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- Mar. 11, 1991: Critics' Voices
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Mar. 11, 1991 Kuwait City:Feb. 27, 1991
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- CRITICS' VOICES, Page 14
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- <p> TELEVISION
- </p>
- <p> ANYTHING BUT LOVE (ABC, March 6, 9:30 p.m. EST). Hannah and
- Marty (Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Lewis) finally end the
- will-they-or-won't-they tension and spend a night together.
- It's a welcome new turn for TV's smartest relationship comedy.
- </p>
- <p> YEARBOOK (Fox, debuting March 7, 8:30 p.m. EST). Cameras
- follow the lives of real students at Glenbard West High School,
- eavesdropping on everything from math classes to private
- boy-girl moments. One video-verite show too many from the Fox
- network.
- </p>
- <p> THE FRED ASTAIRE SONGBOOK (PBS, March 8, 9 p.m. on most
- stations). His singing was as heavenly as his dancing, as this
- wonderful tribute shows.
- </p>
- <p> ART
- </p>
- <p> BLACK ART: ANCESTRAL LEGACY, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
- Richmond. An exhibition of 156 sculptures, paintings and other
- works by 49 20th century African-American and Caribbean artists
- who examine, explore and celebrate their heritage through the
- interpretation of ancient secular and spiritual motifs. Through
- March 24.
- </p>
- <p> EASTMAN JOHNSON: THE CRANBERRY HARVEST, National Academy of
- Design, New York City. This small show focuses on the studies
- and early paintings that culminated in Johnson's famed, and
- newly restored, work depicting Nantucket berry pickers. Through
- March 24.
- </p>
- <p> MUSIC
- </p>
- <p> KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION: STRANGE FREE WORLD A&M). A band of
- genially berserk Brits, turning out tunes with wit and--hard
- to believe in this dance-mad age--melody. With echoes of
- mid-period Beatles and backlash art-rock, this is pop with
- heart and promise.
- </p>
- <p> MARCUS ROBERTS: ALONE WITH THREE GIANTS (Novus/RCA). How old
- do you have to be to take on a giant? David was a mere slip
- when he brought down Goliath, but jazz pianist Marcus Roberts,
- 27, isn't interested in confrontation. He's paying tribute to
- Ellington, Monk and Morton, re-interpreting them in a way
- that's full of warmth, empathy and musical surprise.
- </p>
- <p> EVGENY KISSIN: CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT CONCERT (RCA Red Seal).
- From his daringly slow opening statement of Schumann's
- Symphonic Etudes, and throughout this recital of challenging
- works by Liszt, Chopin and Prokofiev, the Soviet prodigy, now
- 19, shows a potential for future greatness, with a command of
- tone, dynamics and phrasing that is always at the service of
- musical ends.
- </p>
- <p> MOVIES
- </p>
- <p> L.A. STORY. Steve Martin's Annie Hall: that's one way to
- describe this blithe, witty take on the most American of
- cities. Martin, who wrote the film, stars as a TV weatherman
- with a head for romance and a hard time finding it. Victoria
- Tennant, Marilu Henner and Sarah Jessica Parker offer the
- feminine options, and Brit TV maven Mick Jackson supplies the
- directorial dazzle. But this is a very personal Martin project--the sweet-souled, nonstop-funny testament of a native
- Angeleno. Sly and soulful, it's the comedy that dares to be
- dippy.
- </p>
- <p> 1900. In 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci assembled an all-star cast
- (Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Stefania
- Sandrelli) for a history of 20th century Italy that played like
- a Marxist Gone With the Wind. Now the full version--all 5 hr.
- 11 min.--is premiering in the U.S. Don't miss the grandest
- folly of a great director.
- </p>
- <p> ETCETERA
- </p>
- <p> JOFFREY BALLET. For its New York season, this troupe is on
- a youth kick, with brand-new ballets from young choreographers
- Christopher d'Amboise, Alonzo King, Charles Moulton and company
- member Edward Stierle. Through March 17.
- </p>
- <p> THE KISS. Smetana's idyll gets its first professional U.S.
- production from the Sarasota (Fla.) Opera. Czech melodies,
- Bohemian brio, English sur titles. Performances through March
- 12.
- </p>
- <p> THEATER
- </p>
- <p> THE SPEED OF DARKNESS. Guilt about his conduct in Vietnam
- comes back, in the literal form of an accusatory Army buddy,
- to haunt a successful middle-aged man in this gripping Broadway
- drama by Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Tesich (Breaking
- Away). Stephen Lang (A Few Good Men) repeats his electrifying
- Chicago performance as the accuser.
- </p>
- <p> WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN. In Europe, Robert Wilson is the most
- famous American stage director. In the U.S., the anti-verbal,
- visually lyrical elder statesman of the avant-garde is little
- known. He designed, mounted and adapted for Harvard's American
- Repertory Theater this spellbinding Ibsen dreamscape about an
- artist looking back and summing up.
- </p>
- <p> HENRY IV. Both parts of Shakespeare's chronicle play in
- rotation at Joseph Papp's Public Theater off-Broadway, in a
- fiercely idiosyncratic staging by Papp's heiress apparent,
- director JoAnne Akalaitis, featuring a multiracial cast and
- minimalist music by Philip Glass.
- </p>
- <p> SMALL WORLD
- </p>
- <p> In Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos (HarperCollins; $25), Dennis
- Overbye has discovered a fiendishly clever way of tricking
- readers into understanding cosmology, the study of the entire
- universe. Instead of focusing on the nuts and bolts--exotic
- particles, black-body radiation and the like--Overbye draws
- intimate portraits of such people as Allan Sandage, once a
- "lean, Jimmy Stewartish" youngster and now the grand old man
- of cosmology; David Schramm, a Porsche-driving physicist and
- ex-wrestler; and Yakov Zeldovich, a sort of "Zorba the
- Cosmologist," who dazzled colleagues with his intuitive genius
- and women with his charm. By describing the quirky
- personalities and brilliant minds of these and other
- scientists, Overbye reveals cosmology to be a human and
- passionate enterprise. This lures the reader into wanting to
- know something of the science as well, which Overbye explains
- with care and clarity. The book should be required reading for
- anyone who is terrified by scientific literacy.
- </p>
- <p>By TIME's Reviewers. Compiled by William Tynan.
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