This new charismatic presence will trigger me, will make me want to discover him as a dancer I'll want to create for him right away. But Paramount, a studio with little else to celebrate this year, is giving it a big academy push Competition being what it is, "Witness" should make it. Herb Marks, in charge of movie display ads for The Times, said he told Tri-Star that the newspaper would have to see the ad before making a decision and that he had not rejected it on the title alone The Times does not run ads for X-rated films. Wouldn't it be ironic if the Kiss Army looks back and realizes that its outrageous cartoon band was really a positive role model? Tuesday's opening act, W. A. S. P, was disappointing on two levels. The quesadilla, for instance, comes on waxed paper rather than a plate.

For all his Minimalist associations, he remains a prominent individual. And the toppings lack the clean authority of the other dishes. There is something distinctive about Japanese armor, robots and cars that cannot be explained by the usual recourse to their theatricality and admirable sense of design. Director Victor Fleming, screenwriter Jules Furthman (who adapted Cleves Kinkead's play) and stars Constance Bennett (poor but pretty) and Lew Ayres (rich but irresponsible) all had important credits behind them as well as ahead of them; in 1939 alone Fleming would direct "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz"Directed from Ralph Graves' zesty script by Lowell Sherman, "Born to Be Bad" has considerable verve. There are 1,630 seats in the double-letter section-those are the closest seats, the ones below the aisle that separates the lower and upper reaches of seats They run in an arc from one side of the stage to the other These seats are the ones that are sold first. 15, 1944, and was never found) Stewart's 1950 Western, "Winchester '73" was the start of something different for the movies: Its star was given a piece of the profits This turned out to be lucrative for Stewart. There is Mother's giddy/sad oldest daughter (Diane Salinger, who takes pills and talks like Blanche Dubois: "Come on now, we must be gay and frivolous tonight and spin ourselves into a high, high fever" There's the lawyer's sullen son (Jeffrey Combs, a would-be playwright who humps around on a crutch like Richard III-it seems he was mugged by two old ladies in New York.

In the end, it doesn't much matter what Romero has on his mind, for his film dissolves into such an orgy of entrails (courtesy of makeup wizard Tom Savini) that all else is blotted out, even some vital performances, especially by Cardille and Liberty It's hard to think of a film more awash in blood and guts. Among the ranks of those doubting that this heralded event signalled some sort of genuine New Humanitarianism in entertainment was Jim Kerr-singer for the Scottish rock group Simple Minds, which had made its commercial breakthrough in America not long before appearing on the international telecast. (You have to watch the numbers here a bit, in speaking of the directors' branch of the academy. Ballet Theatre went to San Diego from Los Angeles, is now appearing at the Kennedy Center in Washington and closes the spring season with a nine-week residency at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, beginning May 5. . Museums have frequently resorted to the use of photographs and models to exhibit such environmental works, either finished or proposed. "I don't mind if I am working and I can ignore the photographer.

Initially, Hill planned to buy the copyright to specific Justice cases, then finance the reinvestigation, on camera, by a Justice team. Douglas-accompanied by his wife Kymberly (a free-lance reporter and writer working at KABC-TV, three young actors and a few others-had come for another emotionally draining three-hour session. In her glorious post-70 years, she was worth two dozen pages of exposition the moment the camera-grinning in anticipation-caught sight of her. Were viewers also confused? With the pollution of words, focus on trivia, unsubstantiated rumors "I really must stress, this is really tea leaves" Dan Rather said one morning on CBS) and conflicting reports, how could they not be? NBC's Marvin Kalb reported on "Today" that Reagan's advisers feared that the President would look bad beside Gorbachev if there were a joint post-summit appearance by the two leaders. Loosely painted in broad sections of pigment, with contrasting hues on opposite sides and vibrant details splashed on veins and berries, "Sequi" presents a different color experience from every angle.

"One of those guys is Truman" Effective titles are so difficult to come by, so painstakingly researched and tested and agonized over, that it's not in the least surprising that there's occasional coincidence. One by one, the other company members cross onto the stage, adding a wide variety of movement and a blur of differing tempos. "Bhuvan Shome" which screens Sunday at 5 p. m, is a perfect example of the telling of what is essentially a short story and has equally flawless performances. She has just one little problem: It's getting harder and harder to find male virgins, whose blood is essential to preserving her eternal youth, and she must partake three times before fast-approaching Halloween or lose her looks. "Based upon these responses" Allen said, "I would expect probably we would interview those who identify some kind of a problem" Croton said he hopes for "a balanced" report and that investigators will "not just talk to the discontents as it were, but there are a lot of people around who think I'm doing a decent job" The investigative team's draft report will go to Croton for response on matters he deems "not factual or unfair" Allen said A final report will go to the City Council. We've waited a long time to be chosen, and we feel we're more than ready" said Lis Dungan, coordinator of the Orange County "Imagination Celebration" which starts Saturday for a two-week run. Fore emphasized that the National Council of Churches, which represents the "mainline" Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian and Episcopal churches, is a traditionally liberal organization that is in no way associated with the Moral Majority and other such groups opposing media sex and violence.

Shops closed, tradesmen hung memorial odes to the 89-year-old poet in their windows and grieving people lined the streets from the town hall, where his body lay in state, to the cemetery. "He was the James Dean of the lot"Asked if he was troubled that his name was the same as Lennon's murderer, Lindsay answered, "I was more upset about the fact that he had been shot than the fact that we had the same name. Elmo's Fire" (1; Danny Glover, "Color Purple" (1; William Hickey, "Prizzi's Honor" (1; John Lone, "Year of the Dragon" (1; James Mason, "Shooting Party" (1. Jim Halsey, manager of such country stars as Lee Greenwood, the Oak Ridge Boys and the Judds, is "mad as hell" In fact, he was mad enough to invite the press to attend a luncheon at his Beverly Hills home Tuesday and let them see just how fumed country folks were.

But now, says Jean Firstenberg of the AFI, through the twin miracles of computers and financial grants, that problem is being tackled. "And the object is to showcase enough diverse types of music so that people can get used to coming to the Belly Up on a certain night and seeing their favorite brand of music. and Norman Strum cleverly employs the framework of a courtroom mystery, but not for the typical murder story They're dealing instead with child abuse. They're fully up to the second act's innovations, led by George Weinberg-Harter as the wigged and robed Lord Chancellor, playing out another outstanding comic interpretation with a natural flair. Their titles are romantic names of exotic places like "Borneo" "Tunis" and "Manila" or simply innocuous like "May Watercolor" or "July Watercolor" For those who have eyes to see (or the inclination, there are simple phallic forms in the cropped monochromatic airplane fuselages that frequently cross a sky or, again, a combined male/female genital form in the images of anthuriums, a flower so improbable that it looks artificial with its singular brilliant red petal and long yellow stamen. It gets more confusing when Hoffman suspects Beatty of being a spy-and vice versa. quartet-whose astoundingly aggressive shows were often keyed by kinetic singer H. R's swan dives into the crowd-was the only major black presence on a virtually all-white scene, and its unlikely mix of blinding speed-rock and lilting reggae brought a new dimension to the raging punk sound.

With the album finished, he is looking forward to a busy few months. solo tour Tuesday night at the Open Air Theatre here with an ambitious, frequently electric performance that left little doubt about his place-with or without the Police-among rock's most arresting figures But the two-hour show was a struggle. Roger Berlinger, an associate director at the Old Globe in San Diego, directs, and has this to say: " 'Virginia' is a pastiche of the things she wrote and the things that were written about her, set in chronological order. Phil Donahue told Griffith that TV series like "The Andy Griffith Show" reflect the way we were More likely, they reflect the way we wish we were. Elmo's Fire" one of last summer's hits, starring Rob Lowe and Judd Nelson The Michael J. The menu lists tamarindo, pinada, cacao, semilla de jicaro (squash seeds) and chicha (pink-tinted corn that tastes better than it looks.

Said one regular patron: "I think they were successful in scaring the community-including the city government-to come to the aid of this cultural resource they've neglected. "But when the Helena Rubinstein collection came up for auction in 1966, my father decided he could not live without the 'Bangwa Queen' " He bought the figure, but not without hearing it called "Franklin's Folly" "It was a watershed period for African art, when people began to pay attention to it" she continued. I didn't realize I was digging at a mountain with a toothpick-until my daughters were born" The twin girls are now 11 "I was not a young mother" Culver chuckles. The queens he has chosen this time around are Beatrix of the Netherlands, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Margrethe of Denmark and Ntombi Twala of Swaziland. Because of digital mastering (and in some cases digital recordings and mixing, the sound, read by a laser beam through the plastic surface of the 4 1/2-inch, 1-millimeter-thick disc, is just about as perfect as perfect will ever get. Not even on Sunday's special soulful, highly unusual two-hour program celebrating Vladimir Horowitz's return to his native Soviet Union for a concert in Moscow Not ever.

Next up, a Chalone event on April 15, featuring the winery's noted proprietor, Richard Graff. It's obviously time to compose a special Christmas carol in honor of the homogenization of kiddie toys and kiddie shows: "Deck the Halls With Sales Receipts". He'd dropped it from his set, but he said he liked our groove and wants to do it again". This performance helped generate enough interest in the local debut of her band, 'til tuesday, to sell out both of its weekend shows at the Palace. And, he adds, "Anything he shows me I'll look at carefully from every aspect, including whether he really owns it(An affectionate jest.