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Nov. 20, 1989: Critics' Voices
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Nov. 20, 1989 Freedom!
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 22
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<p>Compiled by Andrea Sachs
</p>
<p>HOME ENTERTAINMENT
</p>
<p> LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Can David Lean's 1962 epic possibly be
adapted for the tube? Yes! The videotape (RCA/Columbia) looks
smashing, and the laser disc (Criterion), with its superior
sound and visual resolution, even better. Both offer the fully
restored film that was successfully rereleased in February, and
both preserve its wide-screen format.
</p>
<p> BATMAN. The summer's blockbuster comes to video stores this
week. Finally, the handful of people who still haven't seen
Batman will be able to explain its appeal to the even tinier
(but discerning) group who find the film slow, murky,
uninvolving and -- except for its visual grandeur, which may be
lost on the small screen -- witless.
</p>
<p>MOVIES
</p>
<p> HENRY V. Kenneth Branagh, 28, is the Olivier wanna-be of
the '80s. In this version, keenly faithful to the famous 1944
film, the actor-director stakes his boldest claim yet to Lord
Larry's title. The elite cast -- a veritable Burke's Peerage of
British acting -- makes it a royal, enjoyable feast.
</p>
<p> IMMEDIATE FAMILY. Glenn Close and James Woods desperately
want a child; Mary Stuart Masterson is about to have one.
Director Jonathan Kaplan's comedy-drama finds sympathetic
laughter in everyone's burdens and opportunities. The tears come
later.
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<p>MUSIC
</p>
<p> TRACY CHAPMAN: CROSSROADS (Elektra). The follow-up to her
smash debut album in 1988 is . . . well, just like the first.
Chapman's voice stays strong, her music soft, her message angry
and often oppressively earnest. Straightforward and worthy but
generally without excitement.
</p>
<p> CHET BAKER: MY FAVOURITE SONGS (Enja). The haunting picture
on the cover says it all: a face ravaged by drugs but eyes still
full of dreams and yearning. This was the trumpeter's last
concert, taped just two weeks before he fell to his death from
an Amsterdam hotel window at age 58. But forget the quirky
timing: Baker's full-throated horn never sounded better, and his
poignant vocal on My Funny Valentine is an unforgettable paean
to lost youth.
</p>
<p>FESTIVALS
</p>
<p> PASADENA DOO DAH PARADE. It all started as a spoof of the
Rose Parade, but this zany California happening has taken on a
life of its own. This year look for 125 offbeat groups,
including the Synchronized Briefcase Drill Team and Snotty
Scotty and the Hankies. Nov. 26; noon to 2 p.m.
</p>
<p>ART
</p>
<p> THE INTIMATE WORLD OF ALEXANDER CALDER, Cooper-Hewitt
Museum, New York City. A delightful demonstration that for
family and friends, the sculptor could make practically anything
out of anything. Through March 11.
</p>
<p> FRANCIS BACON, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington. Haunting emblems of the Age of Anxiety in the
eminent British painter's distorted, isolated figures. Through
Jan. 7.
</p>
<p>BOOKS
</p>
<p> THE STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator remembers a college
classmate and ponders the possibility that his old friend has
become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative
novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a
world-class author in splendid form.
</p>
<p> THE READER'S CATALOG published by Jason Epstein
(distributed by Random House; $24.95). A mail-order catalog of
40,000 distinguished titles, organized in 208 categories, for
readers who hunger for the quality and variety unavailable in
today's mass-market bookstores. Hallelujah!
</p>
<p>THEATER
</p>
<p> THE SECRET RAPTURE. There's no tragic flaw in the central
character of David Hare's crisply phrased and staged Broadway
drama -- she's just a victim of Thatcher-era British greed,
selfishness and lack of principle. Thus there's no real tension
or interest in this diatribe, which judges everyone's morality
by his or her politics.
</p>
<p> MYSTERY OF THE ROSE BOUQUET. Jane Alexander and Anne
Bancroft play a nurse and a patient in a taut psychological
study by Manuel Puig, author of The Kiss of the Spider Woman,
at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
</p>
<p> THE WIDOW'S BLIND DATE. Christine Estabrook sizzles in the
title role of Israel Horovitz's off-Broadway stunner about the
aftermath of a rape.
</p>
<p>TELEVISION
</p>
<p> A TALE OF TWO CITIES (PBS, debuting Nov. 19, 9 p.m. on most
stations). Masterpiece Theater puts a fresh coat of paint on
the Dickens classic about the French Revolution.
</p>
<p> JUDITH KRANTZ'S TILL WE MEET AGAIN (CBS, Nov. 19, 21).
CBS's junk-food fix for the November sweeps chronicles the
romantic entanglements of three women during 40 years, spanning
World Wars I and II.
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