The issue could be sensitive in Santa Ana, where the best use of the city's money has been hotly debated in recent weeks. "By the time they've finished, they've really explored their roles, which is great for their resumes" White says that it means a lot to agents and opera companies when a singer has sung a specific role in a production. Three's Company fans should remember Soleau's "Helen of Troy" the hit of the company's 1987 season. SAN DIEGO — Most dance companies stick to the business of making dances Not so with San Diego-based Three's Company. The band plays weekend nights and during Sunday brunch. While El Mariachi is the best, there are other places in Orange County where one can hear good mariachi music: Tlaquepaque, 111 W Santa Fe Ave, Placentia Reservations recommended (714) 528-8515. They certainly endanger the delicacy of the original structure Nevertheless, they seldom function as fatal distraction.

CBS pulled a successful directorial raid on "Good Morning America" announcing this week the hiring of Don Roy King-a seven-year veteran of ABC's morning talk show-who will move to "CBS This Morning" King switches networks in June, serving as director of the morning show and also as supervising director for new CBS News programming and special projects. Burning Spear is the nom de plume of Winston Rodney, a Jamaican reggae tenor whose stark, brooding songs revolve around oppression-specifically, black Jamaicans' not-so-distant slavery days-and mystical transcendence through the Rastafarian religion. The film won the award of the New York film critics and Bobby Kennedy came up and presented it. That's why you invariably see phrases like 'Madonna fee-ba' or 'Jagger fee-ba' They love to hurl the glowing adjectives" The geography of the country also contributes to the pop sizzle. Undeterred by financial problems and national indifference to dance, he built a tiny touring ensemble-it traveled around the country at first in a station wagon-into one of the finest ballet companies in America, and in the world.

Workshops will include face painting, presented by the Orange County Children's Museum, and a three-dimensional art show for the blind (or blindfolded) by Artists Helping Artists. Bartok's Sonata for Solo Violin, though written in a totally different idiom, exhibited a similar emotional spectrum. So many of them were full of hope" To prepare for the role, Scofield "read enough" he says. Massachusetts' First Lady read a congratulatory telegram reputedly bearing Joffrey's signature.

The filmic appetizer told the story of a young girl (Leigh) who inherits a run-down brothel from an uncle-who counts child molestation among his less endearing habits. . Turtle meat is contraband in California restaurants, so Rassinoux has ingeniously substituted minced alligator to complement the light, toothsome veal quenelles floating attractively in a wonderfully complex broth It is easily the evening's best offering. . But is it political? "The central character is Frances Berman, who was taught to be a good communist by her father in the '30s-and now is a neo-conservative in the '80s, about to be appointed to a position in the Reagan Administration" said the playwright. In fact, Reichlin says that she could "learn a thing or two" from her husband whose electronic tap-dancing-and focus on his own career-has earned him greater recognition "We are very different, Alfred and I" she says. "A counterattack from the right is always possible" is a phrase that sticks. There are other highly regarded architectural firms in the county.

In what amounted to nearly a complete vindication of Whitehead, the New Jersey Supreme Court reversed Sorkow last February and outlawed surrogacy-for-pay contracts. This time the building inspector sat in (and required proof that the piece would be secure in an earthquake) even though it's bolted to the wall" Burden said that he had proposed regulating the number of people allowed to enter the museum at any given time but that officials hadn't found that to be a sufficient safety measure"What scares you" he said, "is these guys are passing an artistic judgment on it, though they would never say so publicly Basically, 'Samson' did not involve enough money. The four sound stages at Valencia Studios are the traditional four blank walls. Coming to the couple's aid is a scruffy, philosophical swordsman (Wo Ma.

a schematic morality play, replete with the forces of evil, to say nothing of a cathartic finale of biblical proportions" The other reviews went from lukewarm to stone cold. NEW YORK — Director Peter Levin recently began shooting a CBS-TV movie, "Innocent Victims-on videotape, not film That's rare for a prime-time network drama effort But something even more unusual is afoot. Channel 2's rating dropped so low, in fact, that reruns of "Cheers" on KTLA Channel 5 beat the news at 11 p. m, marking the first time that Channel 5's news at 10 p. m, with a 6. 1 rating, scored a higher number than a late-night network station, according to a KTLA spokesman. We salivated as we watched its heroine-a noodle-shop proprietress-slaving to perfect her soup base, training with a stopwatch to get her noodle cooking time down to the last millisecond, and arranging fresh garnishes as if each were part of a museum-quality presentation. Self flirts with fusion on "Kilo" which is about as elegant as an elephant, but makes the most of Jimmy Rowles' "The Peacocks" Fats Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz" and a beguiling Charles Mingus piece, "Peggy's Blue Skylight" He even goes for baroque on "Sinfonia III" transcribed for vibes, guitar and tuba from Bach's Two- and Three-Part Inventions.

The San Diego group, led by Gene Regard, will join the Sistine Chapel choir at the Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II. The Japanese-born, Los Angeles-based artist is showing "Symposium" along with other recent works at the West Hollywood gallery (8225 1/2 Santa Monica Blvd) through April 16. Indeed, her lean, leggy silhouette and bold extension have become emblematic of the company's current bounty of youthful talent. The talented correspondent on CBS News' "West 57th" is being pilloried, vilified and excoriated because she posed for sexy pictures in Esquire magazine. "I'm too old for that now" Too old to worry about becoming a Hollywood insider? "I still think I'm an outsider" he said.

"You can be very artistic, and the audience can't tell a dime's worth of difference" Littrell said. Tonight's special has four segments on various aspects of the arts, including "The Last Emperor" Oscar-winners Bernardo Bertolucci and Vittorio Storaro explaining the use of mood-creating color and light in films. The program marks the first time the People's Republic of China has allowed foreign cameras to film the lives of the many ethnic groups that populate the banks of the nation's fabled river. . "I wasn't a songwriter, and the songs I liked best were just absolutely blues.

But the problem with "Trompe L'Oeil: The Magic of Deception" on view to July 3, is that curator Norman Lloyd has hopelessly blurred the very significant distinctions between trompe l'oeil (an artistic approach that dates back to ancient Roman times) and other kinds of more-or-less imitative art made for utterly different reasons. Will there simply be another round of charges from those who don't get tickets that the envelopes weren't drawn fairly? Graham said he and his staff will personally oversee the handling of envelopes rather than have them processed by an outside agency. "We liked to argue all sides" said Jason Mann, the singer-guitarist who wrote or co-wrote most of El Grupo Sexo's songs "That was a normal situation for us. Today's assemblies are dominated by groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD) or by panel discussions on such topics as drug abuse and global education.

Purely Japanese noodles like udon and buckwheat soba noodles are sold elsewhere. It's been hard to escape the instant-ramen manufacturers fighting it out on prime-time television in competition for supermarket shelf space. "Everything" The 65-year-old self-proclaimed seeker of beauty has traveled to every corner of the world to indulge his insatiable appetite for opera, ballet, music, theater, and just about every other form of artistic expression-worshiping not just the art form, but the artists themselves. On the peak day, April 24 (Sotheby's first auction ever on a Sunday, 10,000 people attended the sale and exhibition of Warhol's estate. The Motown tradition lies in the black experience-their music, their ownership, their history-and I think that's where it should remain" But Griffey, who made an unsuccessful bid to buy Motown, added: "Berry has earned the right to do whatever he wants to do with Motown.