Monday, 8/4/97 A&E Briefs
Cates nominated for Emmy Gilbert Cates, dean of UCLA’s School of
Theater, Film and Television was nominated for a Primetime Emmy
Award for producing "The 69th Annual Academy Awards." This
nomination brings the total to 47 for Cates’ six Oscar telecasts.
His productions have won eight Emmy Awards, including one to Cates
for best producer. Cates’ first Academy Awards telecast in 1990
boasted live award presentations from Moscow, London, Sydney and
Buenos Aires. Producing the show from 1990 through 1995 set a
record for most consecutive Academy Awards telecasts produced. The
Emmy Awards will air September 14. Laserama on campus Forget
Griffith Park. UCLA offers its own Laser shows at the UCLA
Planetarium produced entirely by UCLA students. The shows run
Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday, and feature special themes such as
"Laserma Magic," "Laserama Rocks," "Laserama Salutes Animals" and
"Laserma Cartoon Classics." Tickets are $5 and $3 (students and
children). For more information call (310) 825-6847. Hollywood Bowl
Jazz Legendary jazz artist Benny Carter celebrates his 90th
birthday with Lexus Jazz at the Bowl Wednesday, July 23 at 7:30
p.m. Quincy Jones emcees the event which features jazz luminaries
including UCLA professor Kenny Burrell, Ray Brown, Diana Kral and
John Clayton, who will lead the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra.
Tickets are $9-$25. For more information call (213) 850-2000 Beyond
Baroque Beyond Baroque, a non-profit literary arts center in
Venice, offers free weekly fiction and poetry workshops year round.
Sponsored in part by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs
Dept., the center invites creative writers to Monday night fiction
workshops and Wednesday and Thursday night poetry workshops. For
more information call (310) 822-3006. MOCA NAME? An exhibit at the
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art displays the works of Joseph
Cornell through September 14. The display features elements of
popular culture and personal iconography in his six shadow-box
constructions and 15 collages, capturing Cornell’s sense of time,
mortality and infinity of space. Admission for the museum is $6, $4
(students with I.D.) and free every Thursday 5-8 p.m. to everyone.
For more information call (213) 626-6222. Briefs compiled by Cheryl
Klein and Nerissa Pacio.