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June 26, 1989: Critics' Choice
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
June 26, 1989 Kevin Costner:The New American Hero
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 15
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<p>ART
</p>
<p> HELEN FRANKENTHALER: A PAINTINGS RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of
Modern Art, New York City. In the '50s, Frankenthaler's lyrical
washes of color had a decisive influence on abstract expressionism;
today she ranks as America's best-known living woman artist. These
40 canvases from four decades show why. Through Aug. 20.
</p>
<p> L'ART DE VIVRE: DECORATIVE ARTS AND DESIGN IN FRANCE,
1789-1989, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City. Jewelry
commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte, cutlery from Maxim's, art
nouveau furniture and haute couture gowns are among 500 objects
displayed in glittering tribute to France's bicentennial. Through
July 16.
</p>
<p>BOOKS
</p>
<p> THE GOOD TIMES by Russell Baker (Morrow; $19.95). What
propelled Baker from the childhood he so memorably described in
Growing Up (1982) to his present distinction as a columnist for the
New York Times? Here is the answer, in a winsome memoir of his
early newspapering days, including big-league stints in London and
Washington.
</p>
<p> THE LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE, VOL. 1: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry
(Viking; $29.95). Greene may be the most elusive big fish still
swimming in the shrinking pond of English letters, but this
fascinating, obsessively detailed biography hooks him solidly.
Hardly a question about the author goes unanswered, and Greene's
best years, those of The Power and the Glory and The End of the
Affair, are yet to come.
</p>
<p> MY SECRET HISTORY by Paul Theroux (Putnam; $21.95). Theroux
has grown famous writing both novels and travel books. Now he
produces an entertaining fiction about a man who does both, a
teasingly autobiographical portrait of the artist as a young stud.
</p>
<p>MUSIC
</p>
<p> CLINT BLACK: KILLIN' TIME (RCA). Real nice, unassuming,
go-to-meeting country music, by a new Nashville hotshot. Black
sounds like Randy Travis with a few more years of book learning,
and he's got a knack for cozy melodies too.
</p>
<p> DR. JOHN: IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD (Warner Bros.). When jazz meets
up with rhythm and blues, it's usually less a shoot-out than a
sellout: one or the other gets sold short. Dr. John, a surgical
master at the piano and a good, gruff vocalizer, is one physician
with a solid prescription to do both styles right -- and proud.
</p>
<p> 10,000 MANIACS: BLIND MAN'S ZOO (Elektra). Love songs like
petitions, songs of conscience that come straight from the heart.
This is a band with folkie inclinations, rock grit and a graceful
way with a cry of pain. Poison in the Well, an unfortunately timely
tune about environmental pollution, ought to be piped into the
Exxon boardroom.
</p>
<p>THEATER
</p>
<p> CYMBELINE. A mildly punkish off-Broadway version of
Shakespeare's odd tragedy stars Oscar nominee Joan Cusack (Working
Girl) as a wife wrongly accused of infidelity.
</p>
<p> THE LISBON TRAVIATA. Terrence McNally's homosexual tragicomedy
features opera, violence and a terrific cast of off-Broadway
veterans.
</p>
<p> ON THE TOWN. Washington's Arena Stage gives a fizzy revival to
the whole of the classic musical that is exuberantly excerpted in
Jerome Robbins' Broadway.
</p>
<p>TELEVISION
</p>
<p> RACHEL RIVER (PBS, June 21, 9 p.m. on most stations). Pamela
Reed (Tanner '88) and Craig T. Nelson (Call to Glory) are featured
in this brooding American Playhouse drama about small-town
Minnesota.
</p>
<p> TRAVELING MAN (HBO, June 25, 9 p.m. EDT). A soul-searching
veteran salesman (John Lithgow) learns some painful lessons from
a back-stabbing newcomer in a comedy-drama directed by Irvin
Kershner (The Flim-Flam Man).
</p>
<p> BROADWAY'S DREAMERS: THE LEGACY OF THE GROUP THEATER (PBS, June
26, 9 p.m. on most stations). American Masters launches its fourth
season with a chronicle of the innovative 1930s company that
introduced method acting to the U.S. and forever changed American
theater.
</p>
<p>MOVIES
</p>
<p> DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Robin Williams is a Mr. Chips with a
mission: to inspire his '50s prep school students with reckless
passion. Like director Peter Weir, Williams is dead serious this
time, donating his celebrity to an imperfect but valuable
adolescent drama.
</p>
<p> SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BEVERLY HILLS. Not much
class, but plenty of struggle at the Lipkin mansion, where
everybody upstairs sleeps with everybody downstairs. The setting
is swank, the appetites gross in director Paul Bartel's clever
comedy of sexual manners.
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