"The Dark Knight Returns" immediately sold out its first printing, and DC Comics has yet to ship a second batch to capitalize on the attention Miller has been getting in places like the current issue of Rolling Stone "This is the crossover book" says Leibowitz. "There hasn't been a lot of gossip about us" Lewis pointed out, "but there was some stuff-some of it nasty-going on before we did this last album There were some conflicts. And throughout, one kept wondering, in the absence of a personnel roster, about the identity of all those players-the majority of whom were clearly born after 1956. . I'm going on the premise that people aren't fools and I think I'm right" "Power" focuses on a creation of the political world that has rarely been dealt with by the movies in a substantial way: the image-honing media handlers who dictate everything from the shade of the candidate's shirt to his position on nuclear disarmament. The brief respite was all the time she would have between interviews publicizing "Mask" Movie critics have praised Cher's portrayal of the real-life Rusty Dennis-a tough, troubled biker moll whose commitment to her grotesquely disfigured son helped him lead a normal life. With her face on the February cover of Artnews and a major piece about her in Connoisseur's February issue, Graves arrived recently in Los Angeles to unveil her largest outdoor sculpture, "Sequi" a 13-foot-tall, 20-foot-wide painted bronze that looks like a refugee from a botanist's hallucination. The 34-year-old artist did his undergraduate work at San Diego State University and earned his MFA from the Claremont Graduate School.

Fried isn't saying the market share will jump dramatically, but the entire market is expanding so rapidly (VCRs are selling at the rate of nearly 1 million a month) that same kidvid share will translate to many more customers next year. Still, the crowd responded warmly, and attentive guitar freaks got the extra treat of a fine performance from the estimable Brinsley Schwartz The same bill plays the Pacific Amphitheatre on Monday. . "And I walked down Broadway in Louisville, and I thought, 'How can Steve not be here to see this day' "But this is not the story of some one person I know It's probably much closer to the truth to say it's me. It is said their calendar was more accurate to nature than our own and that they were a people uniquely obsessed with time made permanent by computation The Mayas were forever counting. We haven't done Shakespeare's histories yet, because we haven't the maturity level on the part of our actors-we haven't the money to go out and hire 40 Equity artists We've stuck to the comedies, romances and tragedies. Thoughtful, forceful, equally good at comedy or in contemporary drama with tragic overtones, it remains only for Eperjes to appear in the right Hungarian film, or to be lured by the right role in another country, for his talents to be known worldwide. To be sure, Valenti, a former Houston advertising executive who still has a hint of Texas in his voice, prides himself on his communications skills and works hard to keep his delivery shipshape.

Here in their glory, and a few in infamy and others in obscurity, are the monuments of man-made America, reflecting the nation's shifting tastes, cultures, politics and commerce, and the visions of its architects. Based on the theme of a forest fire, they could be either that, Abstract Expressionism going up in smoke or sections of Japanese screens. In truth the Western was at the edge of a decline from which it only now may be recovering "It's going to come back" Ford says "It's too much a part of American history not to And it's so popular in Europe, in the Orient. For nearly two hours, he radiated the energy and desire of someone who truly loves to be on stage.

(The parking in the building is no picnic either, and they don't validate at lunch) Once you do get there, however, you will find a pretty place, filled with bleached white wood, big ceramic pots and cacti on the tables. Instead, they played games, read, exercised and developed hobbies. I was determined not to write one of those books where people say: 'Ah, I know who that is' "Most memoirs are rather sad, I think. In 1940, to escape the London Blitz, the family, including her younger twin brothers, Edgar and Bruce, emigrated to America. Ironically, Kanew and Edwards' previous "Revenge of the Nerds" succeeded in part because of the compassion in its humor. A story about the Performing Arts Theatre of the Handicapped in Saturday's Calendar section of the San Diego edition of The Times gave incorrect dates for performances of "Our Town" The show closed Friday night. A blitzkrieg of boats, trains and New York City pedestrian traffic provides a kind of televised coverage of the real-life adventures of Skura and her dancers.

"You suck art out of your finger in a way" In one way or another. It is a mystery, moreover, not created by the artist through the manipulation of his medium, but found by him through his sensitivity to the extraordinary in the everyday world. In addition to more than 5,000 pop and classical titles, the split-level shop offers CD players, used CDs and a listening area so you can sample any CD in the store There are no traditional vinyl LPs or cassettes. Around him, she was a little pussycat" Tracy's daughter, Susie Tracy, also appeared on stage to accept the American Academy of Dramatic Arts' second annual lifetime achievement award in honor of her father.

And when film critic Kenneth Turan defected from California magazine to GQ the other day, California started getting 10 inquiries a day about the job, said an insider. "Each musician would encircle the carrousel and play a canon that worked in space. Killed off in "Rocky IV" Weathers is resurrected tonight in "Fortune Dane" (9 p. m, Channels 7, 3, 10 and 42-not as Apollo but as a modern-day Adonis: big, brawny and beautiful. The final fade-out suggests quiescence rather than resolution. Two contemporary works served as vehicles for the other soloist, trombonist Eitan Bezalel. But it is also possible to see "Rambo" as speaking to an audience eager to rewrite the past and reject what might have been regarded as a hard lesson of history.

Price seems to have an eye like a laser, and if it were not deemed disrespectful to term such venerable art "boffo" one would do so. Looking at his work must have been like being directed down the right road at a complicated intersection and thinking, "How did that guy know where I was going" In some magical, pedestrian, bumbling, calculated, intuitive, stubborn way, Rousseau was in touch with every major artistic avenue of his time. The news stations hawk a few headlines and then settle in with mini-documentaries that don't require much attention. The English quartet might have come from the short-lived and overhyped London "Batcave" scene, but the quartet playing the Roxy on Sunday night had none of the gloomy-doomy horror-camp affectations of Batcavers like Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend. When Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's new production of Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" was unveiled at the Metropolitan Opera last December, one critic labeled it "overbearing" citing the massiveness of the sets and the size of the physical production as anathema to the composer's human scale and musical characterizations. But it's James Russo, as the would-be rapist, who spent two months in Gold's Gym in "preventive training" He hopes to avoid his experience on Broadway, where he broke three ribs and "fractured a pinkie" "The first time was like going into a fight without being prepared" said the taciturn Russo "This time, I worked out like an animal to get ready". The success of "Splash" accelerated his plan, and "Cocoon" which he took over from Robert Zemeckis (who went on to direct the even more successful "Back to the Future, put him near the top of the A-List of directors-in-demand.

I think I'm equally good at both" Which makes it difficult when he divvies up the chores: "In the past, I've written with other composers, given them the lyrics and they haven't set it exactly as I felt they should. When verbal rhythms provide the sole structural device propelling a work to its climax (Comfort, or movement exists only as a gestural ostinato in a display of vocal acting (Cummings, or vanishes entirely except for a video-screen sideshow to a feat of antic textual deconstruction (Skura, where are the inherent rhythmic and expressive qualities of dance? "I often go to dance concerts and ask 'Why aren't they talking' "Comfort remarked. Ally Sheedy's favorite line in "Short Circuit" where she plays a pet lover who befriends a runaway robot, comes when she first sees the oddball mechanical wonder invading her living room. In the last, culminating section, she managed to dance in conventional terms: an ecstatic, childlike dance of reaching arms, buoyant feet and yet a deliberate awkwardness, as if intent on making this an ordinary person's moment of affirmation, not a statement of idealized lyricism. 'MISSISSIPPI BLUES' A Corinth Films release of a Bertrand Tavernier-Yannick Bernard presentation, in association with Les Films A2 and the University of Mississippi Directors Tavernier, Robert Parrish Associate producer William Ferris Camera Pierre-William Glenn Film editor Ariane Boegli. Very tender and sweet"I don't actually play myself-I'm just one of the performers" said composer Bill Solly of his seven-person musical revue "Solly's Follies" (opening Wednesday at Variety Arts. His first feature, "One Glorious Night" was savaged by the critics for its foolish script and poor direction (by an ailing Lionel Barrymore.

"Their management has consistently demonstrated a lack of professionalism" Delaroche said, to scattered catcalls from the largely pro-KCR audience. The wife of renowned actor Sir Michael Redgrave cast one more beseeching look at her family. Some are simply documentaries and records of his stage dances, others specifically created for the camera, an instrument which has fascinated him for at least two decades. He went cold turkey" said a source close to "Miami Vice" Johnson will officially bid adieu to his smokes in an upcoming (yet to be filmed) episode, revealed the source. If you have troubles at work, you should really hold it in and deal with it, deal with your own disappointments, quietly "But I was such a mouth. Only three of the LPs even cracked the Top 30 during the year Waits' "Rain Dogs" peaked at No. It isn't quite like that at the Deutsche Oper of West Berlin.

ABC's movie features riveting performances by its two stars in an uncommonly layered story of the close relationship that develops between a wife (Fawcett) and her meddlesome mother-in-law (Dewhurst) over a period of about 15 years. Then, it was just 'Oh, my God' " "The Hitcher" follows the exploits of a homicidal hitchhiker in Texas who ceaselessly torments a young driver until he is finally goaded into killing the maniac. His viscosity was evident in his endless arguments with Gauguin. The houses are pretty much all invention, based on observation" The son of a scenic designer, McMillen, a Santa Monica native, entered Cal State Northridge as an engineering major but switched to sculpture, in part because science didn't give him "the satisfaction of seeing a physical product" His original ambition was teaching, but he fell into prop building for films (which he continues to do for a living) because there were no teaching positions available after he left UCLA with a master's in fine arts. But Roesler prefers to talk about the company's responsibility to protect James Dean's image than financial matters. Some of what he's asked to do verges on the ridiculous (would he really clutch a working TV set to his bosom while lying on his back, yet he's convincing all the same Performances are at 1816 1/2 N Vermont Ave, Sundays at 4 p. m (213-874-3678.

With the cafe life" She came home, finished school and later worked as a Montessori teacher while feeding a continual flow of dinner guests. Mark McIntire's business is resurrection No, not in the religious sense. Complicating matters further, Reinhardt's costumes moved the action from the 17th Century to the 19th, for no apparent reason. In its current haven, however, this textile work appears adventurous.

Whether these frolics will survive the winter is not certain, but they would have answered the wildest dreams of my own young summers, even if I could only have listened at the door. Although she mentions Finch Hatton and his death in a plane crash, she never reveals him as her lover. In fact, he was a rather solid, stolid, workmanlike burgher who cranked out music on command and by the yard, and who worried a lot about money and personal power. (Decent and inexpensive house wines also are available) The shrimp in pungent, dark green taro leaves set in a broth of coconut milk was complex and heady, while the grilled chicken breast wrapped in banana leaves was an adventurous treat, moist white meat coupled with the chewy, purple, native-to-the-Philippines wild rice.