Robert Harders, who directed "Secret Honor" for the LATC when it was the Los Angeles Actors Theatre, is directing "Help Wanted" and had this to say about it: "It's a series of 10 vignettes linked by depictions of people who are unemployed, and the whole thing is so subtle that after we-Bill Bushnell, Diane White, designer Nicole Morin and literary manager Mame Hunt-went through it, turning it vertically, horizontally, and every which way, we wound up just about where we started. Rather than raising money, the chief purpose of the concert is to deglamorize drug and alcohol use by showing high-profile rock stars who do not use drugs, Verna said. Low-down and naaaasty, they're a straight-faced running comment on the action, and they bore into your mind just like the desperation of Eddie and May 'FOOL FOR LOVE' A Cannon Group release Producers Manahem Golan, Yoram Globus Director Robert Altman Screenplay Sam Shepard Camera Pierre Mignot Editor Luce Grunenwaldt, Steve Dunn Production design Stephen Altman Music George Burt Associate Producers Scott Bushnell, Mati Raz Executive in charge of production Jeffrey Silver Sound Catherine D'Hoir. Compiling Bert and Ernie segments into videocassettes would seem to be smart business, as would filming new ones specifically for home video. "George Burns' Comedy Week-This comes from Steve Martin's production company, a comedy anthology series with Burns as host. It's not necessary to pay much attention to this drug subplot; Serreau lets it simply disappear two-thirds of the way through. unlike most of the women featured, Whitney doesn't appear naked.

Taylor Hackford, whose "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Against All Odds" each featured hit pop themes "Up Where We Belong" and "Odds' " title song, respectively, is clearly not against "a synthesis of film making and record making" But "the film making has to come first Some people don't approach it that way" he told Calendar. He dominated the stage merely by standing still, stressed the advantage of economical character definition, exuded inherent dignity, vulnerability and honest pathos For once, the word definitive can be used with impunity. . Similarly, when we're dealing in the workshop situations, if someone has very strong ideas, we have to support it-yet we have to accommodate whatever variations there may be on the same idea" That theatrical give-and-take (and impromptu problem-solving) often takes on a very personal bent. The L. P. His emotional range as an actor proved as muted as his bravura as a dancer. "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. Opie Cunningham-as Eddie Murphy dubbed him-is still high on life and, despite a mustache and thinning hair, looks boyish as ever at 32.

In a phone interview, Otton said he has "just signed" a three-year pact with the Laguna Beach museum. "Men have a hard time inspiring belief among the hordes, so imagine what it's like for women" Few would argue the point In fact, Pennsylvania State University sociologist Edward A. Or worse, that I'm not all there mentally"As a child, Jewell was placed in a series of public special-education schools, including Carl Harvey in Santa Ana and Woodcrest in Fullerton. 1, the program would receive $4. 8 million. The new arts-in-education categories of funding, as listed by the guidelines, are: -State Arts in Education Grants, formerly the artists residency grants category.

The idea obviously is to show the voting public it's being conned by cynics, and to catch the media wizards with their pants down. A few even profess an "enlightened" attitude: "I respect all races" said one, "including black people-especially in big groups" This, apparently, is the now comedy Comedy at someone else's expense. The public-relations geniuses have managed to suggest, ever so subtly, that he represents the second coming of Bruno Walter, with a little Toscanini and Furtwaengler thrown in for good measure. ABC initially denied KABC's request to reschedule the hourlong program in a weekend time slot, citing a policy against such moves for the "Afterschool Specials" but subsequently gave permission for Channel 7 to show it Saturday at 12:30 p. m, KABC General Manager John Severino said Thursday.

Though songs like "Suburbia" and "West End Girls" provide some diversity, "Please" is simply too flat and lifeless to please. . That so many good painters were left out is less a weakness of this particular assembly than a testament to the Southland's overflowing pool of talent. "Stress is created by the contrast between what one does and what one feels, how one lives and how one wants to live, the things you say in public and the things you really would like to have said. While digging a basement addition under the restaurant the Gracher family found a wealth of Roman kitchen, dining and other artifacts that could only have come from the palace.

Special effects makeup John Carl Buechler and Mechanical and Makeup Imageries, Inc Film editor Ted Nicolaou. While project catalysts Harry Belafonte and Ken Kragen (manager of Lionel Richie and Kenny Rogers, were inspired by London-based rocker Bob Geldof's actions in organizing a 1984 British charity recording called "Do They Know It's Christmas" the "World" single and album stirred the pop imagination and conscience even more dramatically. The result is "Farewell to the Fox" (Saturday and Sunday at 8 p. m, a tribute to the days when movie theaters offered live stage shows with their features, ushers led patrons to their seats and exotically tapestried curtains draped every Magnascope movie screen. This time he was singled out for his unusually controlled and low-key portrayal.

Her works are buoyant constructions, built of odd-shaped canvases overlaid with organic, painted forms His are muscular, highly textured close-ups of vortexes. But we're developing" The SDSU Folk Dance Ensemble has a core of 10 dancers, but it will expand to 18 for this concert-still a small company by folk dance standards. Schoenberg's Five Pieces, Opus 23, set the emotional and aesthetic tone. While she has received a number of offers of possible office space as a result of recent controversy over its location, she said, "I'm not committing myself to a specific alternative, which may be interpreted as a satellite office". "But I deliberately decided not to" Despite her early doubts about herself as Nicole, Steenburgen-angular, beautiful, her cheeks flush, wearing a blue middy blouse and white sailor slacks-seemed to fit Fitzgerald's image of his heroine perfectly. Patients with antibodies to the virus are considered to be carriers of the virus. Performances are at 4334 Van Nuys Blvd, Fridays through Sundays at 8 p. m, through April 5 (818-986-7440. .

La Plancha "The Grill) makes you think that Nicaragua must be the Switzerland of Central America; the owner is the type to whisk an errant straw wrapper away just as it hits the floor. IMPERFECTION Ponnelle enjoyed a long and very active relationship with the San Francisco Opera (and vice versa) during the regime of Kurt Herbert Adler The relationship has cooled somewhat since McEwen took over. I knew we were in trouble when my son's history class at Beverly High got the afternoon off to see it No pay; all they had to do was sign up Nobody signed up. The rest of the staff, including executive director Suzanne McCormick, has been let go in the wake of the decision by the Filmex board of directors to merge with the planned American Cinematheque.

June: "Dance With a Stranger" about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain Another acclaimed but not widely distributed movie Vestron will release it June 11. "MORNING SONG" David Murray Black Saint BSR 0075. This Eva seems to be far more interested in simply being important rather than in grasping for power. Two versions of "Giulio Cesare" arguably the greatest of his 40-odd operas, are the sum total of recent activity in that particular area of Handeliana: the English National Opera's drastically cut English-language production (Angel DSC-3974, three standard discs) conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras; and a reissue, sung in the original Italian, of a 1970 recording led by Karl Richter (Deutsche Grammophon 413 897, four standard discs, which while still well short of completeness, is more generous than Angel's. At an average price of $2. 50 per rental, that's $1. 25 billion in revenues.

CHARTS: The following charts were complied by Billboard magazine TOP VIDEOCASSETTES, RENTALS 1"The Karate Kid" (RCA/Columbia 2"A Soldier's Story" (RCA/Columbia 3"The Falcon and the Snowman" (Vestron 4"Starman" (RCA/Columbia 5"A Nightmare on Elm Street" (Media 6"The Flamingo Kid" (Vestron 7"Runaway" (RCA/Columbia 8"Pinocchio" (Disney 9"The Terminator" (Thorn/EMI/HBO 10"The Mean Season" (Thorn/EMI/HBO TOP VIDEOCASSETTES, SALES 1"Jane Fonda's Workout" (Karl 2"Pinocchio" (Disney 3"We Are the World: The Video Event" (MusicVision 4"Prince and Revolution Live" (Warner Music 5"Wrestlemania" (Coliseum 6"Prime Time" (Karl 7"Singin' in the Rain" (MGM/UA 8"Wham! The Video" (CBS-Fox 9"Star Trek III: The Wrath of Khan" (Paramount 10"Madonna" (Warner Music. . Mutual executives wooed the general manager of their Los Angeles affiliate, KMPC-AM (710, during last month's National Assn. If there's any preciousness in the text (translated into easy and natural English by David Cameron Palastanga, it's neutralized by the blunt physical presence of actor Neumann, with his solid build and bullet-head. The plot was really 'It Happened One Night' with the given that men would get married to men in the '30s, that it was socially acceptable and respectable. Let's put it this way: If I had to do it again, I'd stand in line to wait for the opportunity' ". "For young artists, it's great when you sell something, but even more than that you want your work to be seen" Artist Joan Corman, organizer of the Tavern by the Sea exhibits, agrees "It's difficult to get a show like this" she explained. When Richie's "Say You, Say Me" single reached the top of the music charts recently, that made nine years in a row that he has had a No.

This June, they will appear for the first time in the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl. It contrasts the new kid in town who is courted by the star-making machinery with the veteran musician who never made it but is still hanging on to his dreams. Hers is the sort of art that brings years of art-making to bear on a single brush stroke. O'Brien declined to give an estimate of such costs"The cost of going on line will vary with what a station wants" he said-but outside estimates range from $10,000 to $15,000. In "Increment on Hold" a cluster of gray poles is balanced on a pedestal; at the base of the pedestal legs are human hands carved in wood. Once upon a time, of course, her biography would claim that some talent scout, hurrying out with his packet of frozen peas, had taken one look at her and handed her his card But there was no talent scout. The impact of these two upon each other reveals the process of individual self-discovery amid shifting cross-cultural currents The instructor is as much a seeker as his pupil.

The real content of Borofsky's assembled work is the feeling of a society emotionally paralyzed and intellectually impotent, spouting cliches and acting with compulsive, senseless repetition. One night we drank a stunning 1978 Meursault Clos Des Bouches Cheres from Manuel and followed it with a still-young '75 Lascombes There are U. S. He admitted that fan-club staffers have been among those people laid off by Lucasfilm. "I try to avoid a lot of works that have been exhibited too frequently" the researcher said. To minimize our human reliance on referential clues and emphasize the abstractness of his works, Johnson refuses to title them and even to identify them with respect to location. I would be shocked if you would find that there are directors who really consider me a villain" Gilliam said he doesn't consider Sheinberg a villain, just a man who makes contracts and wishes he made movies.

The pas de deux for the chronically wistful bride and the terminally rakish groom invokes "The Sleeping Beauty" When the wedding party assembles for a commemorative photo, a dog portrayed by a baby ballerina rushes on and strikes a variation of the reclining pose we all know from "Les Sylphides" When the groom gets to dance his would-be noble variation, it turns out to be a sardonically suave Fred Astaire tango And so it goes Deliriously. He has written more than 8,000 columns and says he has never printed a retraction But on Oscar night, the pressure intensifies The annual assignment amounts to an instantaneous deadline In the course of the evening he introduces dozens of stars. Frank articulates the prison survival code: "You don't have feelings in here You leave em' outside in a box. Writer-director Hrafn Gunnlaugsson creates a stark, vivid environment quite unlike Hollywood's vision and weaves in a mythic quality to the action. Each of these assisted in acquisitions, each inevitably focusing on his or her own area of expertise. For all his reckless abandon, everything he does is obviously planned to the minutest detail; Pogorelich takes chances but he leaves nothing to chance His control is instantaneous.

LA JOLLA — Power is the essence of Leon Golub's painting The abuse of power is his recurrent subject. A KWVE source who asked not to be identified said Calvary Chapel posted a $100,000 cash deposit as part of the deal. "The visual element of the piece (devised with video artists Steina and Woody Vasulka) is almost like seeing the voice" La Barbara noted during a telephone conversation from New York "The basic video is scenes of Santa Fe (N. M) and Iceland. "I wanted to start a group with guys willing to make a commitment to rehearsing and going out and hitting the road" he said. In "Circus Comes to Toytown" Molly Merkle (Hanne Moller) helped the broken toys of Toytown recognize their worth and thereby overcame her own poor self-image.