The center of attraction in one pedestal piece looks like an exotic coral formation, while a tentacled being that stands alone as a sculpture might be a science-fiction version of an octopus. As it is, it emerges as a brand-new period piece that dramatizes the worst contradiction in its genre It is decadence scolding decadence. At Chapman's Waltmar Theater through Sunday, it finds him taking several vivid chances Some of them work, most don't. In announcing the deals, the guild said only that the two companies were singled out because of unique "legal considerations" and because negotiations with the two were at an "advanced" stage. It was not what you might call an auspicious opening for Steve Lacy. "Then if they try to hustle you off the plane, you show them your ticket and sock 'em with a breach of contract suit! And if they so much as touch you when you're getting off the plane, you get them for that too" Mort blew a triumphant smoke ring. Evans' exalted position in the world of jazz made him an easy choice as the first in a series of jazz tributes Pickens plans to play at Words & Music.
Horn's sound-distinctive, unpretentious and subliminally jazz tinged-worked well on "Love Is Here to Stay" though the reason for singing the same set of dated lyrics three times seemed obscure. Vichy, with 12 natural springs, specializes in the liver and kidneys; the tiny spa of Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, near the German border, offers as its sole distraction visits to the local oil museum. Wednesday's concert, for which ticket prices ranged from $50 to $1,000, doubled as a benefit for the Carnegie Hall Society and a foundation run by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP. There are lots of people who swear by Seventh Heaven-I regularly see the tiny Santa Monica place crowded with people eating elegant breakfasts and splendid little lunches at the counter. Some of the participants in the war in the Balkans, one of the most savage and ruthless theaters of World War II, are now coming forward and giving details before the cameras of their possible encounters with the tall, gangling lieutenant, then in his mid-20s. The city of Fullerton is offering the arts lover's equivalent of a Whitman's Sampler in "A Night in Fullerton" Friday-a feast for the eyes and ears served in bite-size portions The 24th annual event runs from 7 to 11 p. m.
However, it did manage to outgross the still strong "Above the Law" which was number seven in Orange County with a box office total of $26,709 on eight screens, giving it a relatively healthy $3,339 per screen averag SOURCE: Exhibitor Relations Co. . We also see why she runs to Dick, the sanest warm body at hand. The first thing that anyone following the growth of the Friends and Artists Theatre Ensemble should notice is that their new show, Michael Weller's "Moonchildren" is not Swiss absurdism or German expressionism. Tens of thousands of square dancers belong to hundreds of clubs in Southern California. And getting the star treatment themselves will be the creators of Mickey and Donald. "That's our drummer, Chris Fry, doubling on the organ" Schumacher says "But he only does that in the studio.
That's something, again, which I very much hope to remedy" He would also like to see some kind of statewide series or performing network setup for the Master Chorale. That suggestion will disturb the Boys if they view ABBA's catchy pop pastries as too lightweight, and it will be mistakenly cheered by Boys detractors who think the remark is meant as a put-down. Where Guthrie had seen it as a platform for the actor, it now became a kind of operating room for the director. 2-4, Julio Iglesias (June 16-18, Buster Poindexter (July 15, Bruce Hornsby (Aug 20) and the Moody Blues (Aug 28-30.
The attempted humor-musicians pinching each other's behinds, chorus line choreography-falls flat, and the musical arrangements and repertoire are average, at best One can only hope that things get better here. He himself was a survivor" This is the Williams that comes across in Ray Stricklyn's "Confessions of a Nightingale" an irresistibly charismatic one-man show about the playwright, at the Hahn Cosmopolitan Theatre through Sunday. In these dances the physicality of Bach's music is made as manifest as its spirituality. "We've just bought the rights to Credence Clearwater's 'Born on the Bayou' " said Wynorski, who revealed, "and we're trying to get Roy Orbison's 'Blue Bayou' for our love theme" Produced by Lightyear Entertainment (it did "Aria, the pic begins shooting in early June When it's all wrapped, the ever-busy Wynorski moves on to. "Yucatan" another new piece that attempts to duplicate a Mexican party scene (flirting women waving the ends of their shawls, a wild and noisy Maypole prance and various feats of beer-bottle balancing) was the only clunker-largely because the Avaz dancers filling out the crowd looked so prim and uncomfortable.
Still, these are thoughtful kids who feel the currents of change all around them and are anxious to take part; they are not always sure how to react, but they have got their ears turned in the right direction to find out just how the times are a-changing. They had a son, and she tried hard for 11 years to be a proper well-heeled wife, but in the end it was just impossible to be that and herself at the same time Her fate may have been clear but the path was not She studied drama. But Mengers, now 50, was shaken in 1981 by a falling-out with Streisand over "Yentl" and other matters. While fellow FSA photographer Dorothea Lange is best remembered for her monumental dramatic images of poverty and despair, Wolcott (previously a staff photographer for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin) had a lighter touch. "These people challenge the status quo in and out of the theater" he said. But what about the Rosies of military hospitals, the nurses who decided to become doctors (even if their boyfriends had other ideas? Gale Baker Shick's "Pin Curls" at Room for Theatre, takes up the question, suggesting this might be a more interesting way of looking at how war affects the sexes.
Perna's framed "Common Coin Series" assemblages-each has a homemade lead coin at its center-variously commemorate an object, an idea or an activity. Phillips, who says he prefers two voices on a part, is bringing 10 singers on this tour. "The husband was going to go to work and bring home the bacon, the wife was going to have babies and keep house Then it all flew out the window. Even regular metal bands turn up their noses at speed metalists. The driver said, 'We better stop, get this thing off the road and see if the guy's OK-because it looked like he might not be dead So we got out of the van and walked toward the rope But it wasn't a rope It was his guts. It all sounds intelligent, daring, potentially stimulating, possibly exciting. The style is further marked by a rich tonal range: Karsh uses the tones to draw interesting contrasts.
"It was a real busy day" Chatfield recalled, "and I remember thinking, 'This is great. Often it is a matter of playing with different people and finding who you can work with the best. It's set in a modern-day Los Angeles onto which a strange, nacreous half-fog seems to have descended, indoors and out. All three networks have put some more upscale shows on. Baby boomers may represent the largest segment of the population, but, somehow, when it comes to television, there just aren't enough boomers to go around.
In all the excitement, wasn't that Chewbacca in the coach next to Bronte's fragile orphan girl?Did you ever consider what happens to movie characters when the film ends and the projector is turned off? One person who apparently hasn't is John Williams, the prolific composer of sound-track music for "Jaws" "Star Wars" "E. T, The Extraterrestrial" "Raiders of the Lost Ark" "Superman" and countless other blockbusters of supernatural proportions. Now he's in Beirut" Lima's own feelings are mixed: "It was the most real, exciting, vivid time I ever had in my life"When he was growing up, Rafael Lima wanted to be just like Ernest Hemingway. The ART reading, which is free, will be repeated this evening at 8. You see an image and think you know what it's gonna be, then it turns around and becomes something else-and you're indicted by your pre-conditioned response, the prejudice you've attached to the image" "Museum" features a series of vignettes satirizing black stereotypes that, Wolfe believes, are perpetuated by both blacks and whites.
KHJ-TV Channel 9 trailed with a 2. 3 rating and a 6 share. The May sweeps, local television's four-week foray into the business of P. T. Static ratings have convinced station management to pull the plug on the eccentric comedy show. First he is dressed as Hamlet, but then he is trying to remember lines from Coward's "Private Lives" Then he is back as Hamlet, trying to recall just what country he is supposed to be in (couldn't be England, must be Denmark, right. The network, he said, will not decide whether the new comedies it selects for fall will have laugh tracks until the network's development staff looks at the rough cuts and decides what's appropriate for each.
Guitarist Vito Bratta, drummer Greg D'Angelo and bassist James Lomenzo are all good-looking, but Tramp is White Lion's real swoon-bait, rock's newest dream boat. And when this dog-man pulls a revolver, people in the hall look at each other It's the hottest ticket in Moscow MARCH 17-On the plane. Permission was withdrawn, the producers were told, because "we don't teach that here" "Inherit the Wind" seems perennially timely. The Pet Shop Boys may be the new ABBA. Wilson wrote a scene between a junkie (Minnelli, just out of detox, and her former pimp (Ryan O'Neal, set against the background of an abandoned amusement park. In recent years it has turned up in the climactic scene of the movie thriller "Manhunter" and in many new versions, including a speed-metal interpretation by Slayer from the "Less Than Zero" movie score.
Beginning Friday at the AMC Century 14 Theaters, there will be a weeklong run of all the 1987 nominees-the five in the feature-length documentary category (reviewed here) and the five in the short category (reviewed separately by Kevin Thomas The winners will be announced April 11. A male model evokes our simian background, a female our Olympian forebears. They could just as well have strummed their guitars and beat their pots and pans at a nightclub, minus the costumes and the set. Usually, they listened to just the first minute or two of music, the opening verses and chorus, before deciding whether to pass on a song or declare it a keeper. In shades of rose and jade, they look-especially when alternating with cream or spattered with shredded cheese-like elegant ceramic art.
The first four hours are live on tape, the next three are selections repeated from the previous night's show. Norm Pattiz, president of the Westwood One company which owns the Mutual Broadcasting System, speaks of King more as a fan than as his boss: "There are very few radio stars who cross all demographic boundaries and Larry King is one of them" Pattiz said. But before reaching bottom with a plop or a ping, the stones usually strike layers of bamboo branches jutting out horizontally from each column like long, wagging tongues. At various times, Elaine May and Robert Kaufman have each taken shots at rewrites. . Yokohama isn't just a name the Kanemotos picked out of a hat for their restaurant. The Soviet guests, two women and a man, who were up at 2 a. m in Moscow for the 3 p. m (PST) show, replied politely and sometimes humorously. But what about himself and the genius tag? "Any any pose I've ever adopted, even if it is exaggerated, it still has a root in who I am as a person.
Hosted by Peter Jennings, "Drugs: A Plague Upon the Land" shows how the drug epidemic has spread to rural areas, decimated the nation's work force and led to a lawless gang rule on city streets The program also offers solutions to this dangerous problem. But here he is serving food that is, in his own words, "not special-occasion food" Actually it is, I'm sorry to say, not any occasion food as far as I'm concerned. The Thais were shut off for "five or six years" for trade abuses. About 500 volunteers, stationed along the Art Walk route to help walkers find their way, will be wearing the T-shirts. She may have surprised herself even more when she married New York shipowner Charles Nevelson at 21. And the percentage of drama series built around female characters, compared with males, is still smaller-a trifle.
Created for the winter Olympics in Calgary, it is a complex, abstract essay on the art of partnering. The topic on the first program will be professional careers, with guests biochemist Yelena Petrushkova, Moscow zoo representative Marina Prutkina and education specialist Valeri Pivovarov in Moscow answering questions from American callers. In his opening piece, Bach's "Now Thank We All Our God" he demonstrated that the new tonal firepower could effectively drown out the competition from the roaring overhead jets on their approach to Lindbergh Field. It's also the title of Philip Kan Gotanda's new play (opening Friday at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, an examination of the legacy of Asian stereotypes in American popular culture. Wearing black slacks and a silk shirt, she seemed ill at ease, berating nearby patrons for talking and frequently rushing off into another room to complain about the sound. "I wouldn't say I was practicing like I was going to be playing a concert the next day" he said, "but music is my life" That life has been largely a private one, however, since Cliburn left the stage after a 1978 concert in Toledo, Ohio "Performing is a very solitary profession" Cliburn said. The virtuosic cast includes a man entangled in a sousaphone (Jeppe Mydtskov, another who rolls atop a drum (James Sewell, a woman who blissfully rides an antique tricycle (Buffy Miller, a blond vamp (Valentina Kozlova) and an innocent firebrand (Damian Woetzel. NEW YORK — In his day, fellow mortals referred to the revered director of the New York City Ballet simply as Mr B.
It's considered an achievement when an instrumental album cracks the Top 100. Common to both readings, though, was the artistic denominator. In 1970 he made "Gold-Plated" one of the first Filipino films to deal with homosexuality seriously, which had as its hero a deeply tormented, middle-aged husband and father, and his next film, "Macho Dancer" will deal with the gay underworld of male go-go dancers and hustlers. "But not anymore" The association, which has 150 major museums as members (the Laguna museum is not a member, did not even keep statistics on vacancies until about seven years ago.
NBC's new shows for fall are:The critically acclaimed family drama "A Year in the Life" Michael Mann's "Crime Story" and the long-running comedy "Facts of Life" were canceled by NBC Tuesday to make room for new programming on the fall prime-time schedule Also leaving the schedule will be "St. Shifrin said the published edition "compensates for the lack of these four notes by jumping up an octave in the middle of a melodic line or reversing the direction of an arpeggiated passage or suddenly running out of notes and jumping up an octave while the entire orchestra is continuing in the other direction. "Everybody knows we can't build what Pfeiffer has designed for us for $9 million" one source said. Lucas used tunnels and a deserted parking structure to convey a captive world as hard and soulless as concrete itself He was on his way. There were boxes around the house that I had never even opened" About the costumes, he added, "I'm 41 and wearing those outfits on stage just doesn't feel natural anymore.