I was part of that generation of young black writers who more or less tended to turn our backs on 'Native Son' " A grandson of two Baptist ministers, Wesley came home with dismay from his 1967 graduation from Howard University to a Newark, N. J, exploding in riots. Sometimes it's like kissing a fish" "The Normal Heart" (Los Palmas Theater) requires a passionate kiss between Davison and Richard Dreyfuss, both emphatically heterosexual in real life. Previn Comes to Town" a behind-the-scenes look at Andre Previn as musical globe-trotter, on Wednesday at 8:05 p. m (simulcast on KUSC, 91. 5 FM) and next Sunday at 3 p. m (The program also airs on Channel 15, at 9 p. m Wednesday, and on Channel 50, at 7 p. m. Knowledge of electronics doesn't mean you are creating art" One approach to curbing this dilemma is to hit the industry head on, he suggested. They will star back-to-back in, respectively, "Valerie" and "You Again" which will air Mondays from 8 to 9 p. m, beginning March 3. Last Sunday the "Celebration for Life" dinner effort was launched by Elizabeth Taylor at a brunch at Trumps restaurant Pledges for $5,000 tables were taken by organizers. The Soviet trade mission decision is "not a good symptom" she said.
When the fall schedule was announced Monday, ABC listed "Dynasty II" in that time slot and made no mention of its delayed starting date. Television or deja vision ? We've already seen revivals of "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Perry Mason" this season (the latter topping the national Nielsen ratings, and remakes of "Love American Style" and "The Andy Griffith Show" are on the way Old times must seem like good times And now Mary Tyler Moore is back Remember? " Ohhhhh , Mr. Doris Stevenson, a faculty member at USC where Landauer is still studying, provided assured partnership. I've really always been just the observer" Being the middle child of a London theatrical agent and his "exquisite, fragile wife" gave Collins a useful duality. Baggett strongly criticized the "Space" miniseries, which aired last week, as a "soap-oper-y 'As the World Turns' in space" And while he referred to author Tom Wolfe's nonfictionalized account, "The Right Stuff" as the inspiration for his own series, he said the recent film version of Wolfe's book "did an injustice to people and to history" "Both the movies and the media in general have taken fact and turned it into fiction, and then not told the public up front that it was fiction" Baggett said. It would enliven the hamlet no end, he says, and "what he could do boggles the mind) Tuck's fame as a leg-puller on the Democratic side is chiefly due to his history of capers against Nixon, whose mind first was boggled by Tuck during Nixon's 1950 Senate race against Rep.
An up-tempo romp through the complex harmonies of "Cherokee" revealed an ability to combine gospel passion with bebop articulation. As of last week, meanwhile, the long-dark 1,900-seat Wilshire Theatre found new company. "I was shocked when I saw ABC News" Hayes said in an interview. "Lady Jane" (at the Regent, Westwood, and the South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa) brings back the big historical romance with verve and passion. In all moments, they seemed to think, move and express with a single musical mind and apparatus. The series, which has a 13-week commitment from NBC, will premiere in the fall. The restaurant occupies a charming, four-story medieval building facing the imposing west facade of the Dom, or Cathedral.
Her book, "84 Charing Cross Road" is what led the tourists here. "Not just among the ushers-some of whom have been at the Bowl more than 20 years-but among the patrons, particularly way at the back. All the artist can do is trigger the emotion and let that direct the insight, he said from his Santa Monica studio. Moreover, Steppling's play was written in terse little scenes that weren't too easy to string together: something about a man trying to get a job with one of the studios, while another man (who seemed to be interested in the first one sexually) tried to get him to burn down his apartment house. "Marlene" the quasi-documentary on Marlene Dietrich that Schell directed and in which he appears, is doing well in Germany, where it earned the national award for best documentary. Gesell argued that now that the term Star Wars has entered the lexicon of public language the effect on the strength of the trademark is yet to be seen.
Christian Schad is like an updated Bronzino painting portraits of elegant alienation. LA JOLLA — There's a magazine photographer waiting, one show opening, another closing, and where Des McAnuff wants to be is half a mile away in a dance studio-cum-rehearsal hall. Lotfi Mansouri staged the proceedings with an appreciative eye on character relationships and old-fashioned convention. "My son got into Quaaludes, which seemed to have been passed out like candy in those days. "Dom DeLuise plays Guilt; he's a big, fat man who comes into my restaurant. Tony Perkins, starring in and directing "Psycho III" (due this summer, wanted a deadly bathroom scene to be largely bloodless, like Hitchcock's famous shower sequence in the original.
The station is seeking several million dollars in additional funding to cover the production of the other 25 half-hour episodes and support material to enhance their educational impact. The particulars are a surprise, says Milliken, "though we started giving our customers little hints on our menus just before we closed" In a related development, another West Hollywood restaurant, the newly opened Marix on Las Flores at Santa Monica, closed last Sunday for its own remodeling It will reopen Friday with a Tex-Mex theme. . The program contrasts the relatively poor safety records of U. S. With Nastassja Kinski, Herbert Gronemeyer, Rolf Hoppe, Bernhard Wicki, Andre Keller Running time: 1 hour, 45 minutes.
Craig's cast plays to those stereotypes, and as a result, the relationships never go beyond the superficial. The other figurative and abstract works (on view through Oct. Making his local debut Friday at Cal State Long Beach's Nugget club, this Crescent City crowned head showcased the idiosyncratic instrumental style and the stellar songwriting skills that become a semi-legend most. NEW YORK — After Three Mile Island, the Challenger accident and now the meltdown at Chernobyl, it's becoming increasingly clear that as far as the high technology is concerned, nobody's really in charge, nobody has all the answers The lesson is-always has been-don't trust the experts. 18 televised "wedding" of Paul (The Butcher) Vachon to the always lovely Diane Page inside a makeshift ring and in front of the usual "TNT" curios as George (The Animal) Steele ate the decorations The Butcher's best man was his brother, Mad Dog.
With you in there, where dim sunlight streams through the cracks, are crammed the members of the Cure, who don't seem all that bothered by the claustrophobic situation. Nelson takes the something-for-everyone approach in this jumble of an album, skipping randomly from tired sociological messages "The Promiseland) to cliched love songs "Here in My Heart) to misplaced pop standards "Basin Street Blues. Mason (of New York's Circle Rep) with the Taper (which staged Wilson's "Talley's Folly" "Fifth of July" and "A Tale Told. How do you celebrate 20 years of doing business at the same address? For the Mark Taper Forum and Gordon Davidson, its artistic director since it opened in 1967, you do more of the same, better At least you try. She shares her loft gallery with a pet Doberman pinscher named Eva and a roommate who is an actress. Trained as a visual artist in Chicago, Schuette still paints-colorful abstract designs-but has made a reputation as an exceptional arts administrator in running Sushi. Crew members-some of whom had worked on the original-raved about the sets. Weathers stars as "Fortune Dane" premiering Saturday at 9 p. m.
The audience sat onstage, with its back to the stage wall, while the actors worked against the black void of the auditorium, lit with green "EXIT" signs It was "Endgame" at the very edge of the universe. There's always a wall there but if you just push ahead, all of a sudden, the work starts to flow" Hooper discovered a couple of years ago just how fast he could work. However, they agreed that better this "20/20" segment on the McMartin case than none at all. We're shooting for what I call the 'super class' age, 22 to 52 They're the ones with all the money.
(The schedule, again centered on the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is expected to include the Dresden Philharmonic from East Germany and Vienna-based Philharmonica Hungarica) But it will be business as usual at the 1,600-seat Santa Ana Auditorium, the Philharmonic Society's concert home since 1976. "The $12. 6 million is a far cry from the $44 million that the New York State Council (on the Arts) will get in '85'86. His is a world in flux and a sphere balanced by angels and devils. "He felt he could no longer rely on their abiding by the contract" The Times attempted to reach Hoffman, but the actor is "out of the country on vacation" a spokesman at his New York-based Punch Productions said.
Right now I'm suffering with my third English translation of 'Barbiere' this one for the Welsh Opera. " As for the cast, Rogoff found the women more complex and interesting than the men, especially Blythe Danner as the hero's betrayed wife. On a recent weekend, for example, tickets were readily available for all Broadway shows except the long-running musical "Cats" and Lily Tomlin's one-woman show, "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" the one unqualified success of the season. Anne Clark's custody did nothing to keep the twins from constant contact with such figures as Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst and gaggles of left-wing intellectuals and moony artists. Franklin's attorney, Beverly Hills- based Ronald Katz, maintains that there are grounds for a suit because of a "breach of responsibility" "Based upon evidence made available to me, I am convinced that Mr Franklin and Mr.