The new Griffith series may surprise some who expected him to return in a new version of "The Andy Griffith Show" or "Mayberry, R. F. D" especially after the recent high-rated two-hour "Return to Mayberry" reprise of that bucolic show. Gerard Schwarz, the ex-music-director-to-be, ventured two samplings of unfamiliar Americana, found unusual vehicles both for a stellar piano soloist and a resident violinist, and sent everyone home happy with a warm-hearted, elegant performance of Mozart's Symphony No 28. And he's not about to change styles now, even though he acknowledges that he could be making considerably more money-and landing a lot more gigs-if he did. At the Embassy Theatre on Saturday, there seemed nothing much on the minds of dancers Lynn Dally, Fred Strickler or Linda Sohl-Donnell (Richman's replacement) or musicians Jeff Colella, Eric Von Essen and Jerry Kalaf (all three new to the ensemble) than obvious display. Had he complied with the length requirement, Universal would have had no choice but to release that version. Disappointment laces Met director Phillipe de Montebello's catalogue introduction.

Interesting, though, how it changes when there is a book to sell. Harry Belafonte approached Kragen to organize a similar effort. Who, you may ask, is William Grant Still? "Very little of Still's music is well known today, but he has been called the 'dean of Afro-American composers' " Silverman said. So far the company has orders for 80,000, which exceeds the total number of tapes-60,000-sold by NFL Films Video all last year. Under the circumstances, however, any crew member could have perked up the show by performing hand shadows in the spotlight. This may be Spago's first attempt at overcooked vegetables, but I'm here to tell you that they don't taste any better served on Villeroy & Boch than they do on ordinary plates. Satz, who was the first to report the McMartin charges and who has been a leader in the coverage, presented what amounted to a short documentary that reduced the case to a "credibility game" He faulted both sides for "incessant posturing and overstatements" and charged that the media "deserve some hard knocks" for some of their coverage.

I found an apartment the day after I arrived, and I got an Alvin Ailey scholarship" While studying at the acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Caligagan was chosen to be one of Ailey's instruments in the creation of a new work for the Royal Danish Ballet "I'll never forget the first time Ailey talked to me. "Until then I had been the eldest son for a long time, but when he returned, all the love was shifted to him. Under the new plan, the CPB would continue to make grants of up to $45 million a year to public radio, but most of the money would go directly to the stations that NPR serves. Moreover, sections of the medieval city still overlie buried strata of Roman works. Talk of a production of "Curse of the Starving Class" was confirmed Tuesday by "Curse's" New York producer Patricia Daily.

In black chiffon shimmering with silver beading-and slit on one side to show the leg that stopped traffic so memorably in "It Happened One Night-the 82-year-old Miss Colbert proceeds to treat this slenderest of amusing period pieces with the deftness of one of those sophisticated romantic comedies that remain among the most enduring of the films she made in the '30s and '40s Her colleagues keep up with her pace the best they can. As for the audience, Yuasa said: "I like for people to have an attitude to hear a natural sound" albeit strained through microchips. LA JOLLA — Blips, bleeps, blops, pointillistic screebs, atonal addlings, rolling microtonal rumblings and regular patches of white noise have long characterized what has become known as new music. By the end of the first three-program series-the final show dealt with a burly six-footer who had been convicted of sexual assault even though the victim and three witnesses had described the assailant as slim and short"Rough Justice" had drawn national attention, scored impressive ratings for a current affairs program and sent its first ripples through the legal community. And the Paris of then-like the New York of now-was inclined to feel that if it hadn't happened there, it hadn't quite happened. "There was never really any graphic violence-it was all off-screen" Red (he doesn't use his given name) said he was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Philadelphia and New York City. This new charismatic presence will trigger me, will make me want to discover him as a dancer I'll want to create for him right away.

Bob's resignation has been very smooth and friendly" Smith headed the sometimes troubled and disorganized institute since it was established in a Century City office building in 1974. The director's cut features the music of Bruce Springsteen, not Bob Seger, and has eight more minutes of what he claims are key scenes) Elliott says he was in awe of Bogdanovich during the production, and believes that "his version of the film is better, and that has nothing to do with the music" The cut scenes, Elliott says, include a biker funeral with "guys doing wheelies in the background, a couple guys shooting guns off. Yet in this case, who is playing isn't nearly as important as why they are performing. Two tables away there was a place for the stars of "Emerald Point" a failed Shapiro production on Navy life. In 1961, after stunning London with her Kate in "The Taming of the Shrew-one critic hailed "a performance so fiery, lovely, right and true that to applaud it seemed an insult-she sat down in Trafalgar Square to protest nuclear weapons and spent the night in jail.

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. No wonder he did a drawing called "I dreamed I was taller than Picasso" He is. Then, Johanna came back from Europe all excited about her plans. A Patrick Henry High graduate, Almond is a junior at the prestigious performing arts training school, where he is co-concertmaster with the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra Frank Sr. The four-hour program that aired Saturday night on the Home Box Office pay-TV network is still eliciting as many as 5,000 telephone pledges a day, said project president Bob Zmuda, and mail pledges won't be tabulated until Friday. Kindschi testified that Rewald was a "walk in" source for the agency who constantly offered to provide information from his numerous trips abroad.

His art does what it has always done: It sits on the juncture of painting and sculpture, looking simultaneously serene and gorgeous The current show is a virtuoso performance. of Texas Press, 1982, and Peckinpah summed up his feelings to Simmons: "Man is violent by nature and we have to live with it and control it if we hope to survive" It was a primitive view of man as primitive, even in contemporary circumstances (as with the professorial Dustin Hoffman taking his revenge in "Straw Dogs. Last year, the city's share of the summer event's proceeds was $388,137, mostly from gate receipts. Other Polish directors also have been working outside of Poland, mostly on co-productions But economics, rather than politics, has been responsible "This is for us business. "They told us how glad they were we were there and begged us not to leave They would say, 'You are our protection'.

He was also in charge of the changes in the sound system at Hollywood Bowl over the past decade. While "Sun City" has focused the pop world's attention on South Africa, the contemporary American sound of that record is far from the indigenous pop styles that have developed in that country. Even creative genius can get boring if it becomes repetitive. We are finalizing negotiations and anticipate the contract will be signed shortly" Duran Duran members Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes, Andy Taylor and John Taylor, and Culture Club lead singer Boy George, attended the conference at the Palladium in New York. . Dinner, $25$40"I am a great eater of beef" William Shakespeare once said, "and I believe that does harm to my wit" If you're not feeling too funny, perhaps you'd like to try a meatless menu for a while Here are a few places intent on restoring your humor ARTFUL BALANCE (525 1/2 N Fairfax Ave, (213) 852-9091. That's an untraditional approach, but it builds stamina, range and color"No less demanding are the vocal parts of the four soloists, who are required to sing dramatic, almost-operatic roles. Yet except as nightmare visions of the war as fought, both films were ambiguous and muddled.