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r'rr yww 1 REPUBLIC The Arizona Republic Thursday. Novltftfe'rU; 1985 Reintroducing the Beatles Cinemafare Bridge Calendar 'Television H2 H2 H4 H5 Capitol Records is taking final orders tor 10 of the Beatles' earliest albums, but the label plans to bring out the seven original British versions of the discs. H4. Short takes 1 rvrrrryyr I r. j7 'a ll ll I Mffajmi.m.,f i i.i-i rf WHAT'S HAPPENING npwnuMnBBnBi TODAY Clancy Brothers (8 p.m., Gammage Center) Everybody's favorite Irish folk group is back with Tommy Makem for what they're calling a farewell tour.

Oingo Boingo (8 p.m., Centennial Hall, Mesa) Their title song for the film Weird Science has' moved this Los Angeles fringe group to center Story on this page. Quintessence (8 p.m. Ethington Theatre) Clarinetist. Charles West is the soloist. The theater is at.

3300 W. Camclback Road. Phoenix Symphony (8 p.m., Sundome) Tonight's pops program will be repeated at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Symphony Hall. Arizona Dance Theatre (8 p.m., Scottsdale Center for the Arts) Principal dancers Christopher Boatwright and Leslie McBeth are featured in five short pieces.

NEWS BRIEFS STALLONE UNDER GUARD More than three dozen security officers are on patrol at a Hurbank, studio where Sylvester Stallone is shooting Gene Hackman is a mild-mannered husband who revives his CIA ties, and Matt Dillon is his son in Target. a movie called Lobra. 1 his following anonymous threats "Stallone is going to die" and "a bomb is in the building" a that stopped Cobra location filming Tuesday at the Transa- it Mi tfrtyiTu mcrica Building in downtown Stallone Los Angeles. Stallone and the rest of the movie, troupe and hundreds of office workers were; Car chases, intrigue on Target' for standard, yet fun, film evacuated while police searched but found nothing. Movies Review According to columnist Marilyn Beck, it was not Stallone's first brush with threats.

While filming Bumbo in Mexico, he discovered a poisonous snake in his bed; while filming Rhinestone Cowboy, he was, plagued by death threats on locations in New York, Los Angeles and Tennessee. i OUT OF THE CHEAP SEATS Actress Joan'; Collins, wearing a strapless black gown and! shimmering diamond necklace, crashed a reception; for the "benefactors" at the charity! ball Tuesday night attended by Prince Charles and: Princess Diana. Collins had only a ticket allowing her to attend the ball and seven-course dinner. She was not supposed to get into the reception with the royal couple. Reaction from other party guests ranged from "amusement" to "outright disgust," press pool reports noted.

Collins attended the ball with her new husband, Peter Holm. Also sitting in the cheap seats were Cary Grant, Bob Hope, cable TV magnate Ted Turner and Gregory Peck. SHORT SORTIES By MARSHA McCREADIE Arizona Republic Stall If Arthur Penn, the director of Bonnie 'and Clyde, weren't such a major film maker we'd probably feel a lot better about his new film. Target. Standard as it is, Target still manages to be entertaining and fun, and it contains a fine performance by Gene Hackman, a guy who always manages to keep his cool no matter what he's cast in or as.

In Target, he's Walter, a father and. husband who initially seems to be a Mr. Milquetoast the owner, apparently, of a lumberyard in Texas, a slow driver and generally a dull guy about the house. At that's the opinion of his cheeky, cocky son, Chris, played by Matt Dillon. The rest of the movie consists of Chris' enlightenment.

When Walter's wife, Donna, is kidnapped during a vacation trip to Paris, it comes out that there's one brilliant moment when he throws back his head and laughs with the same laugh that Hackman uses.) And a few minor parts are really jtackily stereotypical, like a wheezy old icolonel done in by someone keeping him jfrom his oxygen tanks that old ploy, i Target is a pro job, however. It keeps you watching and guessing, no small thing in this day of complicated cine- matic cold war plots. SECOND OPINION From Sheib Benson, Los Angeles Times: "What happens to worn-out CIA agents" Or ones who choose home, hearth and family over phone booths, airline terminals and excess stomach acid? Interest-" ing question. Target is created around that germ of an idea, yet even with Arthur Penn as its director and inge- nious casting, it is, sad to say, mainly for connoisseurs of the car Europe- an-style." 1 couple of good interchanges between Dillon and Hackman that may remind you of the old saying about never realizing how smart your father was until you turned 21. Of course WalterDuke is pretty slick, as the film amply shows us.

He's got a former girlfriend (Lise, played by Victoria Fyodorova) as well as a missing wife. The movie is more than a bit old-fashioned in its attitudes toward women. It seems the wife (Gayle Hunnicutt) is perfect in every way; she can talk with her eyes, even while gagged. Lise, on the other hand, while (useful to the father-son cause, is dismissed with the classic "if only I had another life" excuse. Dillon gets a little tiresome 'in places, though of course the script requires some of this.

(On the plus side perhaps credit here goes to the direct t-r TARGET A Warner Bros. CBS release directed by Arthur Penn, screenplay by Howard Berk and Don Petersen, story by Leonard Stern, photography by Jean Tournier, score by Michael Small. Cast: Gene Hack-man, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt, Josef Sommer, Herbert Berghof, Victoria Fyodorova. Rated R. a Walter (or Duke, as we soon come to know him) once worked for the CIA and that someone is out to get him by getting his wife.

This sets the stage for some neat street chase scenes in Paris, and for a Unconventional band basks in recognition State theater company hires managing director BOB DYLAN has settled a $100,000 assault suit filed by free-lance photographer Gary L. Aloian, who charged the singer "twisted around, scratched and otherwise injured and frightened and put in fear for his life" at an airport in 1983. of the settlement were not revealed. JAMES HANLEY, called "a novelist in neglect," by The Dylan Popular music Preview Times Literary Supplement in London and "one of the best-known little-known writers now at work" by Time magazine in 1977, died Monday in London at age 81. His books included Drift, Boy, Against the Stream and A Dream Journey.

OUR DAILY QUOTE "You don't have to fall apart because you arc geling older." Actress Linda Evans, 42, who drew a crowd Wednesday when she appeared at a Senate hearing on nutrition and fitness. Republic StaffAVire Services Arizona Theatre Company has a new managing director. Richard Bryant will be moving from Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., where he has been director of public relations and marketing, to take over the business end of Arizona Theatre about Feb. 1. A 1975 honors graduate of the University of Virginia, Bryant is described as a "hot property," by Gary Gissclman, Arizona Theatre's artistic director.

In general, the theater's managing director is responsible for business operations, while the artistic director is more concerned with play selection, rehearsals and staging of productions. Bryant, who also worked as public relations director at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, began his career' at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ky. He was a member of the founding board and the first President of the Helen Hayes Awards, a Washington Organization that recognizes excellence in professional theater. He worked at Arena Stage for six years. Bryant will fill the vacancy created by the resignation of David Hawkan-son, who left Arizona Theatre for a similar post with Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut.

The appointment follows a seven-month search. By ANDREW MEANS Arizona Republic Staff After years as an unconventional force on the fringes of rock, Oingo Boingo moved to center stage recently. The Los Angeles group's title song for the movie Weird Science did well, and singersongwriter Danny Elfman has been receiving recognition for his SO-LO album and for scoririg last summer's Pee-Wee Herman film, Pce-Wee's Big Adventure. "We've seen ourselves on the singles charts for the first time," Elfman said. "I don't like to anticipate how far that will go.

We simply want to keep going and not stagnate. We try not to plan on anything further than three months ahead. If we did a bunch of garbage just to be successful, it would not be good for our morale." Ironically, Oingo Boingo's rising for- tunes come after a particularly volatile period. Earlier this year, following rumors that the band's death was near, the group splintered. Bassist Kerry Katch and keyboardist Rich Gibbs were replaced by John Avila and Mike Bacich, respectively.

"We talked it out," said Elfman, "and said to (Katch and Gibbs) they really should move on. We're the kind of band that really requires 110 percent commitment from everybody." OINGO BOINGO 8 p.m. today, Centennial Hall, Mesa. Earlier, Elfman had suffered indignity when the group's label, refused to let him make his -solo album. Through legal maneuvering, he eventually managed to make a deal with MCA for the project, and in due course the group also signed with MCA.

SO-LO gave Elfman an outlet for a backlog of songs he said were not considered suitable for group albums. The distinction does not appear to be great; self-conscious social parody set to a lively dance tempo is the backbone of both the group material and Elfman's solo album. "I don't think I will ever do another solo album," he said. "It took a lot of time away from the band. However, I will continue with film scores." Elfman's songwriting is unusual for pop music in that he criticizes radical and liberal ideology.

For instance, Only a Lad derides a society seen as oversym- CMftTD Richard Bryant Betsy Bolding, chair of the theater's board of trustees, said "Richard brings us a wonderful combination of experiences from three different but all highly respected and'. successful theaters." Arizona Theatre, which operates in both Tucson and Phoenix, opens its ninth Valley season Nov. 30 with a production of Sam Shcpard's Fool for Love at Phoenix College. French orchestra captures heaven for sparse audience Music Review The top 10 and bottom five television programs for the week of Nov. 4-10 as compiled by the A.C.

Nielsen Co. Season to date rankings are in parentheses; an in parentheses denotes a one-time only presentation. 1. (1) The Cosby Show, NBC. 2.

(x) Worth and South, Part 6, ABC. 3. (2) Family Ties, NBC. 4. (X) North and South, Part 3.

ABC. 5. (3) Murder, She Wrote, CBS. 6. 'Tie: 60 Minutes.

CBS; (X) Worth and South, Part 4, ABC. 8. (X) Worth and South, Part 2. ABC. 9.

(26) The Stone Pillow, CBS Tuesday Night Movie. 10. (X) North and South, Part 5, ABC. The bottom five: Risky Business, CBS Saturday Night Movie. Punky Brewster, NBC.

Hollywood Boat, ABC. Silver Spoons, NBC. Our Family Honor, ABC. around when he decided a dozen or so years ago to devote himself full-time to the group. But in Tuesday's concert, piano soloist Brigitte Engerer also deserved a large share of credit with her strong contribution to the artistic success of the event.

i The Tunisian-born artist, performing Saint-Saens melodious Piano Concerto Mo. 2, displayed dazzling technique, sincere emotions and unexpected power, all of which turned the less-than-monu-mental work into a fiery masterpiece. Often left entirely to her own devices in long and impressive solo passages, Engerer also performed in perfect harmony with the flexible and selflessly Bupportive orchestra. At the start of the evening, Plasson and the orchestra wasted no time in I beguiling the audience's senses when1 they opened the program with a languorous, sensuous and colorful reading of Debussy's Prelude a Taprcs-midi d'un faune. The piece de resistance, however, whs Cesar Franck's familiar Symphony in minor.

Plasson succeeded in making the old and often-abused warhorse sound like an exciting and fresh experience. How well he and his musicians observed dynamic nuances and used flexible tempos to build inexorable crescendos into shattering climaxes. The diminutive crowd managed to shout its approval with enough conviction to produce an encore, the Prelude tto Act 3 of Bizet's opera Carmen. By OIMITRI DROBATSCHEWSKY Arizona Republic Stall If God ever wanted a symphony orchestra in the French sector of Paradise, there is little doubt that he would select the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse for the honor. On Tuesday, however, the nearly empty auditorium of Gammage Center did not look anything like the Elysian gardens.

But the hardy 300 or so patrons who braved the cold weather and endured the embarrassing loneliness in the hall received their heavenly reward in the form of one of the most exciting concerts heard in this or any other season. Some French orchestras, such as the Orchestre de Paris, may enjoy higher prestige and greater international expo-- ORCHESTRE DU CAPITOLE DE TOULOUSE Conducted by Michel Plasson, with guest soloist Brigitte Engerer, piano. Gammage Center, Tuesday. sure, through tours and recordings, butj none makes music with more beautiful sounds, greater discipline or in better taste. Michel Plasson, the charismatic con-, ductor of the ensemble, deserves the credit for this, because it is he who turned the fortunes of this orchestra 1 v- i --i i- i- 1 1- i- -r r-- -i ii -i a -i i-i hi r- i i 4-siir A.