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- <title>
- June 05, 1989: Critics' Choice
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 05, 1989 People Power:Beijing-Moscow
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 13
- </hdr><body>
- <p>TELEVISION
- </p>
- <p> OLLIE HOPNOODLE'S HAVEN OF BLISS (PBS, May 31, 9 p.m. on
- most stations). An all-American family takes an ill-starred
- vacation in this Jean Shepherd-scripted comedy on American
- Playhouse.
- </p>
- <p> TONY AWARDS (CBS, June 4, 9 p.m. EDT). Broadway scarcely
- generated enough musicals to fill out the nomination list this
- year, but that won't stop TV from paying its annual tribute to
- the Great (sort of) White Way.
- </p>
- <p>ART
- </p>
- <p> AMERICAN PAINTINGS FROM THE MANOOGIAN COLLECTION, National
- Gallery of Art, Washington. Never publicly exhibited before,
- this notable collection of 19th century works ranges from Hudson
- River landscapes to frontier genre scenes, from Sargent to
- Raphaelle Peale. June 4 through Sept. 4.
- </p>
- <p> INIGO JONES: COMPLETE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS, Drawing
- Center, New York City. Designer, painter, mathematician,
- engineer and antiquarian, Jones (1573-1652) was the greatest
- royal architect England ever produced. This impeccable show
- reveals the technical and pictorial skill with which he led
- English architecture into a new, classically based grandeur and
- amplitude. Through July 22.
- </p>
- <p> 10 + 10: CONTEMPORARY SOVIET AND AMERICAN PAINTERS, Modern
- Art Museum of Fort Worth. A double first: an unprecedented
- joint showcase of younger artists (including Americans David
- Salle, Donald Sultan and Ross Bleckner) and the first exhibit
- ever organized to tour museums in both countries. Through Aug.
- 6.
- </p>
- <p>MUSIC
- </p>
- <p> DION: YO FRANKIE! (Arista). The Wanderer is his own bad
- self, back with a fine album full of romantic street toughness
- and hard-edged nostalgia. This Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has
- still got one of the greatest voices that ever wopped a do.
- </p>
- <p> CYNDI LAUPER: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (Epic). It takes a while
- for her to find her pace, but when she hits Side 2, Lauper burns
- up the tracks. Warmhearted, rambunctious and (in the words of
- one memorable tune) winningly Insecurious.
- </p>
- <p> BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE QUINTESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY, VOL. 5
- (Columbia Jazz Masterpieces). Working with legendary producer
- John Hammond and pianist Teddy Wilson, Billie turned out some
- of her greatest hits in these 1937-38 sessions: He's Funny That
- Way, My Man, Nice Work If You Can Get It. All that and more on
- this outstanding digital reissue.
- </p>
- <p>THEATER
- </p>
- <p> GRANDMA MOSES. Cloris Leachman portrays the centenarian
- farmwife and primitivist painter in a one-woman tour, this week
- in Los Angeles.
- </p>
- <p> ELEEMOSYNARY. Playwright Lee Blessing (A Walk in the Woods)
- encapsulates feminism through three generations of
- strong-minded women in a deft, dark comedy transferred from
- off-Broadway to the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C.
- </p>
- <p>MOVIES
- </p>
- <p> HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING. While plotting a sales
- campaign for a new pimple cream, a British ad exec develops a
- bizarre ailment: a boil on the neck that has a mouth of its own
- and talks back with a vengeance. With black humor and a weird,
- Kafkaesque sensibility, director Bruce Robinson delivers a
- biting satire of Thatcherite society.
- </p>
- <p> EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY. Three fellows new in town meet the
- women of their fevered dreams. Except the guys are off a
- spaceship, and they've landed in the San Fernando Valley. Geena
- Davis and Jeff Goldblum star in this fizzy, frizzy musical
- comedy.
- </p>
- <p> THE RAINBOW. Twenty years after cinematizing Women in Love,
- Ken Russell returns to the questing eroticism of D.H. Lawrence.
- Given a story worth telling and a heroine (Sammi Davis) worth
- caring about, Russell can still direct with passion and poise.
- </p>
- <p>BOOKS
- </p>
- <p> THE RUSSIA HOUSE by John le Carre (Knopf; $19.95). A
- document discounting Soviet missile capabilities is smuggled to
- the West. Never mind glasnost, perestroika and the cold war
- thaw. Are these grubby notebooks full of facts and figures true?
- The quest for the answer produces the author's most hair-raising
- thriller since The Spy Who Came In from the Cold.
- </p>
- <p> SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A
- quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race
- between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic
- memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio,
- traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie.
- </p>
- <p> T.E. LAWRENCE: THE SELECTED LETTERS edited by Malcolm Brown
- (Norton; $27.50). The enigmatic hero of Lawrence of Arabia
- tells his own story in letters that illuminate the shadows of
- his personality.
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