The UCLA Dance Company went back to basics and then some Friday in Royce Hall. Does he turn himself in or does he cover himself? Dennis McIntyre's "Split Second" at the New Mayfair Theatre ought to involve us from the moment that Denzel Washington, as the off-duty cop, gets the drop on Michael Daniel Russo as the insolent car thief. Dresher had to halt the performance after 10 minutes, call for a microphone doctor while his amiable tenor vamped a little improvisatory dialogue with the sympathetic audience, pause for an extra intermission and then start again from the top. "It seems like more people are taking pictures of City Hall (used as the department in the movie" Hunt explained: "No, there weren't really any pay phones in jail cells" and that the movie cop shop bears "very little similarity" to the actual department. In one sense I am in front of thousands of people performing" In contrast, he said, "painting is very relaxing.

So how did the duo known as Guardabarranco and solo artist Salvador Bustos come up with the polished, professionally packaged albums that were recently released here by the Oakland-based activist label Redwood Records? Mainly, Jackson Browne. Anybody conditioned by the distractions of the treasures exhibition might be forgiven for taking one look at each and turning-with a twinge of cultural guilt-toward something more immediately amusing "Oh well yes Greek pots. The principle is the same in six maquettes and one full-scale piece currently exhibited, but the Minimalist wooden structures vary from vertical towers to horizontal receptacles in grid or herringbone patterns. "Most African countries are suspicious of the media-especially the Western media-because that's the only media that matter in creating world opinion. Unfortunately, there's less to her role than to those of the men around her. Completing the combo are Phil Pearce on bass and Jim Bastin, who produced the album, on drums.

I have yet to be disappointed; if anything, these stylish young men (and women) who seem to be reeling from the impact of some unseen force get more interesting. Marsha Mason and Richard Dreyfuss will have the envelope, please, and present the Oscar for supporting actress. Alice Walker's book "The Color Purple" gives us a powerful feminist theology. Now ABC has turned again to the former theatrical director to help revitalize another area that's hurting: prime-time programming, where the network, third in ratings last season, doubtless will still be when this season ends "My deal is very unusual" Monty points out.

The second qualification is only a complaint if one approaches the exhibition veiled in the gauze of false expectations. Their goal is to reshape cable with the viewer-and profits-in mind. Film director Rouben Mamoulian will receive the annual Jean Renoir Humanitarian Award presented by the Los Angeles Film Teachers Assn. "And, accordingly, some of the acts that have traditionally played Humphrey's are going to choose one of the other promoters. And once reconciled to the curious, high-Baroque notion that the male alto voice is uniquely suitable to the expression of the most powerful masculine sentiments, one can let Handel's astonishing succession of grand tunes take over. Karan Armstrong is the exceptionally vivacious, surprisingly sensitive Mistress Ford.

The husband is more of a caricature than the wife, but it wouldn't be surprising to see either of them in a New Yorker cartoon. Although Whoopi Goldberg didn't win the best actress Oscar for "The Color Purple" she made it to the podium, as a presenter for best film editing. Of course, it does take quite a lot of doing" Godfrey admitted readily "But we are getting ourselves educated ". "I never use the word atmosphere " Arletty writes in her memoirs, "for it belongs now to the public" The dingy Hotel du Nord has been preserved as a monument although the Canal St Martin area of Paris is newly gentrified In fact, Carne did most of his shooting in studios. Anthony Davis is a composer/pianist whose music has been heard in Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Academy and on the New York Philharmonic's "Horizon" series. Says Farrell, who appears in recital tonight at 8 in the UC Irvine Fine Arts Village Theatre: "When you're 21, you want to be Segovia, but Segovia didn't grow up thinking he was going to be Segovia It's nice to have that dream stuff, of course Today, there's just too much instant gratification. We started out surrounded by savages, so to speak, and the only way to get what you want, to build farms and cities, is to go out and blow the savages away And we're still doing it Reagan's ready to attack Nicaragua I find it outrageous They're not threatening us in any way.

The youngsters churned out drawings of palm trees and trucks, so he made two rules: "Never draw palm trees or trucks; always fill the entire sheet of paper" That first year of teaching elementary school in 1949-50 stretched to 29 as Benjamin quickly discovered that he loved it, and later realized that the job left him time for his own art work. Television has always marketed myths, shaving off the unpleasant edges of reality to make the sitcom images on the small screen acceptable to advertisers and audiences. Will it be out for the holiday season? According to a reliable industry source, CBS-Fox won't release it until February and almost certainly at the standard $79. 95. and dated October, 1984, the telephone survey by an affiliate of Louis Harris and Associates of 1,504 adult Americans is chock full of tidbits such as the growing shortage of leisure time That's right We're working longer and playing less. In "Country" the struggle to save the farm has hardly begun, but it has begun with a reunited family.

That all came to a grinding halt last summer: Tri-Star Pictures, knowing that "Real Genius" would land two thumbs up, ran a so-called "tune-in" ad touting that night's show. I keep coming back; I keep wanting to do whatever I can for community groups here" said Raitt, who will sing Saturday night for a North Orange County Community College District community honors concert at the Forum Theater in Yorba Linda. All sermons on film technique should be shot down first and questioned later. But as things turned out, I now wish I never had done that" The supposed "better offer" Cameron said, came from veteran jazz producer Carroll Coates. 13, Home Box Office will present one of its most ambitious made-for-pay-TV movies to date"Gulag" starring David Keith and Malcolm McDowell They play prisoners in a Soviet prison camp in Siberia The movie was shot in England and Norway. . There is one comically corny scene in which Detective Rastelli brings these high-powered documentarians to an area of rampant teen prostitution so that they can film interviews with some of the young hookers.