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Dec. 11, 1989: Critics' Voices
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Dec. 11, 1989 Building A New World
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 28
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<p>ART
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<p> CANALETTO, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. In
Canaletto one sees Venice, and vice versa, since the artist's
luminous, teeming canvases have for two centuries defined the
city's great vistas and waterways in the public imagination.
Through Jan. 21.
</p>
<p> FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
The aptly named Church (1826-1900) created vast landscapes
expressing the spiritual awe Americans once felt before their
new continent as nature's cathedral, a vision of earthly
paradise. Through Jan. 28.
</p>
<p>TELEVISION
</p>
<p> DINNER AT EIGHT (TNT, Dec. 11, 8 p.m. EST). Ted Turner
isn't content with resurrecting old MGM classics on his newest
cable channel; he is remaking them as well. Lauren Bacall, Ellen
Greene and Harry Hamlin dine at the table where Marie Dressler,
Jean Harlow and John Barrymore once sat.
</p>
<p> BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (CBS, Dec. 12, 9 p.m. EST). This
literate fantasy series about a sensitive monster living beneath
the streets of New York City was scuttled by low ratings. But
it is back with a twist: the eponymous beauty, played by Linda
Hamilton, is kidnaped and killed. Anyone got a new title?
</p>
<p>MOVIES
</p>
<p> HARLEM NIGHTS. Making his directing debut, Eddie Murphy
can't seem to decide whether to go for laughs or melodrama. His
movie about the great Harlem nightclubs that flourished in the
'30s generates a lot of foul-mouthed noise but only fitful,
murky light.
</p>
<p> THE LITTLE MERMAID. You could wish upon a star and not
conjure up a more joyous animated movie than this graceful
retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen tale. In 82 minutes,
it reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen
as a window into enchantment.
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<p>MUSIC
</p>
<p> WARREN ZEVON: TRANSVERSE CITY (Virgin). The nastiest and
least predictable of the California singer-songwriters opens
hard with a dour, futuristic suite of three tunes inspired by
cyberpunk sci-fi, then draws his usual fine satiric bead on a
range of subjects from perestroika to malling.
</p>
<p> THE GIPSY KINGS: MOSAIQUE (Elektra). Overbearing ethnic
melodies from a group that had one of last year's fluke
successes. If the Kings started toward your table in a
restaurant, fiddling madly, you'd pay the maitre d' twice the
price of this album to keep them away.
</p>
<p>BOOKS
</p>
<p> SPY LINE by Len Deighton (Knopf; $18.95). When the Berlin
Wall came tumbling down, it landed on Deighton, who was caught
in mid-trilogy about a British agent in the divided city whose
wife has left him to set up her own spy shop on the east side
of the Wall. A competent thriller that seems just a little
quaint.
</p>
<p> TRUST by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; $18.95). Another
installment of petty schemers and low-life banter for Higgins
fans, but other readers will feel it takes far too long for the
protagonist, a crooked used-car salesman, to get his
comeuppance.
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<p>THEATER
</p>
<p> THE CIRCLE. Rex Harrison, 81, gives an elegantly
understated turn in Somerset Maugham's beguiling Broadway comedy
of marital scandal and autumnal passion. Stewart Granger and
Glynis Johns co-star.
</p>
<p> THE PIANO LESSON. August Wilson's Broadway-bound drama, at
Washington's Kennedy Center, is the finest work yet from the
foremost active American playwright, a heart-rending family
debate over how to deal with the legacy of slavery.
</p>
<p>ETC.
</p>
<p> TONY WALTON: DESIGNING FOR STAGE AND SCREEN. Dozens of
intricate models by designer Tony Walton are on view at New
York City's American Museum of the Moving Image. Triple-threat
Walton has an Oscar, two Tonys and an Emmy for his work in film,
theater and television. Whether creating a gleaming
silver-and-white Deco hotel room for Lend Me a Tenor or a ship
caught in The Tempest's hurricane, Walton gives life to a world
suggested by words. Through August 1990.
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<p>WINES
</p>
<p> It's often the most overhyped oenological event of the
year. In 1989, however, the arrival of Beaujolais Nouveau -- the
early fermented version of France's most popular red bistro wine
-- is something to celebrate. Tart and short-lived in
off-vintages, this year's Nouveau is fresh (as it should be),
fruity (ditto) and surprisingly well rounded -- the best wine
they have made, growers say, since 1985. Nouveau's good
structure bodes well for the quality of the longer-lasting (five
years or more), higher-priced Beaujolaises bearing such village
names as Brouilly, Chenas, Julienas and Morgon, which will
arrive in the U.S. in early March. Mommessin and Prosper Maufoux
are reliable producers of Nouveau, but the IBM of the trade is
Georges Duboeuf, whose assorted bottlings, most bearing his
distinctive white, flower-bedecked label, sold 400,000 cases in
the U.S. last year.
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