour and cost $14. 95. "It's almost as if you have all these carbon granules packed into a telephone receiver, with each granule transmitting the electricity to the next-the more people you have, the better it seems to work.

Pam Dawber, late of ABC's now-defunct "Mork and Mindy" and Elliott Gould are among the better-known stars of the new entries. CBS, which lost last season's prime-time ratings race to NBC after six straight seasons as No. "Groucho liked Woody, too" Like his father, Arthur avoids delving too deeply into what works in the world of comedy and why "Jokes are funny things You never know what people are going to laugh at. Among the headline acts scheduled at Garfield's in coming weeks are Etta James (Wednesday , Fishbone (Thursday, Tower of Power (April 23, Freddie Cannon (April 24) and Bo Diddley (April 29. "Because these films were made originally just for black audiences in the '30s and '40s, and whites were never meant to see them, the film makers didn't have to bow or kowtow to white sensibilities and prejudices" Jones said. "One thing I was interested in was art that has grown up on the street New York has people like Keith Haring I wanted to find out what was going on here. KCBS-TV Channel 2, with three of nine awards going to the mini-documentary "Vietnam: Ten Years After" narrowly edged KABC-TV Channel 7 and KCET Channel 28, which were tied with seven apiece. In life, two heads are often better than one.