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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 6
THEATER
MANDY PATINKIN IN CONCERT: DRESS CASUAL. The edgy, high-energy
star of stage (Evita) and film (Yentl) thrills Broadway with a
brilliantly idiosyncratic styling of ballad and show tunes.
THE ROAD TO MECCA. South African Athol Fugard directs and stars
in his masterly drama of the artist as outsider, at Washington's
Kennedy Center.
HENRY IV, PART II. The darkest and most brooding of the Bard's
histories is richly illuminated by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
at Ashland.
SHOWING OFF. What ever happened to the witty little revue? It's
thriving off-Broadway in this four-person jape at assorted cultural
pretenses, including odious sing-alongs, the subject of the
sing-along finale.
MOVIES
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY . . . he asked her: Can a man and a woman
be friends without worrying about having sex? Billy Crystal and Meg
Ryan spend a beguiling dozen years trying to figure it out.
SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE. Next question: Can a man and a woman
be lovers without having sex? In Steven Soderbergh's elegant,
poignant, very funny film, the answer matters less than the
interplay of four congenially tortured souls.
PARENTHOOD. Didn't Tolstoy say that each unhappy family is
funny in its own way? This brave and original movie, starring Jason
Robards as curmudgeonly Grandpa and Steve Martin as his No. 1 son,
piles up most of our worst parental nightmares in a single
midsummer comedy. It really shouldn't work, but it does.
BOOKS
AUGUST 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux;
$50 hardback, $19.95 paper). This novel first appeared in English
17 years ago. Since then the 1970 Nobel laureate has added some 300
pages to his fictional but heavily researched saga of Russia's
catastrophic involvement in World War I.
POLAR STAR by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House; $19.95). Smith
sets Moscow investigator Arkady Renko (Gorky Park) off on another
bizarre case, this one on a fishing boat on the Bering Sea; one
dead body leads to others along an arc of increasing menace and
violence.
FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus
& Giroux; $22.95). A Pulitzer-prizewinning Middle East
correspondent looks back on the brutal realities of a region
drenched in myths and bloodshed.
ART
BENJAMIN WEST: AMERICAN PAINTER AT THE ENGLISH COURT, Baltimore
Museum of Art. Period pieces today, these 52 canvases show what
made "the American Raphael" (1738-1820) the toast of London and the
first American artist to achieve international renown. Through Aug.
20.
EDWARD HOPPER, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.
A major realist painter, Hopper (1882-1967) is also an enduringly
popular chronicler of New England lighthouses, late-night cafes and
other American vignettes. Through Nov. 5.
MUSIC
SWING OUT SISTER: KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD (Polygram). Sophisticated
jazz-pop with a British twist. Corinne Drewery's silky vocals and
Andrew Connell's buoyant keyboards create expansive, richly
atmospheric arrangements.
BODEANS: HOME (Slash/Reprise). Brand New is the title of one
of this album's best cuts, but BoDeans fans will be cheered to know
that the band's still doing what it has always done best: focused,
aggressive rock that doesn't stint on spirit.
TIN MACHINE: TIN MACHINE (EMI). It's David Bowie, lying low
with a new band that he helped create and whose rough edges he
hones to a cutting edge.
THE JACKSONS: 2300 JACKSON STREET (Epic). Remember the address
if you want to crash a party without leaving home. The Jacksons
make hot soul but deliver it nice and cool.
TELEVISION
FATAL ADDICTIONS (NBC, Aug. 9, 10 p.m. EDT). The title refers
to a range of American bad habits, from drugs to gambling. Host
Maria Shriver will survey the problem in this NBC News special.
THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Showtime, debuting Aug. 12, 10 p.m.
EDT). Amy Irving stars as the Victorian governess with a ghost
problem in this new version of Henry James' famous novella. The
hour-long drama launches Shelley Duvall's new series, Nightmare
Classics.
ANYTHING BUT LOVE (ABC, returning Aug. 15, 9:30 p.m. EDT).
Angst-ridden stand-up comic Richard Lewis, playing a magazine
writer with a yen for Jamie Lee Curtis, made this midseason sitcom
worth watching. Now it is back for a few weeks of reruns.