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- June 12, 1989: Critics' Choice Page
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 12, 1989 Massacre In Beijing
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 9
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- <p>ART
- </p>
- <p> L'ART DE VIVRE: DECORATIVE ARTS AND DESIGN IN FRANCE,
- 1789-1989, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City. Jewelry
- commissioned by Napoleon, cutlery from Maxim's, art nouveau
- furniture and haute couture gowns are among 500 objects
- displayed in glittering tribute to France's bicentennial.
- Through July 16.
- </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 Sargents to
- Raphaelle Peales. Through Sept. 4.
- </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-'n'-Roll Hall of Famer has
- still got one of the greatest voices that ever wopped a do.
- </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> SCHUBERT: IMPROMPTUS (EMI). Pianist Melvyn Tan combines
- remarkable technical precision with a romantic sensibility in
- his fresh interpretations of these Schubert perennials.
- </p>
- <p>MOVIES
- </p>
- <p> INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. The adventure genre may
- be nearly exhausted, but producer George Lucas and director
- Steven Spielberg know how to make the thrills crack like Indy's
- bullwhip. Sean Connery and Harrison Ford find special star
- resonance in the bond between an aloof father and his heroic,
- hero-worshiping son.
- </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>THEATER
- </p>
- <p> THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Grittier than the movie, as panoramic
- as Steinbeck's novel, this 35-actor adaptation by Chicago's
- Steppenwolf troupe lights up the La Jolla Playhouse stage on
- the way to a late June run at London's National Theater.
- </p>
- <p> MIXED BLESSINGS. Luis Santeiro deftly adapts Moliere's
- Tartuffe into a loving lampoon of life among nouveau riche Cuban
- Americans in contemporary Miami, at that city's Coconut Grove
- Playhouse.
- </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>BOOKS
- </p>
- <p> THE GOOD TIMES by Russell Baker (Morrow; $19.95). What
- propelled Baker from the childhood he so memorably described in
- Growing Up (1982) to his present distinction as a columnist for
- the New York Times? Here is the answer, in a winsome memoir of
- early newspapering days, including big-league stints in London
- and Washington.
- </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>TELEVISION
- </p>
- <p> THE ASPERN PAPERS (PBS, June 9, 9 p.m. on most stations).
- First time on TV for Dominick Argento's opera based on the Henry
- James novella, in a production from the Dallas Opera.
- </p>
- <p> TALES FROM THE CRYPT (HBO, June 10, 9:30 p.m.). Those scary
- old E.C. comics inspired three horror tales, each directed by
- a Hollywood heavyweight: Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future),
- Walter Hill (48 Hrs.) and Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon).
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