"I have no quarrel with the networks' policy of controlling what goes on their airwaves" Downs said. The winner of today's mystery meat contest was Billy Posner, who guessed 'some kind of meat' " "Now that's a different way to handle it, rather than having a group of guys grab their throats and say 'yuck' " Next time at bat, he'll take on the saga of a Club Med on a poverty-stricken island; an unsettling sendup of the Old West, the unsanitized West, and a farcical saga about the security guard industry. (The pitch strategy here has to rank as the barmiest in history; you doubt that anything in real life could top it) "Power" failed as straight drama or melodrama, but the cast was good; you sense it might have worked as a socially conscious romantic comedy But there's no way "The Imagemaker" could be rescued. Twenty-five black San Diego artists will be represented in a mixed media exhibit from Sunday through March 30 in the second-floor gallery of the villa, built in 1887 by the eccentric artist Jesse Shepard. Salvation Army ministers Don Sather, 48, and his wife, Esther, from San Pedro, Calif, are here. Last month, NBC and CBS agreed to carry the spots after the doctors' group agreed to make changes in the commercials Joseph E Seagram and Sons Inc. Now that the Egg and the Eye is open for breakfast and dinner, both the menu and the ambiance seem different than at bustling lunchtime.

For the past three years she served as chair of the General Studies Program at Otis/Parsons. I was still abroad when the early American version of "TW3" went on the air, but, as Lee Margulies reported in these pages a few days ago, it was only fitfully successful, and short-lived. Since then, little has changed for the group that calls itself the Orange County Latino Artist Network. "I can say in all certainty that my first picture in America was an extraordinary experience-a baptism in fire" With the deal (phew) finally completed, production began in New York April 30, 1984. Next comes pa amb oli i pernil , which is simply a slab of excellent country bread, lightly toasted and rubbed with olive oil and the cut side of a fresh halved tomato and topped with a piece of delicious local ham. And the graphic qualities that sustained Sonsini's earlier work have vanished into a morass of purposely crude painting (Newspace, 5241 Melrose Ave, to June 8). Is it true that American "artists" have taken on the role of teachers, whose mission it is to show their people how to see the invisible? At any rate we all envy you.

The surprise Wednesday night at Occidental College was a little less than last year, when another five-person squad from the Royal Shakespeare Company first pulled the trick with "Twelfth Night" Still, this is a dazzling demonstration of how little it takes to conjure up a play, given actors who know how to play. There have been occasional local retrospectives of Indian cinema, and now there will be an offering of Indian films without precedent when the UCLA Film Archives presents "Film Utsav" ( utsav meaning festival/celebration , a two-part, 47-film survey of contemporary and classic Indian films It begins Nov 2, halts on Dec 22 and resumes in February. The film, which opens next Friday in Los Angeles, has been playing in New York since last Friday. . The exhibition, organized by Charles Moffett, curator of European paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, opened in January at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. A lively downtown "art scene" has developed in San Diego in response to the presence of both establishments and personalities. Parnell's play was to have traveled to the Globe after it closed at the Taper on Sunday Instead, it will be postponed until next winter. This past year we've (Opera Pacific) raised $140,000, which we consider a very good and encouraging start" he said.

"That was a dark, dark period for me, but God gave me the strength to overcome it" she said recently, taking a break during a hectic weekend spent preparing to perform on saxophonist David Sanborn's next album "I turned it around" she continued. 'CLARA'S PLAY' The report on John Olive is that he's a playwright with a future. Her only other verbal contribution was to announce the replacement of Alkan's Grand Prelude with an "Echo" Fantasie by Saint-Saens, although its namesake element could not be heard in her performance. Peart's lyrics contribute an intellectual quality that makes it all seem meaningful. He voluntarily surrendered his New York auctioneer's license while Christopher Bruce, current chairman of Christie's New York, gave up his license for four months The company said it would pay an $80,000 settlement. But Simon Rattle, with a more recent incarnation of the Philharmonia Orchestra, proves also to be a sensitive Bartokian in another attractively priced release (London Jubilee 414 531. Rattle's tempos throughout are slower than Furtwaengler's. "I'd love to forget what happened and think nice thoughts about the whole thing.

Remembered the journalist: "I wasn't cynical about a movie version because I was euphoric about life. I took two classes a day and then went to six a day" he said. But Bell and Simon also said that they considered the fact that audience familiarity with explicit language, violence and sexuality has increased with the spread of pay television, and that there is precedent for such strong fare on commercial TV here with KCOP's presentation of "The Deer Hunter" and KTLA's own documentary "Scared Straight"This is a big, cosmopolitan city" Bell said. Sohl-Donnell danced with urbane style and technical security, and the rest of the company-Karol Lee, Pauline Hagino, Monie Adamson and Beverley Scott-showed similar strength, grace and easy-going skill. "Others are involved too-Meredith Monk and Diamanda Galas, for instance There's also a couple of guys out of San Diego called THE. "I like to create alternatives of the future" said Mead, 52, whose formal education was in industrial design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. "Violence is too prevalent in television and film, and with a President who thinks 'Rambo' is the height of film making, we unfortunately see real life imitating art" Streisand was here to accept New York Gov.

In 1959, Nix moved to KEZY, where he worked until 1974, when he returned to KWIZ. Few had permanent mailing addresses-and cash was the spoken language. According to Hermanos' co-producers, Jose Quintana and Albert Hammond, the Spanish-language equivalent of a USA for Africa ad-hoc grouping has already confirmed such Latino singing stars as Julio Iglesias, Placido Domingo, Jose Feliciano and Menudo. Nina Bernstein speaks Maria in American: no rolled r for her. "This is entertainment and if people are spending money for entertainment, you must sell it as entertainment" Politics and movie making are closer cousins than they might first appear: Both expend massive energy attempting to appeal to the lowest common denominator-one in the hopes of winning the most possible votes, the other in the hopes of selling the most possible tickets.

And the screenings have helped to turn their host into one of the most recognized and effective power brokers in town. He developed a formula of the Navajo-looking woman, and there hasn't been anything new since then. The result, despite moments of glory, is the mishmash it has to be. Samelson's Friday performance is the opening attraction in Cal State Fullerton's Professional Artists in Residence series for 1985-86. . At the end of the meeting, one man said, 'You've put your head in a noose if this doesn't work' " Unintimidated, Monty replied, " 'General Hospital' has a two-month cancellation notice. You also organize exhibitions to educate the public about the glories of an amazingly advanced civilization, dubbed "the Greeks of the New World" in the hope of proving the need to preserve its heritage.

"Stop Making Sense" is director Jonathan Demme's intense chronicle of the innovative band Talking Heads-and its visionary leader, David Byrne-in concert. Susan Baraz is represented by a masterpiece of fiber art-dyed and woven yarn in the form of a two-piece dress with a matching coat. The same impatience with yesterday's structures is evident in contemporary dramaturgy, as witness Thomas Babe's "Planet Fires" and Neal Bell's "Sleeping Dogs" seen last week on the Mark Taper Forum's festival of plays in progress, "In the Works '85" Babe's play is a gaudy allegorical extravaganza, presenting post-Civil War America as a traveling medicine show run by a villainous Barnum named Van Amburgh. The story covers the 1930s, when Hedda, the moderately successful Hollywood actress, was a tipster for her Hearst columnist friend Louella, and the early 1940s, when they became bitter enemies competing for the same dirt.

That means that secular broadcasters have a big financial stake in keeping CBN and the rest of the electronic clergy healthy and wealthy enough to keep buying air time. As in Los Angeles, "The 700 Club" airs in many cities on independent stations, opposite the morning shows on ABC, CBS and NBC-the very shows that it's patterned after. Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza's collection was started and built to world-class status by his father, whose name was the same. The folks at American Motors claim they were unaware of this when they sought Scott as a spokesman. I watched their faces while it was on, and they showed rapt attention-either that, or disbelief" Vianello asked for feedback. The studio asked Friday that the dispute be aired before the Professional Standards Committee of the Directors Guild of America.

However: "Theater has always been part of my image of myself My mother and father met in the theater He was a stage manager and she was a dancer. Director Don Eitner has set the play in the '30s, when fascism was on the rise in Italy and the characters' dialectical confusions are a further expression of a social and political system that isn't working anymore, and is losing its justification for being. John Huerta and Los Angeles City Councilman Ernani Bernardi debate the merits of Prop. I cannot make the films I want at the moment" Tikoy Aguiluz crossed an exhaust-choked street in downtown Manila to an old movie theater converted for live sex shows, bought two tickets for 20 pesos (about a dollar) each, and led a reporter inside. Part of the appeal of the Bilko show (1955-59) undoubtedly was that so many of its viewers were not more than a decade out of the Army. Redoing a story doesn't reduce its value at all" Walters said Woods gave him the impression that "he plans to work harder than ever" under the new arrangement. "But I'm certainly not going to try to top the things I did before.

At one point in his miserable odyssey, Time magazine called Bridges "a pitiful nomad" "AIDS-A National Inquiry" also appears to be a departure in that it begins where other discussions leave off. section of Amnesty International, said the series of shows will begin June 4 in San Francisco and include stops in Dallas, Atlanta and Chicago. We took on the task when there was a vacuum in this county for great music" Knobbe said. Lunches are served during the week for the full-meal price of $4. 95 while Sunday brunch offers more food than a Southern belle would consume in a day at $7. 95. But, adds Mitchell, "we've put together a lot of work to prove otherwise, to show that you, as an individual, can make a difference" He takes pains to credit Britain's Geldof as the driving force behind Live Aid: "He really created the show in the sense of personally contacting a majority of the acts and getting them involved" Mitchell says the lead-off concert in London is scheduled to start at noon there July 13 and last 10 hours. If the ballet world does not quite suggest the financial and social intrigue of "Dynasty" the profession is frequently a family affair. Rudolf Bing encountered violent resistance from his board when in 1955 he broke the color barrier at the Met by engaging Marian Anderson for Ulrica in "Un Ballo in Maschera" an "old-Gypsy" role that easily accommodates dark skin.

You drive into the small parking lot at the rear of the small building in Sherman Oaks You climb the steep flight of outside stairs. "We Are the World" was a challenge to the public to respond to a scandalous situation in Africa-and a call for the musical community to use more of its energy and power in behalf of social good. It's just so frustrating when you're in a supporting role because you only get to express a part of yourself. Gerald Cantor, an investment banker of New York and Los Angeles, and his wife Iris in 1983. "What we're hoping is that once people see what kind of results we're producing, private money will replace the start-up grant" He looked down the hallway at the anxiously waiting young musicians and a faint smile came to his lips: "I have a feeling it'll turn out all right" The school will offer classes in theater, visual arts, dance and instrumental and vocal music besides the basic educational subjects such as English, math and the sciences. Recent releases: John Huston's "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950, a crime drama famed for a brief bit by a dazzling new actress, Marilyn Monroe (MGM/UA, $69. 95; two James Stewart Westerns, "Bend of the River" (1952) and "Winchester '73" (1950, out this week on MCA at $59. 95. Another controversial cult film, writer-director James Toback's "Fingers" is being released Tuesday by Media at $49. 95. To illustrate the importance of film scores, you'll see familiar sequences without music (such as the runners on the beach in "Chariots of Fire" sans the theme.