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Television Listings Saturday. (Vtohcr 2. IW2 Pari oo Angeles (Times (IWMGKHOSK ta AniiFin Timri ATT1IE PAVILION SEX MARKS THE SPOT IN ADULT VIDEO GAMES GIUSEPPE SINOPOLI OPENS PHILHARMONIC SEASON By LKKMAKGULIKS. Timet Staff Writer male character to score points hv making contact with female characters. "Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em" is the raciest of the three so much so that describing it tastefully in a family newspaper is difficult Suffice it to say that the game involves a man on the roof of a building and a woman looking up at him from the street below and is similar to Activ-ision's "Kaboom," in which the player attempts to catch falling objects.

The themes notwithstanding. Stuart Kestcn, president of American Multiple Industries, bristled his hips swivel and his arms dangle, though not usually at the same time. Considering the level of performance being given by the Philharmonic on Thursday, none of this seemed to matter; if a conductor can get first-rate results by unorthodox means, who can complain? Certainly not those of us who have watched more conventional podium practitioners get less. Mahler's characterful Fifth, by now a staple of the Philharmonic repertory, emerged in this account a cohesive and grand mural of the composer's noble musical intents. No false clues or unimportant detailing distracted from Sinopoli's single-minded exposure of the work's continuity; no secondary climaxes intruded on this conductor's canny ascent to the two major emotional peaks.

All the more admirable, then, were the nuances he savored on the way to those peaks, and the handsome solo lines contributed sensitively by various principals of the ensemble. Schubert's Fifth, on the other hand, though it demands less in size, requires even more in finesse. Sinopoli and the (reduced) Philharmonic treated it with loving care, but missed some of its charms through misplaced balances, insufficient Please see PHILHARMONIC, Page 5 Giuseppe Sinopoli leads LA. Philharmonic at opening Thursday. POP BEAT RUDY SALAS: CRUSADER FOR THE LATINO BANDS By DAN1ELCAHIAGA.

Times Staff Writer nly 17 months alter (lis I United States debut here. Giuseppe Sinopoli returned for his third guest engagement with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Thursday night in the Pavilion of the Music Center. It should have been a festive occasion; after all, this was opening night of the orchestra's 1982-83 season. And it proved special in its own way, though less gala than some other opening nights, when music director Carlo Maria Giulini has been on his own podium to launch the winter season. Sinopoli has brought the local audience works of Schubert and Mahler before; this time around he chose the Fifth symphonies of both composers and elicited from our orchestra exceptionally stylish and convincing readings.

The Italian maestro, 36 this year, can look like an ungainly figure while engrossed in the business of conducting. He often hunches; he sometimes rises up on his toes; he does not hesitate to let his shoulders twitch in response to the musical impulse; he seems, at moments, to be executing little dance steps with an unseen partner (the LARRY DAVIS Los Angelra Times Rudy Salas of Tierra wants Latino MOVIE REVIEW The player maneuvers the figure of a cavalry officer across the TV screen, trying to avoid a rain of arrows and an occasional cactus in the hope of reaching a comely Indian maiden on the other side. Just another video game? No way. That's because the officer is wearing only booLs and a hat. and his intentions are anything but honorable.

The player earns points by coupling the male figure with the naked Indian lass as many times as possible without being hit by an arrow. Welcome to "Custer's Sex is about to make its debut in the home video game marketplace. "Custer's Revenge" is one of three adult video games that a Northridge company called American Multiple Industries plans to release nationwide later this month under the brand name Mystique. Retailing at $49.95 to $15 more than the most expensive of conventional video games all are designed for use on the basic Atari video game system that has sold by the millions over the past few years. The trio play much like other video games; the difference is in their themes, which are blatantly sexual.

"When you score. score!" boasts the magazine ad that will be appearing in Playboy and Penthouse, among other publications, to help sell the games. In "Custer's Revenge," which takes the form of a traditional obstacle game, the naked Custer character is, shall we say, in an obvious state of arousal which just as obviously fades if he inadvertently runs into a cactus. "Bachelor Party" is similar to Atari's "Breakout," in which the player tries to keep a "ball" in play to knock down a wall, but instead of impersonal block figures, it uses a CRITIC AT LARGE TV DAWN PATROL HAS A NEW ACE By CHARLES CHAMPLIN. Times Arts Editor One among the non-infinite number of advantages of having survived into what Bill B.allance (the radio philosopher now resident in San Diego) calls either the Early Middles or the Middle Earlies is that you acquire a certain store of memories along the way.

Names like Basil Ruysdael, Clarence Budington Kelland and Sally Eilers drift into mind unprompted, as do Ransom Sherman's Club Matinee and the collected works of Charles (Buck) Jones. The recent sad passing of Dave Garroway prompted a lot of memories of that unique, urbane and mellifluous man and his "Garroway at Large" show, live from Chicago on Sunday nights in the covered wag idol of the 1950s in gentle, often NOt KXVUJ 10 umoei 1 Foiuwwl ATARI VkJeo -SilZ A Mystique "adult" video game. during an interview at the suggestion that these are home video's first "X-rated" cartridges. That falsely implies that the Mystique games are pornographic or sexually explicit, he protested, noting that the action is cartoonlike and designed to be fun. not erotic.

"Our object is not to arouse; our object is to entertain," Kesten maintained. "When people play our games, we want them smiling; we want them laughing." Nevertheless, the packages in Please see MYSTIQI 'E. Page on days of television. For no reason whatever I remembered a particular show on which, having done a tricky shot from directly overhead there was always a lovely sense that the program was exploring the new toy to see what it could do the crew had to get the camera back on the stage where it belonged. (I assume there weren't any spares.

Garroway explained, that utterly unrufflable way of his. that there seemed to be no way to avoid a loud noise, and that we would all presently hear a loud noise. We did, a rattling of pulleys and chains as the camera (the size of a VW in those days) floated back to earth. A silly and wonderful moment, which seemed to confirm the promise of the medium but turned out to be an unrepeated reward. Ransom Sherman, who now lives in brisk retirement in his 80s near Las Vegas, had come forward from radio and fine cameos in film as a sort of twangy and nasal Greek chorus and was doing, in 1950, his own explorations of live television: a daily half-hour variety show, also out of Chicago.

Please see TV DA WK, Page 7 funny film, "My Favorite Year." 1 By DENNIS HUNT. Times Staff Writer Rudy Salas of the rock band Tierra, normally a very gentle man, was rather angry during an afternoon interview this week, though he did control his anger quite well. He gets irritated when discussing the Latino bands' struggle to make it in a pop music industry largely alien to Latinos. Salas really wanted to talk more about the Latino-oriented concert that Tierra is headlining at 2 p.m. today at East Los Angeles College Stadium in Monterey Park, which also features Heatwave, El Chicano, Isela Sotclo, Los Illegals, Claudio Valcnte and Los Lobos.

Instead, he focused on larger, more urgent topics, like his assertion that Latino bands and audiences arc largely unwelcome in the pop mainstream. "That's why in the. Latino community we have to have our own shows," he said. "I'm not saying we should ignore what's happening outside in the pop-and-rock scene. I'm just saying we have to be realistic and recognize that the pop-and-rock scene isn't that open to people from our community.

It's a bad scene for our bands. For every one like us that gets to first base, there are so many that aren't even in the ball park. Things are really bad from the standpoint of pop shows. How many pop shows take the Latino community into account?" ready has arrived in New York, swathed in enough cashmere suiting to stock all Bond Street, and entirely the worse for wear. Kaiser, who carries a wallet where other people stow their hearts, is all for junking him instantly.

Benjy puts in an impassioned plea for his hero over Swann's unconscious body and wins him one last chance. But Benjy is to be his duenna and the show is a week away. And there is one last problem. King Kaiser has been convulsing "Comedy Cavalcade" audiences with a merciless impersonation of a heavy-duty labor leaderhood, Boss Rojeck (Cameron Mitchell). Appearing at the television studio in person, tempered by his unctuous lawyer all be sitting down now, Mr.

Rojeck leaves no doubt that crossing him is not safe. On this framework, writers Norman Steinberg and Dennis Palum-bo, working from Palumbo's story, and Richard Benjamin, making his directing debut, have hung an engaging film whose strongest points are O'Toole's elegant, rueful comic performance, and the film's artful re-creation of the manic live days of television. On the "Cavalcade's" inner circle are its writers, two of whom, Bill Please see' MY FA Page 7 He knew the answer was few, if any. That question was a lead-in to his criticism of a recent musical event that still makes Salas fume the US Festival. "No Latino bands played at the festival," he said.

"That's a crime, considering the large Hispanic population in this area. And they had the nerve to call it the US Festival. What they meant was just us whites. There weren't any black bands there, either. The whole thing was an insult to black and brown people." However, he was reminded that Santana.

with its Latino leader Carlos Santana. did perform at the US Festival. But Santana is a sore point with Salas, who doesn't think the band which, incidentally, is only part latino is a qualified representative of the Latino community. "This is a rock band that appeals to a white rock audience," he said. "Carlos is a great musician but he's a universal-type person.

His consciousness isn't a Latino consciousness. Obviously, that's his choice. But I think he has an obligation to the Latino community that he hasn't recognized yet. He has the prestige, power and influence to be a leader in this area but he has chosen not to be one." Salas feels secure in rapping Carlos Santana for ignoring the Latino community because Tierra is such a model of community leadership. "We spend time going to schools talking to the kids," he said.

"We Please see POP BEAT, Page 7 Peter CfToole stars as matinee 'MY FAVORITE YEAR': A FUN TRIP BACK TO 1954 s. bands in the mainstream of pop. best of all possible years. Never mind that his toehold on the ladder of success brings him to the coffee shop schlepping for others more often than to the show's story conferences. He's already come miles from Ocean Parkway, from Brooklyn College and from his mother (Lainie Kazan).

He's working for King Kaiser (Joseph Bologna), reigning television comic. And Ben-jy's idol, the Errol Flynn-likc Alan Swann (Peter O'Toolc), joins the show for a parody of "The Three Musketeers" this very week. he stays sober long enough to pronounce his words. Swann al- By SHEILA BENSON, Times Film Critic Television in 1954 was a gorgeous grab bag. Reach in and you'd get Sid Caesar and Imo-gene Coca on "Your Show of Shows," or the almost unbelievable goings-on at the Army-McCarthy hearings.

You might hit "Playhouse 90" or "Dollar a Second," Edward R. Murrow orfirnie Kovacs. In the effervescent "My Favorite Year" (at selected theaters), Benjy Stone (newcomer Mark Linn-Baker), the most junior writer on "The Comedy Cavalcade," finds it the INSIDE CALENDAR Page. I COMICS: Page 8. POP: Patrice Uiishcn by Connie Johnson.

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