The director tries to make up for it, dollying at oblique angles, filming against a stark white background, switching to a dark shot suddenly lit by a neon sign. In this new Calendar column devoted to pop videos, Atkinson and Chris Willman will alternate in the reviewer's seat Videos are rated on a scale of 0-100. Laguna Beach's Tavern by the Sea is the veteran among the three, having featured changing art shows for about two years. Gerstner Jr, president of American Express, said tourism was one of the primary reasons his company had chosen to support the festival. Once you get its drift, you sit there, suspecting what's coming and saying to yourself that they wouldn't dare try to get away with that But they do, they do Every cursed time. "The challenge of this week" he says brightly, "is to cajole out of the orchestra the closest thing to an ideal sound. CBS has an entirely new Wednesday night-two comedies, a comedy anthology and a violent adventure drama, all starting tonight.

In San Diego, he will also direct "Much Ado About Nothing" featuring Robert Foxworth as Benedick. There's just one thing that worries her about that possibility-the prospect of leaving home, a remote island off the coast of British Columbia with one gas pump, a mail shack and "more deer than people" "If I'm nervous about anything, it's that someone might say to me, 'You're going to have to move to the city' " Ferron said in a telephone interview from Vancouver, where she was rehearsing for a West Coast tour that includes a concert tonight at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre; the opening act is a women's improvisational theater group called WIMS, featuring Betty Thomas of "Hill Street Blues" Though still little known to the public beyond a faithful following in several cities, the 32-year-old performer has received critical acclaim beyond the dreams of most folk-oriented performers. Special $12,000 fellowships for each of three years were awarded to Holm as "one of the original pioneers of modern dance" and to Neville for "many years of success in the creation of new works that are intense and dramatic in their appeal" Redden said. Joltingly out of context was Gema Sandoval's "From Aztec to Modern" an overextended suite that featured everything from feathers and tom-toms to elaborate spectacle to the tongue-rolling cries and whistles of smiling village folk. .

Now we have a real and rare chance to inhale a deeper draft of the people who forged what was arguably the greatest of the Meso-American cultures, the Mayas. Madge conveys her triumph in a silent cackle as the curtain falls That's the way it is That's the way it always has been And that's the way it was, again, in San Francisco. The wall surrounding the place was formidable, and I walked. "John Lennon Live in New York City" (Sony, $29. 95) will be available next week. "I didn't buy it to make money, I just bought it so I could stay here" he said, emphatically. "And not only is it legal, but the government will reimburse me for that" Morgan also was exceptionally candid about his former employer, stating that the music is programmed from the main corporate offices in Indiana. Morning deejays like Robert W. The 45-year-old tenor reminded those gathered for the noon announcement at the Music Center that he will conduct the performances of Verdi's "Macbeth" also to be produced by Music Center Opera in December, 1987.

Strapping, outspoken peasant leader Wiebren Hogerhuis (Peter Tuinman) is obviously innocent, but his headstrong ways all but beg for his martyrdom. What's left is the fun in watching a wide-eyed newcomer learn the ways of an alien world. In its local premiere last week, James Kudelka's "The Heart of the Matter" showcased a pair of lyrical dancers familiar as the Joffrey Ballet's most photogenic Romeo and Juliet. The MET also happens to be one of the dankest playboxes in town. Alexander H. She combines a sweet vulnerability with awkward, emerging confidence and in exquisite duet with Relin, she seems to grow up right before our eyes. He saw to it that the English translations came across with optimal clarity and lilt.

Tashiro, who on Monday took the unprecedented step of appearing on the program to apologize for telecasting the arranged violence, told the viewers, "There is absolutely no excuse" Then, bowing before the camera, he added, "I apologize deeply" Tashiro said that he too will consider resigning after clearing up the incident, which he said "has left the company shaken" The program involving the teen-agers, which was taped Aug. folks-who are Erika Duke, Amy Knoles, Arthur Jarvinen, Lorna Little, Gaylord Mowrey, James Rohrig, Rand Steiger and Dorothy Stone-gave it a serious, careful and tight reading, one worthy of any physical setting. Since 1981, he's also been the producer-host of "Native America" a weekly cable television show carried by Cablevision of Orange. If quality control has again become a priority in Westwood, deck the halls. . Wonder and James came through, but Richie didn't have the time Prince partly came through.

Production on the $8. 4-million set is set to resume by the end of the week. Fuchs dismissed Lind's oft-quoted remark with his own metaphor "I don't even know where the track is" he said. It is warm and crowded and very friendly, as if everybody in the room were attending one big party. In another eight years, the astonishment of Bev Francis' sculptured body may be far less strange to our eyes. It's a lovely group of interiors, still lifes and figural works, but it seems skimpy in light of the Soviet Union's holdings. The line has to be projected more, because the second violin is simply further from the audience.

In addition, Radio City in Anaheim, which has been closed since it was gutted by fire in November, may reopen as early as March, said club owner Jerry Roach, who began reconstruction this week. "When I got up this morning, the movie star in me said, 'Don't make the bed' The mother in me said, 'Make the bed' So, I compromised. Women, who still bear most child-rearing and homemaking responsibilities, have almost five hours a week, or 23% less, leisure time than men. Acting is the most mysterious and contradictory art of them all If you can see it, it's not working.

Still, it was a supreme moment in pop history when co-writers Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie stepped on stage to a standing ovation to accept the Grammy on behalf of USA for Africa, the organization that sponsored the benefit recording project. In the late '30s he came to New York on assignment and was caught here by the outbreak of World War II. There was no official explanation from ABC about why it handled the schedule announcement in this fashion. Warner Bros, displeased with it, kept in on the shelf for a year before releasing it Since that time Roeg has run into trouble again and again. Can an artistic director split his time between two cities? Adrian Hall does it: He commutes between Rhode Island, where he directs Providence's Trinity Square Rep, and Texas, where he directs the Dallas Theatre Center.

In the last act, for instance, when he begins to read the rapturous Ossian poem to his beloved Charlotte, he stands very still, lost in ethereal nostalgia Then gradually, as if in a trance, he closes his eyes Absent-mindedly, he drops the pages of the manuscript. I figure about one in four subscribers from the Civic Theatre season will go to the Globe" Segmenting his audience doesn't seem to faze him "It doesn't cost us" he said. An opposite wall groans under the weight of floor-to-ceiling books, just in front of a desk that houses not a word processor but a sturdy portable typewriter. "They liked some aspects of the script" he said, "but didn't like others" There was a misinterpretation of what the movie was going to be about, Konigsberg said. Last month the Center and the American Ballet Theatre announced that the ABT will perform "The Nutcracker" for a one-week engagement this December in the Center's 3,000-seat multipurpose theater in Costa Mesa. . They'll connect "via satellite" to Houston, Denver and San Francisco.

"I try to avoid a lot of works that have been exhibited too frequently" the researcher said. "I read it cold in the studio, but those things-if they're written well and written with music in the background-they work. "My partner" a voice yelled out, "went back to County Jail" Obviously, there was an opening. "I started out parking cars and ended up managing the place" he says "I hung out with all the rock 'n' roll singers They were my friends Those were great days for me I ran with them pretty heavy At 7 a. m. If this were not enough to ruin the steak house atmosphere, there is the matter of the service, which is entirely too solicitous. "I've been amazed that whether we're in Boston or Denver or San Diego, the crowds laugh at the same jokes, and they cry in the same places" he said. Irvine police are working with security personnel and employees of concession booths at Irvine Meadows, Curto said, providing more extensive training on how to spot fake identification cards, how to recognize signs that someone has had too much to drink and diplomatic ways of refusing to serve intoxicated persons.