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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 17
TELEVISION
CRISTABEL (PBS, debuting Feb. 19, 9 p.m. on most stations).
Acclaimed TV dramatist Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective) shifts
from fantasy to fact in this four-parter about an Englishwoman who
spent World War II as a citizen of Nazi Germany.
GLORY! GLORY! (HBO, debuting Feb. 19 and 20, 9 p.m. EST). Jim
and Tammy could raise the bucks at least. In this two-part movie,
Richard Thomas plays the dullest evangelist on TV, who recruits a
drugged-out rock singer to save his ministry.
WITHOUT BORDERS (TBS, Feb. 19, 10 p.m. EST). A documentary on
five of the world's great rivers and the people fighting to save
them, produced for environment-minded TV mogul Ted Turner.
BOOKS
THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie (Viking; $19.95). Charges
of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad have put Rushdie's book
into international headlines. But there is no harm, only relentless
artistry, in this encyclopedic fiction about the explosive, often
comic meetings of East and West.
CAT'S EYE by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday; $18.95). A middle-age
painter returns to show her work in Toronto, where she grew up, and
falls into a quirky, brilliant meditation on childhood as seen from
the middle distance.
THIS BOY'S LIFE by Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press;
$18.95). A vivid memoir of a bizarre upbringing, dwelling not on
hardships but on the promise of awakening every morning in a vast
land where people are prepared to forget the past and believe
anything.
THEATER
BLACK AND BLUE. Three great singers, two dozen top dancers, 28
bluesy numbers and a zillion sequins add up to Broadway's hot new
musical revue.
THE TAFFETAS. Goofy and winsome and ever so tuneful, this
off-Broadway spoof biography of a fictional '50s girl group is
superbly arranged and sung.
ART
VICTOR PASMORE, the Phillips Collection, Washington. Honoring
his 80th birthday, a recap of the influential British painter's
journey through realms of naturalism and abstraction. Through April
2.
GOYA AND THE SPIRIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston. This excellent 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.