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- CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 11
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- TELEVISION
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- EVERYBODY'S BABY: THE RESCUE OF JESSICA MCCLURE (ABC, May
- 21, 9 p.m. EDT). Her Texas neighbors quarreled over the TV
- rights, but the story of 18-month-old Jessica's ordeal in a well
- was bound to reach the screen, come hell or high water. Beau
- Bridges and Patty Duke co-star in the docudrama.
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- MIAMI VICE (NBC, May 21, 9 p.m. EDT). The high-style cop
- show that defined TV noir for the '80s ends its five-year war
- on drugs with a two-hour finale. The ending is hush-hush, but
- the network says Crockett and Tubbs (Don Johnson and Philip
- Michael Thomas) will make their "last stand together." Uh-oh.
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- MUSIC
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- BEETHOVEN: CELLO SONATAS 3 & 5 (EMI). The preternaturally
- gifted cellist Jacqueline Du Pre exudes sensitivity and
- breathtaking virtuosity as she teams up with pianist Stephen
- Bishop-Kovacevich on this digital reissue.
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- LOUIS ARMSTRONG: THE HOT FIVES & HOT SEVENS, VOLUME III
- (Columbia). Young "Satch" at the peak of his force and creative
- genius. Featuring Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory and Earl Hines, these
- 16 digitally remastered sides from 1927 and 1928 spearhead the
- latest batch of releases in Columbia's outstanding Jazz
- Masterpieces series.
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- PHOEBE SNOW: SOMETHING REAL (Elektra). Real is right: ten
- raw and lyrical bits of musical autobiography from one of the
- '70s' best singer-songwriters. On the evidence, she should be
- flourishing in the '90s too.
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- MOVIES
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- LOVERBOY. Delivering pizza in Beverly Hills offers all
- sorts of erotic opportunities -- and comic ones too -- in this
- cheeky romantic romp. Patrick Dempsey has the charm, and
- director Joan Micklin Silver the knack, to bring off a modern
- farce in the classic style.
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- SCANDAL. It's all here: the loveless romances of Christine
- Keeler with a Soviet spy, a Jamaican drug dealer and John
- Profumo, Secretary of War in Harold Macmillan's Cabinet. This
- express tour through swinging London plays like News of the
- World headlines set to early '60s rock 'n' roll.
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- MISS FIRECRACKER. Holly Hunter reprises her stage role as
- a lovelorn orphan determined to win a beauty contest. Mary
- Steenburgen and Alfre Woodard also shine in Beth Henley's
- comedy about the danger of holding on to youthful dreams and
- the liberating effect of letting them go.
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- THEATER
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- LARGELY NEW YORK. Lanky, limber Bill Irwin, silent in this
- 70-minute Broadway sketchbook, owes much to Jacques Tati and
- Marcel Marceau, but gags about man's obsessive relations with
- machines still work in a Walkman world.
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- ELEEMOSYNARY. Playwright Lee Blessing (A Walk in the Woods)
- encapsulates feminism through three generations of
- strong-minded women in a deft, dark off-Broadway comedy.
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- ARISTOCRATS. Brian Friel's depiction of a gilded Irish clan
- in decline, sensitively acted off-Broadway, is the best play on
- view in New York City and merits comparison with Chekhov's The
- Cherry Orchard.
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- ART
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- NOMADS: MASTERS OF THE EURASIAN STEPPE, Denver Museum of
- Natural History. The patterns of daily life among the ancient
- nomadic tribes of Central Asia are vividly reconstructed in
- this archaeological and ethnographic exhibit mounted by the
- Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Los Angeles County Natural
- History Museum. June 4 through Sept. 18.
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- MASTERPIECES OF IMPRESSIONISM AND POSTIMPRESSIONISM: THE
- ANNENBERG COLLECTION, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fifty prime
- paintings by artists from Van Gogh and Cezanne through Gauguin
- and Braque, acquired over the past four decades by publisher
- Walter Annenberg and his wife. May 21 through Sept. 17.
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- BOOKS
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- CITIZEN WELLES by Frank Brady (Scribner's; $24.95).
- Anecdote and scholarship are nicely balanced in this new
- biography of Orson Welles, whose roller-coaster career in stage,
- screen and radio covered the spectrum from classics to
- commercials.
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- T.E. LAWRENCE: THE SELECTED LETTERS, edited by Malcolm
- Brown (Norton; $27.50). David Lean's recently rereleased
- Lawrence of Arabia is one of the greatest epic films ever made.
- But its subject remains an enigma. He tells his own story here
- in letters, nearly two-thirds of them previously unpublished,
- and illuminates the shadows of his personality.
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- COLLECTED POEMS by Philip Larkin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux;
- $22.50). The pre-eminent poet of his time, Larkin died in 1985
- at age 63. This collection includes works previously unpublished
- or unavailable in book form, and documents the triumph of a poet
- who found his style by lowering his voice.
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