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July 03, 1989: Critics' Choice
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
July 03, 1989 Great Ball Of Fire:Angry Sun
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 12
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<p>MUSIC
</p>
<p> PAUL McCARTNEY: FLOWERS IN THE DIRT (Capitol). McCartney
goes back to the future by returning to his old Beatles label
and collaborating with a shrewd, spiky co-writer, Elvis
Costello. That Day Is Done and My Brave Face show both these
lads in top form, and the entire album has a buoyancy that has
eluded McCartney for years.
</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 each style right
-- and proud.
</p>
<p>ART
</p>
<p> AGAINST NATURE: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art. Architect Arata Isozaki and fashion
designer Issey Miyake are famous abroad, but contemporary
visual art from Japan is still little known in the West. The
first major U.S. museum show from Japan in more than 20 years
brings American audiences up-to-date with a survey of new work
from the cultural center of East Asia. Through Aug. 6.
</p>
<p> THE DADA AND SURREALIST WORD-IMAGE, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art. Between 1915 and 1940, painters like Max Ernst
and Paul Klee experimented by juxtaposing images with written
words, permanently altering the vocabulary of visual art. This
adventurous exhibition explores the relationship not only
between word and image but also between language, art and
psychology. Through Aug. 27.
</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>MOVIES
</p>
<p> MAJOR LEAGUE. In a season thick with baseball flicks, David
S. Ward gives us a rowdy, genial, cynical comedy about a
fanciful Cleveland Indians team. Populated by rejects from the
Mexican, minor and California penal leagues, this motley Tribe
can't lose. The dialogue is breezy, the tone acerb and the
climax as predictably uplifting as Rocky's.
</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.
</p>
<p>THEATER
</p>
<p> ON THE TOWN. Washington's Arena Stage gives a fizzy revival
to the whole of the classic musical, which is exuberantly
excerpted in Jerome Robbins' Broadway.
</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>BOOKS
</p>
<p> LET HISTORY JUDGE by Roy Medvedev (Columbia University;
$57.50). This trailblazing recital of the crimes of the Stalin
era, originally published in the West in 1971, caused its
Soviet author considerable problems in his homeland. Now, after
having added 100,000 scathing words to his first account,
Medvedev has been elected to the Supreme Soviet. His book is
thus historical in two senses: for what it reveals and for what
it has contributed to social change.
</p>
<p> THE LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE, VOLUME I: 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. Here he
produces an entertaining fiction about a man who does both, a
teasingly autobiographical portrait of the artist as a young
stud.
</p>
<p>TELEVISION
</p>
<p> DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS (NBC, June 29, 3 p.m. EDT). Once again
Susan Lucci (a.k.a. All My Children's Erica) is seeking the
elusive golden statuette. Will her tenth nomination (without a
win) finally bring her the reward she so richly deserves? Or
will Pine Valley's most renowned vixen be thwarted again?
</p>
<p> ANDREA MARTIN: TOGETHER AGAIN (Showtime, July 1 and 4). The
versatile comedian portrays a gallery of zanies -- some
familiar, some new -- in a one-hour special. Fellow SCTV alums
Martin Short and Catherine O'Hara join her.
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