While she's telling her story, she won't mind if a big-time producer sees her and decides to put her in a big movie"You bet. Remember I'm the skinny Jewish singer from Brooklyn, the guy the critics love to tear down. For instance, she didn't want to think about the difference in budgets between her first (and critically acclaimed) film, "Smithereens" made independently with a cast of unknowns for $80,000, and her current $5-million Orion Pictures release, "Desperately Seeking Susan" Seidelman said in an interview. The movie is such a well-oiled dream machine that it would've been nice if the story, for all its corny charm, had veered off in a more adventuresome or unpredictable direction. With luck I will dance in three works this season, the Lloyd Webber Requiem, David Gordon's 'Murder' and a premiere by Karole Armitage" The unnamed last-named, incidentally, promises to be an unusually inventive and eclectic concoction fusing music by Hindemith, Peter Gordon and a group called Shags, dialogue by Mike Nichols and Elaine May "My Son the Nurse) and designs by David Salle-just the sort of thing that fascinates the mod Baryshnikov of the mad '80s.

Maria Teresa Garatti played the solo harpsichord in Bach's Concerto in G minor, actually a transcription of the A minor Violin Concerto, with a faery-like tinkling of silvery tone that could not always be easily heard in spite of the repressive efforts of the strings. "That kills every artist that does that-physically, morally, in every way. NASA, which liked the publicity "Dream" would garner (Ferguson estimates 10 million will see it, treated the filming as another payload and included it in the down-to-the-second scheduling for the astronauts. Garagiola had pretty much free rein working the talk show circuit and doing those segments highlighting crazy things happening on the baseball fields.

ABC also said it had ordered three other pilots as midseason replacement series: "Spenser: For Hire" a private detective show starring Robert Urich; "Shadow Chasers" a lighthearted action show about two men (Dennis Dugan, Trevor Eve) who investigate reports of parapsychological phenomena, including ghosts, and "Lady Blue" about a woman cop (Jamie Rose. Or perhaps she might be remembered for her 1955 Academy Awards TV performance when she sang "Count Your Blessings-the year Marlon Brando and Grace Kelly received Oscars. Other awards for commercial television programs were to CBS Entertainment for "CBS Schoolbreak Specials" and "Pryor's Place" Awards to public broadcasting stations went to the Bank Street College of Education for "The Voyage of the Mimi; Children's Television Workshop for "3-2-1 Contact; KTCA-TV, Minneapolis, for "Newton's Apple" and WQED, Pittsburgh, for "Wonderworks" Cable shows cited were the Disney Channel's "The Edison Twins; Home Box Office's "Braingames" and "Fraggle Rock; Nickelodeon's "Belle and Sebastian" and Samaritan Health Services' "Just for Kids". Since spring, CBS has defended itself with a series of novel financial "poison pills" as Turner called the network's efforts to thwart him. Instead, her agent, Norman Brokaw of the William Morris agency, released a statement saying the Academy Award-winning actress "will not be rendering her services because of creative differences over the story" Spelling also released a statement saying, "It's true we had creative differences over the way her character was developing" Young, who hosted her own dramatic anthology series on NBC from 1953 to 1961, was to have played the matriarch of a mysterious family in "Dark Mansions" Other cast members include Dan O'Herlihy, Michael York, Linda Purl, Lois Chiles, Melissa Sue Anderson and Raymond St Jacques. . While Hammer was gone, a bunch of other no-nonsense heroes trod on his turf: NBC's "Hunter" has some of the same "Dirty Harry" style, CBS' "The Equalizer" likes to help the underdog and ABC's "Spenser: For Hire" uses a voice-over narration similar to "Hammer's" (and others before him. She expressed her gratitude to the organizers and supporters of Live Aid and contrasted the young people who had been connected with the concert with those living wasted lives hooked on drugs.

I was divorced and I was trying to help my two kids, who are now 15 and 13 and doing fine, but they had problems then. It's therefore something of a surprise to find Daniel Barenboim tackling the whole lot for EMI/Angel, a particularly pleasant surprise in view of his past accomplishments vis-a-vis Mozart for that label. Seating is cabaret-style in the crowded room at 7000 Hollywood Blvd. We even had an old backstage photo of young John and his father Walter grasping Oscars and beaming at each other. Whoosh ! We were off! As the Concorde flew over the North Sea, our journalistic senses were tweaked by a champagne brunch. The political situation has affected the availability of South African recordings: England's Rough Trade stopped distributing them two years ago after hearing that royalties were going to the whites-only musicians union.

"It's just incredible how people walk out smiling and holding hands. It's later that Gere's awkward phrasing in period speech hampers him in matching his moments of profound emotion with his scenes of action. The good news, at least from my side of the table, is that the U. S Court of Appeals has overturned that judgment. The star-crossed couple don't just meet; they hold a midnight sexual tryst in a crypt (with Zeffirelli-style candles. 10 when a rope broke during Sankaijuku's "hanging dance" in Seattle. His eyes blaze with intensity-a benign intensity-and his comments burn with searing candor. A profile in another piece is made like a gesture drawing, with looping, overlapping lines defining bulbous contours.

24: "Driving Around the House" South Coast Repertory, Second Stage. But anyone who travels in the Middle East can obviously buy one and bring it back. The system eventually led to huge families of artists, which is why you have so many with the same last name like Kano Eitoku, Kano Shigenobu and Kano Motonobu (In Japan, the surname comes first. Ellis, it offers a concise sonic rap-up featuring profiles of Prince, Morris Day, Jesse Johnson and the bevy of funk-femmes who've recorded under the Purple One's auspices (Our favorite couplet, praising Mr.

George Deukmejian to replace Marilyn Ryan, who resigned two months ago. She remains, as they say, intact, leading to all sorts of metaphysical ironies and conjecture. 1 priority: "Even though we're dealing with people's love problems and we're trying to be sincere to them, you got to remember, we are also trying to entertain people" Often, another KROQ deejay, Katy Manor, 26, who also has no specialized training, or a woman Guest Love Doctor will join the trio. The Soviets presumably have the same curiosity about American public television-produced shows. "Secret Admirer" A series of anonymous teen-age love letters sets off a chain of misadventures in the lives of a high school junior, his two potential girlfriends and their parents With C Thomas Howell (Orion) Opens June 14 "St.