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<text id=89TT2891>
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Nov. 06, 1989: Critics Voices
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Nov. 06, 1989 The Big Break
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 3
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<p>MOVIES
</p>
<p> THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS. A piano duo, stranded between
anonymity and unemployment, needs a sexy vocalist to spruce up
the act. Good career move; bad for the boys. Jeff and Beau
Bridges and Michelle Pfeiffer are better than fabulous in this
wry, rare comedy of character.
</p>
<p> CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. In Woody Allen's acute meditation
on the Greed decade, bad men are rewarded for their crimes and
nice guys worry about committing misdemeanors. This is Allen in
his funny-serious mood, farcical and dour by turns, a showman
of gentle misanthropy.
</p>
<p> FIGHT FOR US. A saintly priest is gunned down and
mutilated. A basketball team is massacred. A female rebel is
raped by a vigilante commandant; when the commandant is killed,
his lieutenant carves open the dead man's chest and eats his
flesh. These horrifying events might seem the stuff of slasher
movies, but according to Filipino director Lino Brocka, they are
real. His film, based in part on testimony collected by Amnesty
International, charges that human rights violations are more
widespread under President Corazon Aquino than they were during
the Marcos regime, which Brocka had long criticized. Fight for
Us is a cry for justice, from a man out of breath, for a nation
nearly eviscerated by fratricide.
</p>
<p>FESTIVALS
</p>
<p> WURSTFEST. You can link up with more than 100,000 sausage
devotees at this Texas-size eaterama. For ten days, New
Braunfels, Texas, rolls out the best of the wurst, as well as
yodelers, dancers and polka players with down-home names like
Oma and the Oom pahs. Nov. 3 through 12.
</p>
<p>THEATER
</p>
<p> BROTHERS AND SISTERS. The most acclaimed Soviet stage work
since World War II, this two-part epic from Leningrad depicts
Stalin's abuse of the rural millions. In Russian, with
simultaneous translation through earphones, at San Diego's Old
Globe.
</p>
<p> OH, KAY! Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House engagingly
shifts vintage Gershwin to 1920s Harlem. Tony winner Ron
Richardson (Big River) stars.
</p>
<p>TELEVISION
</p>
<p> CHICO MENDES: VOICE OF THE AMAZON (TBS, Nov. 1, 10:05 p.m.
EST). This one-hour documentary focuses on the martyred
Brazilian's efforts to save the Amazonian rain forest and
includes the last television interview Mendes gave before his
1988 assassination.
</p>
<p> OUR TOWN (PBS, Nov. 3, 9 p.m. on most stations). Last
season's acclaimed Broadway revival of the Thornton Wilder
classic is presented on Great Performances.
</p>
<p> CROSS OF FIRE (NBC, Nov. 5 and 6, 9 p.m. EST). Romance,
murder and revenge -- you'll get it all in this fact-based
mini-series about the rise and fall of a Grand Dragon of the Ku
Klux Klan in 1920s Indi anapolis. Starring John Heard (Beaches,
Big) and Mel Harris (thirtysomething).
</p>
<p> MUSIC KATE BUSH: THE SENSUAL WORLD (Columbia). Well, it
does have a lonely-hearts love song about a computer. Otherwise,
the histrionics are so heavy and the passion so sham on this
record that it would be wiser just to press DELETE.
</p>
<p> THE RCA VICTOR VOCAL SERIES. Maybe they weren't better in
the old days, but these digitally remastered recordings make a
strong case that the jet plane and overbooked schedules are
enemies of vocal grace. The first issues in this new project
include Marian Anderson, Leonard Warren, Rosa Ponselle, Tito
Schipa and Jussi Bjoerling. The Warren disk is an oddity,
recorded live on a 1958 tour of the Soviet Union, where the
baritone's dark, sexy voice knocked'em dead. Ponselle's sublime
vocal poise lights great Verdi arias and ditties like When I
Have Sung My Songs to You, I'll Sing No More. Easily the most
joyous singer is Schipa, with his diaphanous tenor tones and
fluent ornamentation. There was a real nap on the operatic
velvet back then!
</p>
<p>BOOKS
</p>
<p> THE REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf; $18.95).
It is 1956, and an aging English butler looks back on his
decades of service in a stately house. The meaning of his
memories is not always clear to him, but it is to the reader,
thanks to Japanese-born novelist Ishiguro's deadly, deadpan
dissection of the British class system.
</p>
<p> THE WAY TO COOK by Julia Child (Knopf; $50). The first tome
in nine years from the nation's queen of cuisine is, expectedly,
an instructional masterpiece: precise directions, lavish
illustrations, wise little tips on timing and the proper tools.
The recipes are mostly Euroclassics with variations, many
lightened for health-conscious American palates. A boon for
beginners; a must for the more experienced.
</p>
<p> ROLLING STONE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS (Simon & Schuster; $50).
Nixon's helicopter lifting off after his final farewell, John
curling up naked against Yoko, Brando posing in a wheatfield in
bonnet and dress. If these photos touch a nostalgic nerve,
you'll also love the 147 others, culled from 22 years of Rolling
Stone, where celebrity photojournalism and portraiture mix with
fascinating results.
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