The real problem, sources say, is that the veteran newsman has grown unhappy with the lighter, brighter look that he thinks the program started trying to offer viewers several months before the arrival of George, whom he personally likes. A concoction of dense chocolate and halvah in a sauce made of maple syrup and late-harvest Riesling was one of the most intense sweets I've ever experienced. Just because people like to listen to jazz from the '50s doesn't make it nostalgia" Gottlieb doesn't deny that much of the music on his LP is kitsch. Even as pay services such as HBO and Showtime wind up this year with little or no growth compared to 1984, basic services such as USA Network, ESPN and MTV-advertising-supported and available to cable subscribers at no extra charge-continue to show healthy increases in subscribership and ad revenues. Pay TV, which saw some of its movie ratings decline early this year, is determined not to let its viewership continue to erode at the hands of videocassettes. Dick Enberg will be dipping into his "Oh! My" reaction bag quite often, and Al McGuire's super analysis may, for the first time, hardly be audible All right, Lakers. And I'm excited not just because of the challenge but because I admire the director so much (Jonathan Miller.

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The boos did not seem to be directed at the vexingly conventional, vaguely realistic, often illogical staging scheme of Sir Peter Hall, or at the ponderous, over-elaborate decors of Hall's favored cohort, John Bury. "TW3" also suffered for political reasons in England, where the BBC admitted with unusual candor that it was taking the program off the air at the end of 1963 "for one reason only: 1964 will be a general election year" But if the show was not successful in surviving itself, it nevertheless proved significant by "paving the way for irreverence on television" as Frost puts it. Terrific stuff, funny but always purposeful, sexy but resolutely unsentimental-with Pistone and Manuel equally exciting and unpredictable in their quasi-romantic contest of wills. But the controversy that has swirled around it-not least, the decision by the Los Angeles critics to vote for a film that was not scheduled for release-may cause a backlash. In town to make his local debut as a guest conductor for the San Diego Symphony's current Tchaikovsky Festival, Jackson agreed to chat after the orchestra's Sunday afternoon performance under the baton of his colleague, Catherine Comet. The sound shifts from overhead to above the Bowl and off into the hills beyond"The first time we tried it, there was a huge shooting star" Ideally, shooting stars are the only extraterrestrial objects to zoom across the Bowl's airspace. Murnau "Sunrise" (both part of the Janet Gaynor tribute) and the rediscovery of Mikio Naruse's "Late Chrysanthemums" Tuesday: "La Triche" is Yannick Bellon's film noir triangle with subtle and wrenching consequences as Victor Lanoux, as a middle-aged Bordeaux cop, falls hard for musician Xavier Delluc.

Friday in Mandeville Auditorium, will feature Nancarrow's music for both real and mechanical musicians Nancarrow was forthright, issuing a blunt warning. Wong, who worked for the San Francisco Symphony during the Jorda/Krips/Ozawa regimes, acknowledges that small deficits at the end of each winter season have been paid off through extra fund-raising activities. But "At Close Range" is about the underbelly of the idyll, where the best these drop-out dopester high schoolers can hope for is a steady job fixin' Chevies for $10 an hour, when what they want are hot, fast cars and easy money. Earlier this season, actor Byron Stewart, appearing as a hospital janitor, mistook guest star Timothy Van Patten for someone named "Salami" Van Patten had played Salami and Stewart one of his high school basketball teammates on "The White Shadow-the previous show from "St Elsewhere" executive Bruce Paltrow.

He also played rhythm guitar in blues and R&B bands, and he and some friends moved to San Francisco in 1969, attracted by the city's music scene. Yet even with its violent scenes, "The Emerald Forest's" exploration of the innermost meaning of family and the tenuous balance of our natural world delivers a vital message in a seductive package 'THE EMERALD FOREST' An Embassy Films Associates release Produced and directed by John Boorman Executive producer Edgar F Gross Co-producer Michael Dryhurst Screenplay Rospo Pallenberg Camera Philippe Rousselot Production design Simon Holland Editor Ian Crafford Sound editor Ron Davis. Next summer, I will give a concert with one of my students" Still, the guitarist's enthusiasm for music remains undiminished. Then his mother died, so he lives with the dog and teaches acting and drinks, a joyous drinker who is not fighting it and has no intention of quitting.

Richard Diebenkorn-the most famous artist to evolve out of this tradition-made abstract-cum-figurative paintings that share in Bischoff's thoughtfulness but Diebenkorn lets us know what he's thinking about. All other dinners on the menu, apart form lobster tail, are cheaper down to $7. 95. I mean, here is another film where the woman is cleverer and more talented and in every way more substantial than the man. LONDON — British pop stars, who raised millions of dollars with a Christmas record for the starving, have sponsored a shipping service to take relief supplies to famine victims in Ethiopia and Sudan. USA for Africa officials said they have not abandoned their African efforts, but Tuesday's announcement marks a major shift away from the organization's African emphasis.

But both services continue to arrange for exclusive rights on a picture-by-picture basis with production companies. Also at the Patty Aande Gallery is a selection of paintings by San Francisco-based artist Rebecca Zagorski. USC's School of Fine Arts runs a small gallery rent-free at the Rouse Co's Santa Monica Place shopping center Shopping center developer Ernest W Hahn Inc. ? " and then the tale of the Model A reassembled on the roof of the school one Halloween, or something shockingly carnal about a woman on the hill who, alas, had since moved away: stories expanded, improved, newly dramatized and polished with every retelling. TV is covering the summit like a body stocking, coverage that began with Reagan's arrival in Geneva on Saturday afternoon, which CBS and CNN inexplicably telecast live and were to do the same for Gorbachev's scheduled arrival at 2:45 a. m today. For $5 million, he said, an individual might be able to get his or her name on the entire complex. . Curtiss Museum of Local History in Hammondsport (N. Y, located in the old stone schoolhouse where I first tackled addition, subtraction and penmanship, now has members, dues and a publication, The Curtiss Flyleaf, with articles (this time about Curtiss' daring Albany-to-New York flight in 1909) and a calendar of events.

Berle predated Ball's emergence on television as the headliner on the "Texaco Star Theatre" on NBC beginning in 1948. White's art is notably lacking in memorable "signature" images, bespeaking a curious reticence of self-assertion. There is a twist, of course, that calls into question who's scaring whom and how many movies within movies we're really seeing"I happen to like that kind of story" Verhoeven said in thickly accented English Though he has a Ph. D. "Destry" of course, is the rowdy 1939 Western that revitalized Dietrich's career; "Kismet" is memorable for the gilding of Dietrich's famous legs.

The program will be directed by Edmundo Diaz del Campo, assistant conductor of the orchestra Auditions are scheduled to be held in December and January. People ask me a lot of questions. It would be hard enough to say no if it was just Ronny Howard, the child actor, all grown up. It would never be a deciding factor for him in hiring or firing, he said, and she would be judged solely on her ability to perform her job. Billboard's Noonan told The Times on Friday that the slip after only four weeks at No. In the last few years, however, USC's vaunted dramatic films seemed to have settled into a comfortable, golden rut.

Cohen views "Broadway's Best" as a completion of a circle, so to speak. KABC-AM (790) decided to go with the late Orson Welles instead of UNICEF. If you'd never seen one and someone described it, wouldn't you be skeptical" Such defensive talk is unnecessary. And what did I see the other day that 'Ghostbusters' had done? $200 million. No such tranquility, however for Bill and Mary Buchen, who allow us to make our own music with an altered pinball machine and a practice golf putter.

You might even predict the dope-dealing villain, Gypsy, or the afternoon when Jack strides back into the Pacific Stock Exchange, with the life savings of his Chicano buddy, Hector (Paul Rodriguez) who only wants to open a hot-dog cart. The other, due in December, is a magazine show devoted to coverage of the arts. VHF, or very high frequency, covers Channels 2 through 13 and is considered more attractive than UHF-ultra high frequency-because of viewer popularity, easy access, cheaper equipment and stronger signals. took the hint, shook the snow of Buffalo's arctic winters from his boots and headed for places of livelier, if not warmer, opportunity The author of "The Middle Ages" opening Friday at the L. A. These movies feature less nudity, relatively mild sex scenes and more emphasis on plot.

There is a there there-an artist with vision and not just a shrewd worker of the international-festival run. Well, for a change it seems that Karl Benjamin's most recent work represents a peak moment among several series on view. "It now belongs to the public domain, and for that reason I hope they like it" Sampson acknowledged that the sculpture will probably not have universal appeal. All possess, however, the mystery that we seek in true works of art. His anguish and despair were only lightly sketched, but he remains brilliantly promising-a born ballet prince.

He is the curator of European painting at the Detroit Institute of Arts and it was his idea to join two other institutions to organize an exhibition to rehabilitate Boucher. That's the thing that's most terrifying to me-not having the enthusiasm to go on and work" The exhibition continues through Feb 16. Travel expert Laura McKenzie, takes you on a one-hour tour of 12 locations-Paris, London, Rome, Switzerland, Ireland, Egypt, Morocco, Athens, Hawaii, Spain, San Francisco and Los Angeles Each cassette is $24. 95 All were made especially for home video. "I don't like singing easy pieces" says veteran soprano Roberta Peters, who returns in recital to El Camino College in Torrance this week.

The bucolic heroine of Arthur Saint-Leon's quaint romantic relic doesn't have to be grand and glorious. "For some reason, this show has touched a chord in this town and that's spreading" The series starts its fourth season next Monday. Reconstruction of the museum's main facility in Laguna Beach began two weeks ago Closed since April 26, the facility is set to reopen in May. Prior to Sunday's Emmy show, Gelbart, a past Emmy winner, was asked if perhaps there now are just too many Emmy Awards given out "No I don't think I've had my share" he solemnly insisted. That program lists the "New World" Symphony and Brahms' Violin Concerto, with Itzhak Perlman the soloist. Hillery soloed well and tried valiantly to supply the missing bass line; yet when you come right down to it-and you should-a bass is a bass is a bass That, literally, is the bottom line. .