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Oct. 08, 1990: Critics' Voices
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 08, 1990 Do We Care About Our Kids?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 18
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<p> MOVIES
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<p> MILLER'S CROSSING and GOODFELLAS. A pair of aces about the
Mob. The first film, from Joel and Ethan Coen, has gangsters of
the '20s spitting out aphorisms and wrestling with ethics. The
second, Martin Scorsese's bullet train of a cautionary comedy,
shows the Mafia in its rapacious decline. Both make offers no
moviegoer should refuse.
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<p> HARDWARE. A junk sculpture turns into a ravening home
wrecker in this spiky Brit sci-fi parable. First-time filmmaker
Richard Stanley has an eye for the macabre and a mind full of
undigested ideas. Oh, well, next time...This time he has
made an arresting exercise in horror on the cheap.
</p>
<p> TEXASVILLE. The sequel to The Last Picture Show, with the
same cast (including Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd) and the
same director (Peter Bogdanovich). That old Texas movie house
should have stayed closed.
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<p> MUSIC
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<p> GEORGE MICHAEL: LISTEN WITHOUT PREJUDICE, VOL. 1 (Columbia).
Michael's previous album, Faith, was a monster hit, and the biz
expects this new record to push him into rock's commercial
pantheon. Maybe. It's a schizy piece of work: part bombast, part
hypercharged pop. Pop prevails, but it's a struggle.
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<p> SITTING PRETTY (New World Records). Conductor John McGlinn
deserves some kind of sainthood for resurrecting this 1924
Jerome Kern delight. Amid its jolly ebullience, moments of
gentler lyricism look ahead to such works as Show Boat and
Roberta. Perfectly cast and impossible to resist.
</p>
<p> ROY HARGROVE: DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH (Novus). Watch out,
Wynton! This 20-year-old trumpet phenomenon from Waco, Texas,
is nipping at your heels with a horn full of soul and fire. A
well-crafted album, featuring penetrating solo work from
alto-saxman Antonio Hart and three strong compositions by
pianist Geoffrey Keezer.
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<p> TELEVISION
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<p> MAJOR LEAGUE PLAYOFFS (CBS, starting Oct. 4, 8 p.m. EDT).
For baseball fans, it's all CBS from now on. Jack Buck and Dick
Stockton will handle the play-by-play for the network's first
postseason coverage in 40 years.
</p>
<p> RACE TO SAVE THE PLANET (PBS, Oct. 7-11, 9 p.m. on most
stations). Everything you wanted to know about the environment
but were afraid to find out, in 10 hours with Meryl Streep as
host. (The series is being repeated in weekly hour-long segments
on Thursday evenings.)
</p>
<p> WHEN YOU REMEMBER ME (ABC, Oct. 7, 9 p.m. EDT). A youngster
with muscular dystrophy battles against "inhumane" treatment in
nursing homes. Fred Savage (The Wonder Years) stars in this
junior-varsity version of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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<p> THEATER
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<p> MICHAEL FEINSTEIN. Songs from Broadway musicals may never
again top the pop charts, but no other artist around understands
better why they used to. Articulate in what he says and
emotionally evocative in what he sings, Feinstein returns to
Broadway for a four-week solo engagement.
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<p> CLASSICS IN CONTEXT. Among the most novel programs by any
U.S. regional troupe is the annual mini-festival in which Actors
Theater of Louisville focuses on some slice of the (typically
European) past. This year's theme, Italian traditions in tragedy
and comedy, embraces not only plays but also opera, ballet,
symphony concerts, art exhibits and more. Through Oct. 29.
</p>
<p> ART
</p>
<p> RECKONING WITH WINSLOW HOMER: HIS LATE PAINTINGS AND THEIR
INFLUENCE, Cleveland Museum of Art. Often considered an isolated
original, Homer is here seen as a figure of continuity. Fifteen
of his views of the Maine coast are hung alongside 44 works by
painters on whom he left his mark--among them John Sloan,
Edward Hopper and John Marin. Through Nov. 18.
</p>
<p> KAZIMIR MALEVICH, 1878-1935, National Gallery of Art,
Washington. The biggest U.S. retrospective yet of a brilliant,
protean member of the Russian avant-garde, too long shrouded in
Soviet ideological disfavor. Through Nov. 4.
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<p> ET CETERA
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<p> THE CLASSICAL DANCE COMPANY OF CAMBODIA. The ancient arts
of Cambodian dance and music, all but annihilated by the Khmer
Rouge, are preserved in these graceful, vivid performances. At
New York City's Joyce Theater, Oct. 9-14.
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<p> TEXAS STATE FAIR, Dallas. Grab your 10-gallon hat for the
largest (1989 attendance: 3.5 million) and splashiest state fair
in the U.S. Texas-scale events include laser shows, pig races,
college football in the Cotton Bowl and the entire touring
company of the musical Cats. Through Oct. 21.
</p>
<p> TREASURES OF ETON COLLEGE LIBRARY: 550 YEARS OF COLLECTING,
the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City. For the first time
in the U.S., books, manuscripts, drawings and objects from the
famous college (prep school, to Americans) that has been molding
the English elite since 1440. Among the choice displays: the
holograph of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751), by
onetime Eton schoolboy Thomas Gray. Through Nov. 25.
</p>
<p> LIST-O-MANIA
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<p> THE LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN BOOK OF TOP TEN LISTS
(Pocket Books; $8.95). Ever since they were introduced in 1985,
Letterman's nightly Top 10 lists have been his show's most
reliable laugh getters, a shrewd mix of topical satire and
frat-house nuttiness. Recycled in book form, they are just as
funny to read. Here again are Jim Bakker's Top 10 Pickup Lines
("Pray here often?"; "Your eyes are the same color as my leisure
suit"), Princess Diana's Top 10 Complaints about Prince Charles
(always calls Pizza Hut before we've decided on topping we want;
that phony British accent), and the Top 10 Least Popular
Attractions at Disney World (Oprah Mountain; Peter Pan's
All-Male Cinema; Muggyland). For connoisseurs, there's the very
first list (Top 10 Words That Almost Rhyme with Peas); for
doubters, a list on the back cover explaining the Top 10 Reasons
to Buy This Book (No. 5: you're mentioned on page 43). Maybe not
the funniest book ever written, but certainly in the Top 10.
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<p>By TIME's Reviewers. Compiled by Andrea Sachs.
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