Two other major movies make their cassette debuts next month. The four-character piece, which she labels "dramedy-funny moments, but a serious story" focuses on three generations of Kentucky women in 1958, a "coming of age" time for a granddaughter who wants to leave home. "You might say that all of my work has come out of American experience" Grooms says, taking a break from installing his exhibition. McDonald said he chose to do the play at UCI, in part, because the "existential disparity" between China of 1946 and Orange County of 1986 is "so incredibly dramatic" What is upset in "Fanshen" is the Old Order, with the peasants first bringing to judgment the collaborators and landlords who made their lives so miserable for so long, and then dividing up the spoils of land and possessions. "I believe in taking risks" said Teroy, "so I always take my dancing to the limits. Alfie listens to others, but they don't influence her, Zal said.

Goetz says the ability to draw dedicated and talented volunteers is the key to making the productions work "The crew here is as good as I've run across anywhere. Today the company is hailed as the country's third-ranking ballet troupe. "Eugene Corr wrote and directed it" said Williams, "and it's a fine script-about a 13-year-old girl growing up with her family in the Nuclear Age. Rilling and his ensembles" Cuccaro says she and her husband, composer/pianist Edwin Penhorwood, continue to maintain two residences "First, the one in West Berlin.

Organized as a road show by Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum, it includes painting, sculpture and photography by 13 New York-type artists represented by two or three works each. As one studio executive put it: 'Those three personalities on a set in Morocco? Forget it' " Not everyone is ready to charge Columbia and its beleaguered chief executive officer Guy McElwaine with reckless spending. But those who did argued that PBS was merely providing a forum for an exchange of opinions within the context of a wider program. Padnick also noted that a show's license fee-the amount the production company charges the network for each episode-increases each year.

The lineup offers three new shows that, like the returning "Kate & Allie" are about women in contemporary America: two Monday-night sitcoms, "Taking the Town" and "Designing Women" and a one-hour Thursday series, "Kay O'Brien, Surgeon" It also moves "Magnum, P. I" to a new Wednesday-night slot, thus permanently retiring it from its Thursday battles against NBC's hit "The Cosby Show" and "Family Ties" That battle now will be waged by CBS' returning "Simon and Simon" The "Magnum" move may offer some consolation to the show's producer Don Bellisario, whose "Airwolf" a 2 1/2-season veteran, got the ax. With two works from 1983, we recognize the vision of the maturing artist we admire. In this regard, grandmaster Kanya Sanjo V brought pupils and guests to the stage of the Japan America Theatre on Sunday for her 30th annual Kabuki program. Herber's hero is apparently based on himself, and he's quite a guy Counselor, buddy, man of action-that's Lt Michael Slater. It demonstrated, finally, that there are few more powerful and positive forces on TV than the documentary unleashed "Nightline" ABC. His starting point Friday: kids and how his brood of five changed his life and that of his wife, Camille. During his final year of high school, Mellencamp married Priscilla Esterline, who was two months pregnant at the time.

Strains of "Rosenkavalier" and "Salome" blared forth via loudspeakers (everyone knew "Light Cavalry" would be out of place. Concorde/Cinema Group, announced at a Beverly Hills press conference Wednesday, will have offices in six cities-Los Angeles, New York, St. Aside from a few serious-themed titles (like "Heartburn, the emphasis will be on high-concept popcorn pictures. Before and after announcements that the writers of "Prizzi's Honor" and "Witness" had won the adapted and original screenplay awards, respectively, further confusing the outlook for tonight's Oscar show, there were streams of writers' laments. WASHINGTON — Another music video for teens is hardly news, except that the latest entry in the field, "Just Say No" has been made by the federal government. Campanella went on to earn a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Harvard, worked as a film editor at CBS News, added a master's degree in business administration from Columbia, served as a production executive at CBS Entertainment and, for the last five years, has been pursuing a career in Hollywood as a producer, director and writer. I sometimes had the feeling that the writing was going faster than I was" Duras is a small terrier of a woman who talks as she writes: The pauses, the repetition, the sudden rhythms all demand attention.

You think of Aztec calendars while you pick out such objects as cocktail glasses, planes, cars and cutlery. Despite a career that now spans three decades, 39 films, seven Academy Award nominations, two Oscars and countless other cinematic kudos, during a two-hour interview it became easy to forget that Nicholson was a Movie Star. That, of course, is Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who has signed a three-year contract with MCA Records to found his own jazz label. "Marie never remembers being touched" Thomas said in a late-night interview shortly after the seven runs up the institution's stairs "All this deprivation of love and emotion.

While many 16-year-olds were spending their summer vacations in 1944 just taking it easy, Conte Candoli spent his playing jazz trumpet with the Woody Herman orchestra. The subsequent choral works by the two Gabrielis and Jacob Handl were, as usual with Wagner, finally attuned to the archaic spirit. But with lots and lots of box office money now at stake, and with so many advances in special effects, secrecy has become the hallmark of many a film set. However, there was speculation that, a few weeks after the convention, after the excitement about "Ghostbusters" had died down, some company would announce the release of a Christmas competitor for "Ghostbusters" Of the unreleased blockbusters-including "E. T" "The Return of the Jedi" "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and "Witness"Cop" seemed the most likely Christmas release. George Van Eps and Tony Rizzi return to the Sunset Pub in Sunset Beach on April 21. Many of the Disney villains are truly terrifying, but I think Cruella is more comical than evil" Gerson missed the premiere of "101 Dalmatians" and only recently saw the film for the first time.

Cut, some moments later, to the depressed voice of Fabian Bridges-the inquiry's centerpiece. Freak was an obnoxious label frequently applied to her when she rose to prominence in the late 1970s as a former male amateur tennis player determined to play professionally on the women's circuit. Powell and the new director of the La Jolla Museum (of Contemporary Art, Hugh Davies) to see if they have space. A two-hour TV movie based on the series recently was aired, and old episodes of the program have been rerun on Tuesday nights. "When we (the ensemble) started, we were living on half a shoestring Now" she says with a laugh, "we're living on.

During a Friday press conference, Erlicht denied that producers, either because of unhappy experiences with ABC or because ABC had wound up in third place last season, had made the network third on their list of places to pitch program ideas. "I realize it's an oddity for an audience to see the bassoon center stage" the 32-year-old musician said in a interview. Raymond Serrano made a baleful thug of Tybalt-unimpressive except in his violent death throes. Among the cancellations were "Finder of Lost Loves" "MacGruder and Loud" "Off the Rack" "Hail to the Chief" "Wildside" "Eye to Eye" and "Me and Mom" Prior ABC casualties this season were "Call to Glory" "Jessie" "Paper Dolls" "Glitter" "Hawaiian Heat" "Street Hawk" "People Do the Craziest Things" and "Foul-Ups, Bleeps and Blunders" In their place for the 1985-86 TV season will be four new comedies, three action-adventure shows and three family dramas, including the spinoff of ABC's most successful series this season, "Dynasty" Among the stars of the new shows are Robert Wagner, Kevin Hooks and Eli Wallach.