If nothing else, Spano relishes how far Sheridan's 18th-Century comedy of manners has taken him from the role he played for seven years on "Hill Street Blues" as Lt. She filed a court emancipation action the following week under a little-used section of the California Civil Code that sometimes allows minors over the age of 14 to act as adults in contract and financial matters. In the latest action in a seven-week-old legal battle between teen pop music star Tiffany and her mother, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has removed Janie C. It serves food every bit as tasty as the dishes my teachers used to make. "Their audience is composed of people of above-average income and education, and that's what's attractive to advertisers" Cable industry executives are sure to be talking about Discovery when they gather in Los Angeles this weekend for Cable '88, the annual convention of the National Cable Television Assn. It's a wonderful fairy-tale world in the least likely spot: under the subways in New York. Regularly Scheduled Daily News Program: Fox News at 10, KTTV Governors Award: Johnny Grant. . "There's the sense that you're criticizing colleagues and touching on vested interests, whether it's true or not But I was relatively free to say what I wanted I always wrote (his TV essays) as an outsider.
"You wouldn't have viewers standing by very long if the whole TV program consisted of lawyers getting up and reading documents" Taylor notes. In recent years, her career has taken on grandly international proportions, and she includes numerous guest engagements alongside her Paris commitments. In an ordinary-sized frame, the story would seem even more banal. I was devastated and very proud to portray the man responsible for the fact that it was standing there" Roberts plays Jan Scruggs, the former Army infantryman who led the effort to build a memorial to his fellow veterans in hopes of healing the nation's wounds Working with Scruggs were Robert Doubek and John Wheeler.
While growing up, she faced the same problems as many pretty, light-skinned blacks. While Brendel spent much of his student days and the early part of his career in Vienna (he grew up on the Yugoslavian coast, he says he finds the Austrian capital impossibly stuffy. Winkler, who has been active at MacLaren since 1980 and serves as president of the United Friends of the Children, said she knew it would be difficult to speak at the end of the program. * Time will tell if the new scripts that the Writers Guild of America has allowed this show-and this show only -to produce will improve its lackluster ratings. Such high-powered clients as Peter Gabriel, U2, John Cougar Mellencamp, Michael Jackson, Whitesnake, George Harrison and Bryan Ferry dot the Image Consultants roster. He has had a long-standing relationship with Ellis Rabb's Assn of Producing Artists.
There's his girlfriend Megan (DeLane Matthews, who becomes his secretary when he can't pay his real secretary (Rose Portillo, and there's his old flame Kay (Patricia Richardson, whose own law career is as successful as Bud's is seedy. Masada's meal comes complete with the wine, chopped liver, chicken soup, roast chicken and the Sabbath blessings, as well. The jobs require a commitment of two half-days per month in weekday shifts from 9 a. m to 12:30 p. m or 12:30 to 4 p. m Saturday's shift is from 1 to 4 p. m. Reggae musician Patrick Alley, who unsuccessfully sued Mick Jagger last month for copyright infringement, has filed notice he will appeal the verdict Alley's attorney filed a notice of appeal in U. S. That is the game plan for "Vestibule Espionage" a wacky combination of intrigue and broad farce that invites the audience to help solve the mystery Conceived, written and directed by M. That was always my thing, to be able to play Brazilian" Velas-which features pianist/vocalist Frank Zotolli, drummer Everaldo Ferreria and bassist Jose Marino-is Pisano's main musical preoccupation.
The sporadic musical offerings turned out to be generally timid, unrepresentative, ultra-traditional and/or just plain dull Dance was represented by a single, singularly minor, event. Chef Steve Lancaster attempts too much, and the result is an erratic jumble of good and bad. At that, it is still difficult to know what tack to take with the work. So, the Scorpions tackle such hyper-rawk screamers as "We Let It Rock. I'm not certain what the standards are these days for sainthood, but I think they must be a bit more stringent than what any 4-year-old can pull off without breaking a sweat. Generally, when people bemoan the lack of morality in the movies, they are either gnashing their teeth over the gratuitous violence in "Rambo" or the blatant sex in the back row. Jenny Holzer brings the practice into the '80s with her painted declaration, "With All the Holes in You Already There's No Reason to Define the Outside Environment as Alien" Each states its case with a simplicity and directness that lodges in the mind with unexpected resonance. "It's rather mechanical with the parents' consent and they had to consent to this thing" said Smith's attorney, John Kaufman, who still practices law in the suburbs north of Philadelphia.
"They know nothing about the process; they see it as a big pain they've inherited" said Hugh Davies, director of the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art "It would have been much braver to meet with us and hear our concerns. I'd organized seven delegations to the German Democratic Republic. I had volunteered my availability for story conferences, concept reconstruction, script rewrites, etc Little occurred I met with one of the Exec Prods We discussed some ideas Time passed No scripts I took another Exec Prod to lunch We discussed golf. A new tradition' " However, while eager to win a piece of Olympic gold for NBC, Weisman said that Roone Arledge, his former counterpart at ABC Sports, "literally developed the Olympics as the TV show that we now know"SEOUL, South Korea — The last time NBC was scheduled to telecast the Summer Olympics, the United States boycotted and the network had to stay home with the athletes. The images are exceedingly blurry and wobbly yet they convey Hubbard's enthusiasm and engagement with life and are accompanied on the sound track to Hubbard's favorite pop and classical selections.
Wapner, a real-life judge before putting on the makeup and going for the really big lawyerly bucks under the TV lights, will discuss his book, "View From the Bench" an accumulation of experiences and stories during 20 years on the bench. NEW NAME: The NBC comedy "Valerie's Family" which underwent a title change after Valerie Harper left the show, is getting yet another new name as a bitter dispute between the actress and the producers continues. "Actually, what I loved about the concept was that it had all this information in it Which was going to be given free to the people. We make our own choice of play" Less obviously, it means freedom to call one's actors to account. Regarding the benefit emphasis in pop music, concert promoter and television producer Neville Bolt said, "In the years since Live Aid, there have been so many benefits that I think some people have become a bit fatigued. .
It's Vieira who's getting most of the flak, from pundits and nabobs and angered feminists, all over what she calls "those goofball pictures" in a magazine. When he writes her a Dear Cindy letter, she is so crushed that she tries to spin-cycle herself to death. In comparison, Irie! operated on a modest dynamic scale and could not always muster the strength and control needed for group statements. "And I haven't heard of anyone doing it, except the Khadra Dance Group, which I formed in San Francisco about 15 years ago. Director Saks' logistical talents, as well as his keen character sensitivities, are perfectly blended" In the Orange County Register, Thomas O'Connor found in "an otherwise unremarkable production. But somehow the topics that interest the 49-year-old chairman of the California Arts Council slipped out of him during a recent interview like shaggy dogs let loose for a light morning canter.
"I'm just trying to protect my husband" Robyn Astaire says: "What he wanted, what he didn't want I'll do everything I can to carry out his wishes. There's a point where the melody changes course and you don't expect it to. Throughout the festivities-staged by Khleifi with a beatific relish in tradition-there's an uneasy rapprochement. Nevertheless, the Pine Avenue Grill doesn't serve what it calls "traditional cafe fare" in every instance. Whatever change or growth by these bands in subsequent visits and/or albums is too subtle for even sympathetic Western pop fans to notice. Chief credit for that goes to Macdonald, whose quasi-balletic "Mikado" from the Stratford Festival recently illuminated Broadway and cable TV. The label has been bedeviled by increased competition from other labels, the exodus of some of its biggest acts and an inability to develop new stars. The report that Motown Records is in the process of being sold hasn't really surprised many in the music business-the company hasn't been hot in years-but the news does carry an emotional wallop.
It had planned to make the announcement today, but an NBC spokeswoman said the network decided to move the time ahead because incorrect information was beginning to appear in the press ABC plans to release its schedule Monday. Keith Arnatt makes trash the centerpiece of lush landscapes, while Matthew Dalziel presents peeling paint, sour milk, rotten bananas and industrial waste as formal components of handsome abstractions. The "Helga" frenzy began in 1986 when Wyeth unveiled a "secret" cache of some 240 works. Law" David Morse, Jean Smart and Danny Glover are also in the cast, and Arthur Allan Seidelman directed. . Since then, major outdoor pop concert festivals in San Diego have been conspicuous by their absence, simply because no one has been able to come up with a suitable alternative to the stadium.
Two of them-NBC's "A Year in the Life" and the CBS series "Frank's Place-are omitted from this year's already crowded festival. It's as if she spent her whole life playing in her dad's lumber yard That happens in art. But as durable as the acoustic blues may be, Hammond worries whether anybody will be breathing new life into them a generation from now "As long as the records exist, it won't get lost" he said. In Beethoven's Third "Rasumovsky" Quartet, more contrasts came to the fore, but not until after an opening movement troubled by rhythmic instability, problems of balance and dynamics and an unfocused architectonic plan. Yes, the guerrillas are fighting for just and true causes-but they also kill people indiscriminately They also torture, and they rape young girls. A week later, Adler announced that he had sold his record company to Epic, a Columbia subsidiary. Indeed, because the round, six-chair rubber rafts pass directly under two waterfalls, it would take considerable rafting skill to get through Bigfoot Rapids without getting drenched.
EWTOC BECOMES ATLAS: The Equity Waiver Theater Operators Committee has changed its name to ATLAS, an acronym for Associated Theatres of Los Angeles, and is preparing its own 99-Seat Theater Plan as an alternative to the Actors Equity plan that was adopted in a controversial referendum April 4. Food at Mimi's tastes much like what the French think American food is; abundant sugar and salt, abundant period. In the opening half of the current show, he presents that same realism and vision in a way that is so effortless and absorbing that he all but disguises the brilliance of his achievement. I doubt that a handful of good Indonesian restaurants exist in the whole country.
Most of the Paul Dresher ensemble have been directly involved in Coates' performance works. Mayer, the head of my father's studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" That hatred, Fountain said, was prompted by Gilbert's refusal to give Mayer "the kind of deference he demanded from his actors and actresses"SAN DIEGO — Leatrice Gilbert Fountain has never had much faith in the Hollywood gossip mill, which for more than 50 years has been grinding out all sorts of nasty stories about her father, silent-screen star John Gilbert. To director Hopper's credit, he provides a realistic look at the workings of the Los Angeles Police Department, innovatively uses actual gang members, prominently mentions real Los Angeles gangs-Crips, Bloods, and White Fence-and provides a snide commentary about President Reagan's war on drugs: One of the gang members when questioned by a cop about his use of drugs proclaims that he "just says no" Except for Robert Duvall as an officer who is blasted away in the end by a Latino gang member and Penn who is a self-centered, obnoxious and offensive rookie cop eager to show gang members who is the toughest, most of the movie's characters are despicable, uni-dimensional, and mostly negative role models. While trying to put them off, Marcel wants to take his ailing father Albert (Roger Le Bel) hunting at least one more time. "It makes you look like a jerk, Harry" says one of the characters in the new ABC sitcom "Just in Time" "but it's funny" If he was talking about the show itself, he'd be half right. The size of the award, Abrams said, may encourage similar lawsuits in cases of editorial commentary. Rehnquist, pressed for time but in need of exercise, lopes around Capitol Hill in the cold, bundled up in an overcoat and a funny hat.