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- Jan. 30, 1989: Critics' Choice
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 30, 1989 The Bush Era Begins
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 13
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- <p>TELEVISION
- </p>
- <p> THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (TBS, Jan. 28, 11:05 p.m. EST).
- Morning-line favorites for Oscar nominations vie for statuettes
- as the annual awards-show binge begins.
- </p>
- <p> HOME FIRES BURNING (CBS, Jan. 29, 9 p.m. EST). A small-town
- Southern family sees its comfortable life changed by World War
- II. Barnard Hughes and Sada Thompson star in this Hallmark Hall
- of Fame drama.
- </p>
- <p> ETHICS IN AMERICA (PBS, starting Jan. 31, 10 p.m. on most
- stations). What is an individual's responsibility to the
- homeless? How far can lawyers go in defending a client? These
- and other knotty questions will be probed in a ten-week series
- of free-form debates, introduced by Fred Friendly.
- </p>
- <p>BOOKS
- </p>
- <p> INCLINE OUR HEARTS by A.N. Wilson (Viking; $17.95). A London
- child is orphaned by German bombs during World War II and sent
- to live with relatives in the English countryside. What follows
- is a seriocomic autobiographical novel about coming of age in
- an age deucedly difficult to understand.
- </p>
- <p> HONG KONG by Jan Morris (Random House; $19.95). The
- indefatigable traveler and perceptive commentator conveys the
- sights, sounds, aromas and political significance of this
- thriving British colony, scheduled to be returned to China in
- 1997.
- </p>
- <p> AMERICAN APPETITES by Joyce Carol Oates (Dutton; $18.95). A
- prolific author's powerful novel about a well-to-do married
- couple falling before an unearned fate.
- </p>
- <p>THEATER
- </p>
- <p> A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL. Alan Ayckbourn, known as Britain's
- Neil Simon for his send-ups of suburbia, is at his shrewdest in
- this backstage tale of amateur theatricals, at Washington's
- Arena Stage.
- </p>
- <p> THE PIANO LESSON. This stunning work by dramatist August
- Wilson, at Chicago's Goodman Theater, combines the emotional
- clout of his Pulitzer-prizewinning Fences with the lyricism of
- his Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
- </p>
- <p>MOVIES
- </p>
- <p> THE JANUARY MAN. Not a conventional whodunit. The mysteries
- in this spitball comedy are matters of the eccentric heart: How
- will a New York City fireman (Kevin Kline) win back his
- ex-girlfriend (Susan Sarandon) or find accommodating love with
- the mayor's daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)? John
- Patrick Shanley, whose luminous script for Moonstruck won an
- Oscar, scores again here.
- </p>
- <p> DANGEROUS LIAISONS. What deadly games people play in this
- excellent gloss on Christopher Hampton's play. John Malkovich
- and Glenn Close are the decadent puppeteers of lust who
- realize, too late, that the job comes with fatal strings
- attached.
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