Pesce spada (swordfish to you) comes simply grilled, as do bronzino (sea bass, rombo (turbot) and salmone (salmon. Tenor Michael Ballam's singing and acting reflected some of the contradictions in keeper Sandy. "It's the most elaborate, the most complicated, the hardest to do" Goetz said. "The independent American company which bought it for the U. S. What no one writing about the film seems to have felt is the deep unpleasantness of this exercise in empty style, even if you concede the brilliant joke of its final shot, a dying man's-eye view of the ultimate banality. But Playboy, Lewis is quick to point out, was applauded for its scoops when nude photos of Suzanne Somers and Madonna were printed in the magazine. The artists' goal is for the piece to live on when a house is built with the lumber.

APR President Bill Kling said many stations will use it as a "wraparound" for the three-hour daily block of "All Things Considered" programming. "FIVE-O" Hank Williams Jr Warner/Curb. When the Brooklyn Academy of Music picked it up for full production as part of its "next wave" festival that year, it became the hit of the event-with an Obie to prove it"The biggest missing link is the Broadway show, of which there aren't any" Davidson said, acknowledging that the group has a commitment to those too. After the broadcast of "The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" next week, CBS will air hourlong repeats of the series on the following three Tuesdays at 9 p. m. The address for years was the home of Marks & Co, a secondhand book shop celebrated in a work by Helene Hanff, an American who has written several children's books and contributed articles to such magazines as the New Yorker and Harper's. Tawny, husky-voiced, witty and stylish, Kellerman plays a dedicated Toronto psychiatrist married happily to a trim, virile-looking Establishment attorney (Lawrence Dane.

A few weeks ago, he sat in on a panel discussion on the rise of Top 40 radio personalities at a Museum of Broadcasting seminar at County Museum of Art. If they really don't want to do it, if it doesn't feel right, you have to honor that feeling I understand that as an actor. The Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at UC San Diego, which works in a consortium with the Center for Latin American Studies, also will launch a Latin American film festival this spring. Program topics include panel discussions by artists and film makers on the nature of "image making" corporate executives examining new ideas in office design, and five furniture designers exploring the essential and ubiquitous chair. The local media gathered at NBC headquarters in Burbank to view the film maker on twin 19-inch TV screens. The Firemen gained local fame briefly for its parody hit "Jocko Bozo" which incorporated Devo's "Jocko Homo" with the theme songs from the "Bozo the Clown" and "Green Acres" television shows. My darker thoughts would lie in wait until the program director was out of town "I was told to ask permission, to clear bits I never did It's absurd.

It took the form of a mock obituary for Simon, citing him for being "distinguished throughout his career for bigotry and inhumanity" A reply from Simon, or from the publisher of New York magazine, is said to be on the way. ATLANTA — Turner Broadcasting System, which owns the 24-hour Cable News Network, says CNN will be able to exchange news and journalists with the Soviet Union under a new agreement. There were budget problems and creative differences on the set, and the dailies (footage shot each day) weren't looking good. "We were already committed to putting 50% of our profits into drug programs" said David Jacobs, acting director of the Pasadena city department that oversees Rose Bowl rental, on Wednesday.

The setting is luxurious, the musicians are live, and there are four kinds of caviar on the menu (from $5 to $39 an ounce. The same air of youthful seriousness pervades the entire building. So when the veteran pianist reflects, in mid-interview and without any humorous intent, that "more lives have been ruined by Clara Schumann, Sigmund Freud and Arnold Schoenberg" one sits up, and stops laughing. On the tiny porch-like stage of the Boyd Street Theater downtown, the tolling of a bell and a deep, groaning chant immediately established the dark ritualism of Open Gate Theatre's ambitious and compelling "Petros" Created and performed by drummer Alex Cline, trombonists Bruce Fowler and John Rapson, tuba player Bill Roper and dancer-flutist-vocalist Will Salmon, this 50-minute ceremony probed biblical passages for glimpses of a frightening, unknowable Christian god. "They like to think we were at the same mike singing to each other It's not like we're old friends. If he'd just let Nicholas Kazan's script stand by itself, it would be stunning enough.

Boy, from all over: New York, Texas, Southern California, Northern California. The festival, presented by the Hollywood chapter of L'Association Internationale du Film d'Animation and the Children's Film and Television Center of America, will present "Starchaser: The Legend of Orin" the first full-length 3-D animated feature. It was one of a couple of standouts that hinted at the group's potential for more than just reproducing authentic-sounding rockabilly. . Opening event, May 31 at 8:30 p. m, will be a recital by Loriod (Mme. Without replacements confirmed by the Senate, the board technically will have only five members. Lee had, of course, practically created the martial arts movement singlehandedly, thanks to the major box-office successes of such films as "Fists of Fury" and "Enter the Dragon" (which is considered the "Gone With the Wind" of martial arts films.

The cartoon and violent toy studies show that these materials cause children to hit, kick, choke, push and hold down other children. When Leontyne Price sang her nationally televised farewell to opera last month, it was no accident that she chose the role of Aida The point, she seemed to say, had been made. "I read a lot of books and talk to people who have been to these places That helps me make choices. You beat the system" As he was led from the courtroom, Johnston winked and grinned at a reporter-the kind of chilling charm that Walken gives the character in the film. . "Here I'd traveled all that distance to get away from theater and it had followed me" she said. The Buena Park Library channel is once again reserved for text information) How, you may ask, did a librarian become a video producer? "I read everything I could get my hands on about video-books, the Video Manager, professional journals about video" she said. When it comes to lawyers, it's a different ballgame" Though Hoffman was unavailable to comment on the conflict, the source said the alleged breach of contract made the actor skeptical about working with Cannon.

There are lots of pratfalls and the like to keep things light and airy, but "Finnegan Begin Again" is at core serious. "We sold a lot more stuff last year-more drinks, more hot dogs, stuff like that Same number of customers, but less volume. Poetry, spirituals, scenes from classic black plays and a storytelling session are on tap, and the Media Forum Players will reconvene for a special Saturday-night reading from their PBS production, "Voices of My People"Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" made its American debut with the San Francisco Actors Workshop in 1960 Glynn Wicham of the Old Vic directed Alan Mandell was assistant director. "Jackson was in Nicaragua last year and we met him at a dinner, in a meeting with other musicians and artists" recounted Katia Cardenal, 22 She and her brother, Salvador, 25, make up Guardabarranco "We sang, and it started a relationship very good. They're showing they're not prudish" On another level, though, the existence of a double standard as manifested in the Playboy/Playgirl layouts is far more insidious, Viscott says. The central romance between Prince Philip and Princess Aurora isn't very interesting, and this Beauty sleeps for only a single night, rather than the 100 years of the original fairy tale. "Either that or they wanted you to be B-girls and sit at the bar and hustle drinks" Bryant said.

There they were, all happily sauteing shrimps for Michael Roberts' potato pancakes with shrimp, tequila and tomato sauce and spooning Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken's swordfish ceviche into little blue boats. Berlant moves from figuration to landscape to dreamscape with an easy flow, and his tin work often flowers with a grace that belies the difficulty of working with a recalcitrant, pre-printed medium. It is a gentle sociopolitical diatribe and, perhaps, a dated operatic spoof in which the words count a lot-and there are lots of words here-while the music counts only a little. On her first meeting with Dane, who has been taken off the investigation, she turns down his invitation to dinner but tells him, quite seriously, "If you help me solve this case, I'm yours. Mason discovers there are eight other people who had a motive for killing the man. Instead of looking at that grim rock, one has a cheery view of a green-and-white billboard advertising an Irish bar.

Yet "Broken Rainbow" is at once less-and more-than this reminder. While "Silverado" updates the form in some ways, as in using a black protagonist (the excellent Danny Glover from "Places in the Heart) and offering a strong feminist speech (by the otherwise underemployed Rosanna Arquette from "Desperately Seeking Susan, it remains rather paradoxically bloodless and sexless. Being a pianist, too, Richman also worked as staff accompanist in musical theater. "When they dropped me off at my hotel, I saw my daughters running toward us. And this time, said Southland vice president Kenny Weissberg, the series will be bigger than ever, with more than 50 acts-ranging from traditional jazz trumpeter Miles Davis to the more commercial Windham Hill family of pop-jazz instrumentalists-scheduled to play from late April through October.

Anthuriums splayed across the grids and cropped by the edges of the picture planes advance lasciviously into the viewer's space, while in the background glow tropical skies. to 11 p. m, straight diner stuff such as liver with bacon and onions and chicken fried steak. Skeptical music-business forecasters insisted that REO would never rise again And once again, the forecasters blew it. A conductor and orchestra familiar with the auditorium and its sonic quirks may learn, with time, to adjust, to hold back, to compensate, to cope.

"I began by working for a three-star restaurant in Hartford" says Adam with the extraordinary poise that is characteristic of this kid. And then there is the increasingly important matter of his career as a movie star. (To use Arbitron's figures in sales presentations, a station must subscribe to the ratings service, an Arbitron spokeswoman said. We were hungry, we ate it, and then we wished we hadn&t; the thing was so covered with rosemary and sage that it tasted moldy. The first local group to be signed, the 85-member Pacific Symphony has set its opening concert Oct 2 at the Center.

It was a discussion that in many ways paralleled Morgan's own history and development from his days with KHJ's "Boss Radio" In putting his career in perspective at the seminar, Morgan mentioned that "what I like to do most of all is make people laugh. What could be better? The only trouble is that I'm rarely around long enough to get to know them well. It's the Image Translator, which plays not only American VHS cassettes, but foreign ones, recorded in different electronic systems, such as PAL, which is dominant in Western Europe. Instrumental in launching downtown's new Japan-America Theatre, the under-construction Museum of Contemporary Art and the contemplated Dance Gallery on Bunker Hill, the CRA also assisted the Embassy Theatre and Variety Arts Center with low-interest loans or tax-exempt financing. Hosted by USA for Africa co-founder Harry Belafonte, the program is billed as a blend of concert footage and famine film, bringing together the most vivid elements of charity rock and charity need. Two of the strongest films of the program, "The Cut" and "Knocking on Armageddon's Door" come from this new documentary class; a third fine documentary, "Between April and May" was co-produced by USC and the Netherlands as part of the International Year of Youth film project. The series first has to be funny, though, and tonight's show, written by Bob Peete and directed by Oz Scott, isn't humorous enough.

It is apparently comforting for many Americans to believe that Japanese industrial might is based on Oriental obedience and a kind of corporate militarism that offends our democratic values. The report also cited concerns about confidentiality and difficulty in finding people. It is a sweet mime escapade in which the stage is strewn with decorous corpses and entangled with 16 characters, all of whom happen to bear the name Smith , or a reasonable variation thereof Then comes the quasi-ballet itself. But he did mention one financial goal: "I'd eventually like to make enough money to be able to afford to live in Newport Beach again" Rogers' roots run deep in the beach community-his grandfather, George Rogers, helped create a navigable harbor in Newport in 1921, and his father, Howard Rogers, was a city councilman and mayor. "Nothing Sacred" (1937) is one of the classic American film comedies, the one in which Fredric March and Carole Lombard trade punches so famously. Film directors Sydney Pollack, Ted Kotcheff and Alan Myerson took on the subject of "creative freedom versus social responsibility" with an audience of media psychologists at the Regency Hotel on Wednesday They might as well have taken on the weather. Ian McKellen is exceptional as the foreign secretary to whom Streep appeals to hear what she very well already knows: that her husband's career is being downgraded as a result of her lifelong lack of discretion.

WASHINGTON — "Space" takes up a lot of time This is known as the time-Space continuum It continuums for five nights "Space" also takes up a lot of air. As his wife, Isabel, says, George is "so handsome and afflicted" Indeed, Bollinger is beside himself because of his virile palsy-the shakes-his impotence, and because of not knowing how to communicate his love. Particularly embarrassing are Stern's cerebral genuflections to his former professor at Yale University, historian Vincent Scully, and to his professional patron Philip Johnson. But she felt she had to get away from Jerry Lee's domination and life style to maintain her sanity. Philosophically they look like a testament of sublime faith from an artist who had realized there is nothing out there but magnificent vastness. If you wanted to call up a movie and tell all your troubles to it for an hour or so, this might be the one you'd pick. Their "Around the World in Seven Plays" a lightweight presentation of familiar folk and fairy tales, was aimed at younger children, but crisp timing and stylish humor made it engaging for adults as well.