To put it more precisely, she has handed over the directorship to Patrick Ela, who has been a CAFAM administrator since 1975, but she isn't planning to fade into the storeroom or to step aside without inner turmoil "The museum needs a change of direction We have some very good people It will go without me" she declares in one breath. "I got fan mail, flowers, candy, marriage proposals" Hammond said. Sure, his pictures are brightly colored and collectible, but they're also about as friendly as a clenched fist. That decision spurred a flurry of activity at the KCR offices to get the council to vote down the recommendation.

His work is currently on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County as part of its popular "Dinosaurs Past and Present" exhibition The exhibition, which will be on display through Aug. The zesty "El Gato Montes" and springy "Jota" showed the members of the six-woman, three-man ensemble at its most disciplined and exciting, while Oscar Nieto's "Soleares" provided the only first-rate heelwork. Rod Serling hosted and wrote much of the original series, which was famed for Serling's distinctive narration and stories that were unusual, ironic and farsighted You can still catch them in syndication. But Ned Schnurman, former producer of the network's defunct "Inside Story" series who was brought back for this assignment, believes in the project. Carlsbad High School student adviser Tom Robertson, originator of the North County contest and coordinator of tonight's show, attributed the success of air band contests to "the whole gimmick of the music, the dancing and the videos being such a large part of (students) lives" "It's a way for kids who really don't get involved with school activities or go out for the sports teams to get involved with something that is really important in their lives and that's their music" Robertson said, noting that this year's Carlsbad contenders include a group emulating the funky rhythm band, The Time, which rocketed to stardom opposite Prince in the film "Purple Rain" Last year's North County air band champions, a group of Oceanside High School students appearing as the Romantics, not only picked up a $150 first prize, but were also signed to appear on "Puttin' on the Hits" a nationally syndicated TV series featuring air bands. "There was always the good and the bad" Lyden said in an interview at his home in Orange "If you were good, you were rewarded in some way. It was crazy" Interviewed by a Calendar reporter during the release of "Year of the Dragon" Rourke said of the "9 1/2 Weeks" experience, "I was fascinated by the script-I liked the mystery and the dialogue in it It reminded me a lot of (playwright) Harold Pinter It was something different I wanted to try.

The opera will mark the first collaboration between Minnesota Opera and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra. "And the technique really isn't applicable to rock, since only one sound can be interpreted" In general, the visual element seems to be a crucial one to La Barbara's program on Monday. No less an authority than Arrigo Cipriani, owner of famed Harry's Bar in Venice and of the hyper-trendy new Harry Cipriani's in New York City, told me that he had recently eaten some American pork chops that were better than any he'd had in Italy for 30 years, adding, "So I'm sure that you can make excellent prosciutto here as well" Meanwhile, of course, a little Parma wouldn't hurt. BYE-BYE BERNARD: Bernard's, downtown in the Biltmore Hotel-long one of the city's best, if not best-known restaurants-has lost its founder, proprietor and namesake, Bernard Jacoupy. LeBlanc goes to greater lengths than he should to explain in the program that the driving force behind his play, "Dreams Deferred" at Burbank On-Stage Theatre, is Martin Luther King Jr The play shows that. One reason given for New York's Off-Broadway boom is lower ticket prices for what is often Broadway-quality fare. It originally showed a group of Industry phonies buttering up the composer on his latest junk musical, while knifing him behind his back.

Has it not interviewed singers and actors? Has it not recently done a five-part series on young comedians, as well as the usual reports on matters of great import and consequence? But has "Today" ever asked future greats of show biz to apply directly by sending in their resumes and audition tapes to "Stars of Tomorrow" P. O. There was no way that you could put your weight back, so it meant that you had to lean forward" He proposed this to the choreographer, who rejected the idea. Stylistically, however, the contrast was strong: An Elizabethan play written on an Italian model, versus an Austrian play rewritten by an Englishman. Up till then I really did believe that our Japanese god would destroy all our enemies as he had done in the past"Shinoda's father's factory was taken over by the army, which paid him, but he lost all his profits after the war because he had not invested the soon-worthless currency. If some of the material is familiar, the story is new: "The story of my life does not exist" Duras writes in "L'Amant" "It does not exist There is never a center No road.

I think our purpose is to seek as great a contribution as we can, whatever that might be. "The Highway as Habitat: A Roy Stryker Documentation, 1943-1955" with more than 130 black-and-white images, runs through Feb 23. What do they need from a museum? What do these communities really want" Philosophical, and angry, and still making waves in San Diego, Lefty Adler heads along Broadway, back to the Art Center's office space at the Columbia Center. Dan Douke shows a dozen large paintings that look for all the world like big weathered hunks of sheet steel. The film opens with Pan Hong felled by a heart attack after performing three delicate operations in one morning.