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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 3
MOVIES
THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS. A piano duo, stranded between
anonymity and unemployment, needs a sexy vocalist to spruce up the
act. Good career move; bad for the boys. Jeff and Beau Bridges and
Michelle Pfeiffer are better than fabulous in this wry, rare comedy
of character.
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. In Woody Allen's acute meditation on
the Greed decade, bad men are rewarded for their crimes and nice
guys worry about committing misdemeanors. This is Allen in his
funny-serious mood, farcical and dour by turns, a showman of gentle
misanthropy.
FIGHT FOR US. A saintly priest is gunned down and mutilated.
A basketball team is massacred. A female rebel is raped by a
vigilante commandant; when the commandant is killed, his lieutenant
carves open the dead man's chest and eats his flesh. These
horrifying events might seem the stuff of slasher movies, but
according to Filipino director Lino Brocka, they are real. His
film, based in part on testimony collected by Amnesty
International, charges that human rights violations are more
widespread under President Corazon Aquino than they were during the
Marcos regime, which Brocka had long criticized. Fight for Us is
a cry for justice, from a man out of breath, for a nation nearly
eviscerated by fratricide.
FESTIVALS
WURSTFEST. You can link up with more than 100,000 sausage
devotees at this Texas-size eaterama. For ten days, New Braunfels,
Texas, rolls out the best of the wurst, as well as yodelers,
dancers and polka players with down-home names like Oma and the Oom
pahs. Nov. 3 through 12.
THEATER
BROTHERS AND SISTERS. The most acclaimed Soviet stage work
since World War II, this two-part epic from Leningrad depicts
Stalin's abuse of the rural millions. In Russian, with simultaneous
translation through earphones, at San Diego's Old Globe.
OH, KAY! Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House engagingly shifts
vintage Gershwin to 1920s Harlem. Tony winner Ron Richardson (Big
River) stars.
TELEVISION
CHICO MENDES: VOICE OF THE AMAZON (TBS, Nov. 1, 10:05 p.m.
EST). This one-hour documentary focuses on the martyred Brazilian's
efforts to save the Amazonian rain forest and includes the last
television interview Mendes gave before his 1988 assassination.
OUR TOWN (PBS, Nov. 3, 9 p.m. on most stations). Last season's
acclaimed Broadway revival of the Thornton Wilder classic is
presented on Great Performances.
CROSS OF FIRE (NBC, Nov. 5 and 6, 9 p.m. EST). Romance, murder
and revenge -- you'll get it all in this fact-based mini-series
about the rise and fall of a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in
1920s Indi anapolis. Starring John Heard (Beaches, Big) and Mel
Harris (thirtysomething).
MUSIC KATE BUSH: THE SENSUAL WORLD (Columbia). Well, it does
have a lonely-hearts love song about a computer. Otherwise, the
histrionics are so heavy and the passion so sham on this record
that it would be wiser just to press DELETE.
THE RCA VICTOR VOCAL SERIES. Maybe they weren't better in the
old days, but these digitally remastered recordings make a strong
case that the jet plane and overbooked schedules are enemies of
vocal grace. The first issues in this new project include Marian
Anderson, Leonard Warren, Rosa Ponselle, Tito Schipa and Jussi
Bjoerling. The Warren disk is an oddity, recorded live on a 1958
tour of the Soviet Union, where the baritone's dark, sexy voice
knocked'em dead. Ponselle's sublime vocal poise lights great Verdi
arias and ditties like When I Have Sung My Songs to You, I'll Sing
No More. Easily the most joyous singer is Schipa, with his
diaphanous tenor tones and fluent ornamentation. There was a real
nap on the operatic velvet back then!
BOOKS
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf; $18.95). It
is 1956, and an aging English butler looks back on his decades of
service in a stately house. The meaning of his memories is not
always clear to him, but it is to the reader, thanks to
Japanese-born novelist Ishiguro's deadly, deadpan dissection of the
British class system.
THE WAY TO COOK by Julia Child (Knopf; $50). The first tome in
nine years from the nation's queen of cuisine is, expectedly, an
instructional masterpiece: precise directions, lavish
illustrations, wise little tips on timing and the proper tools. The
recipes are mostly Euroclassics with variations, many lightened for
health-conscious American palates. A boon for beginners; a must for
the more experienced.
ROLLING STONE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS (Simon & Schuster; $50). Nixon's
helicopter lifting off after his final farewell, John curling up
naked against Yoko, Brando posing in a wheatfield in bonnet and
dress. If these photos touch a nostalgic nerve, you'll also love
the 147 others, culled from 22 years of Rolling Stone, where
celebrity photojournalism and portraiture mix with fascinating
results.