The mixture is made especially raw through the use of vintage Vox equipment, the mainstay of countless '60s bands. It's important, for instance, that Sylvia the stage mother not be a stage monster-spying out an ICM agent at one of Leslie's auditions, shoving her in the arms of an over-the-hill Russian ballet teacher. On Monday, Levin returned to the United States; in the meantime his apparent kidnapers had vowed to kill one of four other Americans captured. Production design Stuart Wurtzel; set decoration Carol Joffe Costume design Jeffrey Kurland Sound Les Lazarowitz Associate producer Gail Sicilia. Swiftly-and with a total absence of predictability-debuting writers-directors Samson Aslanian and John Hopkins trap a wheelchair-bound widow (Eve Brenner) and her son's fiancee (Taylor Gilbert, a pretty Debra Winger type) in Brenner's Spanish-style suburban San Francisco home as they are menaced by a serial killer (William Witt.

If any thrills remain in mined-out Surrealism, Wehrle has yet to hit the vein (Koplin Gallery, 8225 1/2 Santa Monica Blvd, to Feb 1). It's sort of the British equivalent of "North and South" about a family with divided loyalties during the English civil war of the 1640s Although more refined than ABC's miniseries about the U. S. The new Los Angeles Theatre Center looks like a dated stately bank and a yawning concrete cave, a confused conglomeration. The lineup offers three new shows that, like the returning "Kate & Allie" are about women in contemporary America: two Monday-night sitcoms, "Taking the Town" and "Designing Women" and a one-hour Thursday series, "Kay O'Brien, Surgeon" It also moves "Magnum, P. I" to a new Wednesday-night slot, thus permanently retiring it from its Thursday battles against NBC's hit "The Cosby Show" and "Family Ties" That battle now will be waged by CBS' returning "Simon and Simon" The "Magnum" move may offer some consolation to the show's producer Don Bellisario, whose "Airwolf" a 2 1/2-season veteran, got the ax. Heck, give them a microphone, a few bar stools, some moody lighting and a couple of weird hats and they'll do a whole "Phil Donnie Raphael Show" on the subject. But the show must go on" Bonnet and other French officials insist that the show is going on without extraordinary security measures being taken. "Either the institution will serve the vision or the vision will serve the institution I think the latter is backwards" But Edward E.

LONDON — "I feel like the guy who won the lottery but found when he raced down to collect that he'd lost the coupon" That's how actor Mark Lindsay described his feelings as he reflected about the cruel irony involved in being fired from the biggest role of his career-because of his name. But Lipp said the disco-video format will be retained on Fridays and Saturdays until the concert format is established. For the 1980 opening of San Francisco's Davies Hall, there was a new work by David del Tredici on the program with Mendelssohn's G Minor Piano Concerto and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. On Wednesday I'm going to hear some music" I just managed to preserve my sanity that way. Pasadena's Parkway Grill has also become known for unusual American desserts like the delectable S'mores: French chocolate sandwiched between homemade marshmallows and graham crackers, briefly scorched in the open pizza oven and served with a strawberry sauce.

Under the proposal to be discussed at a City Council hearing tentatively set for May 20, the monies from the reduced rent would pay for renovating festival facilities and boosting allocations to cultural programs. Unlike "We Are the World" this album is more than a contribution to a worthy cause. Los Lobos' "Will the Wolf Survive" (Slash-Although it could use more punch, this is an endearing statement of survival and desire that shows why this East Los Angeles band is such a valuable and original new force 10 Madonna's "Material Girl" (Sire-Don't laugh. But now, with NBC enjoying both critical acclaim and good ratings for such shows as Bill Cosby's hit sitcom and the likes like of "Miami Vice" "Family Ties" and "St. Assisting the New Mexico-based singer will be environmental artist Lita Alberquerque.

There is a fascinating touch of synchronicity in tonight's appearance by pianists Horace Tapscott and Andrew Hill at the Forum Theater in Yorba Linda. This is art that desperately wants to become modern while passionately fleeing into the past. The camera reels, in the huge 70-millimeter-format film, run only three minutes, and at most nine reels were taken aloft per flight (someone joked that the film wasn't that expensive but the postage ran to several thousand dollars a roll. With its Romischer Weinkellar (Roman wine cellar, Zum Domstein is a microcosm of that two-tier Trier. "She'd open the door to anyone" marvels Ortense's daughter-in-law, Mary Lou Winslow. There was a time when those kind of pictures got a bad rap"Spacek is 35 and the mother of a 3-year-old daughter, Schuyler.

That led her to check out records by early, raw rock artists like Little Richard and Joplin. Julia Whitcombe's Margerie gets Karlene Bradley's stuttering La Priel into such a state about the family of strangers across the road that she nearly expects them to lay siege to her house. Bellisario, who created "Airwolf" also is the co-creator and executive producer of CBS' hit "Magnum, P. I" In that series, as in CBS' "Airwolf" helicopters play a prominent role, although they receive greater prominence in the latter program. The movie, budgeted at $4. 8 million, will be directed by Penelope Spheeris "The Decline of Western Civilization) and will be released early next year by the recently formed Concorde/Cinema Group distribution company. Fathers, husbands and good buddies come in and out, as they force the play to its inevitable conclusion. It is safe to say that in peak form, and in terms of the post-Charlie Parker tradition, Frank Morgan is the greatest alto saxophonist living today New Yorkers just don't know what they are missing This altogether extraordinary group closes Saturday. .