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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 3
MOVIES
THE ADVENTURES OF MILO AND OTIS. Milo is a barnyard kitten and
Otis his dogged friend in this live-action children's film narrated
by Dudley Moore. If cute were still a word of approval, Masanori
Hata's charming parable would earn it.
WIRED. The saddest thing about John Belushi's death might be
this requiem -- the movie Hollywood tried to stop. Next time, guys,
try harder.
COOKIE. English teenager Emily Lloyd brings an acute ear and
a fetching presence to her role as a Brooklyn punkster in this
comedy about a Mafia don (Peter Falk) with a score to settle and
a wayward daughter to raise.
THEATER
THE COCKTAIL HOUR. Nancy Marchand's sozzled, sardonic portrayal
of a grande dame enriches A.R. Gurney's Wasp family tale at
Washington's Kennedy Center.
THE LADY IN QUESTION. What is the alleged pleasure of a drag
show? If the leading "lady" is unconvincing, it's gross. If he's
too convincing, there's no coy guessing game. And if he's just
campy enough, the joke is over in five minutes. Alas, this
off-Broadway farce lasts two hours.
SWEENEY TODD. Stephen Sondheim's unlikeliest musical, a
sympathetic look at a murderous barber and at the woman who
recycles his victims as meat pies, returns to Broadway in a
shrewdly staged and highly tuneful chamber version.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF LUCK. The drifters, gamblers and hustlers in
Marlane Meyer's desert panorama mingle the doomed banality of Sam
Shepard characters with the quixotic blessings of William Saroyan's
The Time of Your Life. At the Los Angeles Theater Center.
ART
CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS: CULTURES OF SIBERIA AND ALASKA,
Seattle Center Pavilion. Art and artifacts by native peoples on
both sides of the Bering Strait, assembled in the first such joint
effort by the U.S. and Soviet Union. Through Oct. 15.
MUSIC
ROLLING STONES: THE LONDON YEARS (Abkco). An avalanche of gems:
58 of the greatest rock-'n'-roll singles of all time, culled from
the Stones' hitmaking heyday, 1963 to 1971, including some rare
B-side cuts.
BRANFORD MARSALIS: TRIO JEEPY (Columbia). Some nice moments
(The Nearness of You, Gutbucket Steepy), but let's face it: slick
imitations of Bird, Coltrane and Ben Webster do not a jazz genius
make. Forget the liner-note hype, Jeepy, and come back when you've
paid some dues.
FAIRPORT CONVENTION: RED & GOLD (Rough Trade). When this
British group started up in the late '60s, their music was called
"folk rock." Two decades on, the phrase is shopworn, but the band's
music -- graced by some ghosts of ancient traditional melody -- is
as splendid and mysterious as ever.
TELEVISION
48 HOURS: RETURN TO CRACK STREET (CBS, Sept. 14, 8 p.m. EDT).
CBS's often absorbing, occasionally overheated series of
slice-of-life snapshots launches its new season by revisiting the
drug scene it first surveyed three years ago.
MISS AMERICA PAGEANT (NBC, Sept. 16, 10 p.m. EDT). Gary Collins
and Phyllis George gush over the annual parade of swimsuits and
baton solos.
EMMY AWARDS (Fox, Sept. 17, 8 p.m. EDT). The mini-series
Lonesome Dove is the odds-on favorite for top honors; Roseanne
Barr, notably left out of the acting nominations, has already
received the biggest snub.
THE NIGHTMARE YEARS (TNT, Sept. 17-20, 8 p.m. EDT). William
Shirer's memoir of Hitler's Germany in the 1930s is re-created in
an eight-hour mini-series.
BOOKS
LORD BYRON'S DOCTOR by Paul West (Doubleday; $19.95). A
brilliant tour de force about the cruelty of genius, starring Lord
Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary (author of Frankenstein)
and the narrator, an indiscreet physician.
A NATURAL CURIOSITY by Margaret Drabble (Viking; $19.95). In
a sequel to The Radiant Way (1987), the author offers a
Victorian-style novel about some decidedly contemporary English
women and men.
ETC
LE CIRQUE DU SOLEIL. A few tattered folk wander into the big
top and presto! turn into the world's most beguiling circus
performers. This luminous spectacle, which sets up its tent next
week in Santa Monica, Calif., and can be seen on HBO throughout
this month, packs more magic than Merlin's wand. The Montreal-based
Cirque may have lost a spangle or two since its first U.S. tour,
but it remains, whatever Ringling may say, the greatest show on
earth.
THE ARTS AND RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION. Detente comes to Dixie as
Soviet ballet, drama, music, film and art share the stage at the
Classics in Context Festival in Louisville. Featured performers
include pianist Vladimir Feltsman and the Moscow Art Theater.
Through Nov. 4.