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Nov. 27, 1989: Critics' Voices
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Nov. 27, 1989 Art And Money
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 16
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<p>Compiled by Andrea Sachs
</p>
<p>THEATER
</p>
<p> THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Dustin Hoffman plays Shylock, warts
and all, in a shimmering Broadway production transferred intact
from a sold-out London run. A tough ticket worth every penny
and every minute of the wait.
</p>
<p> CLOSER THAN EVER. This musical sampler from lyricist
Richard Maltby Jr. and composer David Shire is an off-Broadway
charmer deftly performed. Special joys: character songs that
actors Brent Barrett and Sally Mayes render as richly nuanced
as one-act plays.
</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> RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR. Like its
Rockefeller Center neighbors -- a towering fir tree and a
glistening ice rink that displays the endlessly watchable
gyrations of amateur skaters -- this New York City
bring-the-family pageant is one of the grandest holiday
traditions in the U.S. Satisfyingly the same from year to year,
yet spruced up just enough, the fast-moving script mingles
Charles Dickens, Santa Claus and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker with
carols and hymns. The climactic Nativity scene features camels,
donkeys and other live animals. This year's production serves
up dazzling special effects and opulent costumes, as well as the
show-stopping, high-kicking Rockettes. If at times the narration
suggests the entire world is Christian, or should be, the
overwhelming message is joy and goodwill.
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<p>MUSIC
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<p> LINDA RONSTADT: CRY LIKE A RAINSTORM, HOWL LIKE THE WIND
(Elektra/Asylum). Ronstadt takes lessons learned from her three
successful albums of pop standards and puts them to work on the
kind of material she did so well in the '70s: confessional
ballads and songs of love gone amiss. The cathedral-filling
orchestral arrangements threaten the fragile structure of some
songs, but Ronstadt's singing (superbly accompanied on four
tracks by New Orleans soulster Aaron Neville) keeps everything
on course.
</p>
<p>ART
</p>
<p> THE NEW VISION: PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. This smartly
conceived show, which introduces the Metropolitan's new Ford
Motor Company Collection of 20th century photographs, highlights
the camera's courtship of pure form. Through Dec. 31.
</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>MOVIES
</p>
<p> VALMONT. Maybe it's time to call it a day for film remakes
of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' novel
of sexual gamesmanship among 18th century French aristocrats.
Director Milos Forman and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere have
not so much adapted this deliciously nasty tale as they have
embalmed it.
</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.
</p>
<p>BOOKS
</p>
<p> THE PEOPLE AND UNCOLLECTED STORIES by Bernard Malamud
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). This posthumous volume
includes an unfinished novel and 16 short stories never before
collected in book form. The novel is little more than a sketch
of what might have been, but the stories -- grim and comical in
equal measure -- offer poignant reminders of Malamud's gift and
his stature as an American master.
</p>
<p> THE STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator, who strongly resembles his
creator, remembers a college classmate in Lima during the 1950s
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>TELEVISION
</p>
<p> MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE (NBC, Nov. 23, 9 a.m. EST).
Might as well face it -- she's here to stay. Today show usurper
Deborah Norville joins terminally jovial weatherman Willard
Scott to narrate this year's float extravaganza.
</p>
<p> FIFTY YEARS OF TELEVISION: A GOLDEN CELEBRATION (CBS, Nov.
26, 9 p.m. EST). Stop us before we kill: yet another survey of
"classic moments" from TV's past. Hosts include Walter Cronkite,
Carl Reiner and Miss Piggy.
</p>
<p> THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (PBS, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. on most
stations). What's this? A documentary series featuring
real-life news footage rather than actors re-creating it? That
is an admirably quaint notion that has spawned some fascinating
programs. Former Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell is
profiled this week.
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