As a result, such bastions of bracing abrasiveness as California's Bay Area, Chicago and parts of Texas have been grudgingly recognized as harboring some pretty interesting artists. At the Swiss Restaurant, it is served in sufficiently melted slices with the potatoes, those peeled and thick-sliced to a thoroughly satisfactory result. Jim Henson and his Muppets present the Oscar for animated short film Audrey Hepburn presents the Oscar for costume design Louis Gossett Jr presents the Oscar for documentary feature Teri Garr presents the Oscar for makeup Irene Cara presents the Oscar for sound. Designing it for a television special would give the Hall of Fame immediate stature, would promote the TV Academy and would bring in some money, he said. While the movie industry readies itself this weekend for the Academy Awards show Monday, much of the television industry will be convening here to honor its own at the third annual Television Academy Hall of Fame ceremonies. Among the 21 other Disney titles dropping to $29. 95 during this three-month holiday buying period are "Dumbo" and the 1973 animated "Robin Hood"At this reduced price, "Pinocchio" might stay at the top of the Kid Vid chart, compiled by Video Insider magazine, for the next three or four months. For the occasion, Ryberg flew in from Copenhagen (between performances of "Petrushka) and undertook some last-minute coaching.

Here's our favorite Album Description of the Month, courtesy of ex-Wall of Voodoo singer Stan Ridgeway, whose new solo album, "The Big Heat" is due out in February. With 14 consecutive first-place finishes, "Today" did win the first-quarter ratings, the first time the NBC broadcast has dominated a quarterly period since 1979. radio-as it sounds at the end of another perfect Southern California day: hypnotic, solipsistic, sooooo wondrously soporific. "First-class brains" says "All the King's Men" author Robert Penn Warren of Long. In addition, association president Flores said, at least one manufacturer will be introducing a device at the association's June show in Chicago that will permit other acoustic instruments, such as saxophones and trumpets, and even voices, to be coupled with computers and synthesizers. An active church-goer who has worked in both secular and contemporary Christian radio, O'Brien came to KYMS last November from KGOL-FM in Houston.

Is the video a Bernhard Goetz approach to crime prevention? Is Michaels advocating an armed populace? "Not in the least" Michaels said. Did no one give that third-grade class historical facts? Facts don't excuse the bombing, but they do explain it. The Communists reacted vehemently to the portrayal, issuing a statement that said: "The film throws into question in a defamatory way the role of the Communist Party in the Resistance" Historian Henri Amouroux commented during the televised debate, "The Communist Party has good reason to be emotional" The party, outlawed in 1939 just before the start of the war, became a powerful political force by 1945 after orchestrating many of the Resistance attacks against the Nazi occupiers. . According to museum curator Lucinda Barnes: "Cal State Long Beach has a long history of commissioning public outdoor sculpture. Both his parents were, and their life as music teachers-his mother was a pianist and his father played violin and clarinet-had been hard, often without a steady salary.

That terrible black blur passing through 1978 was Proposition 13, which resulted in something like a 50% cut in public funds for the museum. Identity is not a fixed thing" Elaine Kendall took some respite from the heavy mantle of being a prominent local literary critic by writing a romantic comedy for the stage called "Prizes" which played the Megaw Theater in 1979 and was later adapted into a musical. In a way, "Salvador" is closer to "Casablanca" than to Costa-Gavras. A $10,000 grant from the City of Costa Mesa topped this year's underwriters' list Other major donors included C. J. LA JOLLA — Hugh Davies was weaving through the tightly packed vault, pointing out art treasures left and right. Looking at them is not like looking at art, except perhaps the densest sort of Conceptualism. With two hit singles-the title song and "Too Late for Goodbyes-the album sold over a million copies.

These talented independent dancer-choreographers are ready to fight back with the weapon they wield best-modern dance. These include outdoor concerts to be presented May 16 and 23 on a now-vacant downtown site at 4th and Ross streets. There are so many horror films rattling around these days that you have to wonder whether Hollywood is running out of good villains. "Maybe it's the same thing elsewhere-I don't know-in countries where you have full public financing West German cinema isn't that good anymore It's very uneven French the same.

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A few years later, after the group had split up, McEuen said: "Jeff and I went to see (the country-rock band) Poco at Bear and said, 'We can still do that stuff' So we got back together. "Unless you've got a whole historical process in which you've arrived at definite conclusions and you can say, categorically, these are our findings" She says she gets her insight "from the material itself I read the script I read the book. The facility also has an outdoor courtyard (now used for parking, six offices, and unlike the first LACE on South Broadway downtown, free street parking and separate work and display areas for its multimedia artists. Visits from "gallery goers" are regular, and art-interest groups from out of town now come to San Diego for weekend tours. A separate board of trustees will meet infrequently but is stacked with prominent industry names, including directors Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, singer/songwriter Barry Manilow and actress Candice Bergen. Deciding what the appropriate use of such commercials is-and whether there is an appropriate use at all-were questions that polarized the PBS membership at the start of its annual three-day meeting here Monday.

"What happened, was that we treated them as people, not as outcasts. "Finally, the management people asked me if I was ready to make my album. Like a magical omen from heaven, a comet races through a crimson sky in Frederick Wight's "Second Comet; that same sky (there's only one, you know) is ripped by a tornado in Peter Zakosky's "The Weather" an epic panorama that looks like an illustration from one of those children's book with titles like "When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth" The tranquility we tend to read into Vija Celmins' oddly tragic black-and-white drawings of sea and sky seems like a trick of the mind when we view them next to one of Scott Riker's turbulent paintings of cascading water. This "Giselle" enjoyed the enlightend services of a really luxurious cast. On a recent afternoon at the MGM/UA commissary (the Lion's Den, Ladd was sitting in a rear booth customarily occupied by Yablans, who was at a less lofty table Yablans seems unperturbed by the gossip. SAN DIEGO — Last week this column bemoaned the rude behavior of theater- and concert-goers who walk out during ovations.

AUSTIN, Tex. "The Cosby Show" the highest rated series on television, is getting a new cast member. "Hey! Wake up, dude! You almost ran into the rear of that panel truck" * KABC-AM (790-Close on the heels of shrink talk with psychologist Sonya Friedman or psychiatrist David "Let-me-tell-you-this-my-friend) Viscott is "Sportstalk" with Bud Furillo, from 4 to 7 p. m. Ebert is the bespectacled thinker whose earnest intellectualism may be too challenging for some Now and then, wallowing in populism gets them sticky. LA JOLLA — When the local dance community puts on its annual display of the best in San Diego, the Samahan Philippine Dance Company performs the grand finale. Saturday on ceremonial ways and spiritual traditions of Mesoamerica. (You might expect even more, if you remember the successful movie-director debut of another MTM alumnus, James Brooks on "Terms of Endearment) The situation is promising: Two women, apparently complete opposites, strike up a friendship at an aerobics class.

More likely he's going to wait for Zeus, or Sylvester Stallone, to ordain him. Actually, you did make one movie I really liked, whose name I can't remember: a scary, sexy Gothic in which you played a Civil War soldier held prisoner in a girls' boarding school just bursting with delicately bred young things who were bursting out of their pantalettes But not a Russki, not a scumbag in sight. and Aerosmith? The heavy-rappers and the hard-rockers have teamed up for a remake of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" which will be on Run-D. M. C's new album, "Raising Hell" due out in early May The unusual collaboration features the Run-D. M. C. Wednesday: "Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village" a revealing, infectious, remarkably candid portrait of women's lives before and after the Revolution.

"We've been fans since her first album came out" Had they seen Madonna's acting debut in "Desperately Seeking Susan? "We saw it four times" Linda said enthusiastically. 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. "Bernard and I discussed the whole thing a few weeks ago, and it's our full intention that his relationship (with the orchestra) will continue as it has. "Young people in those years were not exposed to Peking Opera and they were also not taught the history stories on which most of the operas are based" Peking Opera's golden age was in the late 19th century when it was, to quote one expert, "the cinema of the Manchu Dynasty" It was especially popular at the Imperial court. In a play, you have to show with dialogue how a person feels; in a story you can just say 'He was angry' In a play, the anger would have to be coming out of his mouth, expressed in words and action"Although her theatrical detour is relatively recent, Yamauchi has been writing steadily for several decades, publishing her short stories in the English-language section of Rafu Shimpo, a local Japanese newspaper.

Of course, the jokes themselves show that we haven't truly transcended our baser instincts And that's nothing to laugh about. . "We always felt this was not a project that could be done by committee" Feldman said. Three Southern California corporate leaders have joined the Orange County Performing Arts Center's fund-raising trustees panel. There's no more natural visual metaphor for man's evanescense, but Fricke hammers the point any way he can, and we get repetition and anti-climax where we expect more of a dawning, ultimate illumination.

People who know Nunn say he is intense and totally focused on a project once it gets under way, often overworking himself-and his performers-to the point of exhaustion Even so, performers tend to respect his zeal. The department is one of 11 training organizations nationwide that belong to the prestigious League of Professional Training Programs. 1170 Century City, CA 90067 (213) 284-8179 $ Raised $178,000 donated by Coors, Pepsi-Cola for audio recordings; $8,000 received in donations $ Distributed Goals and Backers Members of L. A. The golden years for Lady Day began with her long tenure at Cafe Society, the Greenwich Village club where both the show and the audience were integrated, a rarity then. The writing, playing and production are predictably slick and contemporary, but also predictably empty. The New York septet pummeled its audience into submission with a steady, stark, sonic assault.