"It goes without saying that we're spoiled rotten because I don't think there's a better hall in town" said a member of the Lads 'n' Lassies, a club that dances at Elaine's the first and third Saturdays of the month. So here is "Western Avenue" the stage distillation of a street in Los Angeles And "Western Avenue" like Edna Mae, should make demands. What control he has seems to be limited to his lovemaking-and maybe not even there Pitcher, catcher and. And yes, the bizarre climax, when tattered alley cat Grizabella was elevated to nirvana (first on a giant tire, then on a platform that looked like it came off the "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" set, was the eyeful any "Cats" fancier might expect But there was a price for all of this. The bulk of the musical numbers performed in "The Metal Years" deal with the theme of sexual conquest, while with the exception of X's "Sex and Dying in High Society-hardly a celebration of the subject-the topic is virtually absent from the punk world of Spheeris' first film. In addition to requiring stations to demonstrate how they have served children as a condition of license renewal, the House bill would limit broadcasters to 10 1/2 minutes of commercials per hour of children's shows on weekends and 12 minutes on weekdays. They approach the work on the intellectual level rather than the creative level I think that somebody like Brian Eno.
By all rights, royalties from the million-selling RCA single and the album that it came from ought to have created a large nest egg for Little Peggy and launched her adult singing career. "When I'm psychotic, I'm expressive, but it's to an imaginary audience" her flat voice continues. The reviews were "across-the-board slams" acknowledged co-producer Susan Dietz, but the show held on for a few weeks in the hope of garnering a Tony or two. For example, when bassist Eugene Wright appeared as a guest soloist with Dave Brubeck during an appearance at a state banquet for the Reagans and the Gorbachevs during last week's summit in Moscow, Wright says, "I could tell that Secretary Gorbachev was really digging 'King for a Day' (their duet.
He said that 895 visitors became members in March (about midway through the exhibit) while 407 joined in December. He studied violin, viola, piano and choral conducting at the Secondary Music School of Leningrad Conservatory, upon graduation entered the Vienna Music Academy (where his teacher was the late Hans Swarowsky) and later studied in Salzburg under Herbert Von Karajan. After winning second prize in the 1971 International Herbert Von Karajan Foundation Competition, Jansons became assistant conductor to Jevgeny Mravinsky at the Leningrad Philharmonic. ADRIANO'S RISTORANTE (2930 Beverly Glen Circle, Los Angeles, (213) 475-9807. There are also square dance clubs for singles, many of which call themselves the B 'n' B's (Bachelors and Bachelorettes. Chanpon ramen's soup, a long-simmered broth of chicken and bones, is rich and milky. Himmel said he will stay at Channel 8 after "At Large" bows out, doing short commentaries twice a week on the evening news But he's not giving up. If that's true, there are a lot of bartenders and waitresses who will need to be wised up in the old ways of making mixed drinks.
Alcantara's vision of the concerto hovered between heroic and grandiloquent. "Maybe these groups have the legal right to use the name, but I think it's misleading and dishonest to advertise an appearance by Bachman-Turner Overdrive when neither guy is there" Chesler said. "Our market will not shrink (if the strike delays the start of the fall season, but theirs will. Hands down, they win the Not-a-Single-Gloppy-Salad-in-the-Deli-Case Award and, believe me, this is a rare prize. Eisenberg sees her most recent pieces-her solo, "A Gestural Way of Looking" and her beach piece, "Boundary Waters-as "transitional works" "I relied on gesture and pedestrian movement to paint pictures" she declares "I don't need those pictures anymore. When Greta Scacchi entered the living room of her West Hollywood hotel suite to greet her guest, her appearance-cropped hair, tailored tan pantsuit-made you look twice to make sure she was there.
An Abrams book appeared and an exhibition at the National Gallery drew crowds that placed it among the museum's Top 10, albeit at the bottom Now it is here, trimmed to some 84 items Nobody needs to feel short-changed about this. Among De Cordova's prior credits, in fact, were directing Ronald Reagan in "Bedtime for Bonzo" and then in "Bonzo Goes to College" Survival is not the half of it. In a rare interview, the 53-year-old pianist said that he is considering some "very lovely invitations" to perform and is discussing possible future recordings as well as additional reissues on compact disc of his earlier RCA Victor recordings Cliburn's reemergence is not a total surprise. in a six-episode trial-merits a standing ovation for its relative boldness. Both works draw upon an unlikely mesh of scarred personalities that somehow sizzle on sight. 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. Overthrowing the system doesn't repeal the first law of the heart: Protect yourself.
As a result, we're planning on booking the venue more aggressively than we ever have before" One reason for the dramatic surge in San Diego concert activity is that the national record industry's decade-long slump is finally over, thanks to the proliferation of music-video television and the phenomenal success of the compact disc. The council, which supervises a staff of 55 government employees, dispenses grants to arts organizations and to individual artists throughout the state It operates on a budget of $14. 6 million. The earlier change today, he says, has been attributed to the increased protein consumption in a higher standard of living. Sales of Hemingway books still run more than a million copies a year in America and twice that worldwide" Jack Hemingway, at 64, known to millions of readers as the baby Bumby of "A Moveable Feast" has grown weary of decades of Hemingway controversies. "Welcome to the new power generation" Prince says before the first note of music.
83 "Poule; Williams' "Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus' ; Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Prologue and Variations, and Bach's Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, with soloists Diana Halprin and Joseph Goodman. But there she was at Shrine Auditorium Sunday night, fluttering her incredibly flexible wings and popping her huge, soulful eyes and sinking to the stage in final poetic spasms one more time as Fokine's "Dying Swan" A veteran of various cold wars, she had come back for what may well be-and probably should be-her last American stand. One would also have to be stuffy to object to "Peep Show's" occasional glimpse of an uncovered breast, or whatever This is definitely art-theater. Hicks, dressed as a wrestler bride, shielded her face from Customs agents with a Mexican wrestling mask. The opportunity, as Horowitz described it, was known as the Better Book-a business phone directory patterned after the Yellow Pages. For the past three years, she has attended a series of openings of Lennon exhibits at galleries around the country. "Baker's view only showed one side of my father-the bullying side" Hemingway said. Jack Hemingway was prepared for the worst.
"They wouldn't hesitate" If not for the media, "the Palestinians would say there is heavy massacre here" the soldier said "Now they cannot say it" Of course, they do say it anyway. "But I doubt that even after 10 years it could have charged ahead without borrowing money each year" Meanwhile, the idea that Shakespeare could be popular or that a Shakespeare festival, properly nurtured, could become a boon to Garden Grove leaves Littrell cold. off The resulting delicious slice of madness is "The Mystery of Irma Vep" one of the most successful ventures of the late Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company. His sound is neither as personal nor as attractive as it once was; at times, he suggests Freddie Hubbard on a bad day.
Wolfe's "The Colored Museum" moves from the Mark Taper Forum to the Westwood Playhouse on June 18. Only 16,000 of a hoped-for 30,000 tickets had been sold for the Jackson concert. The Australian quartet's latest album, "Starfish" comes after the group was dropped by both its U. S. Birds and fish float freely within these tapestries of inconclusive shapes and memories. (The Glendale and Northridge stores have delis too, and one's on the way at the Sherman Oaks branch) Claire may prefer her men salty but she wants her meals salt-free and rarely finds a take-out joint that doesn't oversalt its food Since Mrs. To put it bluntly, singer-songwriter Michelle-Shocked comes off as a bit of a hick What's more, she's proud of it "Yeah, I am a hick" she said this week.
D'Arby-widely hailed as the most exciting newcomer in pop since Prince and Madonna-agreed to sit and chat for a few minutes. * Next year: "Back to the Future" which will take visitors back in history through time travel in the spirit of the studios' hit movie with Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd. "Some of those old radio shows would chill your blood" Breed said. As it turned out, their fascination with the blues was the only credential they needed. It was especially challenging because I've always been interested in orchestration as a tool, and this piece has no element of that whatsoever. news break, all three stations dispatched camera crews to gather material for their regular news programs the following day. * Also winning a respectable audience: the cryptic final episode of NBC's six-year old medical drama "St Elsewhere" in which we discovered that St.
I wish I could say the band is called Great White because I'm a shark nut, but that's not really the reason" In the past year, Great White has graduated from hot-local-band status to national prominence, thanks to its first hit album, "Once Bitten" which has sold more than 900,000 copies. SAN DIEGO — Sean McVicker is sitting at a table in a far corner of the Harp and Shamrock Irish Pub, sipping from a frothy mug of Guinness Stout and watching a pair of patrons engage in a friendly after-work round of darts. The place may look like the Garden of Eden, but it doesn't mean that Frank and Frances will live happily ever after. The fact that Elias' debut at the theater turned a scantily attended opening night into a sellout run by the second week had nothing to do with the decision to offer him the position of artistic director, according to John Howard, president of the Bowery board of directors. But the point is they're taking over, encroaching on Little Italy-and there's an awful lot of tension" Leonard, who keeps a tiny apartment in that neighborhood, said he felt the setting was ripe for a treatise on urban immigration. Comedies are TV's so-called femme ghetto, the chunk of prime time where females have their highest profile.
It is a cultural crime to ignore the works of the past or to remember only those of our own experience, but it is equally shortsighted to give up on the present and the future when, with each dimming of the lights, a new masterpiece may (just may) suddenly flicker on the screen-and those goose bumps come over you, and the images stay with you, and you know why you love sitting there in the dark with your very own window to the soul That is what the movies are all about. Cinematographer Bruno de Keyzer's massively scaled frames have none of the usual picture-book prettiness of movies on the late Middle Ages. Malaysian officials are angry over claims that a TV crew from a Japanese game show insulted natives of a remote jungle area of Borneo by having them act like headhunters and crawl and howl like dogs. Published annually since 1979, the surveys ask Rolling Stone readers to send in their top choices in 46 different pop music-related categories, including radio stations, albums, singles, and artists Chatfield immediately cried foul. Also shown is a handsome, conceptual installation relating to ritual and Page's favorite leitmotif, repeating cycles (Space Gallery, 6015 Santa Monica Blvd, to June 25). But the show Wednesday night before a small audience at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano was less a declaration of independence than a tribute to a familiar, quaking sound that is inescapably identified with Young. What are the differences and philosophies behind each approach? "Becoming another person-a character-gives students an opportunity to really experiment with and try out their voice technique to see if it really works under pressure" said Patrick Goeser, Chapman College's director of opera productions.
Tanner also hears from a political consultant that he, unlike his opponents, lacks "definition" as a candidate: "Mike is all brains. Each has been an eminently worthy event that made its way into the county through oddball channels or circumstances. But two of them have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which was inaugurated in 1974 to honor pre-1958 recordings. He will conduct an orchestral suite of the songs for "West Side Story" a film for which he won an Oscar as musical director, and his arrangement of "Strike Up the Band" which he wrote for the Pops in Arthur Fiedler's day and which the Pops has recorded and still plays almost as often as "The Star Spangled Banner" What some of his classmates may not fully appreciate is that when Green, carnation in place, lifts the baton to put the Pops through its paces, it will be a triumph of soul over body. . The sketchy quality of the script not only muddies the story but also inhibits the development of dramatic momentum On the other hand, a few moments seem oddly repetitious. "They see me walking around like this, looking normal, and it kind of destroys the image" The 36-year-old Peterson, a Kansas native who headed West and ultimately joined the Groundlings improvisation theater troupe in the late '70s, expresses dismay but smiles as she tells stories of teen-agers who recognize the voice.
Though many of the voices were excellent, the words were frequently lost during the many choral passages. The only difference was that the apron was knotted and textured. As played one-dimensionally by David Graf and written half-dimensionally by someone for whom the Writer's Guild strike did not come early enough, Raymond isn't just mean bad He's silly bad And so is this goofy, gosh-awful excuse for a TV movie. Jim Leonard's "V & V Only" a co-production with Circle Repertory Co, had its world premiere on the Second Stage in March and will open at Circle Rep in Greenwich Village on Thursday Same cast Same set.
The local partnership of clarinetist John Carter and cornetist Bobby Bradford has lasted nearly 25 years but don't scan the jazz club or concert listings expecting to find the veteran duo playing all over town. He was an essayist of grace and eloquence at CBS, helping pioneer a highly specialized TV idiom, tapping issues ranging from children's television to news coverage. The danger in "Colors" is threefold: in fine Hollywood tradition, it stereotypes women as the purveyors of sexual gratification; it stereotypes Latino and black youths as gang members; and, it stereotypes minority communities in Los Angeles as being crime ridden'Colors' the controversial cop/gang movie, has provoked protests from groups as divergent as the NAACP, the L. A County Sheriff's Department and the Guardian Angels. The full import of this one-man show was probably known only to P-Orridge, though the imagery was consistent with the distributed literature, which offered such mild morsels as "Christianity as a religion has outlived its relevance to our society" But at 14 bucks a head, P-Orridge packed the room Paging P T Barnum. .
of Recording Merchandisers convention held over the weekend at the Century Plaza Hotel. Here is an artist of high seriousness and cultural profundity who is causing people to whisper-for the first time in decades-of a master with the power and significance of a Jackson Pollock, an artist who reflects the kind of density found in the best works of MOCA's permanent collection, the Rothkos and the Klines. The Museum of Contemporary Art is beginning to shape itself into the lively arena we'd all hoped for during the yearlong siege of its opening exhibition. As part of the budget reconciliation package, the exemption passed the House on Oct 29 However in the wake of the stock market debacle Oct. Both Reitman and an attorney for the Smothers Brothers show declined to comment on the deals they worked out.