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- CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 20
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- TELEVISION
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- STAND AND DELIVER (PBS, March 15, 8 p.m. on most stations).
- Edward James Olmos is up for an Academy Award for his
- performance as a dedicated inner-city math teacher in this
- fact-based film, produced for American Playhouse and now having
- its TV debut.
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- THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE (ABC, March 19 and 20, 9 p.m.
- EST). Oprah Winfrey, in the days before Optifast, plays one of
- seven women enduring the trials of tenement life in this
- two-part TV movie. The talk-show superstar was also co-executive
- producer.
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- BERNSTEIN AT 70 (PBS, March 19, 9 p.m. on most stations).
- A musical tribute, held at Tanglewood last August, featuring
- Beverly Sills, Bobby McFerrin, Betty Comden and many other
- admirers from the music world.
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- MOVIES
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- THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Lovers waltz in midair,
- a servant (Eric Idle) outruns a speeding bullet, and the King
- of the Moon (Robin Williams) literally loses his head in this
- wonder-filled fantasy from Terry Gilliam, late of Brazil.
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- NEW YORK STORIES. In this trio of vignettes, Francis
- Coppola belly flops with his tale of rich kids. Two out of three
- ain't bad: Martin Scorsese's sketch of a downtown painter and
- Woody Allen's comedy about the ultimate Jewish mother.
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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 an imperiled landscape, in which nature's beauty is elbowed
- aside by parking lots, trash and suburban sprawl. Through April
- 16.
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- BOOKS
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- SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS by John Updike (Knopf; $18.95). A wry,
- haunting memoir by an author who decided while he was still a
- young man that the printed word would disguise his flaws, only
- to learn that success leaves one painfully exposed.
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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 a chilling and incendiary tale.
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