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July 09, 1990: Critics' Voices
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
July 09, 1990 Abortion's Most Wrenching Questions
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 10
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<p>MOVIES
</p>
<p> GREMLINS 2. Those anti-Muppets are back, terrorizing a
Manhattan high-rise run by a zillionaire who blends all the
worst tendencies of Donald Trump and Ted Turner. It's ingenious
fun, but relentlessly noisy. After an hour or so, you may feel
like a captive teacher at a kindergarten in hell.
</p>
<p> JESUS OF MONTREAL. An avant-garde theater troupe performs
its own radical updating of the Passion play. Now, shouldn't
a film with that story enrage a few conservative zealots? Alas,
Denys Arcand's French-Canadian satire is so solemn that it is
not worth patronizing--or even picketing.
</p>
<p> DICK TRACY. Forget the marketing campaign, which has blitzed
everyone this side of Burkina Faso. Forget Warren Beatty's
reputation as an indefatigable Don Juan. Just plunk down your
money and enjoy a suave, splendid movie romance.
</p>
<p>ART
</p>
<p> MAURICE PRENDERGAST, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York City. Prendergast evolved from a sign painter to one of
the pathfinders of post-impressionism in the U.S. This
retrospective traces the full arc of his progress. Through
Sept. 2.
</p>
<p> NICOLAS DE STAEL IN AMERICA, the Phillips Collection,
Washington. A gathering of the brilliantly colored canvases
that made the French-based De Stael a rising star in America
until his suicide at 41 in 1955. Through Sept. 9.
</p>
<p> BLACK ART: ANCESTRAL LEGACY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
The influence of an older, African culture shapes these
paintings and sculptures by 20th century black artists in the
U.S. and the Caribbean. Through Aug. 5.
</p>
<p>THEATER
</p>
<p> PRICE OF FAME. Movie star Charles Grodin headlines
off-Broadway in his own play about a movie star being
interviewed by a reporter (the beguiling Lizbeth Mackay) who
he realizes is out to do him in. He returns the favor more
literally in a glib, genial formula comedy.
</p>
<p> FOREVER PLAID. Even if you don't remember the bland, white,
close-harmony boy pop groups, Ed Sullivan Show variety acts and
'50s squeaky-cleanness being sent up in this off-Broadway
review, the daffy humor and deft musicianship should prove
charming.
</p>
<p> SHE ALWAYS SAID, PABLO. Frank Galati, winner of two Tony
Awards in June as adapter and director of The Grapes of Wrath,
performed the same tasks for this dizzyingly beautiful blend
of imagery from Picasso's paintings, and poetry and music from
the Gertrude Stein-Virgil Thomson Four Saints in Three Acts.
Originally staged for the Goodman troupe in Chicago, it plays
through July 22 at Washington's Kennedy Center.
</p>
<p>MUSIC
</p>
<p> THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: FLOOD (Elektra). When they're good,
they're winningly whimsical and goofy. When they're off the
mark (as in their current cover of the old novelty item
Istanbul, Not Constantinople), you just want to lock these guys
in their room so they can't come out and play.
</p>
<p> CHOPIN: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 1 & 2 (Sony Classical). Ably
accompanied by Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic, Murray
Perahia shows a pianistic warmth, incisive brilliance and
mastery of these pieces unrivaled since Rubinstein's heyday.
</p>
<p> PEGGY LEE: THE PEGGY LEE SONGBOOK (Musicmasters). Peggy Lee
is an American icon. Her singing, no longer as seemingly
effortless as it once was, now combines its sultry smokiness
with the quality of having lived life with a capital L. These
13 songs, most co-written by Lee, have been beautifully
recorded with a knockout team of studio musicians. Her fans
should pounce.
</p>
<p>TELEVISION
</p>
<p> ON THE 4TH OF JULY WITH CHARLES KURALT (CBS, July 4, 10 p.m.
EDT). CBS's road master celebrates the holiday with a
collection of favorite vignettes of Americana.
</p>
<p> ALIVE FROM OFF CENTER (PBS, debuting July 5, 10 p.m. on most
stations). A sixth summertime season of this series of offbeat
video works gets under way with Postcards, Mark Rappaport's
clever chronicle of a deteriorating romance as told through the
couple's postcard correspondence.
</p>
<p> PIECE OF CAKE (PBS, debuting July 8, 9 p.m. on most
stations). It's back to the Battle of Britain in a new six-part
Masterpiece Theatre series about RAF flyers during the first
year of World War II.
</p>
<p>ET CETERA
</p>
<p> NEW YORK CITY BALLET/SUMMER. Every year this fleet, elegant
troupe packs its trunks and heads to Saratoga, N.Y., for an
open-air season. Upcoming highlights include two fine new works
by artistic director Peter Martins, Fearful Symmetries and Four
Gnossiennes, and seven ballets from the Jerome Robbins
Festival, a popular and critical hit in New York City. July
10-28.
</p>
<p>JAZZ
</p>
<p> THE COMPLETE BLUE NOTE RECORDINGS OF GEORGE LEWIS (Mosaic).
Frail, soft-spoken and self-taught, clarinetist George Lewis
seemed an unlikely candidate for stardom. While many other New
Orleans-born musicians left town in the 1920s to seek fame and
fortune in the North, Lewis stayed behind, playing parades,
dances and club dates, and working as a stevedore to make ends
meet. Yet a series of recordings he made in the early '40s
helped spark a revival of interest in traditional New Orleans
music and made Lewis a folk hero and model for hundreds of jazz
clarinetists around the world, including Britain's Sammy
Rimington, Butch Thompson (of Prairie Home Companion fame) and
Woody Allen. This three-CD (or five-LP) set contains some of
Lewis' greatest recorded work, much of it previously unissued,
in a digital remastering that beautifully captures the
relentless drive and haunting tone that were his trademarks.
Mosaic Records, 35 Melrose Place, Stamford, Conn. 06902; phone
(203) 327-7111.
</p>
<p>By TIME's Reviewers. Compiled by Andrea Sachs.
</p>
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