The New York City Ballet will present eight works by its late founding artistic director, George Balanchine, during an Oct. His 1957 production for Cambridge's Footlights May Week Revue was, he says, the only one that never got to London. The camera crews were at the airport to intercept Hudson at 2 a. m, as if he were human contraband being illegally sneaked into the city under cover of darkness. The retrospective exhibition of about 50 bold and passionate works (mostly paintings, with some pencil sketches and large photographs) by the politically rebellious artist will arrive here on the end of an international tour. I got a scholarship and I was president of my junior high school and president of the junior class in high school and president of the Key Club Just the whole number "But when I got to college I was burned out on school.

The oft-quoted statistics of a survey by the Fairfield Group for National Video Inc delighted retailers. Nevertheless, the majestic birds that are the national symbol seem to be keeping watch over the inauspicious headquarters from which Apodaca is waging a quiet battle for better understanding among the general population about the art, culture and the problems of native Americans. Thatcher, reportedly annoyed at the size of the proposed increase, said Home Secretary Leon Brittan, in making a decision on the BBC application, would have to consider that the fee "was a compulsory levy on the television viewer whether they watched the BBC a great deal or not" The alternative, Independent Television (ITV, is financed entirely by advertising and has consistently topped the BBC in ratings in the last year. As Westmoreland recalls it, Johnson "really let his hair down" saying that "one of the biggest mistakes he'd made was not imposing censorship-which really surprised me" The war ended with the fall of Saigon 10 years ago this week. To Rob, it's just the cultural fallout of last year's trip to China. ABC's "World News Tonight With Peter Jennings" was third with a 12. 7 rating.

Jeff Olan is one of four marathon billboard sitters, each of whom has been promised a screen test by a San Francisco toy promoter if he or she outlasts the other three-12 actors began life on the billboard last December and, nearly six months later, three men and one woman remain. After three years of doing the show, Hershfeld found that he had increasing conflicts with the producers. "The Imagemaker's" Roger Blackwell (Michael Louri) isn't even an anti-hero. MPAA-rated: R (those under 17 must be accompanied by parent or adult guardian. . Sample line: Oh, the fights that we had When my brother and me got him mad He'd get all boiled up and start to shout We knew what was coming, so we tuned him out. They were marvelous promotional shows, sometimes in the windows and sometimes inside" He made his first puppet when he was in second grade as part of a summer recreation program, began his collecting then and eventually went on to work as a puppeteer in television, movies and theaters around the country for "close to half a century" But he declined to give his age: "In show business, you never tell until you're 90" For Cook, the art of puppetry is by no means dead. The story isn't much, and it hasn't been structured exactly right.

That's what it has, through April 27, in the congregation of Barbara Strasen's conceptual investigations, Ford Crull's paintings and selections from Diana Zlotnick's collection. We see Franklin and a crew burst into a medical clinic with their camera rolling, only to be foiled by a technical snafu. He will take a brief medical leave, and then return in mid-November as director of planning for CBS News, a spokesman said. Even some of the vocal effects are produced by Zawinul through the use of a Vocoder. "It's just a matter of staying true to myself" Williams commented during a phone interview from Russellville, Ark.

JANUARY & FEBRUARY "The Adventures of the American Rabbit-That rabbit with the red, white and blue markings (and the roller skates) and other characters created by Stewart Moskowitz stars in this animated feature. On Wednesday, the CPB board voted against a planned meeting with Soviet broadcasters, seen as prospective buyers of American public TV programming On Thursday, Edward J. Daniel Koorstein, Redgrave's attorney, said he was "delighted" with SAG's announcement The formal appeal will be filed in the 1st U. S Circuit Court of Appeal in Boston May 31, he added Tuesday the Boston Symphony said it will counter-appeal. The concert began with Krenek's complex, neurotically skittish "Fivefold Enfoldment" Some poor intonation and missed communication aside, it seemed a forceful reading of this taut, serial composition.

"The concepts the artists deal with-nature, spirit, the universe-appeal to a broad range of people. It was not much seen in the United States-two weeks each in Los Angeles and New York, three days in San Francisco, he says. Yes, that's the late Hank Williams-probably the most highly regarded figure ever in country music-not the still active Hank Williams Jr. The incentive, artists say, has been reasonable rents-at least more so than in other parts of the city, such as Hillcrest. In Previn's first year at the helm of the Philharmonic, he will be on the podium for seven of the orchestra's 26 weeks at the Music Center; the season ends April 27. and the American Film Institute open their fifth annual edition of the National Video Festival.

The Fire Department will maintain they're just 'good ole boys' doing their jobs, protecting the public's lives from nasty, greedy club owners. And when Harry's restaurateur pal (Jon Ewing) rightly suspects that Harry's wife (Lynette Curran) and his business partner (Jeff Truman) are having an affair, we see the couple immediately having a go at it on their table at Ewing's restaurant at the height o. Since the '30s and '40s when he created such works as "Pillar of Fire" "Dark Elegies" "Jardin aux Lilas" and "Dim Lustre-the last of which Ballet Theatre dances Tuesday at Shrine Auditorium-he has stood among the late George Balanchine and Sir Frederick Ashton for his seminal contributions to 20th-Century ballet. She said, 'Come to the callbacks in New York' " He did, and he got the part. Eleven years ago, in the movie "Death Wish" Charles Bronson sat on a New York subway and waited for a bunch of street punks to bother him Then he pumped them full of lead. Reiss and Norman Lloyd, Muckenthaler curator and exhibit designer, narrowed the field by viewing slides of the entered works.

"It was terrific" When it is suggested to her that maybe the reason most people watch her program is that she's so pleasing to look at early in the morning, she just laughs and says "Moi" with mock incredulity. In this light, the father can be seen as an admirable, if ornery, rebel. Now it seems much smaller than I remembered" Hargitay is taking her first steps in acting. Didn't pregaming Bill Cosby realize that he would be the zillionth person to launch an unclever little ditty about William (The Refrigerator) Perry? And didn't Rodney Dangerfield realize that his new Tab Hunter hair would get more laughs than his jokes? Far more arresting was the postgame comment by the Bears' Richard Dent about Martin Luther King Jr: "He had a dream, and that's the dream I had I dreamed I would be MVP" Gotcha. He used TV sets in his musical compositions for their random sounds, as John Cage some decades before had used radios. The production is beautifully dressed by Sam Kirkpatrick and stunningly designed by Ralph Funicello. . Cross-hatched strokes on wooden lattices make visual sense, but the broader painting becomes a separate entity to be reckoned with.