cutoff time approached, but also because of his older demographic appeal. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear two cases from lower courts involving noted entertainment figures. -March 1, 2: Guest conductor TBA; Viktoria Mullova, violin: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Shostakovich's Symphony No 5. and some people are voting for who they think could win because they know that the person they want to vote for isn't going to win. Artist Mineko Grimmer has installed a large, minimalistic sound sculpture, called "Symposium" that causes the conversation. Inside there's a wooden bar and a pastel-hued dining room filled with art.

"But video companies often aren't honest about theatrical releases They say movies were extensively released when they weren't I caught a couple of them cheating last week. One will learn more about Hollywood than gangs from viewing Dennis Hopper's "Colors" The box-office smash has all the makings of a typical success: hot leading actors, a simple story line, breathtaking chase scenes and lots of violence, drugs and gratuitous sex, set in our own back yard. From Mark Twain's "Banned in Boston" file: George Michael, on tour in Perth, Australia, Thursday thanked Tipper Gore-wife to presidential contender Albert-for helping boost his "Faith" album (which contains the hit single "I Want Your Sex) past the 10-million mark. About her first meeting with D'Arby last summer, Columbia Records publicity chief Marilyn Laverty said, "Usually a new act will come into the office and say, 'Hi, I'm here to do whatever you want me to do' But Terence made it clear from the beginning that he was someone who would never just say, 'I'll do what you want'Terence Trent D'Arby's ground rules for the meeting with the reporter were non-negotiable. And towering above them all was last month's extraordinary HBO documentary "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" Now add to that list the NBC drama "To Heal a Nation" airing at 9 p. m. It's an even bleaker world than "Endgame's" Beckett's characters at least have each other Timon can't stand company. All of which suggests that Dural and company are the zydeco outfit most likely to expand the music beyond its traditional audience.

A comparison of the Friday through Sunday figures showed a 28% dropoff from the previous week. Two elderly matrons in hats and frocks, perched on the running boards of a car, picnic at the beach while a younger woman stands at a distance and looks irritably out to sea. Among the documentary shorts, there is a searing film, "In the Wee Wee Hours. In Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, the contours of high drama were compromised by rough edges The problems were never severe. Just as the first few minutes were plagued with radio transmission difficulties, the discussions had their own problems They tended to be brief and stilted But information was exchanged. Here's a band as proud of its make-up and mousse techniques as any musical skills it might have. It was incorrectly reported in Thursday's Calendar that Rothman's departure followed Garfield's No local playwrights are represented in the season.

He's heard these jibes so often that they don't even faze him any more Anthrax doesn't get any respect and he doesn't really care "You either like this music or you don't" he explained "It's funny that people spend so much time putting it down. Besides the four Any Trouble albums, the only work by either that has been readily available to American audiences is Collister's recording of "Warm Love Gone Cold" which turned up as the theme to the BBC miniseries "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" which aired here on the Arts & Entertainment cable network. Of course, there was beautiful singing, enough to please an audience overflowing the hall-seats were added on the stage-and demanding of four encores. Before "Spirit" though, he made it clear that his way of dealing with the "Bowie-esque" thang was to address it head on-with a gliding version of Bowie's "All the Young Dudes" This, just moments after a racing run-through of "Funtime" an Iggy Pop tune co-written by Bowie that appears on Murphy's new "Love Hysteria" LP.

Drury's immaculate touch crafted discrete planes of sound, alternately elegant and aggressive, according to the composer's shifting moods. If a Nancy Graves sculpture "Colubra) is prickly and mysterious, it also has its colorful, decorative side. "In Japan, nobody waits one hour to eat sushi" I stand my ground. In "After Joan Miro" the models she follows so slavishly are a trio of works (probably lithographs) by the Spanish master, famous for his "alphabet" of stars, moons and little creatures. "Getting asked to not be a part of something that has been so dear to you certainly hurts" Hirsch said Thursday. Hogan's best works, and those he was known for, are large abstractions composed of paint-spattered rope and acrylic on canvas. Russell, a hearty, good-natured macho man, got sidetracked into this tale during brunch in Westwood.

The first installment of the ridiculously short, typically adventurous 1988 season-the company's tenth-took the form of something reasonably new: Szymanowski's forbidding "King Roger" in its American premiere. Edgar Hoover and a lottery display, toward a comfortable banquette that is upholstered in what feels like real leather. And underneath, a sense of rot and corruption-murder and venality swimming under the glamour. Wagner, playing a woman bruised from a recent divorce, is pleasurably cliche-free.

"None of these people (in the hearing) have ever been to" the council's Sacramento office, Reid said, red-faced with anger. The director's challenge, Guardino feels, is to reveal the brothers' opposing personalities and to mine what he believes is the play's "ethical and moral core" a message that needs telling to a generation that is so aggressively materialistic "I don't know if I've accomplished that" he confessed "It's difficult to know at times. They were photographed with a special twin lens stereoscopic camera-hence the term Panoramas in the title-which resulted in prints in an elongated format. " 'Why would I want to look at something like that' " Some 20-odd years later, the Berkuses own more than 200 works, many of them on a massive, architectural scale. The most impressive effect on Monday night's Academy Awards telecast (Cher's dress not withstanding) was Mickey Mouse's surprise appearance to help present the Oscar for best animated short. She and producer/writer Candyce Martin show and tell us a great deal about the regimented daily lives and troubled personal histories of some of the mostly poor, mostly uneducated, mostly minority prisoners at Dwight. The district will present only one of next season's previously scheduled acts: the New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra.

The estimated 150 million "Vremya" viewers saw another Reagan, and it was a devastating picture"The lid is off" ABC's Peter Jennings reported about the reported feud. Last year's Easter brunch was so successful that a repeat performance has been ordered. When a naive young tax collector (Leslie Cheung) takes shelter in a haunted temple he falls in love with a beautiful ghost (Wong Tsu Hsien) held in the thrall of a 1,000-year-old tree monster whose human form seems to be that of an aging drag queen. In his peripheral vision, Bluett could tell the visitor was over 6 feet tall and in officer's uniform.

In the "New Music" section, visitors can preview the hottest new pop videos, make their own videos, and utilize sets and props to pretend they're rock stars. The "Long Live Rock" exhibit displays memorabilia on loan from the Hard Rock Cafe archives, including gold records, autographs, signed instruments and rare photographs and concert footage of Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Doors and Pink Floyd. Many main dishes have French overtones, like a stylish lamb rack with truffles and foie gras , or a civet of hare called lepre salmi. Argentine pianist Eduardo Delgado is certainly a familiar keyboard figure for local audiences He teaches at Cal State L. A. Sunday on Channels 4, 36 and 39, and a "CBS Reports" documentary, "The Wall Within" airing at 8 p. m Thursday on Channels 2 and 8. An example of such a successful exposure is one showing Lartigue's first wife, Bibi, seated under a parasol on the beach near the waterline. "It's a lot more exciting playing someone other than yourself" he says to tuba player Bill Roper during this rehearsal of "Seeds" a program of two works by Nash and Salmon.

Douglas Roberts portrays Jerry as a tall, confused giant who seems endlessly uncertain and bewildered as the friend who never really has a clue as to what made him fall so passionately in love with Emma and then as to what went wrong. And with a realistic sensibility, Hockney offers "a broader spectrum than abstract art does" Powell said. I think, though, the secret isn't novelty but a certain elegance in preparing the familiar dishes. We're trying to reach fans who like bands with a fresh attitude, bands like Midnight Oil. Conjure up the image of a hard-rock band and what do you see? A mane of long hair, black leather, spandex and pointed boots, right? Wrong. Their words are symbols, and symbols are important-especially in the continuing conflict (some Israelis call it "war) between Israel and demonstrators (some call them "rioters) in the occupied (Israeli TV and radio call them "administered) West Bank and Gaza Strip. (Rebecca Eaton, WGBH's executive producer for "Masterpiece Theatre" said that a new agreement has been negotiated in which Mobil will continue funding the two series through 1993)NEW YORK — Mobil Corp. The ensemble's enthusiasm never droops; all give their all"The Outlook's Willard Manus found "a farce whose spirit calls to mind the Fellini of 'La Strada' and 'Nights of Cabiria'.

But she interpreted that dictum in a flexible, independent way. This blurring of the individual has led detractors to conclude that Nikolais dehumanizes his dancers, a charge that still rattles the otherwise good-natured designer. Nancy Blomberg, who curated the show, says the Exposition Park museum waited 46 years to stage the exhibit because, "we never had the curatorial expertise or interest" But when Blomberg became assistant curator of anthropology in the late '70s, she immediately set to work studying the collection. Today, while some fundamentalists still fight against the teaching of evolution, many instead advocate equal space in biology textbooks for Creation Science, which a relatively small number of scientists endorse as a theory having as much validity as Charles Darwin's.

They also borrowed from fellow California surf-rockers the Beach Boys, often showing them up on songs like "Help Me, Rhonda" "Little Deuce Coupe" "Shut Down" "Good Vibrations" and "Surfin' U. S. A" Jan and Dean aren't kids anymore, and they play it up in their act. Despite " 'Crocodile' 's" 47% edge, both films were tagged winners by industry observers. Robert Chesley's two-man drama, which played locally in 1986 (followed by a highly publicized run-in with the Federal Communications Commission) recently opened at the Fifth Estate Theatre, where on April 3 (Easter) it will hold a closing night benefit performance for the Lesbian and Gay Rights chapter of the ACLU Kelly Hill directs. Though the band is most notorious for its anything-can-happen live shows (one of them is set for the John Anson Ford Theatre tonight, Haynes is far more interested in making records in the studio that occupies part of the house he shares with three other band members in Driftwood, Tex, near Austin. Wacko comic Bob Goldthwait's new album, due out by mid-June, is titled "Meat Bob" It's slated to feature a just-recorded remake of the Village People's disco hit, "Y. M. C. A" Goldthwait says: "If U-2 did a cover of 'Y. M. C. A' it would sound something like this-I feel like I'm merging two major influences in music" And this Tuesday's KCSN-FM Barn Dance (from 9 p. m. Production values are equally sunny, with an unusually spacious and inviting kitchen set designed by Richard D Bluhm and adequate sound design by Brad Brinkman Performances at 7458 Melrose Ave run Thursdays though Saturdays at 8 p. m, Sundays at 7 p. m until April 17 Tickets: $12. 50; (213) 466-1767. . "Section Five of the bylaws says, 'No referendum may be put forward without expressing different points of view' "In a week's time, the Western Advisory Board of Actors' Equity, the stage actors' union, has turned the Los Angeles theater community upside down.