"Even when I was a kid, after watching the war on TV, I had these dreams of GIs and Viet Cong invading our suburban home and killing everyone. Past Oscar winners for actor and actress are introduced, among them, Luise Rainer, Ginger Rogers, Joan Fontaine, Greer Garson, Olivia De Havilland, Jose Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Rod Steiger, Cliff Robertson, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, Louise Fletcher, Richard Dreyfuss, Sally Field, Meryl Streep, Robert Duvall and F Murray Abraham. in UCLA Melnitz. The Fox International will open a monthlong run on April 25 of "Private Resistance" a World War II drama starring Renee Soutendijk and produced by Roeland Kerbosch. It must be clear to everyone by this time that my success has nothing to do with any eccentricity I've been accused of" Pogorelich, who plays a recital Tuesday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, was referring to the mob mania he had inspired in Warsaw by losing-not winning-the prestigious contest. There's a thread that goes through all of that music, and that thread is emotion It's all music of the street. With its unromantic clusters of cleaners, grocery stores and drug stores, you would hardly expect Hillhurst to figure prominently on a food-lover's tour of L. A. Hands in pockets and suggesting a certain global youth-chic, the pianist who caused a furor six years ago at the hotly argued International Chopin Competition in Warsaw was not looking for attention "I'm glad that time is over" said the tall Yugoslav.
The announcing team Sunday at the Reunion Arena, Dallas, are regulars Dick Stockton, Tom Heinsohn and Pat O'Brien. It is the half-year's main candidate for imaginary awards for both Insights in Ancient Art and Revelations in Contemporary Consciousness. I got a real taste of political science and was very interested in it, but I found out that a personal vision is secondary to your career You've got to worry about your constituents You don't have as much of a voice as I thought you did. Having been wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to a prison in Texas, two friends (Larry Riley and Joe Guzaldo) escape and then travel around the country trying to prove their innocence.
Personally, I think it's really bad taste when people get hurt on screen" Linda Goldenberg, Fox vice president of field operations/national productions, emphatically defended the taste level of the films she has helped market "Porky's" "Bachelor Party" etc: "Raunch, when it is used in the context of these films, is really quite warm and wonderful. "Then I found out who supplied all the places that I like-Wiener Factory, Pink's, Carneys I got all their products and did tastings in the store. But it's been hard to pull apart the skeins of two lives, drawing to a close at the same time, Jimmy's and my mother's. Given that premise, and this cast (including Sam Waterston as Danson's buddy, the movie might have come up bright, warm and amusing But a little male guilt may be operating here. At the moment the monumental sculpture is trapped on a truck that's caught in a blizzard in the Southwest.
Cultural amalgamations have needled many an artist into a state of inspiration, but none has so meticulously honed a distinctive sensibility on Japanese-American culture shock. Directed by supervising producer Jerry London and written by producer Carmen Culver, the first three hours are simply awful, nudged forward by script contrivances that send poor Tracy to jail for a crime she didn't commit and then spring her with a full pardon. It was, in fact, the Columbia casting people I was on my way to see. The GR-C7, which is expected to be in stores by May, is said to be 35% smaller and about 40% lighter than JVC's previous GR-C2 model (the weight varies according to the choice of batteries. BLACKENED REPUTATIONS: Satire closes on Saturday night, and unfortunately this column appears on Sunday morning. "We observed the quality of each company's dancers, repertory, design and technical production elements, along with noting the audience reaction.
and Viacom, is an affiliation of 125 TV stations nationwide that will air prime-time, first-run programming (hence the name T ribune V iacom NET work. John's Hospital, where a bust of her by Artis Lane was installed in a garden last May. The cognoscentti were titillated by his irreverence when he recast a figure from Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling as a seductive combination of cupid and pre-pubescent male Lolita. "But I had always wanted-the only word that comes to mind is tenderness. On the screen was a Raisin Bran commercial being beamed from Canada In French. .
It is the shining orange facade of "La Casa del Alfenique" an 18th-Century baroque house in Puebla, Mexico, replicated in hand-cut paper. But Michael Wagner has replaced Ray Manzarek as X's producer, and he helps the group hone a sound with more ring and depth He's demoted D J. REP REDUX: Last week's announcement from the San Diego Repertory Theatre that it will move into the Lyceum Theatre in April left a hole in its season. Twenty-two minutes later, there is a shooting, your standard ple-struggle-for-a-gun-that-discharges-and-hits-one-of-them-in-the-stomach bilge Ten minutes later, there is a trial. She's just the opposite and it shows up in the little things Like she made sure we each had our pictures in the program.
Open Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday, 5 to 11 p. m; Friday-Saturday, 5 p. m to midnight Accepts all major credit cards Valet parking on Wilshire Reservations advised: (213) 453-8989 Dinner for two: $35 to $70 (food only. "But when the bottom fell out of folk music, I went back to country music and started playing the clubs again, and kept on doing that for the better part of 20 years" Powers said. Five years later, the unfinished manuscript sits on a shelf and Huggins, at age 67, is the co-executive producer of NBC's "Hunter" That series is from the production company begun by Stephen J. And, for the first time in 10 years, this summer he will not be playing the viola at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico, but will devote his non-Hollywood Bowl weeks in August to the newly established San Diego Chamber Music Festival, of which he is artistic director. In a position paper presented to the court, Universal called Bogdanovich's attempt "ludicrous" and "tragic" saying "if reviews and the public's initial reaction to the release of 'Mask' last week mean anything, (he) has directed an outstanding motion picture" The studio stated that the real reason the matter was in court was over the use of four songs in the soundtrack by Bob Seger "in lieu of the four Bruce Springsteen songs that Mr.
Arts groups tend to promote themselves at a smaller scale than their needs require to start with, says Danny Newman, the Chicago-based consultant and writer who has made a specialty of helping arts groups develop audiences. On the serious side, there was Waldo Salt, who in accepting the guild's Laurel Award for advancing screen literature, recalled the oppression of the '50s (he was one of the era's blacklisted writers) and urged his colleagues to write courageously and to fight for control of their work "If we're good, we will always be in trouble" Salt said. Allen, whose following and reputation emanate chiefly from her appearance in the TV series "Fame" seems a noteworthy choice for Neil Simon's hard-luck dance hall girl. "We had no idea what was going to happen, but it came out all right"If you pared down the late-night talk shows to just their stand-up segments-comics performing five-minute routines before chatting with Johnny or Dave-you'd have something like "After Hours" a 30-minute program produced by Fullerton's Group W Cable. Back then Dad couldn't speak English very well, so he'd simply say over and over again 'Just do the thing right' " Doesn't all this constant togetherness get on everyone's nerves? "Oh, sure We're not perfect or anything" LeRoy said "We have our arguments like every other family But we work really hard at getting along. Raising more than $2 million annually means a five-fold increase from the $400,000 in donations that the center received in the year ending April 30, when its total budget was just $1. 2 million. Every morning he arrives at the Variety offices in Hollywood and starts working the phones for the next day's column.
(His English accent is a sometimes thing, yet Broderick is so forgivable that you do forgive it) Some may be bothered by the faintly modern character of the dialogue, the work of a virtual platoon of writers (Edward Khmara, Michael Thomas, Tom Mankiewicz, from Khmara's story, with Mankiewicz credited as "consultant" as well) Director Richard Donner doesn't overemphasize the modern flavor (everything in the film moves fast and gracefully, and lines like the Bishop's, "I believe in miracles; it's part of my job" fall more like wit than heavy anachronism, at least on these ears. "We are all the time fighting" Mayoral says of his partnership with Elsa Maria, "and we insult each other when sometimes a step doesn't go right Some couples don't even care about the public. (Orlando Gallery, 14553 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, to March 29). 9066, which effectively stripped all American citizens of Japanese ancestry of their rights and property in the Western states.
All right, you say: Ballet Russe personality-dancing is a lost art and even in Massine's generation nobody matched these stars at what they did best. I might be troubled if it were a real one" After two years of comparatively little composing, Tippett is itching to get back to the desk and its now-welcome rigors. Instead of giving a few artists a chance to express themselves, NARAS organizers brought on the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Burrell, Stanley Jordan, Buddy Rich, Tony Williams, Bobby Hutcherson and others for a hurried jam session on 40-year-old tunes that offered little chance to establish their identities Even Sarah Vaughan had less than 30 seconds to herself. Lenz, a veteran stage, TV and movie actor (his last Broadway role was in "Cactus Flower" and he played in "Once in a Lifetime" and "History of the American Film" at the Mark Taper Forum, claims the idea came to him after someone explained one of his earlier plays to him in a manner that sounded like complete academic nonsense "The play I wrote had a swing in it" he said. He's also the man from whom sponsorship might mean an entree to publication and fame-and Stephen's own book actually continues the Sharma myth. And second, he vacuumed most hints of sleaze and juvenile tricks out. Jane Watanabe's 26-minute solo "White Ashes" (to music by Toru Takemitsu) concentrated on the missing ingredient of a relationship, using videotape projections of falling flower petals to underscore the dancer's loss, isolation and anguish.
"I checked it out" La Barbara said with a chuckle, "and it just happens to be her real name) "In 'Performance Piece' which is sort of a left brain-right brain exploration, a series of projected words will be seen raining down into a grid on the stage" Most intriguing, perhaps, is "Berliner Traeume" in which, according to La Barbara, "a series of historical photographs will be projected onto a fog pouring down from the ceiling" La Barbara played down this visual-aural blending as a sign of a specific new direction in her work. Both Lloyd and Reiss commented on the diversity of the entrees "There was such a range of work, it was amazing All the way from traditional to really bizarre" Lloyd said. He emphasized that Smith's departure will not adversely affect the orchestra's performance schedule "We've covered the bases pretty well. They'd buy them to get a particular theme song or hit single, and find the rest of the LP to be simply background orchestral music without pop-rock sensibilities The rule became: Just buy the single.
Patout's (the accent's on the first syllable, and the restaurant's at 2260 Westwood Blvd, (213) 475-7100) is nothing like those Cajun clones that are popping up all over town. Copying a cassette now is a rather cumbersome process requiring two recorders But on the new VCR, it's a simple, all-in-one operation "It's a pirate's dream" Valenti griped. Often hounded and ridiculed by the British press (Charles has been pictured by cartoonists as a pinhead with elephant ears, the royal couple became an American media obsession that Cooke found both "fascinating and endlessly tedious" Inexplicably reverent, too. The second dwells on the interaction between camera and event-or the validation of an act of terror by the effect of television upon it.
"Oh, you still get a little of that nonsense: 'How could you' But there used to be the same kind of snobbery about theater people going to Hollywood to do movies, and then about movie people doing television "I wouldn't do beer commercials. The upbeat R&B of the Cadillacs represents a full return to her first musical love. Directed by Vittorio de Sica, it's considered the gem of the Italian neo-realist film movement. The study, outlined at the theater district's Marriott Marquis Hotel by one of its authors, economist William Baumol, concludes that tickets are up less than the cost of theater operations, less than the purchasing power of consumers and far less than soaring production costs. With Tatum O'Neal, Irene Cara, Nicholas Campbell, George Murdock, Moses Gunn, Peter Fonda Running Time: 1 hour, 24 minutes. Tailoring "Otherworld" to meet the needs of "the most conservative of the three networks" has not been without its problems, Taylor said.
"What better opportunities to demonstrate a community's (arts) resources and our belief that the arts are essential to a child's education" Also sponsoring the Orange County celebration are the Kennedy Center-affiliated California Alliance for Arts Education, the Orange County Department of Education and the Orange County Performing Arts Center. And I'm finally playing a character who has a vocabulary of more than 100 words. Whereas the American images are geometrically spare, the European images are profligately illusionistic. But in one way it works better than it did at the Shubert, where it was easy to lose sight of the stories of Sally and Buddy and Phyllis and Ben in all those darkly gleaming production numbers. At this point in the proceedings, the eight discarded semifinalists, every one, began to look better than they had the day before.
Programmers like miniseries for their ability to bolster weak spots in the prime-time lineup. Antal Dorati may not be a Baroque stylist, but the notion of style is secondary here to organizing the sprawl into some form of coherency, in which he succeeds reasonably well. "Sylvia" Based on life of Sylvia Ashton Warner, an innovative teacher who revolutionized the educational systemn of tradition-bound New Zealand Michael Firth directs (MGM/UA Classics) Opens in late June. With so many titles to fit into a 15-week period, many distributors still are wrangling for screen space Details on some films are also subject to change. Later painters of the Yosemite region, such as Christian Jorgensen, Harry Cassie Best and William Clothier Watts, showed a more restrained and less romantic approach to their subjects. Artists throughout history have been inspired by California's spectacular mountain vistas. Men will go for this picture all the way and not only guffaw at but gurgle over many of the side lights in the dame stuff. Its documentaries covered issues as broad as ecology, foreign relations and health and as esoteric as "The History, Sociology and Psychology of the Elevator" "Facts and Fiction of the Grizzly Bear" and "Bag Ladies and Winos" Its news-gathering reputation became so successful that many listeners may have overlooked the fact that NPR also offered music and drama.
"Obviously, we think 'Rambo' will impact favorably on 'Rocky IV' " Exhibitors are complaining that MGM/UA is using Tri-Star's film to leverage higher rental deals on "Rocky IV" a charge the studio declined to discuss. "What we're doing is developing a piece of material "Trinity) which we hope will attract the two of them" said Ruddy. "Cagney & Lacey" The two women give up their police jobs and open a sewing shop. The bathroom scales and the dentist's chair have stripped the pleasure from candy, except as an occasional venial sin, and the ball glove has gone stiff as a board on a shelf in the garage. A new Mills album these days doesn't raise with the same anticipation that greeted her James Mtume/Reggie Lucas-produced records of the late '70s.
The word got out because of Cornell's tendency to tap her toes-rapidly, nervously-in situations where non-dancers might bite their fingernails. Views of a cocky Emiliano Zapata and a charismatic Pancho Villa, as well as images of common citizens, their lives torn apart by war, convey the spirit and agony of the national conflict. Ray Tatar, theater grants administrator for the California Arts Council, pointed out that the CAC began to reduce its contributions to ACT $145,000 in 1980, down to $50,000 this year) some seasons ago because its theater panelists thought that the company's work had fallen off ACT's audience was also down. The story"a parable of the human condition-concerns a piebald horse, "different from the rest of the herd, who, because of being different, goes through some joyous and terrible things.