"Reaching the Summit: Mountain Landscapes in Southern California 1900-1986" explores the approaches of artists past and present in an exhibition on view through April 27 at both the Laguna Art Museum's South Coast Plaza satellite facility and Saddleback College Art Gallery in Mission Viejo. March 18: "Swan Lake" Act 2 (Ivanov/Tchaikovsky-Bonnie Moore, Baryshnikov; "Dim Lustre" (Tudor/Strauss-Jaffe, McKenzie; "Theme and Variations" (Balanchine/ Tchaikovsky-Harvey, Stretton. (It's particularly ironic when one of those elaborate books is on behalf of "The Color Purple" a celebration of impoverished Southern blacks) There seem to be more 10 Best lists this year than I can ever remember, and no words of praise, however oddly phrased, went unused. He also hired Clemons to play sax on Aretha Franklin's hit single, "Freeway of Love" It was a social visit.

Her lightweight mezzo-soprano emerges thin at the bottom these days and thick at the top. "But I don't know how you can even hear what I'm saying" she would shout, complaining about the noisiness of every place in which we ate. (An alternative vegetarian meal can be ordered on 48 hours' notice) A reminder that the circle votes no "bests" and that there can be more than one winner-or no winners at all-in any category. As usual, everything is accidentally solved, and they wind up successful beyond their wildest fantasies "Screen Test" hits and maintains a consistent squalid level Even by DGSCG standards, it's depressingly cheerful. Meanwhile, a host of rockers rattled the pins at the fourth T. J. " Asked whether it couldn't happen that way, Hodsoll replies: "All sorts of things happen hypothetically" and on a softer note, adds: "There are risks"Moments later, however, Hodsoll seems to shift direction Referring to the NEA's proposed guidelines, draft No. Eisenberg refers to himself as an actor casting agents for TV commercials "wouldn't touch" until they came across the very ethnic Calizza role.

Booking agents at some of the area's leading clubs agree that while there are lots of good acts playing the clubs and plenty of club patrons to support them, the climate lacks some zing. I remember a night at the Frascati's at Crescent Heights when Calvin Jackson, a virtuoso improviser who had worked in the musical factory at MGM, had had enough of the distracted customers, slammed the cover down on the keys and said, "I can't insult that lovely tune any more" He'd been working a little musical satire, trying to see how bad you could get before anybody noticed, as some of us did. The show was really contrived" Still, audiences were pleased with the show. I remember a member of my band used to say he was going into country music someday because they don't care how old you are.

It costs a lot less money to hire one synthesizer player than a whole string section. He said it's "the humanity" but that seems secondary to his talent for timeless shock value. She plans to eventually have a series of one-night concerts of avant-garde troupes in smaller venues such as the Old Globe or the new Lyceum Theatre. The ragtag population of this dirt-destitute resettlement area in the Northeastern Tigre province alternately cheered and begged for money from the latest entourage of press and celebrities to visit their camp in recent months. It comes from New York, but whatever the difference, it makes very good mozzarella He likes it rolled around prosciutto. Corral" (1957) and "Seven Days in May" (1964, but also in "I Walk Alone" (1948, "The Devil's Disciple" (1959) and in cameos in John Huston's "The List of Adrian Messenger" in 1964.

Joining a bunch of young people who've been together for some time. He sold it for $2 million and now has a 40-acre spread near Santa Rosa in Northern California, where he says he grows grapes, sheep and orchids. . And the final two, of course, are 12-tone, though almost Haydnesque in their wit and conciseness" The Mendelssohn Quartet, which also appears in a sold-out concert at Doheny Mansion on Friday, made its local debut last season at Ambassador Auditorium as part of the Gold Medal series. Her tools are puppets, wooden cutouts, a tuba, a wading pool, slides and tapes.

Directed by supervising producer Jerry London and written by producer Carmen Culver, the first three hours are simply awful, nudged forward by script contrivances that send poor Tracy to jail for a crime she didn't commit and then spring her with a full pardon. Then it's off to the Olive-Lanai apartments, Canter's Deli, the Pomona Freeway, MacArthur Park, the Hard Rock Cafe, Venice beach. He lives and works for the present-the notion representing as much of a commentary on his philosophy about his fame as anything. I got nobody to listen to now" James Marr moaned Thursday morning The 38-year-old printer, and Robert W. She has assembled an immensely impressive cast for a concert to aid the Betty Clooney Foundation for the Brain Injured, to be held Monday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Estimated to cost $350,000 and funded by AT&T, "The AT&T Performing Arts Festival at the Kennedy Center" includes the world premiere production of the musical "Shout Up a Morning" about the legendary "steel-driving man" John Henry.

I want to thank my milkman, my tailor, my bookie, my therapist, my butcher, my baker and my candlestick maker. The bus, conceived as a mobile work of art, will be fully transformed by a team of artists working collaboratively to enhance its interior and exterior. But if I tell them about the value and necessity of freedom, how it is important to have a (musical) piece that manifests freedom-well, so many of them respond with incredible strength" Husa pointed out that his original reasons for leaving his birthplace were non-political. "Blasphemous Rumors" a song by the avant-garde English band Depeche Mode, makes many people furious. My parents were horrified-and I had to pay 'em the rest of the money back" But eventually she returned to college, and went on to study acting with Marcia Haufrecht, who finally insisted that Barkin audition for a film part. "This is a fantastic development" Klein said of the agreement with the two networks.

And his no-nonsense approach saved the Adagio from wallowing in its own maudlin melodies. Some of them were very nice, but when a secretary called from Boston I finally lost my patience Her boss was coming to L. A. The best of the not particularly merry wives is Gail Dubinbaum, a dark-toned, spunky Meg Page. Highlights included a wild, swirling "Cat's Squirrel" that proved that if you added 400,000 watts and several yards of crushed velvet to the good doctor's original formula you'd wind up with Led Zeppelin and a frantic, frenetic "Chicago Breakdown" that sounded exactly like the rockin' Doc's 1954 Sun recording Not everything was this memorable. For nearly three decades a mainstay of local airwaves, Morgan disappeared from the morning slot at KMGG-FM (105. 9) during a recent format and call-letter shuffle. Previn had reportedly developed quite a loyal following in England during his years with the LSO (he was subsequently named conductor emeritus.