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Mar. 11, 1991: Critics' Voices
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Mar. 11, 1991 Kuwait City:Feb. 27, 1991
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 14
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<p> TELEVISION
</p>
<p> ANYTHING BUT LOVE (ABC, March 6, 9:30 p.m. EST). Hannah and
Marty (Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Lewis) finally end the
will-they-or-won't-they tension and spend a night together.
It's a welcome new turn for TV's smartest relationship comedy.
</p>
<p> YEARBOOK (Fox, debuting March 7, 8:30 p.m. EST). Cameras
follow the lives of real students at Glenbard West High School,
eavesdropping on everything from math classes to private
boy-girl moments. One video-verite show too many from the Fox
network.
</p>
<p> THE FRED ASTAIRE SONGBOOK (PBS, March 8, 9 p.m. on most
stations). His singing was as heavenly as his dancing, as this
wonderful tribute shows.
</p>
<p> ART
</p>
<p> BLACK ART: ANCESTRAL LEGACY, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond. An exhibition of 156 sculptures, paintings and other
works by 49 20th century African-American and Caribbean artists
who examine, explore and celebrate their heritage through the
interpretation of ancient secular and spiritual motifs. Through
March 24.
</p>
<p> EASTMAN JOHNSON: THE CRANBERRY HARVEST, National Academy of
Design, New York City. This small show focuses on the studies
and early paintings that culminated in Johnson's famed, and
newly restored, work depicting Nantucket berry pickers. Through
March 24.
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<p> MUSIC
</p>
<p> KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION: STRANGE FREE WORLD A&M). A band of
genially berserk Brits, turning out tunes with wit and--hard
to believe in this dance-mad age--melody. With echoes of
mid-period Beatles and backlash art-rock, this is pop with
heart and promise.
</p>
<p> MARCUS ROBERTS: ALONE WITH THREE GIANTS (Novus/RCA). How old
do you have to be to take on a giant? David was a mere slip
when he brought down Goliath, but jazz pianist Marcus Roberts,
27, isn't interested in confrontation. He's paying tribute to
Ellington, Monk and Morton, re-interpreting them in a way
that's full of warmth, empathy and musical surprise.
</p>
<p> EVGENY KISSIN: CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT CONCERT (RCA Red Seal).
From his daringly slow opening statement of Schumann's
Symphonic Etudes, and throughout this recital of challenging
works by Liszt, Chopin and Prokofiev, the Soviet prodigy, now
19, shows a potential for future greatness, with a command of
tone, dynamics and phrasing that is always at the service of
musical ends.
</p>
<p> MOVIES
</p>
<p> L.A. STORY. Steve Martin's Annie Hall: that's one way to
describe this blithe, witty take on the most American of
cities. Martin, who wrote the film, stars as a TV weatherman
with a head for romance and a hard time finding it. Victoria
Tennant, Marilu Henner and Sarah Jessica Parker offer the
feminine options, and Brit TV maven Mick Jackson supplies the
directorial dazzle. But this is a very personal Martin project--the sweet-souled, nonstop-funny testament of a native
Angeleno. Sly and soulful, it's the comedy that dares to be
dippy.
</p>
<p> 1900. In 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci assembled an all-star cast
(Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Stefania
Sandrelli) for a history of 20th century Italy that played like
a Marxist Gone With the Wind. Now the full version--all 5 hr.
11 min.--is premiering in the U.S. Don't miss the grandest
folly of a great director.
</p>
<p> ETCETERA
</p>
<p> JOFFREY BALLET. For its New York season, this troupe is on
a youth kick, with brand-new ballets from young choreographers
Christopher d'Amboise, Alonzo King, Charles Moulton and company
member Edward Stierle. Through March 17.
</p>
<p> THE KISS. Smetana's idyll gets its first professional U.S.
production from the Sarasota (Fla.) Opera. Czech melodies,
Bohemian brio, English sur titles. Performances through March
12.
</p>
<p> THEATER
</p>
<p> THE SPEED OF DARKNESS. Guilt about his conduct in Vietnam
comes back, in the literal form of an accusatory Army buddy,
to haunt a successful middle-aged man in this gripping Broadway
drama by Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Tesich (Breaking
Away). Stephen Lang (A Few Good Men) repeats his electrifying
Chicago performance as the accuser.
</p>
<p> WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN. In Europe, Robert Wilson is the most
famous American stage director. In the U.S., the anti-verbal,
visually lyrical elder statesman of the avant-garde is little
known. He designed, mounted and adapted for Harvard's American
Repertory Theater this spellbinding Ibsen dreamscape about an
artist looking back and summing up.
</p>
<p> HENRY IV. Both parts of Shakespeare's chronicle play in
rotation at Joseph Papp's Public Theater off-Broadway, in a
fiercely idiosyncratic staging by Papp's heiress apparent,
director JoAnne Akalaitis, featuring a multiracial cast and
minimalist music by Philip Glass.
</p>
<p> SMALL WORLD
</p>
<p> In Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos (HarperCollins; $25), Dennis
Overbye has discovered a fiendishly clever way of tricking
readers into understanding cosmology, the study of the entire
universe. Instead of focusing on the nuts and bolts--exotic
particles, black-body radiation and the like--Overbye draws
intimate portraits of such people as Allan Sandage, once a
"lean, Jimmy Stewartish" youngster and now the grand old man
of cosmology; David Schramm, a Porsche-driving physicist and
ex-wrestler; and Yakov Zeldovich, a sort of "Zorba the
Cosmologist," who dazzled colleagues with his intuitive genius
and women with his charm. By describing the quirky
personalities and brilliant minds of these and other
scientists, Overbye reveals cosmology to be a human and
passionate enterprise. This lures the reader into wanting to
know something of the science as well, which Overbye explains
with care and clarity. The book should be required reading for
anyone who is terrified by scientific literacy.
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<p>By TIME's Reviewers. Compiled by William Tynan.
</p>
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