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Arts
Sunday, July 18, 2004
By Chip Crews
Washington Post Staff Writer

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Art/Dance Classical/Pop Film/Theater

The Belle Curve

As Glass Menageries Amanda, Sally Fields Career Arc Takes a Classic Turn

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PHOTOS COPYRIGHT DIE PHOTOGRAPHISCHE SAMMLUNG/SK STIFTUNG KULTUR-AUGUST SANDER ARCHIV, COLOGNE, GERMANY; ARS, NEW YORK

LOS ANGELES ally Field: Youre Gidget. Youre Sister Bertrille. Norma Rae. The cotton-pickin mama in Places in the Heart. That bat-crazy mama on ER. Forrest Gumps mama with her damn box of chocolates! Yeah, weve always, always liked you. But after all that, what more can you show us?

Aggressively anti-aesthetic: Sanders 1936 Beech Tree, part of a new show at the Phillips Collection.

A Portraitists Group Photos

August Sander Ordered His World, and Shook It Up, Too
By Blake Gopnik
Washington Post Staff Writer

ne of the most interesting, influential makers of contemporary art is having shows at both the Phillips Collection here in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. His photos hit on all the crucial features of todays most valued work: They are more concerned with what they show than with how good they look; they come in series, riffing on a simple concept and its complex permutations; they often have political and social implications, though they also work against a final take on things. But you wont see this artist at art-world parties, or at the frequent unveilings of his work. August Sander died in 1964, and many of his most influential images were made between the two world wars. Sander, born in Germany in 1876, is best known for a huge, never-finished inventory of photographic portraits called People of the 20th Century. A touring show now at the Metropolitan has assembled 149 of these portraits into a comprehensive sampling from the project, which Sander had imagined might have as many as 600 pictures in it. The smaller Phillips show, however, may be a better place to start to get to know Sander. Local collectors Kent and Marcia Minichiello have promised about 40 Sander landscapes to the gallery, and most of those little-known pictures are now on view. Theyre tucked without fanfare into a pair of rooms between two other shows. As far as anyone can tell, all these landscapes

BY JAMES A. PARCELLTHE WASHINGTON POST

Here, she says, plucking a gardenia in her front courtyard and offering it up. A little piece of California. Part of the reason we all love living here. The sun is smiling down on this chosen land, the temperature is right where youd want it and nearly every tree is in full blossom. Then Sally Field opens her front door to reveal . . . well, a big mess. In a week or so shell be moving with her 16-year-old son, Sam, from Brentwood to a new home in the mountains above Malibu, and her foyer, dining room and living room are filled with marked boxes, stacks of pictures, all the piles and bundles that appear when years of ones life are dismantled. Its just, Change everything at once, why dont we? she says with a smile. Besides the move, the twice-divorced Fields impending changes include the return of her eldest son, Peter, and his family to live in California; the marriage of her second son, Eli; and the reason for todays conversation: Shes about to head off for a summer in Washington, where shell be playing Amanda in the Kennedy Centers production of The Glass Menagerie. (The production, the finale of the centers Tennessee Williams festival, began previews last night and opens Thursday.) Her career having already encompassed TV series, movie stardom, producing and directing, Field has lately begun turning her most pointed attention to the stage. Not quite two years ago she replaced Mercedes Ruehl on Broadway in Edward Albees The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, winning wide acclaim. In Amanda, the desperately pretentious St. Louis mother trying to force her idea of happiness onto her son and daughter, shes taking on a classic role in

Ive never really been totally satisfied with where I was or am, says Sally Field, who takes to the stage to stretch her wings further in The Glass Menagerie. The Tennessee Williams drama opens Thursday at the Kennedy Center.

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Recordings

TV Preview

For Cachao and Bebo, a Mighty Second Wind

By Fernando Gonzalez
Special to The Washington Post

Entourage: Sure to Draw A Following

By Jennifer Frey
Washington Post Staff Writer

hat the Latin music industry is obsessed with youth, packageable personalities and a marketable product with crossover potential is hardly news. And some recent successesthink Ricky Martin, Paulina Rubio or Enrique Iglesias indicate that the payoff can be substantial. But what has been hidden in plain sight is that in recent years it has been Latin musics wise elders who have been producing some of the most meaningful, graceful and yes, profitablework. The sessions by the Cuban collective Buena Vista Social Club, an obvious example, became an artistic and commercial phenomenon. The 1997 CD by that name sparked a cottage industry of traditional Cuban music and made international stars of the late

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Latin jazz greats Israel Cachao Lopez and Ramon Bebo Valdes, both 85, have released new albums, and won Grammys, long after their supposed heydays had passed.

ts a typical morning in the elaborate mansion that Vince ChaseHollywoods newest It Guyis renting for himself and his posse in HBOs new half-hour sitcom Entourage, which premieres tonight at 10. His buddy Turtle is coming in with his dry cleaning. Eric is reading his scripts because, yawn, Vince just cant be bothered. Big brother Johnny, who likes to go by the nickname Drama, is cooking up an elaborate egg dish with soy milk, ever wary of poor Vinces lactose intolerance. Why are these three schlubs catering to their friend at the table? Thats easy: Its a fame thing, baby. Hang with Vince, who was once just another one of your boys back in Queens, and you get ac-

Young Farmers, part of Sanders People of the 20th Century series at the Metropolitan Museum.

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The Movie Page

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Radio
An international backlash against the onslaught of ad clutter. Page N7

From the Collection

A general and his horse, commanding attention in Lafayette Square. Page N12