Still later, as the excitement soared to an excruciating pitch, Damon told Robert Blake that he would pray for the success of Blake's new series, "Hell Town" And later still, Purcell interviewed members of the studio audience who, astonishingly, were still awake Paramount has recruited Dr Ruth Westheimer and Rona Barrett for periodic appearances. This is one of these sordid melodramas that fans either love or loathe. So, this weekend finds the group-once again in white wool sweaters, accompanying themselves on penny whistle, guitar and banjo-playing the last dates of a monthlong, 28-city tour "Our style is still the same" Liam said. This old, gray "Mer" definitely ain't what she ought to be. By now, Dance Theatre of Harlem has infused "Troy Game" with so much black American style that it's impossible to know what the work originally looked like when performed by a white British company at its premiere 11 years ago.

Tax-deductible tickets are $7 general admission and $4 for Chapman students Proceeds will benefit the film department. If I wake in the night, I have fun by myself imagining dishes I think it's grand Those are the things that make cooking interesting Otherwise I would have been bored 35 years ago Thirty-five years is a helluva long time Terrible, terrible to give a chef a set menu There are 75 known varieties of fragrant leaf geranium. (Aquarius Releasing) FIRE WITH FIRE-A girl from the right side of the tracks (Virginia Madsen) meets a guy from the wrong (Craig Sheffer. She has four children by three men, none of whom help her financially. The waiter throws the lunch menu (there is no printed dinner menu ) at us, recites the specials and runs off. That's right; Prince exemplifies the Post-Modernist attitude that everything has been done and all that's left for artists to do is to recycle, appropriate and comment upon the implications of such activity.

Then they discovered a little problem: No one wanted to step into Curtis' shoes and take responsibility for adding the words and singing them "Really, it was like starting again" recalled Sumner "We couldn't believe it. The cause of his concern and a major topic of discussion at both functions: Technology. Baxter Gallery Director Jay Belloli will speak on "Painting As Landscape" and new contemporary trends at 8 p. m, April 18 in Baxter Lecture Hall Information: (818) 356-4371. Although baritone Charles Roe seemed unenthusiastic about this assignment, his role here as reciter was well received.

Would that be the case if no one were buying them? And are they being bought by people not interested in song recitals? The questions are no less puzzling for being rhetorical. The indifferent Paris-not the strutting, swaggering Paris-was the only version I knew. The overall public reaction may be disappointing and the reviews not good. Shifting career emphasis, however, can be an ego-testing experience. As far as I'm concerned, punk died a few years ago" Lanni, 30, said.

Some liked to think of it as born full-blown in the 20th Century, while playwright Donald Freed "Inquest" "Secret Honor) placed its "very vulgar origins" in Homer's "Iliad" "The medium was the identity of the race) and "Oedipus" "We see it as a paradigm of myth and drama, but 75% of the references are considered allusions to fact. From one who has been on the road since 1951, the year he joined the D'Oyly Carte troupe, it is positively alarming "The road? I love it. A crisp black-and-white installation of mostly black-and-white pictures is itself a sort of street scene, complete with wrought-iron park benches, street lamps and potted trees. The environment is a newspaper instead of a TV station, but still media. Kostmayer considers his departure from the confines of naturalism essentially undemanding: "I think the play embraces reality, if not realism" Although he had early worries about audience response, two workshop outings at the Victory (Kostmayer credits artistic directors Tom Ormeny and Maria Gobetti with creating "a key part of the characters, concept and style, found immediate acceptance: "It seemed to excite people, provide them with material they hadn't seen in the theater" And some of them didn't want to. Can the little guy survive the onrush of some of the biggest candidates (and in size, too) headed for the pros? How well will he perform with players from other teams with such a short preparation period? Fortunately, Flutie will be tossing to his Boston roomie, Gerald Phelan, among other East squad receivers, including Mark Bavaro of Notre Dame and Nathan Horton of North Carolina.

Two of them personify different strains of "the Peter Pan syndrome" (though psychologist Dan Kiley's catchy phrase for this condition isn't used in the play, except for the glancing reference in the title. Lucy Winer's "Silent Pioneers" Wednesday only at the Nuart, was praised by Len Klady in his Filmex review in The Times as "a remarkable document on senior members of the American gay community" He found that it "truly taps into the very personal nature of a less tolerant era" Sharing the bill is Debra Chasnoff's and Kim Klausner's "Choosing Children" a documentary on the challenges to lesbians as parents. But the 43-year-old producer/entreprenuer said that all those Western awards have only scant effect on the men and women who ultimately decide what does and does not get on the nightly news broadcasts. "I want them to turn around" said Kraft, of his hopes for audience reaction. Their research taught them, for example, that, as Rivo described it, "Yiddish cinema was basically a hybrid of film and the theater, basically the filming of the theatrical performances and/or the plays of the Yiddish theater" Traced to Jassy, Romania, in 1876, the Yiddish theater had gypsied its way across Europe: up to Poland, over to London, across the Atlantic to America"anyplace" said Krant, "where there were Yiddish-speaking Jews" Starting around 1910, roughly 100 Yiddish films were made in Poland, the Soviet Union and, in a minority film industry in America that also included early black films, in New York and New Jersey "About half are lost" Rivo said. In the theater, you hear singers and actors do your stuff right away, and you get to hear the finished product night after night" Into the docket, so to speak, stepped producer and co-director Guy Giarrizzo-who performs those tasks for Eduardo Machado's "Fabiola" which opens Thursday at the Ensemble Studio Theatre-to answer this question: If "Fabiola" is as great as you say it is, why was it crucified by the critics in New York Giarrizzo pleaded Nolo Contendre.

"A lot of these have not been exhibited that often" To represent the romantic scenic landscapes popular in the second half of the 19th Century, Kovinick chose two Yosemite Valley views by Thomas Hill. No one made clearer that extra-inning games are the most pleasurable of all. To the fans, the fact that the summer will bring to town up to three competing jazz concert series means a far greater selection of entertainment than ever before. For more information on the Naruse retrospective, call (213) 825-2581 or 825-2953. . Also on view will be an insect exhibition from the Natural History Museum of Orange County, a safari slide show and wildlife conservation presentations by representatives from the San Diego Zoo and the U. S Fish and Wildlife Service Admission is $5 a child (age 3 and up Parents are admitted free Group rates are available For further information, call (714) 552-1078. . True to the nature of his work, he offered a biting explanation. In a film career that spanned 30 years and included appearances in more than 400 films, movie serials and television shows, Lyden was the quintessential Hollywood heavy.