I came back to Chicago"When I met him to do a magazine piece, "The Ransom Sherman Show" was a daily half-hour live TV variety show at 6 in the afternoon, with music by accordionist Art Van Damme (whom Sherman thoughtfully referred to as Art Van Darn) and his quintet, an announcer-accomplice-the young Hugh Downs, a personable pair of singers and Sherman himself, doing foolish things with film clips (I remember a shot of a beer truck turning a corner, with a voice-over that related to something else entirely. Media exploitation of Hudson's misfortune-and that's exactly what much of the coverage has been-ironically has helped spotlight the larger problem of AIDS, drawing attention to its increasing danger to society And not only to gays. Within these strictures, however, one must acknowledge that the ensemble mustered impressive cohesiveness, unanimity of attack and individual touches of color In the Suite No. On a show where apparently everyone who stumbles into the studio becomes a reporter, Baskerville someday may be required to make a transition between interviewing a head of state and reporting a blizzard in Colorado. Choreographer Emily Kramer's dances offer nice depictions of London street people at play. One of seven operating programs at the Getty Trust, the Art History Information Program was designed to "facilitate scholarly research in the field of art history by improving access to information resources" according to Public Affairs Director Philippa Calnan The other six enterprises of the trust are the J.

"It's been like that for me for the rest of the time since-working off the feelings, both mine and other peoples. These notices must have been heartwarming for Bob Geldof, the rock singer who worked for months corralling dozens of the world's leading pop acts into joining this campaign to help famine victims in Africa. They also revived the lazy-Mexican stereotype needlessly and tastelessly. At the end of Act I, the wall becomes a ramp for the lovers" By now a veteran of the world's major opera-producing companies-the Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala in Milan, the Bolshoi and the Met in New York, among others-Schneider-Siemssen has traveled the world since his debut production, Menotti's "The Consul" in Salzburg, in 1951. Tragedy giggled through the art and life of Gordon Matta-Clark like a chill shadow on a sunny day Dead at age 35, the artist was hardly a household name. 'OF MICE AND MEN' John Steinbeck's play, at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego Director Craig Noel Scenic and costume designer Steven Rubin Lighting designer Kent Dorsey Sound designer Michael Holten Stage manager Maria Carrera.

But she also points out that the new owners reconfirmed her contract in December Whether her programming brief has changed, she's not saying. But I didn't want to start too soon" Hampson says he will first sing the role in Zurich in two years, though "I'd prefer to try it out somewhere smaller, first. It hurts me; it hurts me because I'm a part of it and because I'm not a part of it" He laughed dispiritedly. Every time a supplier came in to make a delivery, I'd get him to tell me which he liked best.

A former producer of "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report" Franklin-Trout spent five years overseeing nightly coverage of the White House, Congress, the Middle East, defense, space and the environment In 1982, she began producing major series for PBS. People poke fun at all the other ethnic and minority groups, so why not whites" In a documentary style using actors and actresses, "History of White People" presents a series of often scathing vignettes satirizing the middle-class, Middle America types. Feature Reporting: "The 30-Second Hook: Channel 2 News" KCBS-TV News Commentary: Jack Perkins, "Drugs on TV" KNBC-TV. More recently, American Ballet Theatre's Leslie Browne and Ethan and Gabrielle Brown are children of former Ballet Theatre couple Kelly and Isabelle Brown. March 17 matinee"Romeo and Juliet: Robert Hill, Amanda McKerrow March 17"Romeo and Juliet: Bissell, Jaffe March 19"Coppelia: Gregory, LaFosse March 20"Coppelia: Van Hamel, Tippet. "Of all the saw players today, I'm the one with the most 'classical' background.

Tenor sax and drums is an odd combination, but Nash and Lewis made it work with consistent energy and creativity. Husker Du, the Minneapolis trio that serves up thinking-man's punk, has a significantly fresher and more original work than Jagger. That's why I think you should have not only an active, creative intuition but also a familiarity with society and culture" And the master's degree in business? Besides exposing him to marketing and accounting practices, "business school examines the nature of uncertainty and risk" he says. Ah yes, the Screen Kiss, so familiar to us all, was left, all by its lonesome, to be the guiding light that would illuminate our way along the dangerous and booby-trapped road of our sexuality, about which we knew nothing, those in charge evidently putting great store by the monkey-no-see, monkey-no-do theory Well, it hasn't worked, has it. And you could say the same for three-fourths of the men's hectoring exchanges, whose timing seems fatally awry. D'Angelo, a terrifically gifted young songstress, showed great style in her singing of Sammy Cahn's "Teach Me Tonight; Dolores Hope, introduced by her husband, Bob Hope, offered a sweet "Day by Day" also from the Cahn songbook. "I've done a TV commercial and an indoor truck show and I've been in Lexington this past week at a home and gardens show You just sit in a spa in a swimsuit all day" she said.

I've gotten to the point in this theater where I can go on and do a show that needs two more weeks of rehearsal. We did it for survival" Ertegun and Abramson, later joined by Billboard magazine columnist Jerry Wexler, aimed their rhythm and blues records at a black audience. A resting place for the residue of inquiries that have lost their urgency, these rooms are jammed with temporarily shelved treasures that will one day be dusted off and rediscovered. But it's the little guys in the record industry who have had the biggest problem getting their music released in the new CD format, since the world's dozen or so CD manufacturing plants are working at full capacity just to meet demand for hit albums by Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits and other top-selling acts In Anaheim, however, officials at LaserVideo Inc. "I want them to turn and I want to draw attention to their surroundings, to the architecture "I think that's largely the point of an opening night. Melodic, jazzy and giddily happy, this song is one of Van Halen's best ever. "Can't you do it, Miss Ryan" Waters asked, without attempting to hide the exasperation in her voice.

They have found them in the area bounded by Island Street, Broadway and 4th and 9th avenues. Grammy voters may nominate Lewis here as a consolation prize for being shut out of the album of the year race. He's 2-foot-10, 28 years old and likes cigars and beer. The former adviser to President Lyndon Johnson said of the upcoming summer games: "Any kind of U. S-Soviet cultural exchange is better than hurling insults or missiles at one another and, in the end, I think these will provide a better vehicle and a more valuable asset than politics" Turner, who recently has sounded more conciliatory and more concerned with global politics than in the past, said the aim of the summer games is better U. S-Soviet relations.

there is such an air about the place that it is easy to imagine the waiters doing a minuet. (That we typically say "men" then "women" is itself a giveaway) Because the camera creates definitive male and female images, Atkinson has used slides, photographs and texts in an installation suggesting motion picture film and the experience of watching film to show how our perceptions of gender roles are influenced by the movies. By March, they were in Hollywood's Chateau Recording Studio, working on their debut extended-play record with producer Bruce Botnick, famous for his work with the Doors, Kenny Loggins and Steve Perry. If you praised anything in their home, you could be sure it would be waiting for you in your car when you left" Today, he describes his family as "not wanting" even if its days of glory are gone forever-and adds that he still has his grandfather's gold opium spoon. When she eats an Oreo, she carefully takes it apart and licks off the white filling before biting into the black cookie.

Colorado resident Drex Brooks uses a Polaroid police camera to combine frames from educational film strips. Cast Anne Betancourt, James Victor, Robert Beltran, Patti Yasutake. Later he focused entirely on minimal abstraction, which culminated in a series of linear, sensual paintings Beginning Saturday through Oct. Annie Lennox of Eurythmics was named best British female artist and her partner, Dave Stewart, picked up the award for best British producer. . "We have been under fire, and frankly, we're feeling a little gun-shy" said Harvey Sabinson, executive director of Broadway's official trade organization, the League of American Theaters and Producers, in acknowledging at a press conference that the league was releasing the results of an eight-month economic study to deflect recent criticism. Most of San Diego's five college radio stations, which all boast eclectic formats not normally heard on commercial stations, share those difficulties: How do you boost listenership, and thus advertising revenue, when you are denied access to the public airwaves, and how can you have strong management when most of your staff changes from semester to semester? The first problem is unique to towns like San Diego adjacent to the border with Mexico, said June Butler, a public service specialist with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC. Alan Edison, owner of the Great American Gallery in Chicago-the franchisee for original Gormans there-put the gross for the most recent Gorman show there at $45,000.

The most important thing in giving Lone Justice a strong grass-roots following around town was the quality of the music. That is, until this interview day, and to my amazement it looked just the same as it had all those years earlier But, of course, it wasn't It's not even called Warner Bros anymore It's called Burbank Studios. Some instrumental tracks boast a rhythmic verve akin to reggae while others recall zydeco and Cajun music with a South African twist. "Someone gets married and finds out his bride's sister is a dancer, and the reaction is, 'Uh-oh, better be careful' "But I look on Oriental dancing as just another art form, a very difficult one that's full of emotion After all, it's been here since long before Islam".

Lacey is pro-choice, the Catholic-reared Cagney is on the fence. This is a show that adds itself up as well as sorting itself out. Where writers had been frustrated and angry, actors seemed frustrated and resigned, which explains why so many develop a terrific sense of humor-or develop into their own writer/producers and variations thereof, such as Fionnula Flanagan "James Joyce's Women) or Jane Alexander "Square Dance Said Flanagan: "I never wanted to be just an actress My earliest desire was to be a mogul. Franz Liszt appeared to her-at the time she had no idea who he was-explaining that later in life he would return to teach her music. "My reason for opening this store" he added, "is to show that all music fans are created equal, regardless of where they live" LIVE ACTION: Rock 'n' roll legend Bo Diddley will play the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach on Thursday. Finally, there was an astonishing letter from a San Fernando Valley restaurateur who seems to believe that complaints from diners "serve no purpose other than serve one's ego by forcing others to cater to one's petty self-indulgence-which, if translated correctly, means that any member of the public who dares to criticize a restaurant is just a self-centered crybaby Nouvelle management philosophy, no doubt. Theatrical movies, which averaged a 15. 7 rating last season, slipped to an average of 14. 8 this year.