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- <title>
- Feb. 06, 1989: Critics' Choice
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 06, 1989 Armed America
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 13
- </hdr><body>
- <p>MOVIES
- </p>
- <p> WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Strange people
- and situations pile into a Madrid penthouse until the place
- looks like the stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Carmen Maura
- is the put-upon heroine in this glossy farce by Spain's naughty
- new auteur Pedro Almodovar.
- </p>
- <p> THE JANUARY MAN. Not a conventional whodunit. The mysteries
- in this spitball comedy are matters of the eccentric heart: How
- will a New York City fireman (Kevin Kline) win back his
- ex-girlfriend (Susan Sarandon) or find accommodating love with
- the mayor's daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)? John Patrick
- Shanley, whose luminous script for Moonstruck won an Oscar,
- scores again here.
- </p>
- <p> DANGEROUS LIAISONS. What deadly games people play in this
- excellent gloss on Christopher Hampton's play. John Malkovich
- and Glenn Close are the decadent puppeteers of lust who realize,
- too late, that the job comes with fatal strings attached.
- </p>
- <p>THEATER
- </p>
- <p> THE PIANO LESSON. This stunning work by dramatist August
- Wilson, at Chicago's Goodman Theater, combines the emotional
- clout of his Pulitzer-prizewinning Fences with the haunting
- lyricism of his Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
- </p>
- <p> DARKSIDE. Stars twinkle all around and the big blue marble
- of earth eerily arises in a set designer's triumph in this
- haunting new play about astronauts on the moon, at Denver Center
- Theater Company.
- </p>
- <p> DUTCH LANDSCAPE. Dramatist Jon Robin Baitz, 26, who made a
- splash with The Film Society, echoes its South African setting
- in this autobiographical play, premiering at Los Angeles' Mark
- Taper Forum.
- </p>
- <p>MUSIC
- </p>
- <p> BANGLES: EVERYTHING (Columbia). Cool sex and hot rhythm from
- four women rockers. Crash and Burn tells the story: funny,
- flinty and slick enough to slide into your heart like a knife.
- </p>
- <p> MILT JACKSON: BEBOP (East-West). The Modern Jazz Quartet's
- eminent vibes man dives deep into the bop era, working fresh
- wonders on eight vintage tunes, mostly by Dizzy Gillespie and
- Charlie Parker. If Bird lives in Clint Eastwood's recent film
- biography, he gets a neat new lease on life here.
- </p>
- <p> JASCHA HEIFETZ: THE DECCA MASTERS, VOL. 2 (MCA Classics).
- Jascha plays Gershwin! And Stephen Foster! And Irving Berlin!
- The greatest violinist who ever lived, in dazzling arrangements
- of It Ain't Necessarily So, Old Folks at Home and White
- Christmas, among other American bonbons. Those were the days.
- </p>
- <p>BOOKS
- </p>
- <p> INCLINE OUR HEARTS by A.N. Wilson (Viking; $17.95). A
- London child is orphaned by German bombs during World War II and
- sent to live with relatives in the English countryside. What
- follows is a seriocomic autobiographical novel about coming of
- age in an age deucedly difficult to understand.
- </p>
- <p> HONG KONG by Jan Morris (Random House; $19.95). The
- indefatigable traveler and perceptive commentator conveys the
- sights, sounds, aromas and political significance of this
- thriving British colony, scheduled to be returned to China in
- 1997.
- </p>
- <p>ART
- </p>
- <p> GOYA AND THE SPIRIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Museum of Fine Arts,
- Boston. This superb show rescues the Spanish master from the
- romantic shadows of the Goyaesque and presents him as a man
- immersed in the liberal currents of his time. Through March 26.
- </p>
- <p> CEZANNE: THE EARLY YEARS, 1859-1872, National Gallery of
- Art, Washington. The least-known period of one of the
- best-known painters: his restless 20s and early 30s, when he
- disciplined his huge talent. Through April 30.
- </p>
- <p> WALKER EVANS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS, Museum of Modern Art,
- New York City. These spare, poetic images from the Depression
- era gave American photography a candid new spirit and a lasting
- legacy. Through April 11.
- </p>
- <p>TELEVISION
- </p>
- <p> A RAISIN IN THE SUN (PBS, Feb. 1, 8 p.m. on most stations).
- Danny Glover and Esther Rolle star in a newly restored version
- of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama set in the Chicago ghetto.
- </p>
- <p> LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (NBC, Feb. 2, 9:30 p.m.
- EST). Dave brings his top-ten lists, stupid pet tricks and
- "world's most dangerous band" into prime time for a special that
- marks the show's seventh anniversary.
- </p>
- <p> LONESOME DOVE (CBS, Feb. 5-8, 9 p.m. EST). Puny next to War
- and Remembrance, perhaps, but Larry McMurtry's big novel about
- a Texas cattle drive gets a suitably sprawling eight hours of
- TV time. Robert Duvall, Anjelica Huston and Tommy Lee Jones are
- among those along for the ride.
- </p>
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