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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 30
MUSIC
BOB DYLAN: UNDER THE RED SKY (Columbia). "God knows the
secrets of your heart," Dylan sings on this enigmatic new bit
of introspection and social speculation. "He'll tell 'em to you
when you sleep." Well, he's not talking much here, and Bob
hangs back a bit too. Odd, edgy and, for all the slick session
talent on parade (George Harrison, Elton John), somehow
unfinished.
THE KENTUCKY HEADHUNTERS: PICKIN' ON NASHVILLE
(Mercury/PolyGram). Quirky, impolite country music by a new
band that respects tradition but takes its own route back to
the roots. Classics by the likes of Bill Monroe and Don Gibson
are burnished with a hard-driving, honky-tonk brio that suits
the Headhunters' original material just fine too.
KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD. LAURITZ MELCHIOR. (RCA Victor Vocal
Series). These companion albums feature two legendary singers
with the temperaments and voices to sing Wagner as he might
have imagined it in his inner ear. The love duet from Tristan
und Isolde (from the Melchior recording) is pure rapture.
BLUES YOU CAN USE
Just when you thought your blues collection was complete,
Columbia Records reaches back into its well-stocked vaults and
brings forth a treasury of historic sides that helped lay the
groundwork for modern rock, soul and rhythm and blues. The
first eight releases in the ambitious ROOTS 'N BLUES series
feature the work of such greats as Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon
Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy and Willie Dixon. But the most
eagerly awaited offering is the boxed, two-volume (CD or
cassette) set containing all 41 known takes by the legendary
Robert Johnson, whose brooding, anguished voice and ringing
guitar made him a cult figure for a generation of young
rockers. As guitarist Eric Clapton puts it in a copiously
annotated accompanying booklet: "I have never found anything
more deeply soulful than Robert Johnson. His music remains the
most powerful cry that I think you can find in the human
voice." Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones is more succinct:
"You want to know how good the blues can get? Well, this is
it."
THEATER
HAMLET. What do you do if your parents are George C. Scott
and Colleen Dewhurst? If you are Campbell Scott, you go into
the family business, appear on Broadway in Long Day's Journey
into Night and on film in Longtime Companion, then scale the
actor's Everest in this stirring production at San Diego's Old
Globe Theater.
FUENTE OVEJUNA. The Spanish classic of a feudal village's
revenge against a tyrannical overlord took London by storm last
season in an electrifying new translation that makes its U.S.
debut at California's Berkeley Rep.
TELEVISION
COP ROCK (ABC, debuting Sept. 26, 10 p.m. EDT). The police
action is rough and raw, like Hill Street Blues. But when a
courtroom jury, asked for its verdict, breaks into song, we
know we're not in Kansas anymore. Steven Bochco's musical cop
show is the fall's most audacious newcomer.
TWIN PEAKS (ABC, Sept. 30, 9 p.m. EDT). It's back to the
weird Northwest to find out whether Agent Cooper survived the
gunshots and whether David Lynch's cult series survived the
hype.
HEAT OF THE DAY (PBS, Sept. 30, 9 p.m. on most stations).
For those who like their mysteries solved in one evening,
Michael Gambon plays a suspicious stranger who latches on to
a divorcee in World War II London, in this Masterpiece Theater
drama scripted by Harold Pinter.
MOVIES
GOODFELLAS. The fellas -- Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe
Pesci -- are anything but good in Martin Scorsese's homicidally
funny portrait of a Mafia family. They kill, maim and rob; they
rat on their friends or slit their throats. This vast fresco
of criminal amorality is also a how-to book for making it big
and gaudy in New York City.
LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST. Greek director Theo Angelopoulos
makes majestic visions out of spare images. In this
metaphysical road movie, two children hike across Greece to
find their absent father. A poignant but never sentimental view
of childhood from a master of minimalism.
WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART. In his portrayal of a director
very like John Huston, Clint Eastwood subverts two rogue
images: his own and that of a lovable auteur. He looks into the
heart of maleness and finds equal parts arrogance and bluff.
BOOKS
JAZZ SINGING: AMERICA'S GREAT VOICES FROM BESSIE SMITH TO
BEBOP AND BEYOND by Will Friedwald (Scribners; $29.95). A hip,
informative look at the men and women who turned singing and
swinging into synonyms.
NOW YOU KNOW by Kitty Dukakis with Jane Scovell (Simon &
Schuster; $19.95). What starts out as another sad story of
anxiety and alcohol abuse by the wife of a public official
eventually turns into a moving saga of courage as the author
struggles to come back from a defeat far more humiliating than
her husband's wipeout at the polls.
ART
INFORMATION ART: DIAGRAMMING MICROCHIPS, Museum of Modern
Art, New York City. The millions of electronic elements in
thumbnail-size microchips are so intricate that they must be
plotted by computer on "road maps" 100 to 200 times the size
of the chips. Put 31 of these plots on the walls of a museum
and -- Eureka! -- you have an exhibition of colorful,
exquisitely crafted designs that hold their own with many
abstract paintings. Through Oct. 30.
THE QUEST FOR SELF-EXPRESSION: PAINTING IN MOSCOW AND
LENINGRAD 1965-1990, Columbus Museum of Art. What 43 Soviet
artists have been up to since the post-Stalin "thaw." Through
Nov. 25.
By TIME's Reviewers. Compiled by Andrea Sachs.