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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 8
ART
HELEN FRANKENTHALER: A PAINTINGS RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of
Modern Art, New York City. In the '50s Frankenthaler's lyrical
washes of color had a decisive influence on abstract expressionism;
today she ranks as America's best-known living woman artist. These
40 canvases from four decades show why. Through Aug. 20.
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.
MUSIC
CLINT BLACK: KILLIN' TIME (RCA). Real nice, unassuming
go-to-meeting country music by a new Nashville hotshot. Black
sounds like Randy Travis with a few more years of book learning,
and he's got a knack for cozy melodies too.
SCHUBERT: IMPROMPTUS (EMI). Pianist Melvyn Tan combines
remarkable technical precision with a romantic sensibility in his
fresh interpretations of these Schubert perennials.
10,000 MANIACS: BLIND MAN'S ZOO (Elektra). Love songs like
petitions, songs of conscience that come straight from the heart.
This is a band with folkie inclinations and rock grit, and a
graceful way with a cry of pain: Poison in the Well, an
unfortunately timely tune about environmental pollution, ought to
be piped in to the Exxon boardroom.
MOVIES
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.
DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Robin Williams is a Mr. Chips with a
mission: to inspire his '50s prep school students with reckless
passion. Like director Peter Weir, Williams is dead serious this
time, donating his celebrity to an imperfect but valuable
adolescent drama.
SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BEVERLY HILLS. Not much class
but plenty of struggle at the Lipkin mansion, where everybody
upstairs sleeps with everybody downstairs. The setting is swank,
the appetites gross in director Paul Bartel's clever comedy of
sexual manners.
THEATER
CYMBELINE. A mildly punkish off-Broadway version of
Shakespeare's odd tragedy stars Oscar nominee Joan Cusack (Working
Girl) as a wife wrongly accused of infidelity.
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 California's La Jolla Playhouse stage
on the way to a late-June run at London's National Theater.
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.
BOOKS
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 his
early newspaper days, including big-league stints in London and
Washington.
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.
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.
TELEVISION
COAST TO COAST (Showtime, June 17, 11 p.m. EDT). Singers Kenny
Loggins and Linda Ronstadt, country stylist Lyle Lovett and jazz
pianist Harry Connick Jr. provide eclectic sounds for a summer
night in this edition of the occasional music series.
FIRING LINE SPECIAL DEBATE (PBS, June 19, 9 p.m. on most
stations). "Resolved: The Cold War Is Not Coming to an End."
Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. is joined by former
Secretary of State and NATO chief Alexander Haig in arguing the pro
side. Former presidential contenders George McGovern and Gary Hart
disagree.