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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 12
MUSIC
PAUL McCARTNEY: FLOWERS IN THE DIRT (Capitol). McCartney goes
back to the future by returning to his old Beatles label and
collaborating with a shrewd, spiky co-writer, Elvis Costello. That
Day Is Done and My Brave Face show both these lads in top form, and
the entire album has a buoyancy that has eluded McCartney for
years.
DR. JOHN: IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD (Warner Bros.). When jazz meets
up with rhythm and blues, it's usually less a shoot-out than a
sellout: one or the other gets sold short. Dr. John, a surgical
master at the piano and a good, gruff vocalizer, is one physician
with a solid prescription to do each style right -- and proud.
ART
AGAINST NATURE: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art. Architect Arata Isozaki and fashion designer
Issey Miyake are famous abroad, but contemporary visual art from
Japan is still little known in the West. The first major U.S.
museum show from Japan in more than 20 years brings American
audiences up-to-date with a survey of new work from the cultural
center of East Asia. Through Aug. 6.
THE DADA AND SURREALIST WORD-IMAGE, Los Angeles County Museum
of Art. Between 1915 and 1940, painters like Max Ernst and Paul
Klee experimented by juxtaposing images with written words,
permanently altering the vocabulary of visual art. This adventurous
exhibition explores the relationship not only between word and
image but also between language, art and psychology. Through Aug.
27.
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.
MOVIES
MAJOR LEAGUE. In a season thick with baseball flicks, David S.
Ward gives us a rowdy, genial, cynical comedy about a fanciful
Cleveland Indians team. Populated by rejects from the Mexican,
minor and California penal leagues, this motley Tribe can't lose.
The dialogue is breezy, the tone acerb and the climax as
predictably uplifting as Rocky's.
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
ON THE TOWN. Washington's Arena Stage gives a fizzy revival to
the whole of the classic musical, which is exuberantly excerpted
in Jerome Robbins' Broadway.
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.
BOOKS
LET HISTORY JUDGE by Roy Medvedev (Columbia University;
$57.50). This trailblazing recital of the crimes of the Stalin era,
originally published in the West in 1971, caused its Soviet author
considerable problems in his homeland. Now, after having added
100,000 scathing words to his first account, Medvedev has been
elected to the Supreme Soviet. His book is thus historical in two
senses: for what it reveals and for what it has contributed to
social change.
THE LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE, VOLUME I: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry
(Viking; $29.95). Greene may be the most elusive big fish still
swimming in the shrinking pond of English letters, but this
fascinating, obsessively detailed biography hooks him solidly.
Hardly a question about the author goes unanswered, and Greene's
best years, those of The Power and the Glory and The End of the
Affair, are yet to come.
MY SECRET HISTORY by Paul Theroux (Putnam; $21.95). Theroux
has grown famous writing both novels and travel books. Here he
produces an entertaining fiction about a man who does both, a
teasingly autobiographical portrait of the artist as a young stud.
TELEVISION
DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS (NBC, June 29, 3 p.m. EDT). Once again
Susan Lucci (a.k.a. All My Children's Erica) is seeking the elusive
golden statuette. Will her tenth nomination (without a win) finally
bring her the reward she so richly deserves? Or will Pine Valley's
most renowned vixen be thwarted again?
ANDREA MARTIN: TOGETHER AGAIN (Showtime, July 1 and 4). The
versatile comedian portrays a gallery of zanies -- some familiar,
some new -- in a one-hour special. Fellow SCTV alums Martin Short
and Catherine O'Hara join her.