Shevardnadze, who reviews was then recalls general secretary of the Communist Party in Georgia, for helping artists there: "If it hadn't been for (Shevardnadze) at that time, I would have been eaten up alive" Nonetheless, political winds in Moscow blew against him. Karson's trend-bucking rationale? "This was something we started for the community of Corona del Mar, and that's the way we want to keep it" But Dr. "I don't want people to do it to me" Mak bought two $35 tickets for herself and gave the rest of her quota to James MacPhee at face value At the May Co. CBS leads the pack with eight new shows, dominated by five sophisticated new comedies. The prints of Lartigue's family and friends on holiday at the beach or at a Grand Prix race or traveling abroad have a soft, creamy quality that calls out to be touched. When contacted, LeBold told Calendar he "was like a scapegoat" referring to the studios' efforts to tighten security on star wardrobe collections.

"I'm not superimposing drama on the pieces" White said, "and I don't touch the voice" Instead, White takes opera students who are either studying in universities or with private voice teachers, and trains them to work out the characters as the composers intended . 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 . Last month, she was named best female dancer at the newly established Hans Christian Andersen Ballet Awards in Copenhagen (her male counterpoint was the Bolshoi Ballet's Irek Mukhamedov) and performed with fellow etoile Manuel Legris at the gala marking the event . (The "arrangements" are the work of one Berthold Carriere)SAN FRANCISCO — Everybody's doing it . These diverse folk forms continue to wield an artistic influence on the world of dance. A Los Angeles Police bomb squad was sent to the Mission Hills studios of radio station KGIL-AM on Wednesday to inspect a package that was delivered to talk-show host Carole Hemingway.

"The idea of Elton being on Uni was born more of nostalgia than really fitting in with what we're trying to create" Simone said "It's meant to be a label of new artists Also, I really wanted Uni to stand on its own . There was composer Charles Ives, who earned his living as an insurance salesman in Danbury, Conn Charles E . The result was a show that certainly could satisfy the guitar mavens looking for "technique" but that also spoke to plain old music fans looking for something that rocked well and carried some emotional weight Satriani, 31, has been on a roll lately . Nothing wrong with that; it's simply that the major mode of communication in the culture is this little screen; we've used it for just about everything else, so why don't we use it for poetry? But there's a kind of cultural gap to doing that To me it's simply a problem of not using the medium . The biggest shock of his life was going to a Stockholm restaurant where salad was priced according to the quantity of lettuce He concluded that people were not meant to live in Sweden. And in other South Bay news, 22 restaurants in the area will participate in the 1988 South Bay Gourmet Sampler to benefit the South Bay Free Clinic on April 24 from 1 to 4 p. m at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Manhattan Beach. .

KitchenCollective talks about "playing" with theater, but control is obviously a value here . "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 . Intensely private people, the Sterns won custody of the little girl and want to be left alone to raise her in whatever degree of obscurity is possible. More is known about Mary Beth Whitehead (now Mary Beth Whitehead-Gould, who divorced her husband Richard and married Dean Gould, whose child she is carrying . It's part of the new-age video gear at the studios of 1125 Productions (the 1125 comes from the number of lines in the HDTV system) in mid-town Manhattan . "So the more we heard people talking about how my father was a victim of his voice, the more we wondered about what really happened" Fountain will be in San Diego Saturday evening for the screening of "Flesh and the Devil" the second selection in the San Diego Symphony's Nickelodeon Concert series. Donaldson is not known as a patron of the arts, producer Lester conceded. Jane Cantillon amused with some bent cabaret standards, and Oswald's "Pandora's Box" was a brief, compact woman's view of dating.

Guild officials have since been reluctant to discuss those considerations-or to say what made Reitman and the Smothers Brothers different from some 200 movie and TV companies that are similarly itching to get back to work . Atonality-and, eventually, serialism-followed as inevitable byproducts and natural progressions There was no place else to go . A $2. 9-million co-production between Britain's Thames Television and HBO, the inquiry-to be edited to 3 1/2 hours-also will be shown the same day on British television's Channel 4 . Playwright Barbara Field, commissioned by the Guthrie, has written more of a "response" to Mary Shelley's 19th-Century Gothic novel than an adaptation . The music at a show is part of a wider social or community sharing. Miniver" (1942, said Steven Apple, executive editor of Video Insider magazine, a weekly news publication for video stores and suppliers. "As new subscribers, they wouldn't get the best seats; but they could improve their seat location in time" Until May, 1985, the Taper had its own in-house agency, called Teletix, which Schlosser explained, "was not viable.

Joseph Crosetto is quiet and a trifle shy, the kind of person who looks as if he's happier working with things than talking with people . "The point of the event is to present a night of art that can be enjoyed by the public" said Reed, co-owner of the John Thomas Gallery, one of five commercial galleries included on the tour . The Joffrey already proved that with "Passage" and "The Heart of the Matter" Unfortunately, "Concerto Grosso" does not seem to be one of his most compelling efforts . Along the way, Murphy has been perfect as the engagingly vague and ambivalent Tanner, a bright, decent, Woody Allen-quoting man of uncertain ambitions beyond doing good . Also at Monday's meeting, the board voted to offer Warsaw Philharmonic music director Kazimierz Kord the position of principal guest conductor and music adviser for the Pacific Symphony's 1989-90 season. Thursday night at the Celebrity Theatre in Anaheim, the heavy-rock guitarist was the same bounding, cackling, foul-mouthed Visigoth he was at his commercial peak a decade ago, when he was still enough of a draw to headline in arenas. They are the decision makers-the men who decide what shows are developed and bought and where they are scheduled.

But these simply aren't the kinds of places that first spring to mind anymore when the old gastric juices start to flow . We tabulated Academy Awards predictions from 85 members of L. A's cognoscenti as they emerged from the West Hollywood boite one lunchtime last week (the real votes from academy members are due-in Tuesday, with the tabulations announced the following Monday . Nancy Blomberg, who curated the show, says the Exposition Park museum waited 46 years to stage the exhibit because, "we never had the curatorial expertise or interest" But when Blomberg became assistant curator of anthropology in the late '70s, she immediately set to work studying the collection . Soon after that, my sister bought me my first guitar" Now 31, Satriani, who performs at the Roxy Monday and Tuesday and at the Coach House in San Juan Capristrano today, is almost single-handedly spearheading a revival of the guitar-hero tradition that flourished in the late '60s-the Hendrix days-but has largely been dormant since . Consider "The Dining Room" "The Middle Ages" "The Perfect Party" "Another Antigone" Now, with "The Cocktail Hour" which opened Thursday at the Old Globe (launching that theater's summer festival, Gurney has made a late-career leap to the autobiographical play. Polivka in real life) has considerable dash of her own, this is essentially a one-person show. It's a sad commentary" I'm certain that Prince meant no offense, master of good taste that he is.

"This is the only thing that has ever happened" It is only the exact, brilliant placement of these lines, near the end of the play, that make them ring as hollowly as an aching black hole "BETRAYAL" By Harold Pinter Director, Will Simpson Set, Robert Earl Lighting, Matthew Cubitto Sound, John Hauser Costumes, Ingrid Helton Stage manager, Cynthia M Fraley . "But he is a clever observer of the passing parade and the theater of the passing parade" Furthermore, she said, if the play's author, Lee Blessing, "can enlighten us with something from 'A Walk in the Woods' instead of another sound bite from another Soviet emissary about the summit, why not"NEW YORK — This is the age of Michael Jackson's moonwalk, Rambo's snarl and bulletins that Bruce Springsteen is on tour . is laid out, like the best evening clothes and the best jewelry, for Monsieur to put his elegant person into . Advance sales proved so disastrous that symphony authorities decided near the last minute to offer any seat in the house for $10 . Everybody's doing it to poor, defenseless Gilbert and Sullivan. The honors are done by Rosemary Clooney and Michael Feinstein, the latter once an employee of the late lyricist. They call that a "Flintstone" Another guy threw his shoes at the pins and wrecked some machinery.

"We acquired our following the hard way, playing in small rooms and saloons and finally building up a nice following . But hearing three straight hours of his observations, no matter how trenchant, funny or graceful, can be numbing The words and meanings can blur, the edge can be lost . But their first job might take them miles from Moscow, and some of them might still be playing there 20 years from now . The chairs are elegant and comfortable, and it's a pity that we never get to enjoy them, for we spend the evening on the edges of our seats, craning forward trying to hear each other . "There's a tremendously strong sentiment (among retailers) that CDs are still much too expensive and that if we really want to make this configuration as popular as it should be, we're going to have to reduce prices" said Frank Hennessey, incoming association president. At times, his performance could have done with some of the vicious bite that was once his calling card.

I believe that a talking head with something to say is fascinating-and newsworthy . If enacted, those proposals could place the strapped nonprofit arts world even more "at risk" than it already is, says the nation's leading arts advocacy organization . The ceremony was only one of several performances in which the couple used the border as their stage . And then what, kiss and tell from the CBS mail room? The prevailing book-jacket strategy seems to be that a volume advertising a mere news division is less salable than one about an entire network . 'The Merry Wives of Windsor"The Merry Wives of Windsor" is surely among the slightest of Shakespeare's comedies, and it hardly constitutes a real test for the fledgling comedy actors in Al Rossi's Los Angeles City College production (the school's 699th in their 59th season. That makes the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum a tranquil retreat-one that sensitive visitors hope will never become a major tourist attraction. The unusual showcase seems remote, though it's in an industrial neighborhood just across the East River from mid-town Manhattan.

Despite the network's ratings slide last season, Orne praised LeMasters, 38, for his attempt to develop more youth-oriented programs . But Julia-one of the best film actors in America right now-gives himself over to this role selflessly, saturating it with sad resignation The movie works on an interesting contradiction . Curator Scheele, an expert in American entertainment memorabilia, knows better . "The Phantom of the Opera" is losing its leading lady, Sarah Brightman, on June 4, one month earlier than expected and a day before the Tonys . "Our history has been covered over with a desire to get on with the future" he said. When we used to come home from school in the summer-this is when my father had bought a pub-there was a stage for us to perform on.

The goal, Breslin said, is to uncover the various alter egos to find at least three characters who really are who they claim to be and, "if they're very, very clever" the location of the secret document . "I thought I could do a couple of those a day, but I went a year without getting a song published, so it wasn't so easy" Michael Feinstein, a cabaret-style singer who frequently spoke with Berlin when Feinstein was working for the late lyricist Ira Gershwin, cited the example of Berlin's 1925 ballad, "Always" "On a superficial level-just on a flip examination-you say, 'that's a nice song' but when you really get into it, you see how cleverly and carefully constructed it is . better place to be" American Yesteryear When the conversation was mentioned the next day to an American business consultant who has lived here for three years, he nodded knowingly . His dancers-the best in the company-work very hard to deliver the goods . Black named the Bank of California and the accounting firm of Prager & Fenton as trustees of Tiffany's trust fund at the same time that he removed Williams as trustee. 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.