Other spas such as Aix-en-Provence, Divonne and Evian offer music festivals; Michel Guerard at Amalie offers cuisine minceur and Aix, when there is no music festival, concentrates on smoking cures and stress. Through its lyrics we can detect beliefs and fads and fashions; its melodies reflect our aesthetic values, for better or worse. It looked silly when those nice, ultra-American kids imitated her. "It's just that this way we won't get soaked and maybe end up missing three days of work" he said. The rest of it-guests, skits and music-are his worries, and the largest of the worries are the guests.

A "Tannhauser" and a "Manon" on display in the architecturally eloquent (if somewhat pretentious) new Wortham Center, had admirable dramatic as well as musical values. But the tape-delay machine has about as much rhythm as George Bush. What really helped boost Satriani into the big time was joining Mick Jagger's band. The design raised a storm of protest among preservationists who felt that it compromised the integrity of the original museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of 20th-Century architecture. Cornelius also faulted the Grammys and the American Music Awards for not having a separate rap category "Rap is an art form that clearly cannot be ignored" he said.

Segments from their most important work, "Documented/Undocumented" a collection of border culture projects that they began working on in early 1987, have been performed all over the United States and Mexico. 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. What brings this to mind is the Guthrie's production of "Frankenstein" coming to the Doolittle on Tuesday. She will forever be associated with the droll thrillers of her former husband, Claude Chabrol, who has always been fascinated with the connection between bourgeois repression and violent crime. "Film is very different from photography because you can arrange" the action in a film-and that's its appeal, he said. The virtue of the Hollywood film of old was that it worked on many levels-not unlike, say, "Fatal Attraction" today. Lines flow freely-automatically, in surrealist verbiage-from framing non-associational fields of color to articulating the sinuous contour of a woman's waist.

A mass of chain painted across four adjacent canvases looks rather like a giant brain. "The mood of 'Better Than Heaven' is so intense and vulnerable, that's what struck me" Chin said "It was tiptop craftsmanship. During a 3-day salute to "Star Wars' " 10th anniversary at the Stouffer Concourse Hotel in Los Angeles last summer, attended by some 9,000 fans and even the generally reclusive Lucas, "Willow" was touted as a kind of return to glory for Lucas and Lucasfilm. Brennan expressed hope that the City of Los Angeles might help out, as well as some of the Hollywood studios that have "taken talent from our theater and capitalized on it" Perhaps the best-known of the theater's alumni is Richard Chamberlain, who "has expressed an interest in being apprised of what's going on" since the fire. One Fox executive is said to have explained the difficulty in television terms. Tonight's "American Playhouse" production concerning the Goetz case (at 8 p. m on Channel 28 and at 9 p. m. Having been slipped a mind-bending strength-enhancing drug during a match, Too Sweet gets three years for manslaughter after having slugged his opponent to death.

"An artist can sell 5,000 records and make a profit by keeping the costs low" he pointed out "Most labels wouldn't touch this kind of artist. -Male classical: first place-Bruce Sledge, 12th grade, El Modena High School; second-John Byun, 12th grade, Fountain Valley; third-Guter Munoz, 12th grade, Wilson High School. Long overdue as a theater piece (and veering in personal detail from Paul Schrader's stylized 1985 film of the same title, the production stars EWP artistic director Mako in the treacherous title role. Some other proposals involve taxing income on off-premise sales-catalogue, mail and phone orders-and the elimination of deductions for indirect expenses on any outside rental of an arts facility.

There simply are none beyond "Cagney & Lacey" and "Murder, She Wrote" on CBS and "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" NBC's exhilarating half-hour about a charming but unfulfilled 35-year-old woman whose underlying melancholia is merely punctuated by comedy. I'm worried about having someone from a record company-who has never had an opinion of their own anyway-listen and say, 'Phil Alvin's voice is wonderful but the material, of course, is not comparable to his brother David's' " CLUB NEWS: It's taken four years, but finally it looks like Club Lingerie's occupancy-limit problems may nearing resolution, thanks to the installation of a sprinkler system, part of $50,000 worth of recent improvements. Hurry over to Dewi in Orange, a small Indonesian restaurant/grocery store hidden among commercial properties along a busy avenue. The film is one that, he says, gives Chinese characters a "humanness and sensitivity" UCLA associate professor Chou Hung-hsiang, a specialist in ancient Chinese history, finds the film "reasonably accurate" and correct in its "basic depictions" And Chou and other Chinese Americans note that the film's historical backdrop-palace overthrows, warlord battles, Japanese atrocities, Maoist upheavals-has rarely if ever been seriously chronicled in Western productions. It is easy to see why "The Last Emperor" the sumptuous epic of an imperial wimp named Pu Yi, is the leading contender for the biggest prizes on Oscar night, April 11. "If anything, today the issues are more strongly drawn" says Kirk Douglas, who stars with Jason Robards in the NBC movie, airing Sunday at 9 p. m.

The 31-year-old New Yorker has won plaudits on both coasts for his earlier topical satires, including "Rum and Coke" and "Highest Standard of Living" both of which premiered at SCR Waxman is essentially a theatrical unknown. Before that, it was easy" Kuzmin became hot property after his recital debut in Alice Tully Hall in 1985. What if it offended a highly placed official in the Kremlin? Nobody knows what if, and nobody much wants to think about it. This year's Lo-Tec potpourri runs from June 18, when Bay Area-based Gary Palmer and his "faintly new wave" dance group starts the series, to Sept.