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...this scene appears, isn't the only place you can catch some provocative episodes of ghetto theater. The pageant of inner-city anger and anguish is playing at a theater near you. Suddenly, it seems, dozens of films by black directors are in circulation, from artistic achievements like Charles Burnett's family drama To Sleep with Anger (now on video) to breakthrough hits like Mario Van Peebles' dope opera New Jack City, the year's fourth highest grossing picture. Some of the black films pack promise, others just threaten -- but all are tonics to a movie industry that otherwise looks...
Movie executives weren't wooing black filmmakers when Charles Burnett ( graduated from UCLA's film school in 1974. And Charles Lane didn't get many offers when he graduated from the film program at the State University of New York College at Purchase in 1980. But that didn't stop either man from making movies. Lane went on to win a student Academy Award for best short in 1976 for A Place in Time, a 36-minute experimental film about a street artist; 13 years later, he revived that film's Chaplinesque hero in Sidewalk Stories, a silent feature that...
...life." That ( same mix of gleeful anticipation and dread is felt by countless other, less celebrated patrons entering The Secret Garden, for many of whom it, rather than Miss Saigon, has been this season's most eagerly awaited Broadway show. Its source, a 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, appeals equally to sentimentalists infatuated with its Edwardian gothic setting and to New Age cultists and ecology freaks turned on by its messages of holistic healing and oneness with nature. The elegant, entrancing adaptation that opened last week will probably add another devoted following, those who delight in its sheer artistry...
...Burnett's novel is beloved by girls, although not so much read by boys, and it fittingly has been translated by what is believed to be a Broadway first, an all-female creative team. Producer Heidi Landesman also designed the allegorical, imagistic set, based on a child's toy theater. Director Susan Schulman has laced the narrative with ghosts and wraiths of memory. Composer Lucy Simon blended folk music apt to the Yorkshire locale with art songs fitting the moneyed manor-house setting. Librettist-lyricist Marsha Norman solved the self-containment of the three main characters by making their songs...
...recycling golden oldies can mean money in the bank. As the centerpiece of a "Classic Weekend" that also includes anniversary tributes to All in the Family and Mary Tyler Moore, CBS this Sunday will offer a two-hour special, The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show. With Carol Burnett as host and fond reminiscences by Alan King, Carol Lawrence, Joan Rivers and others, this visual anthology features many highlights that have not been seen since they were first broadcast...