Theater buffs have more leisure time than do classical music aficionados: 19. 3 hours to 16. 9. Somewhere near the bottom was a mail-order catalogue announcing, "Now you can own a replica of the Qin Army in a padded, silk brocade case" for $125. . "Right now, we only have one program that originates outside Southern California" he said. It can't boast Cannes' parade of topless starlets or Filmex's celebrity-studded fund-raisers, but for the past 17 years Anaheim has hosted its own international film festival as part of H.
Where are you now, Eldridge Cleaver? (Heritage Gallery, 718 N La Cienega Blvd, to March 1). What he does seem to lack, unfortunately, is aesthetic and musical discrimation. Previn, in case you've been out of the city in recent years, took a rather circuitous route from the MGM lot to the Music Center. Among the songs cited by the parents group as examples of why records should carry warning "X" symbols: Prince's "Darling Nikki" and Sheena Easton's "Sugar Walls" (written by Prince, both of which have blatantly sexual themes. . And he's sure "Ishtar" in which he stars alongside Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, will be hilarious too. In a corner of the room stands an intact amphora, a large earthen vessel the Romans used to transport such liquids as wine and olive oil. TRIER, West Germany — To dine like a Roman emperor, go not to Rome but to Trier, on the Mosel River near the Luxembourg frontier. Like everything else on Melrose, the mirrors are there to be seen, and, like most everything else in Los Angeles, they are there to be seen by a camera.
He's a master architect" Davis is also a tough customer, as Scofield found out. The result is an absorbing, thoughtful experience for adults. Barry Busse, the potentially compelling Siegmund, went on in spite of a bad cold and probably shouldn't have. But I don't know exactly what we'll do without our Screen Kiss. The latest batch looks quite mature: richly colored, densely surfaced and so well designed that the work seems a trifle suspect in this age of slapped-together celebrity.
Without mentioning Tavernier, who has been outspoken in his criticism of academy procedures, Cohn protested such "sour grapes" because, he said, they "don't help" He said that criticisms should be directed at each individual country's selection-committee practices and not at the academy, which cannot be expected to view the annual output of a country like France, which he said produced about 150 pictures last year. Builder Ernest Hahn, executive vice president of the center's board-and a million-dollar contributor-pointed out that an arts facility was first talked about 16 years ago. "Jack has the greatest virtuosity of any actor in the business. But what a curtain speech, and what a fitting climax to that magnificent career" Indeed a man could, I think, put up with a few arrows for the satisfaction of having given Spencer Tracy that last, memorable outing. . (By the way, the show-stopping gum-chewing contest scene in the Rep's "The Time of Your Life" has gone from 24 to 31 pieces chewed per actor per night since the opening last week. In the resolution, the association encouraged "parents to monitor and to control television viewing by children" asked the TV industry to reduce "imitateable violence in 'real-life' fictional children's programming" and urged more research on mitigating the effects of TV violence on children.
The last value of "Turtle Diary" is that it may create a new generation of readers for Hoban's exceptional book. The West Coast premieres are Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol's "Ghetto" currently being performed at the Chicago International Theatre Festival by an Israeli company-and Mark Harelik's "The Immigrant: a Hamilton County Album" presented in association with the Denver Center Theatre Company and announced here last week as the season opener "The Immigrant" (Aug. Sherman enters the house from the rear, a sad-faced fool so slow on the take at first that it takes him a second entrance to even acknowledge the audience. Well, to make a long story short-the end" (About Pike's comedy style, KDOC's Corso said: "He reminds me of Robin Williams: He's so spontaneous and witty) While it was little more than happenstance that Pike became the host of "Live From the Laff Stop" his improvisational bent and writing ability complement the show. Fifty-five objects of Native American works used in rituals and as ordinary utensils are on display at the County Museum of Art through Oct 20. It proceeds through early "happenings" Expressionist paintings and drawings to the 1973 breakthrough to painted paper sculpture that culminated in his environmental tableaux. For outsiders, the image of a garage band is one of noise pollution.
And last year we got married" But it was not until Gilda Radner (now Gene Wilder's wife) spoke up at a dinner party and said: "Wouldn't it be interesting if Kelly played 'The Woman in Red" that anyone thought seriously about it Wilder tested her The test was very good. Instead, the Monogram-produced films became the wildest slapstick, going by such titles as "Spook Busters" Let's Go Navy" "Loose in London" and "Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters" The plots, usually to do with the gang's farcical struggles with upward mobility, centered on the tomfoolery between the two leads: Leo Gorcey as "Spit" the gang's sardonic but malaprop-prone leader, and Huntz Hall as "Sach" a character of sublime sappiness. Sunday on ABC is the six-part, even scorchier "North and South, Book II" another dozen hours based on another John Jakes novel (appropriately titled "Love and War) and continuing the hot-breathed saga of two epic families. Toback likes to tell the story of a student who approached him after seeing it in a film school class: "She said, 'I'm not a violent person but I'd like to take a knife and stick it in your face' " Made for just $1 million, it has earned, according to Toback, only $600,000 in this country but a total of $6 million worldwide. During a dinner interview the night before his first Palladium show, this touchy issue was raised and quickly passed over He thinks of his music simply as his music. How many stand-up comedians, let alone black stand-up comedians, have made the transition to the movies with such resounding success? His influence on a new generation of comedians, including Eddie Murphy and Whoopi Goldberg, is clear.
MONTREAL — Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Assn. I suppose it is asking too much of women to give up their chief outward expression of the feminine difference, their continuing reassurance to men and to themselves that a male is a male because a female dresses and looks and acts like another sort of creature. The breakdown on the Yoko show: 536 seats sold to Universal Amphitheatre subscription members, the 456 artist and house seats, 636 seats sold to the public at remote outlets and the box office, 112 seats to radio stations (in the single-letter area This basically filled the double-letter section. . She pushed back her exhibition schedule at the Huntington's Virginia Steele Scott Gallery and inserted the British presentation, organized by Associate Curator Shelley M Bennett.
"Illuminati's" language is highly charged, Larson and Lee are knowledgeable in their scriptural references and myths-which they send up at every turn-and they know how to play a crowd. And at Saturday's afternoon visit, Montgomery took his fans (admission was $3 and $5) on a tour of the exhibition. Several fund-raising events are planned: a "Fashion Show and Clothing Sale" in February and a performance/music event in May. "Streetwise" nominated for best documentary feature this year, lost to "The Times of Harvey Milk" When that decision was announced, Tiny ran out to the pavilion lobby, threw down her corsage, crushed it with her heel and cried Worse news awaited Tiny She was given a card from a producer at the awards ceremony. "Bob carried this brilliant vision around in his head for more than a decade before starting to put it on paper" said Roger Swaybill, who co-authored the script. (Alas, it will have been seen only twice, that afternoon and that night on television, and is not available for wider distribution) When the film ended, there was again only the vacant pool of light at center stage, and then silence and then sustained applause.