Henry Thomas gets his first grown-up role as a young man out to avenge the drug death of his sister in "13" an independent production to film in Toronto next month for first-time director Raffi Shart Also cast: Nastassja Kinski and Peter Fonda as a drug czar. She was sent to a state hospital many years ago, at age 4, because she bit other children Nowadays, she says she finds "nourishment" at her church. For example, "The Birthday Fish" written and directed by Columbia's Alex Zamm, goes a step beyond "Splash" It tells the story of a sentimental nerd who falls in love with a goldfish that he bought as a present for his cold-hearted wife. There is no room left for me to sit down in my house, it's so full of memorabilia. Their first feature, "Da" based on Hugh Leonard's long-running play, is scheduled to open in Los Angeles in early June. I wrote some songs on the side, so to speak, but I didn't perform at all" After getting his degree, Blades went to New Mexico to shoot "The Milagro Beanfield War" directed by Robert Redford, in 1986. While some retailers will sell the CDs at these suggested rates, most offer discounts.

At the beginning of the movie, Merrick is being exhibited by an evil sadist. His settings of these Falstaffian texts often emerge graceful, musical, canny and comprehensible. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco overturned a 1985 lower court decision which allowed Wilson to use the name in promoting her own show. When Broderson looks at a ballet dancer, whether it is Anna Pavlova in her "Dying Swan" costume or some nameless Giselle, he seems to see only the most obvious things: soulfully upturned eyes or long, boneless arms (arms which, in fact, make the viewer uneasy about the artist's ability to articulate the human body. Owner Edith Vredevoogd is constantly preparing little snacks such as lemper , a sticky rice roll filled with minced chicken, or cendol , mysterious green bits taken with crushed ice, syrup and jackfruit There is a second Dewi run by Mrs V's brother in Huntington Beach Exotica at its best Dover's, at the Doubletree Hotel, 100 E The City Drive, Orange (714) 634-4500 Open daily for lunch and dinner. With "Johnny Appleseed" its new musical for children, the Hollywood Film School brings a pleasant, if uneven, touch of country to the well-groomed industrial park area of Westlake Village.

Perry's not worried about hurting any feelings: "Someone who lives a life of such opulence is setting himself up for satire". CBS entertainment chief Kim LeMasters cited the network's new "Murphy Brown" which stars Candice Bergen as a Washington television reporter, as a prime-time example Apparently, most yups like a few yuks with their TV fare. Most people came out of "The Elephant Man" feeling as if they'd just spent two hours with Mother Teresa. There are also square dance clubs for singles, many of which call themselves the B 'n' B's (Bachelors and Bachelorettes. So on one level, at least, ABC's strikingly candid medical series "HeartBeat-premiering in two-hour form at 9 tonight on Channels 7, 3, 10 and 42, hereafter to air Wednesdays at 10 p. m. 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. Still, the Guthrie's basic objectives haven't changed that much: to support an acting company of a certain size; to do serious and intelligent plays, usually from the classical repertory Another mandate is to tour.

The world doesn't want him, but he's obsessed with staying open because he can still offer 'service' Things go from bad to worse" Hacker believes that gas stations are a terrific cultural symbol; he is also working on two other projects in which service stations figure. Passers-by "experienced" the sculpture by walking on it, he said. "A Visual Testimony: Judaica From the Vatican Library" contains 57 manuscripts, some of them sumptuously illuminated, from the 8th through the 18th centuries. You could see the good feelings everywhere: A misty grin on many an audience member's face and a slightly supercharged quality in the performers' moves. Words & Music proprietor Victor Margolis, himself a pianist, was surprised and delighted at the unlikely Pickens-Evans pairing. Harry Pickens playing a musical tribute to pianist Bill Evans is a little like George Gershwin playing a tribute to Debussy Their two styles could not be more different. After the reading, the company's then-artistic director, Marshall W.

Sea bass is served in an anchovy butter and garlic sauce, topped with scallions and crushed tomatoes. As if to emphasize the former resemblance, much of the material consisted of tunes that Coltrane either wrote or performed: "Blue Trane" "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise" Joe Henderson's "Recorda Me" and the Monk blues "Straight No Chaser" His full-blooded blowing was supported by an admirable and stylistically versatile pianist, Bill Henderson, whose modal moments evoked memories of the early McCoy Tyner. It's not surprising that a shop serving regional ramen variations-even going so far as to fly its fresh noodles in from Japan-should settle here. No fewer than 15 major museums around the country-most of them with annual budgets of $1 million or higher-are now looking for directors, according to the New York-based Assn of Art Museum Directors. A batch of these provincial images from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln has taken up temporary residence (to Aug 14) at the Laguna Art Museum. They accept the idea that work is going to include expressive vectors put there unconsciously as part of a creative catharsis. Over the years, he's picked them up at garage sales, swap meets and antique shops; many are prominently displayed in his KSDO office on Murphy Canyon Road "I love them for two reasons: No 1, for their aesthetic styling, and No.

"On 'Save the Tiger' I started to crack up-crying jags driving to and from work, and so on The character got to me. Preparing lunch recently in the kitchen of his Spanish bungalow on a tree-lined street in Venice, the 41-year-old San Francisco native resembled neither his Goldblume nor Surface character, except for their shared physical traits: the slight build, the puckish face, the brush-cut hair. The new theater would allow for "more adventurous experimentation" Predock's work was described last week in Time magazine as "tough and sensual, fabulously imagined, altogether persuasive" He was chosen by a joint UCSD-playhouse committee that sought architects who could design a striking building, said Stanley Chodorow, UCSD dean of arts and humanities Chodorow acknowledged that the "push is on in general to get really good designers" for the school's busy construction program. Gordon Muir, a Scottish graphics artist and music business novice, heard advance tapes of that record, "Shabini" and was so enthralled that he went out and convinced a few small clubs in Scotland to book the band.

And this repetition accentuates the movie's near-fairy-tale quality. They'd be lucky to end up doing "Under the Yum Yum Tree" Twenty-five years and 234 productions later, David Emmes and Martin Benson recall their defiance of those doubts with obvious pride. Another good bet is one of Netty's he-man sandwiches piled into a massive sesame roll They are served at lunch time only and run around $4. 95. Last week, the commission rejected recommended sculpture proposals from Vito Acconci and Roberto Salas. Then, "More Dirty Dancing-the album sequel, an oldies-dominated set that remarkably has also leaped into the national Top 10 And now: "Dirty Dancing-the tour. I wish and hope and bet we will have the most successful Olympic Games" NBC hopes so, too.

A 1974 addition that stayed open during the renovation holds many of the works, while thousands more lie in storage. On July 31, it will be former Police lead singer Sting, on Aug. That's because director Bob Monroe stages it with terrific flair and playwright Eisenberg writes male dialogue so true it's as if he had lived the whole thing himself. "People should know whether or not they are going to be players" he said.

First he is dressed as Hamlet, but then he is trying to remember lines from Coward's "Private Lives" Then he is back as Hamlet, trying to recall just what country he is supposed to be in (couldn't be England, must be Denmark, right. David, who announced plans this month to build a $10-million, state-of-the-art sound-stage complex in Valencia "The location has a lot of advantages. (each local rating point represents 46,527 homes, and used NBC's big prime-time lead-in to score an 8. 8 to 8. 4 victory Monday through Friday at 11 p. m. "I wouldn't say I was practicing like I was going to be playing a concert the next day" he said, "but music is my life" That life has been largely a private one, however, since Cliburn left the stage after a 1978 concert in Toledo, Ohio "Performing is a very solitary profession" Cliburn said. But a new dance-oriented version of the ballad by the English pop duo the Pet Shop Boys is shaping up as the biggest hit of all.

"Ooh Yeah" certainly is a far cry better than Hall and Oates' last album together, 1984's "Big Bam Boom" which for all intents and purposes might well have been called "Ooh Noooo" Ultimately, though, the titular exclamation point of this record stretches self-congratulation well beyond actual merit. The five works that were nominated for best film tonight were all small, personal films Continue doing that. "Most French wine bars are a little staid; they just give their customers what they're used to having" Williamson says. "It's a terrific collection and it's at a large institution, where people from all over the world can come and use the materials" said Stephen Fry, a librarian at the UCLA music library who specializes in women's music.