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- CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 20
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- TELEVISION
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- BOB HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, May 24, 8 p.m. EDT). Bob totes his
- one-liners to Paris to celebrate the French Revolution's
- bicentennial. Bet he can't top "Let them eat cake."
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- THE THIN BLUE LINE (PBS, May 24, 9 p.m. on most stations).
- Errol Morris' hypnotically compelling documentary about a Texas
- murder case helped win the release in March of Randall Adams after
- twelve years in prison. Now the "nonfiction feature" makes its TV
- debut on American Playhouse, the series that originally
- commissioned it.
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- ART
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- INIGO JONES: COMPLETE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS, Drawing Center,
- New York City. Designer, painter, mathematician, engineer and
- antiquarian, Jones (1573-1652) was the greatest royal architect
- England ever produced. This impeccable show reveals the technical
- and pictorial skill with which he led English architecture into a
- new, classically based grandeur and amplitude. Through July 22.
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- 10 + 10: CONTEMPORARY SOVIET AND AMERICAN PAINTERS, Modern Art
- Museum of Fort Worth. A double first: an unprecedented joint
- showcase of younger artists (including Americans David Salle,
- Donald Sultan and Ross Bleckner) and the first exhibition ever
- organized to tour museums in both countries. Through Aug. 6.
-
- MASTERPIECES OF IMPRESSIONISM AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM: THE
- ANNENBERG COLLECTION, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fifty prime
- paintings by artists from Van Gogh and Cezanne through Gauguin and
- Braque, acquired over the past four decades by publisher Walter
- Annenberg and his wife. Through Sept. 17.
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- MUSIC
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- CYNDI LAUPER: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (Epic). It takes a while for
- her to find her pace, but when she hits Side 2, Lauper burns up the
- tracks. Warmhearted, rambunctious and (in the words of one
- memorable tune) winningly Insecurious.
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- BEETHOVEN: CELLO SONATAS 3 & 5 (EMI). The late, preternaturally
- gifted cellist Jacqueline Du Pre exudes sensitivity and
- breathtaking virtuosity as she teams up with pianist Stephen
- Bishop-Kovacevich on this digital reissue.
-
- LOUIS ARMSTRONG: THE HOT FIVES & HOT SEVENS, VOLUME III
- (Columbia). Young "Satch" at the peak of his force and creative
- genius. Featuring Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory and Earl Hines, these 16
- digitally remastered sides from 1927 and 1928 spearhead the latest
- batch of releases in Columbia's outstanding Jazz Masterpieces
- series.
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- BOOKS
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- T.E. LAWRENCE: THE SELECTED LETTERS edited by Malcolm Brown
- (Norton; $27.50). David Lean's recently rereleased Lawrence of
- Arabia is one of the greatest epic films ever made. But its subject
- remains an enigma. He tells his own story here in letters, nearly
- two-thirds of them previously unpublished, and illuminates the
- shadows of his personality.
-
- COLLECTED POEMS by Philip Larkin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux;
- $22.50). The pre-eminent poet of his time, Larkin died in 1985 at
- age 63. This collection includes works previously unpublished or
- unavailable in book form, and documents the triumph of a poet who
- found his style by lowering his voice.
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- MOVIES
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- INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. The adventure genre may be
- nearly exhausted, but producer George Lucas and director Steven
- Spielberg know how to make the thrills crack like Indy's bull whip.
- Sean Connery and Harrison Ford find special star resonance in the
- bond between an aloof father and his heroic, hero-worshiping son.
-
- EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY. Three fellows new in town meet the women
- of their fevered dreams. Only the guys are off a spaceship, and
- they've landed in the San Fernando Valley. Geena Davis and Jeff
- Goldblum star in this fizzy, frizzy musical comedy.
-
- THE RAINBOW. Twenty years after cinematizing Women in Love,
- Ken Russell returns to the questing eroticism of D.H. Lawrence.
- Given a story worth telling and a heroine (Sammi Davis) worth
- caring about, Russell can still direct with passion and poise.
-
- LOVERBOY. Delivering pizza in Beverly Hills offers all sorts
- of erotic opportunities -- and comic ones too -- in this cheeky
- romantic romp. Patrick Dempsey has the charm and director Joan
- Micklin Silver the knack to bring off a modern farce in the classic
- style.
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- THEATER
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- ELEEMOSYNARY. Playwright Lee Blessing (A Walk in the Woods)
- encapsulates feminism through three generations of strong-minded
- women in a deft, dark off-Broadway comedy.
-
- LARGELY NEW YORK. Lanky, limber Bill Irwin, silent in this
- 70-minute Broadway sketchbook, owes much to Jacques Tati and Marcel
- Marceau, but gags about man's obsessive relations with machines
- still work in a Walkman world.
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- ARISTOCRATS. Brian Friel's depiction of a gilded Irish clan in
- decline, sensitively acted off-Broadway, is the best play on view
- in New York City and merits comparison with Chekhov's The Cherry
- Orchard.