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<title>
Sep. 11, 1989: Critics' Voices
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Sep. 11, 1989 The Lonely War:Drugs
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 1
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<p>MUSIC
</p>
<p> BRANFORD MARSALIS: TRIO JEEPY (Columbia). Some nice moments
(The Nearness of You, Gutbucket Steepy), but let's face it:
slick imitations of Bird, Coltrane and Ben Webster do not a jazz
genius make. Forget the liner-note hype, Jeepy, and come back
when you've paid some dues.
</p>
<p> THE GODFATHERS: MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE & HATE (Epic). High
spirits mix it up with mean spirits and bring forth a hot
record with a shot of bile.
</p>
<p> N.W.A.: STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (Priority). Rap that's
angry, scary and tougher than the hard L.A. streets it comes
from. Lots of beat, lots of truth and no pity to spare.
</p>
<p> MAHLER: SYMPHONIE NO. 1 (Deutsche Grammophon). The young
Lenny reintroduced Mahler; maestro Bernstein now leads the
Concertgebou Orchestra in a re-examination of the composer's
kaleidoscopic genius.
</p>
<p>MOVIES
</p>
<p> WIRED. The saddest thing about John Belushi's death might
be this requiem -- the movie Hollywood tried to stop. Next time,
guys, try harder.
</p>
<p> COOKIE. English teenager Emily Lloyd brings an acute ear
and a fetching presence to her role as a Brooklyn punkster in
this comedy about a Mafia don (Peter Falk) with a score to
settle and a wayward daughter to raise.
</p>
<p> DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES. Three children in a Liverpool
family literally sing their way through two decades of air
raids, poverty and a father's sere brutality. Prepare to be
thrilled, perplexed, horrified, haunted.
</p>
<p>THEATER
</p>
<p> THE LADY IN QUESTION. Just what is the alleged pleasure of
a drag show? If the leading "lady" is unconvincing, it's gross.
If he's too convincing, there's no coy guessing game. And if
he's just campy enough, the joke is over in five minutes. Alas,
this off-Broadway farce (about Hitler and the Holocaust, yet!)
lasts two hours.
</p>
<p> LOVE LETTERS. On a bare stage, an actor and an actress read
aloud, capturing in two hours the rich decades of two lives. A
cast that changes every week (scheduled: Colleen Dewhurst, Jason
Robards and Kate Nelligan) graces A.R. Gurney's wry off-Broadway
play.
</p>
<p> SWEENEY TODD. Stephen Sondheim's unlikeliest musical, a
sympathetic look at a murderous barber and at the woman who
recycles his victims as meat pies, returns to Broadway in a
shrewdly staged and highly tuneful chamber version.
</p>
<p> THE GEOGRAPHY OF LUCK. The drifters, gamblers and hopeless
hustlers in Marlane Meyer's desert panorama mingle the doomed
banality of Sam Shepard characters with the quixotic blessings
found in William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. At the Los
Angeles Theater Center.
</p>
<p> MADAME SHERRY. Connecticut's revival-oriented Goodspeed
Opera House unearths another musical charmer about love, money
and mistaken identity.
</p>
<p>ART
</p>
<p> ARNULF RAINER, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A
retrospective of the work since 1950 of a leading Viennese
avant-gardist, including "overpaintings" of photographs, death
masks and a series of variations on the crucifixion. Through
Oct. 15.
</p>
<p> FIFTEEN YEARS OF COLLECTING, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York City. The Whitney claims the world's most
comprehensive gathering of 20th century American art; this
potpourri of works acquired since 1972 amply reflects its
riches. Through Oct. 15.
</p>
<p> ROBERT MOSKOWITZ, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington. Long in the
shadow of contemporaries like Jasper Johns, this 54-year-old
American, whose canvases feature the interplay of recognizable
images and abstraction, gets his first museum retrospective.
Through Sept. 17.
</p>
<p>BOOKS
</p>
<p> A NATURAL CURIOSITY by Margaret Drabble (Viking; $19.95).
In a sequel to The Radiant Way (1987), the author offers a
Victorian-style novel about some decidedly contemporary English
women and men.
</p>
<p> HARP by John Gregory Dunne (Simon & Schuster; $18.95).
Novelist Dunne (True Confessions) fesses up that his own barbed
style and snappish instincts have roots in an immigrant Irish
heritage in which he learned that writing well is the best
revenge.
</p>
<p> NICE WORK by David Lodge (Viking; $18.95). A funny, adroit
novel about an executive in one of Britain's rust-belt
factories and the feminist lecturer who does field research on
his old-fashioned methods.
</p>
<p>TELEVISION
</p>
<p> INTIFADA: THE PALESTINIANS AND ISRAEL (PBS, Sept. 6, 9 p.m.
on most stations). The documentary Days of Rage, Jo
Franklin-Trout's sympathetic look at the Palestinian uprising,
has stirred gales of protest. PBS viewers can see it, with a
discussion led by Hodding Carter.
</p>
<p> ON THE TELEVISION (Nick at Nite, debuting Sept. 9, 11 p.m.
EDT). Nick at Nite, the home of campy old TV shows like Donna
Reed and Mister Ed, tries its first original series, a
half-hour satirical look at -- what else? -- campy old TV shows.
</p>
<p> MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (ABC, Sept. 11, 8 p.m. EDT). They
never quite recovered from the loss of Howard and Dandy Don, but
ABC's gridiron clashes are about to celebrate their 20th year
on the air. A TV anniversary, of course, means a special, which
precedes tonight's season opener between the New York Giants and
Washington Redskins.
</p>
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