While both give good performances, the casting is distracting. "These films encourage disruption of expectations" Snead said in his Whitney lecture, "puzzling and challenging the viewer because the characters are not frozen in place. Former NBC programming executive John McMahon, now president of Carson Productions, put the dichotomy between desires and realities this way: "Grant Tinker (NBC chairman) probably loves 'St. The AFI workshop, she says, was like being pushed into a pool to find out if you can swim. "But when you look at them it's like cream; the good ones rise to the top I try to be as generous as possible The work is of a very high caliber. "Americana" is also one of those films with such a sense of ritual about it, such rhythmic pacing and lush, sensual beauty in its heartland sounds and images, that it can carry you away.

Although her current one-woman Broadway show provoked a mini-backlash in New York, she has been heavily courted in Hollywood and currently has a two-picture deal with Warner Bros, home of "The Color Purple" Spielberg's decision on "The Color Purple" is of special concern to 20th Century Fox, which has its own pending movie with Goldberg. But the Reagan Administration's new budget proposal asks that Congress reduce that amount by $14 million. Most commercial galleries take commissions of 33% to 50, according to Herbst. "It's a great story" said Baker, "and we're all working for scale because we care about it so much Fortunately, I need only do films that interest me now. They also watched the film get lost amid the hundreds of offerings at the Los Angeles International Film Festival, which played "Blood Simple" on a weekday afternoon in July opposite three other pictures.

Petersburg elderly, the film is remarkable in the honesty with which it confronts the hard, sad truths of aging and death. He did it again Wednesday night at Ambassador Auditorium, leading the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra through three harpsichord concertos by J. S. As is routine, the book was synopsized and analyzed-in this instance by screenwriter Petrie, who at the time was a young agent. Earlier this week, a hardcover called "The Beverly Hills Cop Story" arrived in local bookstores. "In this particular project, there has been a constant Spartan element throughout the process. Louis) will portray a group of 18th-Century peasants who will become transformed into a group of singers and instrumentalists who will portray a group of 18th-Century peasants Complicated? Not really, said set designer John Roslevich "It's the old play-within-a-play concept. In fact, what he does is so vague that you fear some young viewers will draw the wrong conclusions from this and wind up thinking that a friendly pat on the behind is criminal.

We need some sign that American films have begun to turn themselves around from the disastrous course they have been on so far this year. Part Brecht, part Bunraku puppets, in part startlingly original, the action swirls ceaselessly. In "Companion" a work of great beauty and pathos, an alert dog sitting by a slumping woman balances the composition and counterbalances the mood of dejection. Murray Abraham, "Amadeus" Jeff Bridges, "Starman" Albert Finney, "Under the Volcano" Tom Hulce, "Amadeus" Sam Waterston, "The Killing Fields" Actress Judy Davis, "A Passage to India" Sally Field, "Places in the Heart" Jessica Lange, "Country" Vanessa Redgrave, "The Bostonians" Sissy Spacek, "The River" Supporting Actor Adolph Caesar, "A Soldier's Story" John Malkovich, "Places in the Heart" Noriyuki (Pat) Morita, "The Karate Kid" Haing S.

Eventually, however, the piece seems to unwind, to repeat its effects, to tread aesthetic water Gradually, gimmickry threatens to overwhelm inspiration. Enthusiasm for the theater has been a constant in his life, ever since a mid-college switch from music (he was trained as a classical violinist) to drama. 7 on the Billboard sales chart but should take over the top spot next week It entered the rental chart at No 31 but will crack the Top Five next week By then it could even be the No 1 rental "Ghostbusters" released two weeks ago, started with a bang It's doing very well-No 2 in sales and No. " He seemed to take it like a sport, but then proceeded to write a bad review of the exhibition.

The most poignant piece, sung in haunting ballad style, was "Baby of Today" by Monique Jahn, 13, who asks why children are brought into an increasingly dangerous world, then wistfully suggests the answer may be found "within the very next born, within the very next baby" The Magic Carpet Band never oversteps its bounds, presenting the youthful authors' works with respect No hint of self-conscious cuteness intrudes. The issue is that some stories, even if true, are better left unreported if they are flimsy and serve only to titillate. "But the director (Alan Metter) pulled me aside and said, 'Sarah would kill to work with you' " Hunt smiled "It was really cool. Kurtis most likely will go back to WBBM-TV, Chicago's CBS-owned station, but will do occasional in-depth reports for the network.

For dessert, there's good brewed decaf (she serves only decaf-very California, very un-Mexican) and a choice of chocolate flan with cinnamon cream sauce; a flourless chocolate pecan cake with the same cream sauce; and a bunuelo topped with mango ice cream (even Jerry would have liked that mango ice cream) and Grand Marnier Sobroso, 1029 W Washington Blvd, Venice (213) 399-3832 Open for lunch and dinner, Tuesday through Sunday No credit cards No tipping Beer and wine Dinner for two, food only, $27$45. . It is a manner and style that will probably be widely imitated but that never can be wholly reproduced, for it is innate and unselfconscious; his persona and his style are one. "There have been some script changes since then" Mandell noted "It's less surrealistic now. Lubovitch, who has had his company for 18 years now, was himself a very energetic dancer (at 43, he no longer performs) and he studied with a number of modern dance and ballet teachers at a time when mixing genres wasn't fashionable. "But Gay put it together-John Gay never wrote a note of it, but only arranged, used and provided new words for 69 popular songs of the day-not only as social satire. That is, some haven't been finished; a few films have yet to make it from production chart to actual production So some release dates are tentative. But if Dylan is known in the Soviet Union, it is less among the young generation than among those who remember him from the '60s "Those records I have" said the organizer.

Stanley Cornett dispatched the tenorial duties with terminal timidity. . I know more San Francisco poets, but there's less diversity there. It has the flavor of a gazebo, a little bit sci-fi, a little bit the feeling of a rocket ship. (Now it's Mitchell-Smith who seems to have that purity) Hall is outgrowing the role, for one thing. The performance by Los Angeles' Armored Saint was a knight to remember, from the head-to-toe armor the band wore at the start of the show to singer John Bush's challenge to the audience: "I want to see you break down the barricade-can you do it" OK, so Bush will never be a Ph. D in the study of crowd behavior. From the orchestra he drew sparkling contrapuntal clarity, in spite of Stravinsky's dense, compacted textures.

— Hilary Hemingway, niece of the Nobel Prize-winning author of "The Old Man and the Sea" has won a trip to Los Angeles for writing a screenplay about her father. But another fact-the great number of single, black female parents today- surely draws the behavior in this film close to many contemporary homes) Ebert remains the craftsman, the wordsmith knowledgeable and careful enough to create an image, sell an opinion, even on occasion to move his readers. "China was very shut out from the rest of the world" she says. The building is being leased from the City of Santa Ana, which will be taking part in the Pacific's educational programs.

"The Foreigner" by Milwaukee playwright Larry Shue, is scheduled for the Mainstage Jan 7 through Feb 9. The down side of that is that LACMA suffers rather wincingly in any head-on comparison to the collections of two of the world's greatest museums. "Not training in art, not training in creativity so that people can relate to other people, that (is what) divides society into classes. "It took some work but I got him into a silver fox smoking jacket" she remembered. She is so natural, in fact, that one suspects that she is reliving a portion of her own life.