"They were nice but nothing happened" Among the writers she screened out, she said, was "a guy who wrote three or four pages on flowered paper I thought, 'Oh, oh' when I saw the paper. But the main thing about this film is that it is not the defection but the people and the story that is the main thread running through it. "We have been under fire, and frankly, we're feeling a little gun-shy" said Harvey Sabinson, executive director of Broadway's official trade organization, the League of American Theaters and Producers, in acknowledging at a press conference that the league was releasing the results of an eight-month economic study to deflect recent criticism. "I told Woody I could barely read (music) and he said, 'I know that, kid, but I could care less. Louis from its first, 10-performance, small-budget $139,000) season of 1976 to its present position-25 performances in downtown St. Sunday night at the Bing Theater of the County Museum of Art, Los Angeles was able to see a remarkable approximation of the original.

But the newspapers did run plenty of stories about the people who killed themselves playing Russian roulette, inspired by "The Deer Hunter-which was unflinchingly praised by Chicago's critics censors. "One day I know I will be" LONG REST: Albert Finney is one actor who believes in taking long breaks between acting chores. We also couldn't resist ordering the cone-shaped tripolino -frozen zabaglione dipped in dark chocolate, a giant bonbon of a thing, nice, but outclassed by the other two desserts. "Scandal" (1950, the most rarely seen of all Kurosawa films, screens Thursday only at the Nuart as part of its Kurosawa Festival. The show was conceived by the college's Associated Students group as a memorial to Robbin Brandley, the 23-year-old communications major who was stabbed to death on campus in January. Clossey called the festival part of a marketing strategy that positions AT&T "with a world-class institution, in this case two world-class institutions" "In a few short years, the La Jolla Playhouse has established itself as a standard-bearer for the new generation, " said Roger Stevens, chairman of the Kennedy Center, who was also here for the press conference.

She's also preparing a new cable-TV movie to star many of the performers she's worked with in the past. Maybe they don't know about Spago's or the Hard Rock or Gorky's. "When we finally started the album we decided to write our own music and not do covers" he recalled. Undoubtedly, the highlight of the evening was its finale-a blistering reading of the F-minor Sonata It is an intense, diabolical, fiendishly difficult piece And a total joy to experience. These days, to invoke Pauline Kael, it's easier to get "lost at the movies" at home. She is the owner of a penny arcade, which she runs with an avarice only equalled by her devotion to bourgeois respectability and her son, Cagney, a sniveling, dependent coward.

"The main significance of this exhibition is that we have recovered a portion of human history which had not extensively been known or sufficiently appreciated" said archeologist Giorgio Buccellati, Kelly-Buccellati's husband. It's a collection of letters between Hanff and the Marks staff-a correspondence that began in 1949 with Hanff's inquiries about rare books but expanded over the course of two decades into a series of warm, even loving exchanges. Last summer the council funded a minority-arts program with $100,000 from the governor's augmented $1. 5 million arts budget. Sounds roll around, and are baffled and echoed, in the large room Amplification helps some, but confuses more. "I said, 'The last couple of movies"Splash" and "Cocoon-have been good experiences, but they weren't always fun because they were so hard to do' " Howard recalls telling the star of his comedy "Night Shift" " 'I'd really like to do this movie, and I'd like to do it with you because I think we'd have a lot of laughs. About $37,500 of the city share was divided among 12 "cultural or artistic" organizations last year, including $7,200 each to the Laguna Art Museum and city Arts Commission, according to Councilman Neil Fitzpatrick, a member of the city's festival negotiating team.

Since both this kind of painting and allusions to primal muck now have severely limited capacity to incite us to insight, we are left with elegance dressed up in Neanderthal skins. Sellars will direct the second play, James O'Neill's version of the "Count of Monte Cristo" the 19th-Century melodrama that the actor made a staple of the theatrical diet for decades. What does it all mean? Well, for one thing, it reflects the glowing energy of the muse of architecture. This is a homey place, yes, and a little quirky-you get your own drinks from a coldbox (opener at the cash register, glasses on demand, and the walls are decorated with religious art, a photo of Raul Iglesias and several signs pointedly reading, "Skinny Cooks Can't Be Trusted" Above all, though, it is a sterling little Mexican restaurant that resolutely makes everything itself, down to the tortillas and the chorizo sausage. The hard-working Joffrey sextet-Jill Davidson and Beatriz Rodriguez as the ladies, Patrick Corbin and Raymond Perrin as the nature boys, Jerel Hilding and Philip Jerry as the dandies-will no doubt learn more about thriving in manure and shooting spores What they need is practice and repetition In the meantime, we can savor the dainty approximations. "I'd call it (Dunphy's contribution) a striking conflict of interest" says retired CBS News executive Burton Benjamin, now a senior fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University in New York.

To me, it's not necessary to choose, to say one must play it this way or the other way We can keep both ways side by side. Though her realism emits the cool perfection of the genre, she always paints from life, often from a truck outfitted as a rolling studio. The study, outlined at the theater district's Marriott Marquis Hotel by one of its authors, economist William Baumol, concludes that tickets are up less than the cost of theater operations, less than the purchasing power of consumers and far less than soaring production costs. "I only made a ballet when I wanted to" he says, allowing that "now my body doesn't move well enough to do choreography. Though Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra music director Gerard Schwarz recently garnered headlines with his announced intentions to leave his post at the end of next season, the orchestra's concert at Ambassador Auditorium on Saturday clearly belonged to the soloist-Maurice Andre.

Fifteen years ago, for the sake of the Motion Picture and TV Relief Fund, Rosalind Russell spearheaded a night featuring Frank Sinatra's "retirement; his "opening acts" included Barbra Streisand and Princess Grace of Monaco. Pam Dawber, late of ABC's now-defunct "Mork and Mindy" and Elliott Gould are among the better-known stars of the new entries. CBS, which lost last season's prime-time ratings race to NBC after six straight seasons as No. He certainly did not give Bagdad by the Bay its first "Ring" cycle. He spits and sprinkles a handful of the pudding-brown dust over it. A few may already know its source, Russell Hoban's memorable novel, distinctive enough to have the London Times place him "among the greatest, timeless novelists" Although no film can (or should) contain the book's linguistic and ruminative peregrinations, Harold Pinter has done the adaptation fearlessly and well, and director John Irvin "Champions" "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) has provided the maximum illumination with the minimum of fuss. Anyone inclined to romanticize the world of the male hustler ought to see "Forty-Deuce" at the Pan Andreas Theatre Anyone not so inclined will find it a chore.

I did a few chapters of what I would call throat-clearing, but Pran was still missing-so I didn't feel it made much sense going on. The title, with its historical reference, partly undermines the work (stylistically, yet simultaneously grounds it in an ongoing tradition of painting. Following in the footsteps of "Sun City" several local composers have put out a new single called "Anti-Apartheid Showdown" The spirited message song was written and produced by J D Hall, Craig Harris and Bradley Bobo. If he manages to wring a nomination or two out of "Ultimate Solution" (you'd have a better bet taking New England and giving the Bears points in Sunday's Super Bowl, he believes Cannon might release his version again, maybe even make it available on videocassette.

One cannot help but wonder who would subject any child to this type of moaning, writhing performance art that seeks to denounce the ugliness of life by becoming a part of it. They only had to agree to comply with ground rules that primarily dealt with the reporting of troop movements and military operations. This despite the fact that he has already sung some dramatic parts in Verdi operas-Radames in "Aida" and the title role in "Don Carlos" for instance-to controversial reactions, one of them the predictable accusation that the essential beauty of the singer's tone has been sacrificed in the move to heavier roles. "That's a difficult dichotomy to accept, but that's the idea behind this band". But in "Undiscovered Country" the wall conveyed security and reassurance, framing a mountain view that only people of a certain position could afford Same structure, different trim.