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<title>
Sep. 18, 1989: Critics' Voices
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Sep. 18, 1989 Torching The Amazon
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 3
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<p>MOVIES
</p>
<p> THE ADVENTURES OF MILO AND OTIS. Milo is a barnyard kitten
and Otis his dogged friend in this live-action children's film
narrated by Dudley Moore. If cute were still a word of approval,
Masanori Hata's charming parable would earn it.
</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>THEATER
</p>
<p> THE COCKTAIL HOUR. Nancy Marchand's sozzled, sardonic
portrayal of a grande dame enriches A.R. Gurney's Wasp family
tale at Washington's Kennedy Center.
</p>
<p> THE LADY IN QUESTION. 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 lasts two hours.
</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 hustlers
in Marlane Meyer's desert panorama mingle the doomed banality
of Sam Shepard characters with the quixotic blessings of William
Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. At the Los Angeles Theater
Center.
</p>
<p>ART
</p>
<p> CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS: CULTURES OF SIBERIA AND ALASKA,
Seattle Center Pavilion. Art and artifacts by native peoples on
both sides of the Bering Strait, assembled in the first such
joint effort by the U.S. and Soviet Union. Through Oct. 15.
</p>
<p>MUSIC
</p>
<p> ROLLING STONES: THE LONDON YEARS (Abkco). An avalanche of
gems: 58 of the greatest rock-'n'-roll singles of all time,
culled from the Stones' hitmaking heyday, 1963 to 1971,
including some rare B-side cuts.
</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> FAIRPORT CONVENTION: RED & GOLD (Rough Trade). When this
British group started up in the late '60s, their music was
called "folk rock." Two decades on, the phrase is shopworn, but
the band's music -- graced by some ghosts of ancient traditional
melody -- is as splendid and mysterious as ever.
</p>
<p>TELEVISION
</p>
<p> 48 HOURS: RETURN TO CRACK STREET (CBS, Sept. 14, 8 p.m.
EDT). CBS's often absorbing, occasionally overheated series of
slice-of-life snapshots launches its new season by revisiting
the drug scene it first surveyed three years ago.
</p>
<p> MISS AMERICA PAGEANT (NBC, Sept. 16, 10 p.m. EDT). Gary
Collins and Phyllis George gush over the annual parade of
swimsuits and baton solos.
</p>
<p> EMMY AWARDS (Fox, Sept. 17, 8 p.m. EDT). The mini-series
Lonesome Dove is the odds-on favorite for top honors; Roseanne
Barr, notably left out of the acting nominations, has already
received the biggest snub.
</p>
<p> THE NIGHTMARE YEARS (TNT, Sept. 17-20, 8 p.m. EDT). William
Shirer's memoir of Hitler's Germany in the 1930s is re-created
in an eight-hour mini-series.
</p>
<p>BOOKS
</p>
<p> LORD BYRON'S DOCTOR by Paul West (Doubleday; $19.95). A
brilliant tour de force about the cruelty of genius, starring
Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary (author of
Frankenstein) and the narrator, an indiscreet physician.
</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>ETC.
</p>
<p> LE CIRQUE DU SOLEIL. A few tattered folk wander into the
big top and presto! turn into the world's most beguiling circus
performers. This luminous spectacle, which sets up its tent
next week in Santa Monica, Calif., and can be seen on HBO
throughout this month, packs more magic than Merlin's wand. The
Montreal-based Cirque may have lost a spangle or two since its
first U.S. tour, but it remains, whatever Ringling may say, the
greatest show on earth.
</p>
<p> THE ARTS AND RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION. Detente comes to Dixie
as Soviet ballet, drama, music, film and art share the stage at
the Classics in Context Festival in Louisville. Featured
performers include pianist Vladimir Feltsman and the Moscow Art
Theater. Through Nov. 4.
</p>
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