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- CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 3
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- MOVIES
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- BERT RIGBY, YOU'RE A FOOL. Robert Lindsay (the
- London-Broadway star of Me and My Girl) plays the lead in Carl
- Reiner's funny fable about an English coal miner's search for
- celebrity. Anne Bancroft is glorious as a randy Hollywood
- princess whom Lindsay meets on the potholed road to stardom.
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- TRUE BELIEVER. The ambiguities are as unsettling as a
- crack-house mugger in this humdinger about a sleazy attorney who
- bends the system to wreak justice. But the real drama is in the
- demonic intensity and haunted eyes of James Woods, a criminally
- gifted actor who may be too edgy to become a Hollywood star in
- this era of the Really Cute Guy.
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- BOOKS
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- BILLY BATHGATE by E.L. Doctorow (Random House; $19.95). A
- fictional Bronx boy, circa 1935, is accepted into the inner
- councils of the infamous Dutch Schultz gang and survives
- murderous adventures to tell an incendiary tale.
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- A THEFT by Saul Bellow (Penguin; $6.95). The Nobel laureate
- offers an original novella in paperback, a vivid new fiction in
- which the familiar Bellow hero has become a heroine.
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- THE END OF TRAGEDY by Rachel Ingalls (Simon & Schuster;
- $16.95). Four novellas by an author who already commands a
- formidable cult following. This time out, as before, she rubs
- against the grain of tired old plots and creates electrifying,
- hair-raising results.
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- RICHARD BURTON: A LIFE by Melvyn Bragg (Little, Brown;
- $22.95). This meticulous biography includes generous quotations
- from the subject's letters and his 350,000-word private diary;
- the result is a portrait of a vivid actor who approached
- language with the same passion he lavished on Elizabeth Taylor.
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- TELEVISION
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- UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY: RICHARD M. NIXON (syndicated, March
- 8, 8 p.m. EST on most stations). Will he never go away? Barbara
- Howar is the latest reporter to examine the deposed President's
- life and politics, in this two-hour documentary.
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- THE GLENN MILLER BAND REUNION (PBS, March 10, 9 p.m. on most
- stations). In the mood again, with bandleader (and former Miller
- trumpeter) Billy May, Kay Starr, Jack Jones and more.
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- DEAD MAN OUT (HBO, March 12, 10 p.m. EST). A prison
- psychiatrist (the ubiquitous Danny Glover) tries to help an
- incorrigible death-row inmate in this heavy-hitting drama.
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- THEATER
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- JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY. The master choreographer and a
- Broadway cast of 60 re-enact the dance delights of such classics
- as West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof and On the Town.
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- LEND ME A TENOR. Funnier than Neil Simon's Rumors and ably
- played, this door-slamming farce revives the swellegant urbanity
- of the '30s.
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- SHIRLEY VALENTINE. Pauline Collins (Upstairs, Downstairs)
- brings to Broadway her funny and poignant performance as a
- discontented housewife breaking free.
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- ART
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- ROBERT ADAMS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AMERICAN WEST, Philadelphia
- Museum of Art. A tribute to the master photographer of the
- imperiled landscape. In the remarkable pictures that Adams has
- been making since the mid-1960s, nature's stubborn beauty is
- forever being elbowed aside by parking lots, trash and suburban
- sprawl. Through April 16.
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- ANDY WARHOL: A RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York
- City. The first comprehensive look since the artist's 1987 death
- at what made him the top of the Pops. Through May 2.
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- THE HUMAN FIGURE IN EARLY GREEK ART, the Art Institute of
- Chicago. Sixty-seven choice works drawn from Greek museums trace
- the emerging lineaments of the classical style. Through May 7.
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- MUSIC
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- JANE'S ADDICTION: JANE'S ADDICTION (Warner Bros.). This will
- dice your eardrums and deep-fry your brain in the bargain.
- Assaultive, tough, unsparing rock from a Los Angeles band with a
- punk foundation and guitars like trip-hammers.
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- LOU REED: NEW YORK (Sire). Savage lyricism in the sharpest
- Reed style, with a startling overlay of tough social commentary.
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- MANDY PATINKIN: MANDY PATINKIN (CBS). The Broadway (Sunday
- in the Park with George) and movie (Alien Nation) actor lets
- fly with a fearlessly melodramatic song cycle chosen from
- sources as various as Stephen Sondheim and Al Jolson. Some of
- the tunes are a bit florid, but the best (like Anyone Can
- Whistle) have a delicacy that lingers.
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- MOZART AND SCHNABEL, VOLS. 1-4 (Arabesque). The great Artur
- Schnabel in memorable performances of Mozart piano concertos and
- solo music, recorded in London between 1934 and 1948.
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