"It was a leftover from the Olympic Arts Festival and we wanted a newness about us. We hope Wyland's piece will encourage other building owners to start thinking about what they could do to make their buildings more aesthetically appealing" Although Wyland is receiving no payment for the mural-he is donating his time and effort and materials have been donated by local businesses-opposition groups insist that he will benefit financially because his reputation will be enhanced. In the tradition begun last season, this Lo-Cal Composers concert was introduced by an elder statesman in the world these composers now enter. This was music? This was drama? "Morbid" said the woman next to me when the lights came up. Even in these elaborately three-dimensional pieces, Cheng has the delicate touch of a hermit spinning cobwebby fantasies.

So "Strange Interlude" emerges as a ton of talk, even when the travails of Nina and her three men (James Hazeldine, Brian Cox and Edward Petherbridge) seem to promise fireworks. Her older sister (Aki Mizusawa) suffers from a lack of attention, even from the man (Kunihiko Mitamura) she loves, who's more attracted to Shimamura than to her. A looming, 17-foot sound sculpture, looking something like a sleek, space-age jungle gym and echoing the whoosh of the wind, is now keeping company with the more austere statues of war heroes in Pershing Square. That'll really scandalize them: I might as well go for the real thing! "Proust described an Odette entirely different from Ornella Muti-more like a young Catherine Deneuve, a Botticelli. The lesson for theater owners, said Keough: Don't accept the status quo, and don't be afraid to change your formulas. Quite often, there will be a kind note scribbled on the ballot.

There is no excitement on TV's most popular syndicated show, a half-hour seen in 182 markets constituting a whopping 98. 6% of the nation and attracting a peak audience of more than 40 million earlier this year Although the nighttime "Wheel of Fortune" (7 p. m. Her tragic death in 1979 at the age of 40 was sadder than any film. Zmuda said that the group had been advised by undisclosed media consultants that the best way to keep the attention of the press was to make little announcements along the way rather than disclose everything at once. His Onimasa is no ordinary thug, and that's finally his downfall.

Adapted as a musical by Sandrow (book, Raphael Crystal (music) and Richard Engquist (lyrics, it became an Off-Broadway hit last season and comes to the Westwood Playhouse on Feb 16 with comedian Shelley Berman. "Sometimes you have trouble because someone likes your music so much. More than $62 million has been raised for the construction and endowment of the complex, now under construction in Costa Mesa. Even Ritchie, who doesn't really show much of what he feels, felt good about it We knew we could record together again. But these marriages of convenience between commercialism and wishful thinking should, even in retrospect, be judged for what they did. "My children and I all love music, and we wanted to emphasize the fact that we are serving the kind of food we ate when we lived in Venice.

Jonny-a. k. a. He is seen in the film during a space walk with Kathy Sullivan, peering in the cabin window and grinning delightedly, like an interplanetary hitchhiker. MGM/UA's "That's Dancing" debuted to a stumbling $1. 5 million at 906 theaters. . That had a lot to do with theater: It all happened in the imagination, understanding through the trappings of the candles, that she was a queen, a mother It began my understanding of always having the gods present. The series, "The War on Drugs" is scheduled to take up "a substantial portion" of the nightly "NewsHour" through April 25. "Since the governor reduced our state funding to zero, there has been absolutely no news reporting of any kind out of Sacramento. Thus "Papillon" seems empty at the center and fuzzy overall-a ballet full of sly Feldian touches but never satisfying as a whole. .

The work dares us to accept it on the artist's terms or not at all. The general theme is how women emerged from the background to being active instead of passive historical figures-though this is not a feminist tract. This is the first showcase for regional legit work in New York since the late '60s, when the American National Theater and Academy sponsored productions. The agency has admitted only a minor connection with the firm, which went bankrupt in 1983. . Hopelessly overinflated, it has broken its tether to float overhead, blotting out the sun A little proportion, please.

You get tired of making something happen before it's ready"Example: Pacino's troubled attempt to revive Brecht's "The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui" in Boston in 1973. Even when he-the skinniest man in show biz-stripped down to his boxer shorts near the end of the hourlong set, the effect was more cute-huggable punk-than rebellious The Dolls will also play Saturday at Fender's. Sitting around the TV and watching assorted brutal animal and human killings doesn't seem like a fun way to spend an evening to me, but it must be to some people. Baryshnikov, her celebrated Kirov colleague and sometime Ballet Theatre boss, has virtually abandoned the classical repertory. In contrast, the primitivist rites of "Part 11" (1976, danced locally in 1979) blended a prosaic task-bagging stones-and expressions of group solidarity with greater subtlety. But after that, in a discussion segment concluding tonight's PBS program, the rebuttal of the rebuttal is rebutted by Reed Irvine, head of Accuracy in Media (AIM, the politically conservative media watchdog organization behind the original rebuttal The battle also spills over into print. Filmex had hoped to receive "Heimat" almost three weeks earlier, but according to Filmex artistic director Ken Wlaschin, Reitz was dissatisfied with the subtitling, recalled it to the lab and the film arrived in Los Angeles only the Tuesday before its Saturday screening.

He has found his own un-Philharmonic milieu in which he can write his own rules. Jennifer Beals co-stars in this version of the "Bride of Frankenstein" tale More Sting next week. In one segment, there was a "barbecue show" where friends and members of the studio audience were invited by for burgers and laughs. There wasn't a cat in the whole neighborhood that liked me" If Armstrong harbors any bitterness about missed opportunities, he doesn't reveal it here. The flowers on the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion are gone So are the TV cameras Nobody hands out free wine on the plaza The fanfares have stopped The sky above the Music Center is bereft of fireworks The audience comes in mufti This is week No 2 of the Andre Previn era Time to get down to business No more Philharmonic Phuss. Lazaroff's latest endeavor is a $2-million, free-standing restaurant adjacent to the $80-million Grand Champion Resort scheduled to open early next year in Indian Wells, a few sand dunes down from Palm Springs.

Their duet, "Choo-Choo Honeymoon" is sheer corn and utterly delightful. Fans who sample some of the 15 to 20 albums available in the States will discover that the sound is far removed from Nigeria's juju music, the most widely known African style here. "It's to kill people and kill 'em fast" And so on, and so on. Although she left "Facts of Life" after the 1983-84 season "they wanted to cut the number of episodes involving my character, Jewell said she has hopes of starring as a schoolteacher in a new series now under development. And revelation? Check out his rendition of Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns and Money" to which NRA supporter Williams lends more than a little credence.