"That was the idea" Dolby said after the presentation at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "The life experience I've had to deal with because of my move has afforded me an opportunity to grow, to develop in many ways as a human being. Paul Nicholas' emotional rendering of Lun Tha, her lover, creates a powerful complement, and their dynamic interpretations give a good pull of tension to their beautifully sung duets. If one could trust certain out-of-town reports, the most newsworthy aspect of the venture was likely to be the staging. She irons in her peignoir to the strains of Madonna's "Material Girl; supervises a brother-in-law who's totally disabled, except for one hand, which he uses to grab at women; fends off a peeping Tom, an obscene phone caller and the attempt of a 15-year-old lover to break into the apartment-all while her husband is calling in frequently to check on her. RCA/Columbia is expected to ship a whopping 400,000 to 500,000 copies of this $79. 95 title George and Gracie at $14. 95. The woman links both men's arms with hers, but there is no friendly resolution in this stark, blood-spattered canvas.
This two-album swan song is a superb career retrospective for the poet/activist who helped popularize the blending of poetry with reggae. "With all the men I've worked for, my age has never been an issue and my sex has never been an issue. "The dancing will not enable (the dancers) to get by, nor will it make for a successful film. AT THE BOWL: Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Dvorak are all Hollywood Bowl staples, but the conductor leading standard works by these composers at two Bowl concerts this week is a debutant. Thirty years later, that school has blossomed into Tulsa Ballet Theatre, a 29-dancer company that will appear Thursday at Mandeville Center Auditorium, UC San Diego, Saturday at El Camino College in Torrance and next Sunday afternoon at the Wadsworth Theater in Westwood.
Even crack director Alan Pakula "Klute" "All the President's Men" "Sophie's Choice, who's normally at his best with vivid thrillers, can't add much electricity to this dreary psycho-chiller. "If I'm not really what you might call a 'quick study' at least I get the job done. The New York-based humming specialist will lead those gathered at the radio station plus any listening in their cars or homes in an hourlong hum-athon. Even as cast and crew mourned, a talent hunt for his successor ensued.
Malcolm McLaren employed South African musicians and rhythm on portions of his "Duck Rock" album while expatriate pop groups like Juluka and the Malopoets recently attracted attention by mixing Western and South African pop forms. "Hell, you could run for governor one day" another cop tells him. When I was fourth in the world, I got a plaque" He is content with the memory, although he casually mentions that last year he came in first in the celebrity heat of a long board surfing contest in Manhattan Beach "The best feelings I've ever had have come from surfing It builds character. It would seem a good time to bring on the vampires and the psychopaths, so to speak-and in a broad sense, that is exactly what "Amazing Stories" will start to do as part of a plan that TV executives say they had in mind all along. In his choice of records, he apparently wasn't swayed by either the sales charts or the critical consensus: an Elvis Presley single rests next to an ABBA single, while an album by Zyedco favorite Clifton Chenier is next to the latest release by L. A's Green on Red. He even played the neighborhood mogul, screening his epics in local garages and charging just enough admission to cover his costs. But Spielberg, he said, was the real thing: a mogul whose film credits were stupendously successful "Raiders of the Lost Ark" "Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Sheinberg says he wants the same movie "made accessible" Sheinberg said during the interview that he didn't know how many movies Gilliam had made before (two) or whether any had been commercially successful but that the director certainly doesn't have the stature to be making such demands"If Steven Spielberg brought me a movie four hours long and said, 'It has to go out this way' I guarantee you that's the way it would go out" Sheinberg said.
"Now, no politician advertises for 52 weeks, but we thought it was a fairly good average. At the same time it's no more satisfying as a comedy than it is as a mystery. "You know the old saying, that 'this, too, shall pass" he said, speaking of the court's current position on the matter "Well, this court's view, too, shall pass". In the uncredited arrangement for chamber group, the players held their own quite well, managing to make the song cycle viable in this intimate setting. "If I could only be two people" she says dryly, "I'd be out of business" But there is something beyond silliness-and unfunniness-to object to in "Sweet Liberty" (MPAA-rated: PG-13, a distasteful view of film makers, without honor and virtually without craft. The Long Beach Opera, which approached the challenge with more daring than reverence, tinkered with the ending.
Called "Unfinished Business" the production incorporates a wide range of viewpoints on AIDS. Up top, "Badges" is a cheerful Norman Lear-type sitcom about a minority family going for their slice of the American pie"The Jeffersons" with a Chicano twist. In recent years, several bands have embraced this subgenre, but probably the most prominent practitioner (along with San Francisco's Metallica) is England's Venom, which stormed into Santa Monica Civic Auditorium Friday night. The most controversial turned out to be "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" Depending on the local point-of-view, Paul Reubens' oddball comedy was either the absolute worst (according to Carole Kass of the Richmond Times Dispatch) or a best, "a New Wave cross between Jerry Lewis and Harry Langdon" said Lou Lumenick of the Bergen County (N. J) Record. But nothing that pretentious occurred in the small recital hall of the Wilshire Ebell Club on Sunday afternoon.
And why should it? At 57, the veteran Gilbert & Sullivan singer, principal basso of the D'Oyly Carte Opera for 16 years (1953-69) of its Golden Age, is making a whole new career-in grand opera. Bass player Lee Sklar told the board that Don Henley, Sheena Easton and his own band that plays backup to Taylor were not planning to be at the concert. "They don't have trap drums in Africa so we had to borrow a set from the lounge band at a resort hotel in the afternoon and drive them back and forth in taxicabs" But the results are worth the effort. In 1985-86, the city expects to provide $1 million of Bowers' overall $1. 3-million budget. Yet in this case, who is playing isn't nearly as important as why they are performing.
She was extraordinarily beautiful (Foch remembers that George Cukor always told her, "You ought to have seen your mother" as if she hadn't. Nothing is quite set, everything is in flux, each object relates to the others-as if the artist is presenting a universe of objects and ideas for us to consider. Of all the American musicians living in Europe, you could probably count on one hand those who have given up their passports" Two theories have been applied to jazz expatriation. In New York they have a city ordinance making it a misdemeanor to quote out of context so that a writer's whole meaning is changed. The 13-member ensemble, performing at the Embassy Theater on Wednesday night, in Bridges Hall of Music in Claremont on Thursday, and at Ambassador Auditorium on Saturday, will include in its program selections from Cantatas Nos. Pitney Bowes, supplier of the foundation's postage machine, is the only company that didn't play Santa Claus.
This 10-song collection of pop standards-from "Blue Skies" and "September Song" to "Someone to Watch Over Me-isn't the CD you'd turn to if you were trying to show off the dynamics and range of your sound system. The fact that the low-budget independent film director-turned-producer has a spouse who is also a producer may come as a surprise to Roger Corman buffs. Since Friday, when Shia Muslim gunmen hijacked flight 847 out of Athens with 153 people aboard-mostly Americans-Benjamin has been rejiggering the show to reflect current events. These slow-to-medium-motion jams add even darker shadings to vocalist Joaquin Brewer's Camus-style, spoken-word critiques/observations. T gets the award as most creative Emmy presenter for referring to best costume winner Travilla as "Trivia" After making the announcement, he reported that "that person" was not present to accept the award.