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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 3
MOVIES
BERT RIGBY, YOU'RE A FOOL. Robert Lindsay (the London-Broadway
star of Me and My Girl) plays the lead in Carl Reiner's funny fable
about an English coal miner's search for celebrity. Anne Bancroft
is glorious as a randy Hollywood princess whom Lindsay meets on the
potholed road to stardom.
TRUE BELIEVER. The ambiguities are as unsettling as a
crack-house mugger in this humdinger about a sleazy attorney who
bends the system to wreak justice. But the real drama is in the
demonic intensity and haunted eyes of James Woods, a criminally
gifted actor who may be too edgy to become a Hollywood star in this
era of the Really Cute Guy.
BOOKS
BILLY BATHGATE by E.L. Doctorow (Random House; $19.95). A
fictional Bronx boy, circa 1935, is accepted into the inner
councils of the infamous Dutch Schultz gang and survives murderous
adventures to tell an incendiary tale.
A THEFT by Saul Bellow (Penguin; $6.95). The Nobel laureate
offers an original novella in paperback, a vivid new fiction in
which the familiar Bellow hero has become a heroine.
THE END OF TRAGEDY by Rachel Ingalls (Simon & Schuster;
$16.95). Four novellas by an author who already commands a
formidable cult following. This time out, as before, she rubs
against the grain of tired old plots and creates electrifying,
hair-raising results.
RICHARD BURTON: A LIFE by Melvyn Bragg (Little, Brown; $22.95).
This meticulous biography includes generous quotations from the
subject's letters and his 350,000-word private diary; the result
is a portrait of a vivid actor who approached language with the
same passion he lavished on Elizabeth Taylor.
TELEVISION
UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY: RICHARD M. NIXON (syndicated, March 8,
8 p.m. EST on most stations). Will he never go away? Barbara Howar
is the latest reporter to examine the deposed President's life and
politics, in this two-hour documentary.
THE GLENN MILLER BAND REUNION (PBS, March 10, 9 p.m. on most
stations). In the mood again, with bandleader (and former Miller
trumpeter) Billy May, Kay Starr, Jack Jones and more.
DEAD MAN OUT (HBO, March 12, 10 p.m. EST). A prison
psychiatrist (the ubiquitous Danny Glover) tries to help an
incorrigible death-row inmate in this heavy-hitting drama.
THEATER
JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY. The master choreographer and a
Broadway cast of 60 re-enact the dance delights of such classics
as West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof and On the Town.
LEND ME A TENOR. Funnier than Neil Simon's Rumors and ably
played, this door-slamming farce revives the swellegant urbanity
of the '30s.
SHIRLEY VALENTINE. Pauline Collins (Upstairs, Downstairs)
brings to Broadway her funny and poignant performance as a
discontented housewife breaking free.
ART
ROBERT ADAMS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AMERICAN WEST, Philadelphia
Museum of Art. A tribute to the master photographer of the
imperiled landscape. In the remarkable pictures that Adams has been
making since the mid-1960s, nature's stubborn beauty is forever
being elbowed aside by parking lots, trash and suburban sprawl.
Through April 16.
ANDY WARHOL: A RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York
City. The first comprehensive look since the artist's 1987 death
at what made him the top of the Pops. Through May 2.
THE HUMAN FIGURE IN EARLY GREEK ART, the Art Institute of
Chicago. Sixty-seven choice works drawn from Greek museums trace
the emerging lineaments of the classical style. Through May 7.
MUSIC
JANE'S ADDICTION: JANE'S ADDICTION (Warner Bros.). This will
dice your eardrums and deep-fry your brain in the bargain.
Assaultive, tough, unsparing rock from a Los Angeles band with a
punk foundation and guitars like trip-hammers.
LOU REED: NEW YORK (Sire). Savage lyricism in the sharpest Reed
style, with a startling overlay of tough social commentary.
MANDY PATINKIN: MANDY PATINKIN (CBS). The Broadway (Sunday in
the Park with George) and movie (Alien Nation) actor lets fly with
a fearlessly melodramatic song cycle chosen from sources as various
as Stephen Sondheim and Al Jolson. Some of the tunes are a bit
florid, but the best (like Anyone Can Whistle) have a delicacy that
lingers.
MOZART AND SCHNABEL, VOLS. 1-4 (Arabesque). The great Artur
Schnabel in memorable performances of Mozart piano concertos and
solo music, recorded in London between 1934 and 1948.