The premiere drew a near-capacity crowd of 1,100 at the Centre Theatre in downtown Salt Lake City, marking the first time that a festival event had moved from the popular ski resort town. I know how hard it is" Carliner is hoping Ry Cooder's blues score for "Crossroads" will revive blues interest among older audiences and create a whole new wave of fans among generations who have never listened to it "It could be a classic crossover movie" Carliner says. Killed off in "Rocky IV" Weathers is resurrected tonight in "Fortune Dane" (9 p. m, Channels 7, 3, 10 and 42-not as Apollo but as a modern-day Adonis: big, brawny and beautiful. It started badly in 1977, then improved, but still flopped, Salant said. Other programs that the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform at the Center in six concerts scheduled during the 1986-1987 season have not been announced. . It's OK in the dramatic context of a film; it's exploitative in a magazine. I've seen scattered tapes from various travel series but none approach the comprehensiveness or quality of Republic's Travel Tips series, released last month They're good enough to stand on their own as entertainment.
"Any program that's on only once a week won't build your bread-and-butter audience" she said. The film's focus is the little boy, Pierre (Helias' memory of himself, whom we follow from the marriage of his parents (Bernadette Lesache and Francois Cluzet) through his 10th year. Even though it was NBC that won the prime-time ratings race, there was good news for ABC and CBS in the end-of-the-season figures that the A. C Nielsen Co released this week. Alice cannot be simply a wry, wisecracking "bohemian; there must be enormous reserves of empathy as well as canniness behind those round eyes Ullman's performance suggests all those dimensions.
Pierce, who announced the appointment in a prepared statement. Alvarez has chosen the docks as the setting for the film he's writing because he assumes that machismo flourishes there more strongly than in other strata of Cuban society. What it is, is profoundly intimate" When the movie was shown at the Toronto Film Festival, Shaver warned her 72-year-old French Canadian mother what to expect. The man who produced the highly-stylized movie "Thief" then the hit TV series "Miami Vice" knows a nice color scheme when he sees one. Gracious and eager to talk despite his exhaustion, Vidov recalled the series of events that led to his defection-a decision he termed "very, very difficult-and offered an insider's perspective on Soviet film making. In the pit, Prokofiev's miraculous score is treated with aggressive, loving care by Alan Barker and a somewhat undernourished orchestra. .
According to a source close to the negotiations, Hoffman's contract-described by the source as "the richest star deal in entertainment history-specifically grants him approval on all advertising connected to the film. "As we're going through the current processes over there, it was time to do that and put that in place" Hufford said. He points out a section of "Hour of Power" a gospel ballet that takes place in a church setting, in which a dancer sits motionless for almost 30 seconds. Indeed, with its many signs advertising Coca-Cola and other Western products, the city's mix of East and West has been dubbed "communism with a Western accent" and "goulash capitalism" Pop music is one increasingly important bridge in East-West relations, according to Laszlo Hegedus, a West Berlin-based concert promoter who booked Ono's three Eastern European shows on this tour. Bad British Shakespeare is illustrated by the BBC's "The Shakespeare Plays" series: all talk, no energy. "Jose (Limon) gave Chuck (Bennett) the rights to the work, and now that he's part of our company, he can share it with our dancers" Mahon said at the studio. A lively downtown "art scene" has developed in San Diego in response to the presence of both establishments and personalities.
"When we started in the '60s we were trying to be radical and commercial at the same time, which is really opening a can of worms" says John Cale, recalling the heyday of the Velvet Underground. Newcomer Menno Meyjes' screenplay gives us an initial sexual encounter of the greatest delicacy between the two women, but he leaves out, to fatal effect, Shug's constant relationship in Celie's life over the next 20 years-the very stuff on which Celie is nourished enough to grow. "He counted on America to be passive" Reagan said near the end of his short address to the nation. 1 since Henry Mancini's Grammy-winning "Music From Peter Gunn" in 1959. There may be a beautiful garden, but we can hardly see it from the entrance way in which we are seated, and people going in and out keep tripping over us The waiter seems ineffably bored by our presence.
Huston films are rarely inconsequential (give or take a "Victory" or so, and this one may be one of his strongest. The summer will also bring back the Western, with Clint Eastwood's "Pale Rider" the first out of the chute, and Lawrence Kasdan's "Silverado" following at the end of July. The exhibition comes to Los Angeles after a six-city tour; it contains more than 100 works and 350 small drawings, augmented here by five major new works. They have found them in the area bounded by Island Street, Broadway and 4th and 9th avenues. Sixty-eight and one-half minutes long, the quintet deals in quiet music. "We have an obligation to the world of rock 'n' roll, the artists and the fans, to make this a dignified place they can be proud of" And Ertegun-the chairman of Atlantic Records-has done a good job so far in maintaining the integrity of the project. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame may be long overdue, but it's now proceeding at a rapid pace-perhaps too rapid. (The Rodgers and Hart sets were recorded slightly later; 24 of the 34 tunes are in stereo) Fitzgerald is represented profusely on CDs from this "songbook" period.
An obscure Cole Porter composition, "Everything I Love" opened the evening's first set in a relaxed mode. The sun was out, the women's bathing tops were off, and it was elbow-room-only for the amateur and professional photographers standing along the beach wall trying to capture the spring rites on film. It brims with original dramatic devices, and it has inspired the comfortable German revolutionary to write some of his most accessible, most artful, most transparent music Too bad the opera doesn't work It starts out pretending to be a lighthearted fantasy. Bonus clue: She's played both a daisy and a rose of a different color. She was about 15 when her brother, Bryan, began encouraging her to sing.
The new 500-square-foot gallery at Centro Cultural de la Raza features two solo exhibitions by local artists: an installation and video by James Luna, a Luiseno and Diegueno Indian from North County, and Chula Vistan Patricia Mercado's paintings on elaborate wood constructions of such "community disasters" as the McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro and the Bhopal, India, chemical poisoning The exhibit is open through Aug 31. He turns down the job; torching the place could result in a loss of lives. 29) will give us both Liv Ullmann and Harold Pinter (author turned actor) in their L. A stage debuts Mamet's play, starting at the Fonda Nov. The set does with ropes and pulleys what I do anatomically with the body's bones and levers" But such feats do not come easily. Radnitz says the only antidote for blockbuster fever is old-fashioned faith. Of more importance to consumers than the intricacies of how this system works is what difference the number of heads makes.
"And, since I do, it hasn't been tough to find outlets for my work" Holman-who established his reputation with inventive works like "Theme and Variations" that he wrote for Stan Kenton in the early '50s-sees his career as still on the upswing. That's one of the reasons all of the college's founders have worked and studied in the United States. Berens' nighttime scenes are usually of this temperament; solitary figures move through shards of color from neon lights in "Legions" while a pair of black-and-white drawings called "The Dancers" zeros in on a young man's face nestled in the nape of his partner's neck Kerouac's ghost seems to be dancing in the room with them (Fiona Whitney Gallery, 962 N La Brea Ave, to March 31). The great 19th-Century Romantic ballerina Marie Taglioni learned her technique from her danseur father Filippo. Cecil Smith thinks well of the BBC's "Shakespeare Plays" series and Cecil is an honorable man Too, he has probably seen more of the series than I have.