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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 8
MOVIES
HEATHERS. There's a disturbing mortality rate among Westerburg
High's snooty elite. A rash of suicides? Or is someone killing the
prom queens of Ohio? Daniel Waters' witty script touches two stark
teen issues: the need to be accepted and the urge to end it all.
84 CHARLIE MOPIC. In the jungles of Viet Nam, a lost patrol
finds enemies on both sides of combat. But the main character of
Patrick Duncan's war movie is a documentary-film camera. Through
its unblinking eye, a familiar horror story gains raw immediacy.
THEATER
GHETTO. Joshua Sobol's Nazi-era tragicomedy, seen across the
U.S. in an Israeli production, makes its English-language debut on
Broadway, with the same vibrant staging.
JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE. Director Claude Purdy's backyard
realism suits August Wilson's lyric text, at the Los Angeles
Theater Center.
MEMBER OF THE WEDDING. Esther Rolle (Good Times) and newcomer
Amelia Campbell glow as nanny and budding adolescent in this deeply
moving off-Broadway revival of Carson McCullers' coming-of-age
story of the pre-civil rights South.
ART
THOMAS HART BENTON: AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL, Nelson-Atkins Museum
of Art, Kansas City. He said he wished his work could be exhibited
in saloons, but the colorful, cantankerous Benton (1889-1975) is
being honored in his centennial year not only with a biography and
a PBS special but also with this full-dress retrospective in his
native state. Featured: the stylized murals of American history and
daily life for which he was best known. Through June 18.
WHISTLER AND HIS CIRCLE, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul.
Etchings, lithographs and paintings representing Whistler's high
achievements in those media, as well as his influence on other
late-19th century artists, chiefly such Americans as Joseph
Pennell, Charles Keene and John Marin. Through June 25.
NELL BLAINE: RECENT OILS AND WORKS ON PAPER, Fischbach Gallery,
New York City. Forty-eight works by a premier American artist whose
spontaneous brushstrokes and brilliant colors enrobe nature in a
tender intimacy. Through April 26.
LIKE A ONE-EYED CAT:PHOTOGRAPHS BY LEE FRIEDLANDER 1956-1987,
Seattle Art Museum. Surprising perspectives on everyday images --
street scenes, jazz musicians, empty motel rooms, public monuments
-- by a modern American master. Through May 7.
MUSIC
SAM KINISON: HAVE YOU SEEN ME LATELY? (Warner Bros.). Abusive,
scurrilous and hilarious: postpunk comedy meets primal-scream
therapy. Offensive? You betcha. But there are wonderful bits about
sexism and heartbreak, as well as the best riffs on organized
religion since Lenny Bruce.
ROSANNE CASH: HITS 1979-1989 (Columbia). She's got a
half-past-4-in-the-morning voice and a knowing way with a song that
can make any listener wish the night would go on forever.
ANTONIN DVORAK: AMERICAN SUITE, SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Virgin
Classics). Libor Pesek conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra in exuberant renditions of these powerful works, whose
brooding Slavic soul belies their New World theme.
TELEVISION
UNFINISHED STORIES (various cable and PBS stations, April 23,
5 p.m. EDT). The work of artists and performers who have died of
AIDS will be celebrated in this 13-hour telethon, produced jointly
by the Bravo cable network and several PBS stations. Tommy Tune,
Christopher Reeve and Cheryl Tiegs are among the hosts.
MURDERERS AMONG US: THE SIMON WIESENTHAL STORY (HBO, April 23,
8 p.m. EDT). The famed Nazi hunter is portrayed by Ben Kingsley in
a properly reverent TV-movie bio.
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE (TNT, April 24, 8 p.m. EDT). Farrah
Fawcett plays the globe-trotting LIFE photographer in a
made-for-Turner movie that dwells equally on her career and her
long-term relationship with writer Erskine Caldwell (Frederic
Forrest).
BOOKS
CITIZENS, A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon Schama
(Knopf; $29.95). Exactly 200 years after the bloody facts, a
Harvard historian offers a fascinating, often surprising account
of what went right -- and wrong -- during one of the world's most
celebrated social convulsions.
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving (Morrow; $19.95). In
this inventive, indignant novel, a boisterous cast and a spirited
story line propel a sawed-off Christly caricature through two
decades of U.S. foreign policy debacles.
THE JOY LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan (Putnam; $18.95). A bright,
sharp-flavored first novel on the subject of growing up ethnic in
the U.S. The topic sounds familiar, but the Chinese spice added to
this old recipe is invigorating and refreshingly true.