It's always intriguing to see what has happened to people, I think. You have to show them you're the boss but also a friend" There have been slip-ups by his crew, some of them quite spectacular. "Perhaps it will lead people to check out those other albums. The menace of the dark figure is never established and the final conflict is resolved too facilely. "Dancers recognize my work as movement that is beautiful to experience It graces them" "With a new dancer, it can be wonderful. I told her my story and she said, 'I'll do it' I was delighted but I said, 'You must get such a lot of offers since "Pixote" ' You know what she said? 'None' " Morrissey, who said he owns 50% of his movies, has high hopes for "Mixed Blood" called "his most outrageously effective comedy since 'Trash' and 'Heat' " by The Times' Kevin Thomas But he's still irked by that ban in Ontario "Of course there's violence in it" he said "But it's funny Can't they see that ". "He has for years" The demise of the popular standard and the onslaught of R&B, C&W, rock and other current forms began four decades ago, Charlie Shoemake said "We lost it (the classic popular music form) in the '40s.

"It's very flattering to be picked by a group as first class as this year's jurors" And Galczenski said: "It certainly says a lot for San Diego State University's art faculty". Public opinion (against the war) would not have reached its high point until maybe a year or two later" Westmoreland was an artilleryman in World War II, the first major war ever covered by radio. The scheme: "Vice" could seriously undercut "Dallas" and help wrestthe ratings crown away from CBS. Anything they can do we can do" When Robert Harris, president of Universal TV, said in passing that "I'd love to do a science-fiction family show, but I don't want to do anything in space" Taylor pitched "Otherworld" Harris liked the idea and, to bring the show to CBS, matched him up with DeGuere, who "was hot at CBS" at the time, Taylor said. Looking at these pictures is rather like reconstructing a crime from dark, out-of-focus photographs.

Sir Kenneth MacMillan's "Requiem" which opened the Los Angeles season Tuesday, tried to be novel and pious but, thanks largely to Andrew Lloyd Webber's bubble-gum score, ended up being trite and tawdry. If I read 10 books and four mention a certain restaurant, then I'll try that restaurant" The problem with most travel videocassettes is that they're often disguised commercials for various airlines, hotels and restaurants This series carefully avoids those pitfalls. According to Grass, the lyrics usually aren't political in nature, but songs concerned with everyday life under apartheid inevitably acquire a political meaning. Mark McGann, a fellow Liverpudlian who already has experience portraying John Lennon, has been signed to play the slain ex-Beatle in NBC's TV movie about the life of Lennon and his widow, Yoko Ono, the network said. They're not yet in the realm of the business"The already rocky road to success for young classical musicians is about to get rockier. Beginning at 7 p. m, bands representing 18 high schools, from Oceanside to Imperial Beach, will try to replicate the moves and mannerisms of their favorite pop stars, copied meticulously from MTV videos. The Depression, however, marked the beginning of a more conservative period, so that by 1935 even the word homosexual was banned from the screen by the Production Code.

Four years ago, when Howard was starting "Splash" he said his goal was to get the industry to take him seriously as a director and that the movie would facilitate a transition from TV acting to feature-film directing. "We decided to go in and make a record like Hank Williams or Elvis Presley would have made" said Burnett. At first the question seems to be whether the good guys of Eldorado will be able to save the town from the Golden Arm Gang. He has been provided with a $20 bus ticket from Indianapolis authorities to get out of town He is talking to his mother "Can you please come and pick me up? Why not?. One staffer, who asked not to be identified, said that morale at KABC had been down for several weeks, particularly in the graphics and on-air promotion departments because those are the areas that Cap Cities cost-cutters typically hit first. "It would cost 10 cents per day for three months" Winchell told about 100 reporters, celebrities, scientists and volunteers gathered Sunday for the inaugural press conference/study session of yet another USA for Africa spinoff called Africa Tomorrow.

"Brazil" went "wide" over the weekend, going from 15 to 145 screens, which brought in $500,000 and pushed its total box-office take to $1. 9 million. "A lot of the press said to me, 'You've played the same three women' I don't know where that comes from" she said testily. "Sam is a very private guy, and I didn't go down there to become his best friend" "Fool for Love" was turned down by most of the studios, Altman says, and he was within two days of giving up on the project last year when he got a call from Cannon Films. It is Hans Werner Henze's latest exploration of sociopolitical protest within the polite confines of the opera house It is undeniably clever It may even be brilliant It also is daring, intrinsically appealing and ambitious. The result is a combination of pure meditative mood and a certain amount of unforced emotional seepage. I tried veggie skins, Lord of the Rings onion rings, Monster Zero French fries and an Outer Space vanilla shake.

There is the usual long menu with the chef's specialties listed on the first page, a pleasant custom that makes decisions much simpler. Russell Pyle will light the show, with Cliff Faulkner doing the set and Barbara Cox the costumes Previews start Jan 16 Official opening is Feb 1. The images Johnson is now showing are ostensibly straightforward landscapes and urbanscapes. " This one is only for emergencies, as when dealing with someone fragile who also happens to be smarter than you are. If you haven't seen all the films, see the complete Oscar ballot on Page 4 Whatever you do, DO NOT look on Page 89 for the answers That would be sneaky and illegal Across 1 Breakdancer 5 Miss Rheingold Beer of 1948. And, in both instances, Shug Avery's actions, ideas and relationships are essential for determining who will be saved and the terms of salvation. Kraft said the assignment represents a rapprochement between him and Fleischmann, following a long-running dispute that preceded the conclusion last summer of Kraft's four-year stint as the orchestra's composer-in-residence.

I suppose it's what comes from being in a professional family" Her mother, actress Rachel Kempson, was most recently seen as Lady Manners in public TV's "The Jewel in the Crown" Vanessa's brother Corin, ever a candidate for Parliament (like Vanessa) under the banner of the Workers Revolutionary Party and a sporadic actor, was born in 1939; Lynn, in 1943. One of MCA's most conspicuous children, in a manner of speaking, is Freddie Fields. A former MTM staffer suggested that MTM long has been trying to get the show's budget under control, but Bochco is largely thought to be disinterested in anything that could detract from maintaining what he considers the show's creative standards. Interest costs since 1983$4. 1 million higher than originally estimated-constituted the largest part of the cost boost for the main-theater phase, Strader said. The music is a treat, but the real show is Armstrong, whose fiddle style fits his personality-sly, exuberant and full of bravura twists and turns. Radio City Music Hall Productions was formed in 1980 by the Music Hall's parent company, the Rockefeller Group, as "a diversified entertainment company" mandated to make the Music Hall a viable enterprise. It will feature scores of concerts, exhibitions and workshops, plus an arts "Imaginarium" fair created especially for this celebration.

He says he made the offer because, after the takeover bid by Turner, who owns Cable News Network, he worried about other corporate raiders trying to buy CBS. Each weekday, the 23-year-old promotions director for progressive rock radio station XTRA-FM (91X) and its oldies sister, XTRA-AM (69 XTRA Gold, is in the office by 9, ready for another fast-paced day of dreaming up contests, engineering advertising campaigns and ordering promotional items to be given away on the air. The few black comics I've seen usually avoid anti-white humor, instead aiming their insults at gays. In a perfect world, here is what I would do if I were an exhibitor 1 I would get rid of the nacho dispenser. Michael Pattinson's "Moving Out" which launches five Wednesdays of Australian films at the Vista, is a thoroughly engaging small film about an Italian-born teen-ager (Vince Colosimo, a natural actor) who emigrated to Australia at such a young age that he feels thoroughly Australian and at increasing odds with his clannish family, which speaks only Italian at home. Then, in the early '70s Bischoff did not merely evolve, he metamorphosed.

Qin also constructed legendary palaces for his lifetime activities, but nothing has preserved the emperor's memory so well in contemporary minds as the preparations he made for his burial. Much as I appreciate the atmosphere, however, the steaks are a disappointment. There were times during his well-received set that you felt you were at the national finals of the Merle Haggard Sing-Alike Contest. . Cagney is excellent in this role, his work being nearly on a par with the splendid performance he gave in the screen version of 'Penny Arcade' " -Exhibitor's Herald-WorldJames Cagney, who died last Sunday, caught the public's eye in 1930 with gangster roles in his first two films, "Sinners' Holiday" and "Doorway to Hell" but he became a star with his 1931 portrayal of a cocky, dame-slapping hoodlum in "The Public Enemy" Excerpts from reviews of those early films follow. Crawford's scenes after she gets handcuffed to a coffee maker are incredibly awkward. Her small, pure, slender tones may not dazzle in coloratura flights, but she savors such values as expressive finesse, an arching legato and a fine, floating pianissimo.

Do you sneak up and catch them by surprise? Do you ambush them? A: No. -Phil Donahue of the syndicated "Donahue" Exchanging his Chicago base for New York, Donahue continues to be the master devil's advocate, putting himself in conflict with his audience and guests without being abrasive. Even in dry weather, those seats would be too hard, the company too raucous, our time too valuable to go back to the bleachers for a second time. Desserts are passable, the pastries apparently coming from a local bakery (which may in fact endear them to the boaty crowd. But this exhibit evinces greater inventiveness in the extremes of both refinement and in muscular, free-form expressivity among Southern California artists than Japanese artists The sculptural forms should be appreciated for themselves They are not utilitarian pieces.

The mingling of art and commerce is not a new idea, says developer Abby Sher, founder of the new Santa Monica Museum of Art. Tickets, at $50 per person, entitle the holder to first crack at clothing donated by leading manufacturers and retailers: Jag, Esprit, Fred Segal, Monte Factor, Jerry Magnin, Camp Beverly Hills and others. RCA/Columbia is expected to ship a whopping 400,000-500,000 copies of this $79. 95 title George and Gracie at $14. 95. Jesse Ferguson (14-1) over Channels 7, 3, 10 and 42 at 2:30 p. m, a two-hour delay from the live origination.

Leslie Steffensen, a member of the Newport Beach Historical Society, elicited smiles from the mostly over-50 audience as he reminisced about the days "when dancing was a social grace, not an athletic experience" Even after big bands faded out in the 1950s, the Rendezvous continued presenting performers including Nat (King) Cole and the Four Freshmen, as well as local rock acts such as surf-rock guitarist Dick Dale & the Del-Tones and the Righteous Brothers. "An Evening With the Glenn Miller Orchestra" conducted by saxophonist Dick Gerhart Aug. Before one finishes viewing this astonishing exhibition, there is persuasive empirical evidence that Schwitters was a forerunner of such currently vital forms as word works, environmental art and performance. The Humana Festival of New Plays at the Actors' Theatre of Louisville has had the most enviable track record overall with plays that have moved on to other stages. "The Orange County celebration is the latest in a line of truly marvelous showcases" Ives said in a telephone interview from his home in Santa Barbara.

But one local arts activist, who asked not to be named, depicted the meeting this way: "I think they (festival officials) want some kind of united front to present to City Hall It would be a natural move on their part. Plays are eligible for a best-play nomination if they have never been produced on Broadway. Officials also skirted the subject of the theater season's quality to date, which many here believe goes hand in hand with the increasing reluctance on the part of consumers to buy high-priced tickets. NEW YORK — Broadway theater owners and producers have taken the unusual step of publicly defending themselves in the face of criticism that the season to date has been as bleak as its predecessor-in large part due to high ticket prices. The proceeds from both single and videocassette-bargain-priced at $9. 95-benefit the victims of the African famine.