Recently in New York, Toback saw one of the movie's rare showings on TV The 91-minute film was chopped to 70 minutes "It wasn't a bad censoring job" he said "If I had to cut 21 minutes out, I'd do it that way Of course, I don't want to see anything cut out. Some of the projects are huge, such as the $85. 5-million Orange County Performing Arts Center under construction in Costa Mesa and a planned $72-million, two-location performing arts complex in the San Fernando Valley. I don't know that it'll catch on, there being a lot of negative people around It's Nice News Done by nice people. As the aria grew more gloomy, her face assumed an anguished look. Hugh Wolff, who recently assumed music directorship of the New Jersey Symphony, visits here in December; a conductor to-be-announced will preside over the January, 1987, concerts. When he does reveal it, it's not only anti-climactic, but poses a curious dramaturgical problem. About the only note of uncertainty was whether CBS News' jazzy new "West 57th" series will rejoin the network's prime-time schedule before the current season ends in April, or afterward, lest the program hamper second-place CBS' bid to wrest victory this season from the current ratings leader, NBC.

In particular, he wanted to organize the production of modern translations of 30 volumes on the lives of 15th- to 18th-Century European artists. CHEERS Man of the year (we hope: Andre Previn, battle-scarred in Pittsburgh, uncomfortable with his lingering local image as a popsy Wunderkind , amused by Tinseltown brouhaha, bemused by subscription-audience conservatism, eminently serious about the enormous task at hand and eager to expand horizons-ours and his-as he takes over the podium of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. "Hey, Howard, how are ya" he said in that familiar hoarse voice as he entered the lobby of WNBC radio, where he has had a weekday show since late April He extended his hand He seemed open and uncomplicated. Yet, in such dazzlers as "Jota" and "Petenera" those fingers still possess an obvious youthful energy and dexterity. The long wait for Eddie Murphy's next movie at Paramount Pictures is apparently over. And as faculty meetings began in earnest, the defensiveness, competitiveness and territoriality of the past dissolved, according to Rogers.

Over at NBC, Tartikoff dispelled speculation that the currently top-rated network would no longer stick with relatively poor performers, as it did in previous seasons when it had nothing to lose. Settings are typically midnight landscapes that entice viewers to peep in through dramatically lighted clearings. Denton's, the heavy quills on her back giving the padded seat of her costume an alarming droop Father is clad in what looks like blue long johns. What numbing rain falls on the episodes is from a strained and inconsistent narrative delivered in a supercilious tone by Robert A. M Stern, a practicing architect, teacher and writer. Since her mother's death six years before, Ellie (Risa Munitz) and her father, Max (Peter Reeves, have been more like pals than parent and child Her world is shaken when Max remarries. "We went to theater fairly regularly and I had enjoyed theater immensely as a child, but never thought about it until high school" he said.

TalkRadio's national acceptance among radio stations with all-talk formats has been stunted in part by a longstanding contractual requirement, forcing affiliates to carry four minutes of network commercials each hour whether they choose to carry the Jackson/Grant shows or not Beginning in January, that practice will end. -A drug overdose victim fighting to hang on confronts life, death and his Oedipal urges in a bizarre fantasy. Indeed, the beauty of the film is that it presumes we already know the facts about alcoholism, whether from other films, documentaries or the print media No need for speeches, moralizing or judgments. The extended, somewhat rocky, arm of Rocker Verastique impersonated a snake.

(New Yorker Films) DANGEROUSLY CLOSE-There's danger when a high school newspaper reporter learns of a student watchdog group who takes it upon themselves to protect kids from undesirable exchange students Directed by Albert Pyun. Gallery Furniture HoustonBrowse furniture online, buy in store, and get it delivered tonight. GalleryFurnitureHouston Paintless Dent RepairHouston Dent Pros mobile paintless dent repair service in Houston since 1994. We'll bake you a birthday cake and sing to you" says brunch manager Penny Born The Steak House (in Circus Circus. "It was time for release from writing two albums" he explained. Loosely painted in broad sections of pigment, with contrasting hues on opposite sides and vibrant details splashed on veins and berries, "Sequi" presents a different color experience from every angle. The festival was a mixed success, but it did prove that children's theater, with its potential not only to amuse but to involve and inspire, deserves to be seen. .

For his postlude, Silverstein presided over a boisterous rendition of Mendelssohn's Fourth Symphony "Italian His conducting style appeared homespun and diagrammatic. Anyone born without arms, legs, eyes, breasts, genitals, ears, nose, lips All people with unusually large genitals Sex masters and slaves. The ebullient, white-haired singer relates all this with an energy and relish that would be unremarkable in a young professional. The chocolate and sesame were the same texture and density, but as they melted in your mouth they changed, so you were left with the butteriness of the chocolate, the graininess of the sesame. But we're able to bleed through a second video, based on my vocals. He hadn't been in front of the people for 10 years (except in movies) and he wasn't sure whether they would accept him again" To Binder, the challenge was to show the raw Elvis, not the homogenized figure that Elvis had become in the movies. Last year, with the saxophonist Scott Hamilton, she toured Japan for the first time (they made an LP there, "Uptown" for Concord.

Architecture's most coveted and lucrative annual prize, the Pritzker, has been awarded to Gottfried Boehm, well known in Europe but little known elsewhere for his individualistic designs. Award-winning new movies and videos from the 1985 American Film Festival in New York will be screened in a free weeklong film series beginning Sunday at the Fullerton Public Library. Directors Alan Rudolph "Choose Me) and John Sayles "Brother From Another Planet) both recently made movies that cost less than $1 million. It shows how a man in post-World War II Italy copes after the theft of a bicycle, which is vital to his job Only available by phone or mail: (800) 221-4720. But the colorful Turner, who has made a career of bucking the established forces of American television, has garnered the most public interest with his effort to acquire CBS. Produced by "Dinah Shore Show" producer Fred Tetashore, the 30-minute program will basically feature 10 to 15 lottery finalists spinning "a large colorful wheel" that could win them up to $2 million, according to Gutierrez.

Maibaum runs both Equity houses. Now that the Los Angeles Actors' Theatre is about to become the Los Angeles Theatre Center as Bill Bushnell & Co. Majestyk" about a melon-grower imperiled and fighting back, from the book by Elmore Leonard. But then I realized that I also have the youthful enthusiasm and energy and smarts to deliver whatever I promise". They tend to be amateurish and could even carry a dangerous, negative identity" Kolb, whose work Andre Previn will introduce to Los Angeles Philharmonic audiences in a coming season, goes on to say that those who seek out "an identity en masse (as opposed to an individual one) harm the chances of others It does no good to be the Carrie Nation of composers. In a series of meetings, he revealed himself as a passionate art historian, a realistic business dealer, a sensitive aesthete and a person who gets a kick out of keeping on the cutting edge of just about everything. Marillion's pop-and-circumstance is so filled with ornate, theatrical touches that it's almost as if the new-wave movement never happened.

"They have a continuity of accuracy-you can tell what they are-yet they are also stylized"And the artists were not just copying, but trying to project their own vision of the world" a vision, he said, from a people who for millennia had been living in the open country and who sought to recapture nature with their art as they settled in crowded cities. "Lateral Pass" a new multimedia collaboration with visual artist Nancy Graves, composer Peter Zummo and lighting designer Beverly Emmons, is her most ambitious theatrical venture to date. His reputation as a big spender and a demanding producer had preceded him, based largely on the rumors surrounding his dismissal as "Hill Street's" executive producer a year ago by MTM Enterprises, which produces the series. Bochco acknowledges a certain defensiveness on the issue of budgets. -Hattie McDaniel to Vivien Leigh in "Gone With the Wind" You'll notice that Mammy stopped short of telling Scarlett she couldn't show her bosom at all. Feng appeared content merely to do the steps without making mistakes. I can't see it having a huge impact" Still, Guerinot said, "I can't believe it You see the (other rock clubs) come and go.

And he certainly can't even hint at charismatic contradictions that illuminated the performance of a great Russian danseur exploring terra blissfully incognita. Arledge was named president of ABC News in 1977, when he became the only network executive to head both news and sports divisions. Weathers is a forceful presence and succeeds, through what might be termed aggressive earnestness, in making Dane seem more sincere than saintly The script by series creator Ronald M. There's also a winning Walter Mitty element to the Rhino story. When I say I'm going to take phone calls, every light on the telephone line lights up" And now, when he plays, Otis sees young fans in addition to the 40-to-50-year-olds who grew up with his music. Tickets to the San Diego Museum of Art's Precious Legacy exhibit and the current Museum of Natural History's show on dinosaurs were sold throughout Southern California by Ticketmaster According to Ticketmaster Corp president Robert A. But somebody has to to lead, and I guess it's just my turn" Still, being a leader has substantial payoffs for the dynamic drummer.

The study, outlined at the theater district's Marriott Marquis Hotel by one of its authors, economist William Baumol, concludes that tickets are up less than the cost of theater operations, less than the purchasing power of consumers and far less than soaring production costs. It's just that, well, songwriting is such a lonely kind of thing to do, and my sons are getting grown up and I like spending time with them and with my friends So you make your choices, and go with them". Those works seem to lead into the cosmos of consciousness, the Paris period merely natters about matters mystical. Wouldn't it be something if they were congratulating you because you were a hero" He resisted playing Sgt York because he was in such awe of the man.

It did, that is, until the Germans invaded Poland in September, 1939, and set Europe aflame with World War II. Its engaging plea for life is done up as a bit of a parlor game, buoyed by the Trick Cyclist (Charles Hallahan, a song-and-dance man with a touch of the leprechaun, who keeps things pedaling along. Avalon Attractions' Brian Murphy confirmed Thursday that only the Sept 27 concert is sold out. As a slick, expensive multimedia collaboration, "Danscape '85" reeked of an all-too safe and insular expertise.

(There are not, I might add, any too many of these witnesses left-George, in fact, may be the only one) IMPERFECTIONS The Brits, you see, are busily preparing a documentary about our Jolie (to his friends, their way of observing the coming anniversary of the gentleman's 100th birthday. But something will be missing from the ceremonies this time-three major award categories that were eliminated for lack of suitable competition. CBS, the prime-time Nielsen winner for the last six seasons, currently is trailing NBC in the ratings, with ABC in third "West 57th" which premiered Aug. Where the young hero sees sumptuousness, we see a house stripped for departure Visually, the production is just enough.

Put Richard Nixon or Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter behind that same desk Monday, in front of the same camera, speaking to America under the same set of conditions, and public reaction probably would be different"My fellow Americans. Does she enjoy being a lobbyist? Murphy's response was quick. Unfortunately, most of Robert Kennedy's political enemies-Jimmy Hoffa, J Edgar Hoover, former New York Sen Kenneth Keating-are reduced here to shallow caricatures. Enter a Charlie Chan-ish detective (Jorge Dunn at the Brussels premiere, Marc Hwang here.

"Not just because of the number of people or artists working here, but because of how spread out everything is. Most commercial galleries take commissions of 33% to 50, according to Herbst. For the final portion of the film, Raoni, whose fluency in Portuguese and awareness of the outside world comes as a surprise, dons clothes and journeys with the film makers to Sao Paulo for his first view of a major city-and for a meeting with anthropologist Claudio Villas-Boas, a man he regards like a father and as a leader in the movement to protect the rights of tribal peoples. (James Horner, the film's usually inventive composer, has apparently listened to Aaron Copland. In fact, every clipped-drone guitar riff and vocal nuance from Purple favorites like "Smoke on the Water" "Highway Star" or "Woman From Tokyo" has been lifted countless times since. The movie's publicist knows it, too: That's why People magazine ran the cover article with the absurd headline, "Mel Gibson: The Sexiest Man In The World" Skepticism about the ultra-romantic theme attempted in "Mrs.