Nelson acknowledged that the two songs weren't identical but said the recurring expressions in her song "take another look" and "cooking in this book" were used in Prince's song. 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. Les Anges (100 Channel Road, Santa Monica, (213) 454-1331) This cozy restaurant gives you the feeling that you have set out to sea and are in the lounge of a large yacht. "It's a matter where the commission has got to listen to the evidence and reach a sort of threshold judgment as to whether Waldheim can be exonerated, or whether there is indeed serious evidence" Challenging much of the evidence in the proceedings is former British Atty Gen. Vladimir Ussachevsky, his biographers tell us, writes two kinds of music: electronic works and traditional choral compositions. (Non-members found writing new material for the telecast might be barred from joining the guild, Rhoden said) Officially, said Rhoden, the guild does not plan to picket the ceremonies or to demonstrate during the stars' arrivals at the auditorium. Johnson, whose American counterparts would be Gil Scott-Heron and the Last Poets, writes "dub poetry-poetry with a built-in reggae rhythm.
First you have to believe that they really are Judy Garland's shoes. Send your letters to: Calendar Letters Los Angeles Times 701 B Street, Suite 501 San Diego CA 92101 We look forward to hearing from you. . At a Los Angeles Building and Safety Commission hearing earlier this year, "a fair revision" of the club's current occupancy level of 299 was promised, dependent on the upgrading of the building. But that doesn't mean the 2,400 convention registrants-representing retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers from around the country-will spend the next three days in an endless round of self-congratulation. Noisy latecomers, returning to their seats after what turned out to be a false intermission, ruined the magical silent opening of "Secret Places" -Contrary to avowed Joffrey policy and a printed credit for a live conductor, "Untitled" was accompanied by a tape recording That bodes ill. . After the Bakkers lost their television ministry last March because of revelations of a sex scandal involving former PTL secretary Jessica Hahn, there was speculation that they might try hosting a late-night talk show. "Signed, Lino Brocka" makes it clear that a Brocka retrospective is long overdue.
"I can't think of any event that didn't get significantly more of an audience" than if it had been presented independently of UK/LA, he said. "It's the base of the whole thing, the center of the rhythm, of the beat" he said. Comics aren't usually comic off stage"Lenny" is a case, albeit extreme, in point. Burden, 42, the artist many remember for having had himself shot in the arm while standing in a gallery in 1971, investigates "what it means to be an individual within a highly complex society ruled by technological, financial and political power" says the museum's chief curator, Paul Schimmel He co-curated the exhibit. But she contends that there is indeed a visceral reaction by New York critics to California theatrical productions like the Michael Rupert/Jerry Colker "Mail" "The day after I got back from New York" said Dietz, safely ensconced after a five-week absence as directing co-producer of the Playhouse, "I woke up in the morning and I said, 'There's a club, and they just don't want us as members' It's really obvious" Dietz, who helped nurture the show from a loosely organized collection of songs to Broadway, wincingly recalled opening night the way an accident victim remembers going through the windshield "They said this was garbage" said Dietz "They said there were no redeeming values here.
The current season, which continues through May 22, is distinctly timid in matters of novelty. "But it certainly doesn't hurt that he has this very appealing manner about him" Consider the photo that Douglas' publicist Michael Mace calls "the picture of a lifetime" New York photographer Ken Howard's glamorous head shot has long appeared on theater marquees, in performance programs and with newspaper articles. The bass backup comes from a set of pedals, played with his shoeless right foot. Except for Stephen (Adam Purkiss, a kind of pseudo James Dean longing to get out of this one-diner town, they are civilized people, just getting by and not interested in making waves. "Happy Days: In a one-hour episode on May 8, 1984, Fonzie (Henry Winkler) adopted an orphan and Richie (Ron Howard) returned to attend the wedding of Joanie and Chachi (Erin Moran and Scott Baio. We may never see anything of that caliber in a television series about the war which has become so fashionable The American need not to know is unchanged.
The film's obvious appeal has little to do with its quasi-scholarship, its claims to historical credibility. The Klezmorim have put out five albums, the latest called "Jazz Babies of the Ukraine" It takes stage experience to execute such organized slapstick. Bruce McKenzie finds just the right shiver-down-the-back tone as Oscar's son, the agreeable, ingenuously conscienceless Leo-the bad seed from which his elders grew. Davies called last week's commission rejections an "egregious betrayal" of the panel.
3-The motherly culinary geniuses who used to outdo themselves producing paradisical pastries for intermission fortification and who, in the process, helped fill local educational coffers have disappeared. "If they would have found him guilty, he would have claimed, 'It's only on television; it wasn't a fair trial' Now that they have found him not guilty of war crimes, he's sure to tell the world that American, British and some German jurists acquitted him" In New York, Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, who not only did not watch the broadcast but also declined cooperation with the producers, called the verdict "consumer fraud It's deceptive packaging. "One reason it didn't sound like most of the things you hear on the radio is I didn't listen a lot to the radio I tended to be more isolated. The album's best tracks offer an intimate and convincing look at characters-welfare families, children terrorized by racism-usually ignored by pop artists CD available. "What was a lot tougher" she said, "was being set for two films (first, Robert Towne's "Two Jakes" with Jack Nicholson, then Cammell's "The Last Video) and then seeing them both fall through. Then he is in a scene from Beckett's "Endgame" Then it is back to Hamlet (it is Denmark, isn't it.
Suffice it to report that this world premiere of "Magic Prison" by William Wood, proves there is room for another look at this poet. What a surprise to learn that the music usually heard is not exactly what Mozart wrote. With more than 100,000 ramen shops in Japan, this obsession with the fine points of noodle preparation is critical to ramen-shop survival. I think it's just a matter of time until it goes under" And his cowboy hat, part of the Western attire that became fashionable because of the popularity of the movie, has seen its last roundup "I've got hair; there's nothing to cover up" Gilley said. Legally, any member-original or not-can own the rights to the name of a band But think about it.
At the conclusion of the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, the British-produced South African drama received the special jury prize and an ensemble acting award for its three principal actresses-Barbara Hershey, Jodhi May and Linda Mvusi. Weekly: "Sullivan has split the emotional/perceptual field here into characters (real or imagined, as well as the audience, back and forth across boundaries that shift with each new replaying and reinterpretation of the scene' " Said Jane Galbraith in Daily Variety: "It tries too hard to be a funny absurdist comedy, but is instead a forced staging that is more a pretender to absurdist theater. "When I'm psychotic, I'm expressive, but it's to an imaginary audience" her flat voice continues. Henry Goldblume, the quintessential bleeding heart of TV cops.
Already a smash in Europe, "Always" is now racing up the pop charts in this country It's No 11 this week in Billboard magazine. Saxophonist Michael Brecker added a few bright moments (especially when he was exploring the multiplicity of sounds in his new EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument, and Hancock was unexpectedly lyrical in a solo reading of his original ballad, "Chan's Song" (from the " 'Round Midnight" score. The Spanish Parliament voted in Madrid Thursday to end the government's 32-year monopoly on TV broadcasting and authorized the creation of three private TV networks. Thomas, painted between 1625 and 1630, has been put up for sale for $6 million by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He has just survived a firing squad in which "the man next to me was hit and two others collapsed" The door to the interrogation cell opens, he says The calculated beatings mercifully stop "Someone walked in behind and I had no view of him at all. The one-hour Friday lunchtime performances that got mariachi music off the ground in Orange County now stretch from noon to 3 p. m. That turned off a lot of people who were interested in coming" The journalist referred to the April 16 assassination of Khalil Wazir, the top military commander for Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, who was more commonly known by the nom de guerre Abu Jihad, or "Father of Holy War" While the Israeli government refuses to comment on responsibility for the killing, sources here have confirmed that it was ordered by senior government ministers and carried out by a combined army, air force, navy, and Mossad intelligence agency force.
"I went to my typewriter and I began to write murder " ABC correspondent Dean Reynolds said about the fatal shooting of an Israeli soldier in Bethlehem "It just seemed so much more serious. He's so tickled about it that at a recent interview he refused to answer any questions until he'd had a chance to sit down in an office at Elektra Records with the latest issue of Billboard "Aah, great" he fairly chortled, savoring his No 1 position on the trade magazine's black singles chart "I can see dollar signs. newscast time slots this week, despite KABC's strong advantage with the highly-rated "Oprah" as lead-in to its 4 p. m. He's currently being sought by French police for questioning. "Motown was something that black people could be proud of" said Step Johnson, vice president and general manager of Capitol Records' black music division. Otherwise, the most distinctive thing about the Caspian region is its love of garlic, which is thought to be due to the damp climate of the area (I'm only repeating what the waiter told me. If a character is funny to watch, it's twice as funny if the voice matches perfectly (even if it's only the Road Runner going "Beep beep.
The film festival was started 41 years ago by the French government, at least partly to bring visitors to the Riviera during the off-season On that score, it remains a colossal success. Chef Alan Greeley is whimsical; he cooks for the sheer pleasure of it, and it mostly tastes terrific. Among these were the Road Runner, on which he based Doug's Laws of Reality: "If someone shoots you in the face with a gun, your face is black for a few seconds, and then you're OK. 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. 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.
There was no room for the Stellas, the Rosenquist, the Di Suvero or many other major pieces. By playing to our enduring fascination with violence, though, it made for dynamic theater. President" "My Sister Sam" and "It's a Living" "For me, directing situation comedy is the closest thing to doing theater: it's just a 22-minute play that you direct in sequence in front of a live audience-except for the added technology of taping it" Zuckerman is also looking forward to directing an as-yet-untitled feature film about four friends (in which the husband from one couple and the wife from the other couple are infertile) who get together to have a test-tube child. But just when I'm most cynical, I have reason to think maybe I'm wrong about Verita's, at least in the car department Here in the reservation book there's the name of a countess Then I actually see people driving up in a Rolls. 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.
But career ambition has motivated her less than personal growth and the nourishment such a dynamic city can provide "L. A is powerful" Theobald said She compared it to a lotus emerging from the mud. If a writer strikes in Hollywood and no one hears him, does he make a sound? Much to their disappointment, striking members of the Writers Guild of America were virtually ignored by representatives of ABC's affiliated stations at the network's annual convention at the Century Plaza. — Singer Mickey Gilley, whose earthy Texas nightclub was the focus of the movie "Urban Cowboy" hasn't set foot in the honky-tonk for two years And he hasn't regularly worn a cowboy hat for three years. Like the movie, this album covers a lot of ground within the black idiom, and some of its ideas work just as audaciously. "I said, 'What are you going to write next, and whatever it is I want to commission it' When you're on a creative roll together, these relationships are to be cherished" That play turned out to be "Two Rooms" a world premiere about an American hostage in Beirut, which will run through July 31. I was trying to find the right use for the land I had in Utah It's really beautiful.
Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, will be along any minute to trim it with her magic wand. Done between 1970 and 1985, they all depicted the voluptuous woman, sometimes in the nude. She told of a representative from Mothers Against Drunk Driving facing a group of teachers-in-training: "Forty comics in a room who haven't made it-there's nothing more vicious than a roomful of unmade comics" They heckled the poor guy-until he ran graphic documentary footage of a cheerleader decapitated in a drunk driving accident. "We understand you" Crosby's shoulder-length, dirty-gray hair was a little stringier, his trademark walrus mustache was even bushier and his singing voice was more secure than it has been in years. A latecomer to the corps of FSA photographers documenting the hardscrabble existence of poor rural folk, 29-year-old Wolcott was assigned to concentrate on positive views that might soften a curmudgeonly congressman's heart toward Roosevelt's social programs.
He thinks the play has not only diffused the autobiographical element, but taken on more ambitious scope. McEntire repeated for the fourth straight year as top female vocalist; the Judds matched her by winning their fourth consecutive award for top vocal duet, and Ricky Van Shelton and K. T Oslin were named top new male and female vocalists. 5 and appearing as his own piano soloist in Mozart's C-minor Concerto, K 491. Of the 667 items confiscated, only 26 were returned to LeBold, including Sally Field's "Flying Nun" hat; the remaining items were returned to the Burbank Studios. "Two of the three sources of financing for the arts-private-sector contributions and direct federal funding-are already at risk as a result of recently enacted legislation to reform the tax system and reduce the federal deficit" the report asserted. They don't drive, so they must be ready for their parent chauffeurs Their elders (16 to 19, occupy the parking lot The dress is very casual for both Jeans, sweaters, Reeboks.