Playwright Weller has himself compromised here, in his need to provide his tale with a clear-cut and somewhat optimistic ending. George Deukmejian and the Federal Communications Commission largely over, the Scott now seen on TV is inclined to lecture at length on the earthier aspects of the Bible with a gusto that would mortify any conventional "born-again" Christian. Rarely a day passes in Sun City, Ariz, without a grim reaper visiting somewhere in the vast retirement community. Many of the items were on prominent display among the crowd awaiting Murry's homecoming. He stood up very tall and with a perfectly straight face declared, 'These ants were brought in by the CIA to destroy our hotel' so from then on we called them 'CIA ants' " Niklas said with a chuckle The actor got a different room in the modern resort hotel. Particularly embarrassing are Stern's cerebral genuflections to his former professor at Yale University, historian Vincent Scully, and to his professional patron Philip Johnson. The unorthodox sculpture has an air of spontaneity about it, in striking contrast to traditional use of bronze, but Graves describes a two-year process of "very hard work" in her studio and at Tallix Foundry in Peekskill, N. Y.
It proved once again that, on paper, statistical matchups aren't always reliable, computer forecasts can be inaccurate, so-called experienced analysts aren't really sure and the gamblers and oddsmakers who juggle the numbers really don't know. "The pieces themselves are very different and there's a lot of variety. Nick Lowe was having problems getting CBS Records excited about his new album until he received a helping hand from Huey Lewis and the News. How can you measure warmth of sound? That is a subjective matter". The next year, the National Gallery opened its doors to the first exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings from the Soviet Union Since then, several other paintings have traveled here. sit-down dinner to be held this year in the Blossom Room of the renovated Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (where the first Academy Awards were held in 1929 The dinner will be preceded at 6 p. m.
Douglas MacArthur in red shoes. All of this may be fun, but does it sell tickets? "Our job is to create an awareness and a want-to-see" says Elizabeth Landon, vice president of Fox publicity "We are powerless once people get into theaters. So far, video dealers have no national defense unit, but one may be organized if this pressure intensifies, which is quite likely. Though Pritzkat at times betrays a certain naivete in regard to singers' ranges, when he writes an ascending vocal line, it really ascends, taking the listener along. I suppose I need to do what I'm doing in much the same way that Bella (Lewitzky) needs to make a choreography or somebody else needs to paint a painting I wouldn't say I'm driven I am exceptionally determined, however".
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Ulay/Marina Abramovic's interest in permanent art objects is marginal at best, and their local debut is a sort of teasing trailer as far as what it tells you about the variety and complexity of their cumulative body of work. Both the randomness and horror of terrorism have affected more than travel plans. The floating market of the tourists may be a quaint and pretty place, but the markets of the other Bangkok are huge, noisy, exuberant affairs. "Jose (Limon) gave Chuck (Bennett) the rights to the work, and now that he's part of our company, he can share it with our dancers" Mahon said at the studio.
contributed an effective sound track, but one longs to know what Wilde would have said about a name like Pits Productions Performances at 10886 Le Conte Ave. A longtime proponent of neglected organ literature from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Thomas Murray again raided that shelf for his latest Southland recital, Tuesday night at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove. Stern, president of the prestigious film society, in accepting a Walter Reade Foundation check from Mrs Walter Reade Sr at a Lincoln Center reception recently. The press witch-hunted her, but it only increased the admiration and warmth people felt for her" The political fires Redgrave stirred up did conceal for a time the persisting fact that she is first and last a deeply serious actress, very conscious of her family theatrical heritage.
Beyond that, in the spirit of a famous Brustein essay, "No More Masterpieces" he defended Akalaitis' right to present her vision of the desolate world of "Endgame" even if it didn't jibe with Beckett's. ABC, which fell to third place in the prime-time ratings race this season for the first time in a decade, said Monday it will replace more than one-third of the schedule next fall with 10 new series, including a spinoff of "Dynasty" and a show that rival NBC had dropped last week-the comedy "Diff'rent Strokes" Among the shows canceled by ABC were the 3-year-old private detective show "Matt Houston" the 2-year-old police drama "T. J. It is also a touchstone of Venice's belief that it was under the special protection of the apostle and that it gave them a kind of mystical manifest destiny. "I was 15 when the war was over, so that one emerged out of that and lurched through adolescence into manhood as it were, with the weight of all that and the further reverberations-such as The Bomb and the Iron Curtain, McCarthyism here, repression in Eastern Europe There seemed to be no end to it But there is an end to it There's an end all right. When I get to Norway, I think I'll have different expectations(Winge isn't a shy communicator himself.
Famine is no joke, and "Topokana Martyrs' Day" at the Los Angeles Actors' Theatre doesn't intend to laugh it off. A pair of satyrs plop happily down in a sexed-up, tipsy stupor. In reality, it is a hopeless hodgepodge of stiff performance snippets that will leave the viewer bothered and bewildered. We find that it's better to do it (change personnel) all at once. Pete Wilson (R-Calif, and a breakdown of the capital campaign drive. We move on to a massive Oriental fresco, then stop for a moment to study a tiny dinosaur skeleton in a bell jar.
"Portrait of My Daughter" is in his trademark broken-crockery style. This time, it's the Circle Repertory Theatre's new staging of Lanford Wilson's "A Tale Told" which opens Aug. Wallace: It doesn't make any difference; you've got to say it anyway They may not listen to me either. Visits from "gallery goers" are regular, and art-interest groups from out of town now come to San Diego for weekend tours.
Properly pure in tone yet insinuating in manner, Auger led a sophisticated mock-Neapolitan trio for this mock- commedia dell'arte. Porter, who also enjoys opera in the original language, is unmoved, however: "I do not know a single composer who did not want the opera sung in the language of the audience" BEETLES, TOO: "Meet the Beetles" an exhibit that opened last week at the Natural History Museum, has little to do with mop-headed rockers but does offer a look at a cross section from the museum's collection of a couple million of the little hard-winged coleopterans, along with a second exhibit, "A to Z" that includes examples of 26 members of the animal world. This time when the "entity" came through, the batteries of the sound man's recorder went out. Who do you think you are, a horse" Man, I hope I never grow up. There is a nice matter-of-fact quality about the way the parents discuss their dilemma. Whichever attorney was talking seemed convincing, yet we knew only one of them-at most-could be correct After four days in the jury box, we began Act II The setting: the jury room.
Although this is a book about a dancer and, on occasion, a book about dancing, it isn't fundamentally a book about dance. "I was there to sell a story but he kept asking me, 'How much money you want' " said the producer. She made one think of Willa Cather and later of the young Joan Baez If all that suggests a certain toughness, that is right. It's that feeling that we all love, that a ton of metal is about to fall on us.
He said sure, so I spent many hours writing out all the parts"The condition of big-band jazz, and the dogged spirit that has enabled it to survive, is nowhere better illustrated than in the case of Juggernaut, the Los Angeles-based orchestra co-directed by drummer Frankie Capp and pianist/arranger Nat Pierce Typically, Juggernaut does very little traveling. As Wilson's girlfriend, lovely Jill Schoelen is mainly asked to be sweet and innocent. In the rec room of a North Hollywood studio, Nile Rodgers, hottest record producer in the business, took a break from work on a track for Rod Stewart's next album He was a little groggy. Building a new museum structure of up to 77,000 square feet on an adjacent 3 1/2-acre vacant site, also owned by the Irvine Co, is under consideration. As Senate Finance Chairman Alquist noted during the hearing, "I'm sympathetic toward it, very sympathetic.
The Kingston Trio will play the Crazy Horse Steak House in Santa Ana on July 18 The Robben Ford Band will be at the Golden Bear on July 12. "And I was the one who wondered how we were going to tie everything up emotionally" Caron said. There aren't enough hours in the day for everything I'm committed to do, let alone all the things I'd like to do. Unlike previous years, however, Southland will no longer have a monopoly on local jazz audiences-nor on the roster of artists who routinely returned to Humphrey's year after year. How many heavy metal musicians do that" Music is much more important to him than vocals The "Rising Force" album is primarily instrumental The few vocals are performed by Jeff Scott Soto.
Equally effective was his solo rendition, for which he backed himself on acoustic guitar, of the gospel standard "Amazing Grace" a perfect showcase for a singer's dynamic and melodic range. The massive artiste-who ceases to become plain old Glenn Milstead when he dons his female attire-performed at the Palace on Sunday, spotlighting the lesser-known musical side of his oeuvre. "What pay TV permitted was a license that had never been available in television and, candidly, not even in film, because film is subject to market forces" he said. "The characters fall out of love one minute before the film starts and fall back in love one minute after it ends" he says But Brooks is resourceful.
Highlights of the announced season: -Previn's conducting of the first West Coast staging of his music-theater piece, "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" written in collaboration with playwright Tom Stoppard, to be staged by Gordon Davidson, artistic director of the Mark Taper Forum, Dec 18-21. Despite the boundless energy she displayed around her house, she looked somewhat frailer than she has seemed on TV talk shows. He has been too busy beating a path to Broadway and dancing major roles on the international touring circuit to develop a following in his own hometown. Actor Ken Berry, who opens in the romantic musical "I Do! I Do" at the Grand Dinner Theatre in Anaheim today, was reflecting recently upon the fickleness of the entertainment industry. But what about the real world? None of those five albums-which composed the Top 5 in the year-end poll of The Times' pop music writers-came close to the top of Billboard magazine's weekly sales charts during the past 12 months.
Said Kay: "I was emcee for a Mississippi Showboat quartet that went broke in Oakland Mr. For more program information, including Friday's video program at the American Film Institute and Saturday's seminars at UCLA, call (213) 650-7093. The younger Sinatra has been plagued for most of his career by comparisons with his illustrious elder-justifiably, perhaps, since the decision, very early on in his career, to emulate both the style and substance of his father's music. Performances will also take place at Sushi, 852 8th Ave; Sherwood Auditorium at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 700 Prospect St, and the San Diego Repertory Theatre's playhouse, 1620 6th Ave The fourth Neofest will run from June 1 to 27 West Coast artists will dominate. In that capacity, he now oversees CBS News and, as CBS News president, theoretically reports to himself)Resplendent in a safari jacket, the pipe-smoking executive put on a deft performance Thursday as he got through an hour of questions without once mentioning-or being asked about-either Phyllis George or NBC News' Connie Chung. The dream of seeing "the Republic eagle fly again" in film production is coming true, producer Aubrey Groskopf said after National Telefilm Associates shareholders voted during a special meeting to change NTA's name to Republic Pictures Corp.
Rather than agreeing that she, too, shared her generation's unveering devotion to Getting Ahead, she reflected on the reasons for it. Representatives of the real-life principals involved have previewed the film and the response-from both the National Assn. A protege of Brecht who moved to West Germany in 1954, Monk suffered an eclipse in television when he tried to return to the theater in 1968, yet kept on working in TV, enjoying more acclaim than ever for his 1983 four-hour TV adaptation of Feuchtwanger's 1933 novel "The Oppermanns" Now the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies at USC, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute and USC's School of Cinema, will present five Monk films starting with "Farmers, Functionaries and Fireworks (1964, which will screen Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. From sitcoms to sitdrams, the networks are so much into "relevance" these days that they are forgetting to be entertaining.
-The original cast album of "Big River" words and music by Roger Miller, will be made by MCA Records. The "Girls Night Out" episode of the NBC detective series "Riptide" won a TV specialty stunt award for a truck hang, while the film division honors went to "Rainy Day Friends" for a truck drag and to "Nightmare on Elm Street Part I" for a "full fire burn". Here were the Cakewalk, Charleston, Shim-Sham-Shimmy and Susy-Q, plus a whole anthology of ballroom styles in Patricia Birch's "Charlie's Place" number from "Over Here" and Donald Saddler's "You Can Dance With Any Girl at All" duet from the 1971 revival of "No, No, Nanette" Here, too, were evocations of vintage tap, sand-dance, clog-dance and even the highland fling-folk idioms long before they were adapted for theatrical use. Can she have the same impact on prime time? "I've had the prime-time commitment for about a year" Monty says, acknowledging that ABC backed her before Capital Cities took over the network.