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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 13
MOVIES
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Strange people and
situations pile into a Madrid penthouse until the place looks like
the stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Carmen Maura is the put-upon
heroine in this glossy farce by Spain's naughty new auteur Pedro
Almodovar.
THE JANUARY MAN. Not a conventional whodunit. The mysteries in
this spitball comedy are matters of the eccentric heart: How will
a New York City fireman (Kevin Kline) win back his ex-girlfriend
(Susan Sarandon) or find accommodating love with the mayor's
daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)? John Patrick Shanley, whose
luminous script for Moonstruck won an Oscar, scores again here.
DANGEROUS LIAISONS. What deadly games people play in this
excellent gloss on Christopher Hampton's play. John Malkovich and
Glenn Close are the decadent puppeteers of lust who realize, too
late, that the job comes with fatal strings attached.
THEATER
THE PIANO LESSON. This stunning work by dramatist August
Wilson, at Chicago's Goodman Theater, combines the emotional clout
of his Pulitzer-prizewinning Fences with the haunting lyricism of
his Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
DARKSIDE. Stars twinkle all around and the big blue marble of
earth eerily arises in a set designer's triumph in this haunting
new play about astronauts on the moon, at Denver Center Theater
Company.
DUTCH LANDSCAPE. Dramatist Jon Robin Baitz, 26, who made a
splash with The Film Society, echoes its South African setting in
this autobiographical play, premiering at Los Angeles' Mark Taper
Forum.
MUSIC
BANGLES EVERYTHING (Columbia). Cool sex and hot rhythm from
four women rockers. Crash and Burn tells the story: funny, flinty
and slick enough to slide into your heart like a knife.
MILT JACKSON: BEBOP (East-West). The Modern Jazz Quartet's
eminent vibes man dives deep into the bop era, working fresh
wonders on eight vintage tunes, mostly by Dizzy Gillespie and
Charlie Parker. If Bird lives in Clint Eastwood's recent film
biography, he gets a neat new lease on life here.
JASCHA HEIFETZ: THE DECCA MASTERS, VOL. 2 (MCA Classics).
Jascha plays Gershwin! And Stephen Foster! And Irving Berlin! The
greatest violinist who ever lived, in dazzling arrangements of It
Ain't Necessarily So, Old Folks at Home and White Christmas, among
other American bonbons. Those were the days.
BOOKS
INCLINE OUR HEARTS by A.N. Wilson (Viking; $17.95). A London
child is orphaned by German bombs during World War II and sent to
live with relatives in the English countryside. What follows is a
seriocomic autobiographical novel about coming of age in an age
deucedly difficult to understand.
HONG KONG by Jan Morris (Random House; $19.95). The
indefatigable traveler and perceptive commentator conveys the
sights, sounds, aromas and political significance of this thriving
British colony, scheduled to be returned to China in 1997.
ART
GOYA AND THE SPIRIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston. This superb show rescues the Spanish master from the
romantic shadows of the Goyaesque and presents him as a man
immersed in the liberal currents of his time. Through March 26.
CEZANNE: THE EARLY YEARS, 1859-1872, National Gallery of Art,
Washington. The least-known period of one of the best-known
painters: his restless 20s and early 30s, when he disciplined his
huge talent. Through April 30.
WALKER EVANS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS, Museum of Modern Art, New
York City. These spare, poetic images from the Depression era gave
American photography a candid new spirit and a lasting legacy.
Through April 11.
TELEVISION
A RAISIN IN THE SUN (PBS, Feb. 1, 8 p.m. on most stations).
Danny Glover and Esther Rolle star in a newly restored version of
Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama set in the Chicago ghetto.
LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (NBC, Feb. 2, 9:30 p.m. EST).
Dave brings his top-ten lists, stupid pet tricks and "world's most
dangerous band" into prime time for a special that marks the show's
seventh anniversary.
LONESOME DOVE (CBS, Feb. 5-8, 9 p.m. EST). Puny next to War
and Remembrance, perhaps, but Larry McMurtry's big novel about a
Texas cattle drive gets a suitably sprawling eight hours of TV
time. Robert Duvall, Anjelica Huston and Tommy Lee Jones are among
those along for the ride.