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- Mar. 27, 1989: Critics' Choice
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 27, 1989 Is Anything Safe?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 15
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- <p>ART
- </p>
- <p> GUIDO RENI, 1575-1642, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.
- Underappreciated in the modern era, Reni is restored in this
- 50-painting show to the high rank that earlier centuries
- accorded him as a luminous colorist and elegant stylist. Through
- May 14.
- </p>
- <p> RICHARD DIEBENKORN: WORKS ON PAPER, Los Angeles County
- Museum of Art. Some 180 works -- more than one-third of them
- never before publicly exhibited -- by a contemporary master in
- his first comprehensive show of drawings. Through May 7.
- </p>
- <p> ROBERT ADAMS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AMERICAN WEST,
- Philadelphia Museum of Art. A tribute to the chronicler 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.
- </p>
- <p>BOOKS
- </p>
- <p> FIRE DOWN BELOW by William Golding (Farrar, Straus &
- Giroux; $17.95). The last leaf of a trilogy begun back in 1980.
- An arrogant young 19th century Englishman survives seaborne
- hardships to arrive in Australia -- and at some condition of
- self-knowledge.
- </p>
- <p> SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS by John Updike (Knopf; $18.95). A wry,
- haunting memoir by an author who decided while young that the
- printed word would disguise his flaws, only to learn that
- success leaves one painfully exposed.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p>MUSIC
- </p>
- <p> ROY ORBISON: MYSTERY GIRL (Virgin). This was simply going
- to be Orbison's first original solo album in ten years; it
- turned out to be his farewell performance. A little slick
- sometimes, but at least one tune, She's a Mystery to Me
- (produced by U2's Bono), is the perfect valedictory.
- </p>
- <p> BARBRA STREISAND: TILL I LOVED YOU (Columbia). For fans
- only -- but then, there are plenty of Streisand fans around.
- Even the simplest ballads are punched, pummeled and orchestrated
- into Major Statements. Don Johnson joins Babs for a duet on the
- title track, sounding more like a cop than he does on TV.
- </p>
- <p> DIGITAL HOLLYWOOD (MCA Classics). From Star Wars to The
- Magnificent Seven, Stanley Black leads the London Symphony in
- ten of the best movie themes ever penned.
- </p>
- <p>THEATER
- </p>
- <p> CAFE CROWN. This Broadway revival is not much of a play,
- but Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach and Bob Dishy head a splendid cast
- that adroitly and affectionately recalls the Manhattan heyday
- of Jewish theater.
- </p>
- <p> THE HEIDI CHRONICLES. Joan Allen's poignant playing turns
- writer Wendy Wasserstein's feminist cliches into a touching
- glimpse of baby boomers grown older if not wiser.
- </p>
- <p> MASTERGATE. Larry Gelbart, creator of TV's M*A*S*H,
- savagely spoofs Ollie North and Iran-contra at Harvard's
- American Rep.
- </p>
- <p>MOVIES
- </p>
- <p> HIGH HOPES. A dotty old woman fights to keep her home amid
- the crush of gentrification. Working with a cast that has
- helped improvise its roles, British director Mike Leigh creates
- a group portrait of characters who live and breathe and squawk
- their wayward humanity on the margins of Thatcher's England.
- </p>
- <p> ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Lovers waltz in midair, a
- servant (Eric Idle) outruns a speeding bullet, and the King of
- the Moon (Robin Williams) loses his head in this fantasy from
- Terry Gilliam, late of Brazil.
- </p>
- <p> NEW YORK STORIES. In this trio of vignettes, Francis
- Coppola belly flops with his tale of Manhattan rich kids. But
- two out of three ain't bad: Martin Scorsese's crafty sketch of
- a downtown painter and Woody Allen's comedy about the ultimate
- Jewish mother.
- </p>
- <p>TELEVISION
- </p>
- <p> PETER PAN (NBC, March 24, 8 p.m. EST). A TV classic returns
- from never-never land. Mary Martin is the spritely star of this
- 1960 production, a re-creation of the version originally done
- live for TV in 1955.
- </p>
- <p> LATENIGHT AMERICA WITH DENNIS WHOLEY (PBS, debuting March
- 25, 11 p.m. on most stations). The lively interview/call-in
- show, which had a run on PBS from 1981 to 1985, returns to the
- Saturday-night schedule.
- </p>
- <p> LEARNING IN AMERICA (PBS, debuting March 27, 9 p.m. on most
- stations). Roger Mudd is schoolmaster for a five-week
- examination of the alarming state of U.S. education.
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