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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 1
FESTIVALS
INTERNATIONAL BALLOON FESTIVAL. More hot air than any
convention on earth. Hundreds of giant rainbow-hued balloons
converge on Albuquerque (or just above it) for the largest annual
ballooning extravaganza. Oct. 7 to 15.
NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL. If the avant garde has any tradition, this
is it. The Brooklyn Academy of Music's seventh annual festival of
cutting-edge music and dance features performance artist Laurie
Anderson's new solo piece, Empty Places, and a musical tribute to
Andy Warhol by Velvet Underground veterans. Through Dec. 3.
MOVIES
QUEEN OF HEARTS. On a next-to-nothing budget, this criminally
pleasurable panorama depicts a teeming gallery of Italians in
postwar London. Funny, ambitious and a mite too long, Queen of
Hearts laces pearls on a shoestring.
IN COUNTRY. A Viet Nam vet (Bruce Willis) reconciles himself
to his niece (radiant Emily Lloyd) and his country. Sounds like
your basic TV movie, sunk by noble intentions. But here well
meaning translates into well done.
SEA OF LOVE. An infusion of wit and imagination raises this
police film above the rank and file. One of New York's finest (Al
Pacino) pursues a serial killer who is stalking womanizers; the
likeliest suspect (Ellen Barkin) is also the best bet to comfort
our hero.
MUSIC
MALCOLM MCLAREN AND THE BOOTZILLA ORCHESTRA: WALTZ DARLING
(Epic). Berserk and beautiful: classical waltz music funked up for
dancing by rock's baddest bad boy. McLaren is like a compact-disc
version of Ken Russell -- funny, vulgar and endlessly inventive.
PETE TOWNSHEND: IRONMAN (Atlantic). A fabulistic -- if not
fully fabulous -- rock musical, based on an allegory by poet Ted
Hughes. The album may lack Tommy's delirium, but at its erratic
best it has more soul.
MARIA MCKEE: MARIA MCKEE (Geffen). Love songs like crystal,
done with some fancy collaborators (including Richard Thompson and
Robbie Robertson) by a vocalist who can soar just fine on her own.
THEATER
LES MISERABLES. Tours often look tatty compared with the
Broadway originals, but that's far from true of the glistening and
passionate company now installed in Detroit. Notable among a solid
cast are J. Mark McVey as Jean Valjean and the locally recruited
children.
LOVE LETTERS. Kate Nelligan and Treat Williams are this week's
stars in the rotating off-Broadway cast of A.R. Gurney's disarming
tale of a half-century relationship lived out largely via pen and
paper.
BOOKS
POODLE SPRINGS by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker
(Putnam; $18.95). After 30 years of big sleep in the Chandler
literary estate, a barely started Philip Marlowe novel is
successfully completed by one of the mystery master's best
imitators.
MILES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe
(Simon & Schuster; $21.95). An as-told-to memoir by a protean
genius of modern jazz who played with Bird, Diz and countless other
legends. With all the uglies -- drugs, booze, women betrayed --
writ large.
BIG SUGAR by Alec Wilkinson (Knopf; $18.95). Every winter
roughly 10,000 West Indian men come to harvest sugarcane by hand
in South Florida. The author, a staff writer for the New Yorker,
decided to see how these migrants earn their pay and came back with
a story more bitter than sweet.
ART
FRANS HALS, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The great 17th
century Dutch portraitist's bravura brushwork and piercing insight
still bring figures to startling life. Incredibly, this is the
first major show devoted to him outside the Netherlands. Through
Dec. 31.
MARIO MERZ, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City. Who
needs paint? Clay, wax, broken glass, twigs and neon tubes are just
as likely to be used by Merz, an exponent of Italy's Arte Povera
movement. Through Nov. 26.
MASTERWORKS OF LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY, Renwick Gallery of the
National Museum of American Art, Washington. Some 65 of the
renowned glassmaker's most vibrant lamps, vases and windows. The
ultimate glass act! Sept. 29 to March 4.
TELEVISION
POSTSEASON BASEBALL. If Vin Scully and Tony Kubek get misty
eyed in the late innings this week and next, don't be surprised.
NBC's coverage of the 1989 play-offs marks the end of an era. TV's
premier baseball network is being sent to the showers. Indeed,
network baseball in general is getting a dunking. Next season CBS
takes over major-league baseball's broadcast rights (currently
divided between NBC and ABC) but will deliver only twelve games,
plus the play-offs and the World Series. That means
Saturday-afternoon-at-the-ball-park broadcasts (begun on NBC in
1957) will no longer be a weekly freebie. Those sports fans who do
not have cable now have another reason to get wired: ESPN will be
filling in the gaps with some 175 games next season.