The effect is not so much a comparison as a continuum that recedes into space and fades into history. But, in the end, one had to wonder whether he robbed himself of the necessary concentration for playing the script Mozart wrote. "Dallas, The Music Story" is an LP made up of 10 songs"episodes" they call them-that follow "Dallas" story lines. Given a wide range of tunes, from Irving Berlin to Ellington to Stevie Wonder, and the late vibraphonist's propulsive percussive group, McRae was very much in her element on this 4 1/2-star set. Says Cohen: "Carl survived and competed in the world of big-time pro sports He's used to combat He's used to arguments. " DROPPED: Vanessa Williams, who was dropped as Miss America after nude pictures of her appeared in a magazine, was due to make her Broadway bow in Bob Fosse's new musical, "Big Deal" Now she has been dropped from that too. That's partly because, as they say in artspeak, "They can be read on many levels" The level currently being examined at the University Art Museum of Cal State Long Beach- where nine major "Men in the Cities" pieces are on exhibit, to April 20-is the "sequential nature" of the drawings.

Hoffman, the source said, was not consulted on the ads, which showed a picture of Hoffman and read: "Welcome to The Cannon Family Dustin Hoffman" "Dustin sent them a letter terminating the contract for their fundamental breach of contract" the source told The Times. Fox, Michael Joseloff, Marc Siegel, for "The Crucible of Europe" episode of "Heritage: Civilization and the Jews" PBS; and Brian Winston, for "Out of the Ashes" episode of "Heritage: Civilization and the Jews" PBS. "I was just talking about that with the guys in the band" he said "Outside the concert halls, we're not that recognizable. When Garrison reports on the quiet weeks in Lake Wobegon, I see a lovely little town that the decades cannot improve Old Ralph's, the Chatterbox, the Sons of Knute Hall. Technically, as well as in the quality and quantity of what we hear, these four sets offer proof of what CDs can accomplish Each of the four runs from 54 to 56 minutes. The community responded well to the idea and, above all, to this agreeably handsome well-spoken, energetic young man. Milchan says he will pay all expenses for any serious American journalist willing to go outside the United States to see it.

In addition, Broadway composer Andrew Lloyd Webber won his first classical Grammy for best contemporary composition and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with Robert Shaw conducting, captured four awards, the most by any classical group. Once again it proves that when the right cassettes are offered at a reasonable price$29. 98 in this case-people will buy rather than rent. The mingling of art and commerce is not a new idea, says developer Abby Sher, founder of the new Santa Monica Museum of Art. After all, it's on a slightly more exalted plane than common, People magazine couple-watching. "At the moment it seems to be a youth market almost completely. "Estes took his failure badly" writes Stephen Fay in his fascinating Bayreuth chronicle, "The Ring: Anatomy of an Opera" (Secker & Warburg, London: $cost. His account of the hippopotamus hunters of the Katami River who harden themselves for the hunt by sleeping with their own daughters is as chilling an image of the rape of our principles as you can get Still, there is a disturbing glibness overall.

Hospital beds and rooms had to look 50 years old and wigs had to be made for all the leading men. Rudie loves words-Mama answers Siegfried's proposal with "I blushingly consent to your connubial intentions" and the Baron begs forgiveness for "waxing loquacious-but her rapid-fire Gilbert & Sullivan-type lyrics at times fall victim to uninspired music, losing emphasis and thereby intelligibility An unfortunate flaw in an otherwise loving production. The idea for a TV Hall of Fame had been kicked around before, but it was Mitchell, wanting to achieve something of lasting value while he was president of the academy, who took it up as his personal crusade "to celebrate the contributions that lots of good people had made to television and the fabric of the American way of life" On its merits alone, the academy conceivably could have established such an institution and only later have invited television to cover it. As always, Grimmer captivates her audience through a combination of calming sights and sporadic sound. But MGM President Frank Yablans has given producer Aaron Russo permission to shop the film to other studios, citing dissatisfaction with the $13-million budget.

Now it's time to notice crucial specters of sensibility and comfortable sleights of self-deception that must be exorcised before growth can continue Mark Stock, for example, paints zeppelins. Her subjects are good-looking but not glamorous vacationers who didn't pack their neuroses with their bathing suits. Even here though, the listener cringes at some of the gratuitous metaphors Brooks must utter to Sandy Kenyon's bewildered but sympathetic friend. "I'm not the kind of writer who normally shares a byline with anybody" Harris said "This will be the first and last time I ever do it.

May is one of those ratings sweeps months that is critical in helping set local advertising rates. Russell, in turn, excels in retaining our sympathy as he becomes caught up in his assignment. Stone relief panels show a wine press, a rabbit nibbling grape leaves and other subjects. "At that time we had a war between the liberals and the conservatives" Quintero said. Rhythmic imprecision, questionable intonation and occasional stridency detracted from the sometimes handsome sound. . Dazzling virtuosity combined with a willful emotional detachment make Michael Ponti's playing provocative.

Mayer estate a few steps northwest of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Lund, the Center's new chairman of the board, and Timothy Strader, the new board president and chief executive officer, also announced that a program committee is being formed to help set booking policies for the Center's 1986-87 opening season. She is not impressed with many of the films she sees, nor with some among a new generation of actors and actresses who may be talented but who do not, in her eyes, make a sufficient contribution to the community. Although no one can provide a figure, there are a lot fewer Americans in Cannes this year. Toyota, who left Channel 4 March 1, will begin work at the CBS-owned station Monday and will make her first appearance on the air June 17, KCBS general manager Frank Gardner said. Again, a nice-looking show, with nice acting by Linda Purl and David Clennon, but punchless.

But Simon is also already deep into research for the next Wine, the fifth, which will involve the worlds of rock 'n' roll and expensive therapy, entwined He intends the series to go on as long as the words flow. I did an Equity Waiver play last year in Studio City" she said. Belvedere" The "Off the Rack" pilot aired earlier this season. If the academy had nominated Howard and not Spielberg, that might legitimately seem to be a slight. The names of everybody who is or has been or wants to be anybody in the entertainment biz has passed over these boards.

Paciocco's is-or will be-its own measure of a restaurant, an almost old-fashioned approach, but one we have not seen for so long it seems new. You try to carry on, but you think, 'This isn't going to go' " For a while, they thought of bringing a new singer into the band. There are salads, a few pastas and grilled meat, fish and free-range chickens There is chili, there is meat loaf. 1" But he declined to issue any forecast on when that will occur for NBC. What that bought, besides four months on location in India, was an unhurried, 15-month shooting schedule with occasional breaks and ample rehearsal time "I did not want to shoot at breakneck speed" he explained. "We're representing the film and TV industries, not just Universal" says Gordon Armstrong, executive vice president of MCA Recreation Services, which operates the Universal tour "If we get an exhibit from another studio, we'll expose it We'll even advertise it.