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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 1
BOOKS
RICHARD BURTON: A LIFE by Melvyn Bragg (Little, Brown;
$22.95). This meticulous biography includes generous quotations
from the subject's letters and a 350,000-word private diary;
the result is a portrait of a vivid actor who approached
language with the same passion he lavished on Elizabeth Taylor.
THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie (Viking; $19.95).
Charges of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad have earned a
death threat for Rushdie and international headlines for his
book, an artfully written encyclopedic fiction about the
explosive, often comic, meetings of East and West.
THIS BOY'S LIFE by Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press;
$18.95). A vivid memoir of a bizarre upbringing, dwelling not on
hardships but on the promise of awakening every morning in a
vast land where people are prepared to forget the past and
believe anything.
MOVIES
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. David Lean's 1962 biopic, starring Peter
O'Toole as adventurer T.E. Lawrence, was the first and finest
epic of ideas. Now the film has been lovingly restored to 217
minutes, every one of them glorious. Military strategy was never
so movie compelling. Sand was never so sexy.
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Strange people
and situations pile into a Madrid penthouse until the place
looks like the stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Carmen Maura
is the put-upon heroine in this glossy farce by Spain's naughty
new auteur Pedro Almodovar.
ART
ANDY WARHOL: A RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York
City. The first comprehensive look since the artist's 1987 death
at what made him, for better or worse, the top of the pops.
Through May 2.
THE HUMAN FIGURE IN EARLY GREEK ART, the Art Institute of
Chicago. Sixty-seven choice works from Greek museums trace the
emerging lineaments not only of the classical style but also of a
civilization's self-image. Through May 7.
HISPANIC ART IN THE UNITED STATES: 30 CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS
AND SCULPTORS, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The artists
grasp their ethnicity with color, vitality and fantasy, but
this show is art, not sociology, and much of it is a
revelation. Through April 16.
VICTOR PASMORE, the Phillips Collection, Washington.
Honoring his 80th birthday, a recap of the influential British
painter's journey through realms of naturalism and abstraction.
Through April 2.
MUSIC
MANDY PATINKIN: MANDY PATINKIN (CBS). The Broadway (Sunday
in the Park with George) and movie (Alien Nation) actor lets
fly with a fearlessly melodramatic song cycle chosen from
sources as various as Stephen Sondheim and Al Jolson. Some are
a bit florid, but the best tunes (like Anyone Can Whistle) have
a delicacy that lingers.
BOB DYLAN AND THE GRATEFUL DEAD: DYLAN & THE DEAD
(Columbia). Live recordings from the summer tour two years ago.
Casual, lovely and intense, with a particularly astute
reworking of Dylan's great tune I Want You.
THE LILAC TIME: THE LILAC TIME (Mercury). Bouncy,
folk-tinged Brit pop, with jagged political subtext. Return to
Yesterday has the jubilant rhythm and incidental melancholy of
prime Simon and Garfunkel.
MOZART AND SCHNABEL, VOLS. 1-4 (Arabesque). The great Artur
Schnabel in Mozart piano concertos and solo music, recorded in
London between 1934 and 1948.
THEATER
BLACK AND BLUE. Three great singers, two dozen top dancers,
28 bluesy numbers and a zillion sequins add up to Broadway's
hot new musical revue.
THE TAFFETAS. Goofy and winsome and ever so tuneful, this
off-Broadway spoof biography of a fictional '50s girl group is
superbly arranged and sung.
TV
THE GRAMMY AWARDS (CBS, Feb. 22, 8 p.m. EST). Bobby McFerrin
and Tracy Chapman copped the most nominations; Billy Crystal
will host the gala from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
TIMELINE (PBS, debuting Feb. 22, 8:30 p.m. on most
stations). The Crusades, the Mongol invasion of Europe and
other hot stories of the Middle Ages are covered as TV news
might do it today, sound bites and all, in this six-part series.
GET SMART, AGAIN! (ABC, Feb. 26, 9 p.m. EST). Would you
believe? The '60s spy take-off, starring Don Adams and Barbara
Feldon as secret agents, is back as a TV movie. You would?