More than 100 of his paintings and drawings include early figurative works employing vibrant color, as well as his better-known black-and-white abstractions. With a penalty fee as high as $1,500 a day, Allsbrook said, "They are motivated to finish the job on schedule" FURTHER FALLOUT: The arts group that stands to lose the most with the latest Lyceum delay may be Sushi, the performance and art gallery. As one of the earliest lights of the early music scene, recorder player/conductor Frans Brueggen-performing three times in Southern California (at Caltech, the County Museum of Art and at UC Irvine) over the next three days-acknowledges the establishmentarian cast the formerly "radical" musical movement has adopted. Works on paper are so clearly Neo-Expressionist in spirit that the whole thing feels like an elaborate sideways maneuver to join the new mainstream Never mind The work is good. He then put his wrench down on the table and tried to pitch me an idea for a pilot about a jewel thief who gains access to rich people's homes by working as a plumber" Wakefield couldn't even keep his mind on the sports page during breakfast at a shabby luncheonette because a man was trying to pick up the young woman sitting on the next stool. You just can't win sometimes" Later, Riseman shared his typically opinionated views on issues like television commercials: "You ever see the one for Preparation H, in which this well-dressed middle-class man walks onto the screen and, in a real friendly voice, says, 'Hi, my name is Bill Thompson, and I am a hemorrhoid sufferer' Already, this man is telling me a tad more than I care to know about him.

So we have a bevy of entertainers in that rehearsal hall"Brecht's attitude toward empathy also was new to Irwin. "When I appear in recital, I can express Cheryl Parrish for an hour or so" she says "And I like that I don't have to be anybody else. By the end of the evening, the social pressure to conform and cough was nearly unbearable. It's better than it was, but I think you can overestimate the consumer" You can also underestimate other Los Angeles draws, adds Thomas Mitze, producing director at La Mirada Civic Theatre "I think our competition isn't really other theaters.

Inc, Houk said, "in perpetuity, for nothing"That corporation contracted with our firm to manage the theater. The first celebrity arrival of the evening was Morita, nominee for best supporting actor in "The Karate Kid" Morita said he was so excited that, "right now, on a scale of 10, I'm about a 17. Instrumental and choral forces again nearly filled the stage, leaving the soloists singing at the very front, behind Fetta's back. The festival board, which has called a meeting of cultural organizations for May 1 at the festival's Forum Theatre, is expected to propose that additional monies for cultural programs be distributed through a newly created nonprofit body. Changes in the direction of steps-front-to-back, side-to-side, or Charleston-like diagonals-varied this characteristic attack, as did the resourceful spatial deployments (with sometimes as many as four groups dancing separate unisons) and the shifting polyrhythmic drum patterns. The tickets cost $35 apiece, except for a small number of $50 seats with what Graham described as "better sightlines" Live Aid tickets were set to go on sale last week, but the date was moved back so promoters could prepare unreserved-seat tickets that would be harder to counterfeit. .

A discussion about gay senior citizens was under way when the multiple swoon commenced. (The already scheduled Opera Pacific's "West Side Story" will run 17 days, beginning Feb. Ligeti's love of shimmering sound-colors is here enhanced by wisps of melody, lovely little strands that swim freely in Ligeti's iridescent seas. . Wednesday, plus I get to live with all this beautiful Hollywood Boulevard crowd" Asked if he'd seen the films several times, he replied, "I'm not one of those bozo fanatics" Kevin Moyna of Santa Ana had been there since 8 p. m Wednesday. But today, the promotions director is one of a radio station's key players, responsible for everything the station does aside from programming and commercial sales. They want a guarantee and you never know whether they'll draw. One look is all young Brad needs to search him out, to adopt a little of that swagger as his birthright, to follow his father into the family business-stealing.

I was wondering how far it was going to go before we turned back to the problems in America. "It's been complicated and shredded" Hall acknowledged, "because (initially) I gave my permission, but I had no idea everyone in the country was going to want to do this thing Eventually I would have been cut out entirely So we're going to go ahead with it now, in New York. Moreover, he didn't have to add, as Cronkite always did: "And that's the way it is" In a credibility contest, Reagan could put all three network anchormen out of business quicker than you can say A. C Nielsen. Neil could be speaking about this entire forest of gunk when he replies: "No, I wouldn't direct anything that's this badly written" The plot holes in Robert McCullough's script may be gaping enough to accommodate a fleet of Mercedeses, but "Hollywood Wives" does leave you laughing. KOCE-TV's weekly "Jim Cooper's Orange County" public affairs series has received a 1985 Sigma Alpha Iota award. The awards, presented recently at the alliance's annual membership meeting, are given in various categories to Orange County persons or groups "who show exceptional quality in artistic or related productivity, and who have had a widespread and profound influence on their peers" The alliance also reelected Patti-Gene Sampson president. Benson noted that the ABC Radio coverage allowed listeners a chance to hear a portion of every artist at both the London and Philadelphia concert sites.

First, we have Blackwell, the erstwhile media expert of President Richard Manning, ruined by the machinations of sexy anchorwoman Molly Grainger-who's on the payroll of the CIA. Indeed, every Christmas, many "Nutcracker" divertissements come closer to physically representing the attributes and appeal of chocolate ( and coffee and tea, as well) than this timid solo. (The movie at least gives you some interesting pictures along the way) He's right to find language-as in "Heartbreak House" and "Glengarry Glen Ross-the glory of the theater. "I'm still young, I've got some experience under my belt now, and I feel mature enough to tackle anything that comes along. After his brush with death, Harry becomes determined to do good, which means dropping a $2-million saccharine account when he becomes convinced that the sweetener can cause cancer. Most of them enforce more stringent restrictions than what the FCC permits, limiting their number to no more than two per hour and airing them only between programs.

"We have six specialized teachers, and we always bring in visiting choreographers to work with our dance students. But even with those frequent performances, in addition to periodic shows at a few other Orange County clubs, band members are anxious to break into the Los Angeles club circuit. There are a few around now, and, as the home video boom continues, there may be lot more. Suspended from the ceiling inside the cage floats a long yellow wedge of metal. A fund-raising office has been set up in Tokyo with a supporting committee that includes three former Japanese ambassadors to Britain.

Last weekend's debut of "Party Animal" left many young moviegoers wondering if the film had anything to do with the Party Animal Station (KLOS-FM) and the Party Animal disc jockey (Frazer Smith They should have checked the fine print. So few twists and turns does Jerome Kass' script take that the family's one dark secret remains just that, with only the audience the wiser There is no dramatic payoff. After the audience has had its fill laughing at the antics of these zanies, which takes about an act, it has a hard time keeping in contact with them. Consider the Philippines, for example, a sometimes-volatile nation whose TV is awash with mind-dulling U. S soap operas.

Some who did come scolded Davidson for having the chutzpah to tell them how to write their stories, plus charging for it. And believe you me, she could tell those Washingtonians something about disappointment. James Levine, acting as host, provides a telling modern perspective. Well, obviously America did survive and is stronger than ever.

"I've always figured that because we've continually done so well, there are going to be other people trying to produce competing series" Weissberg said. As a result, when the museum's 1,400-piece collection of painting, photography and sculpture is not on tour, it is generally stored in the museum vault "The public can't get pleasure out of it The donor can't get pleasure out of it. When construction delays pushed the opening from April to September (kickoff is Sept 19, the project simply had to be postponed. Low-key and subtle, it is as fresh and welcome as a breeze wafting over the awesomely crowded city in which Ah Ying (Hui So-Ying) and her family of 10 live in two rooms in one of Hong Kong's high-rise tenements. In the 14 months since the weekly show debuted, it has racked up several kudos, small and large. McAnuff is full of clever ideas about how to bring Mark Twain's masterpiece to the stage" Clive Barnes of the New York Post commented that the show "flows rather than flies, but its current is in the right direction, its eddies in the right places, and even its sludge.

Karl Freund's camera work, brilliant by any temporal standard, would make the film fascinating even if one had to watch it in silence. Earlier this year, longtime Top 40 bar Joshua's Parlour in Westminster began periodically offering concerts. It is an idea, and it may turn out to be a brilliant one, but it will take a few seasons to see about that. To ease his mind, Oglesby ad-libbed a few pokes at the hanging bicycles, hoping to jostle them loose when he was prepared to duck. Since Nancarrow possesses the only player piano on which his Studies can be realized, public concerts of these pieces are limited to records and tapes. According to sources within the Joffrey, Molak is leaving the company to be with her family in Riverside, Calif, and Morgan wants to pursue other projects, including music video Both were unavailable for comment. . The post is being vacated by Len Bedsow, 67, a one-time Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Assn.