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Reviews playwright Wendy Wasserstein's latest play `The Heidi Chronicles,' which recently opened on Broadway starring Joan Allen. Wasserstein's career; Play's plot.

Reviews actor Mandy Patinkin's first solo album `Mandy Patinkin,' a collection of show tunes sung in a fine, clean tenor. Selections; Covers.

Review of John Cleese's hit sleeper, `A Fish Called Wanda,' which also stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin. The comedy was written and produced by Cleese, 48, a former member of England's `Monty Python' comedy group. Film; Cleese's career; Personal life.

Reviews the novel `Barcelona,' by Robert Hughes.

Reviews the film `Shining Through,' by writer/director David Seltzer. The film features actors Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith, and it is based on the novel of the same name by Susan Isaacs.

Reviews the play `Marvin's Room.' A funny play about dying; The play's funniest scene; Explanation of the plot; A wonderful cast; Loopy charm; Shifting tone; Background on Scott McPherson, the 32-year old playwright.

Reviews the new film `The Addams Family,' directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Angelica Huston and Raul Julia. The film goes back to the original source: Charles Addams' deeply bizarre cartoons for `The New Yorker.'

Reviews the opening of `Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture,' an exhibition of Kahn's architectural work. Exhibition will travel to Europe; Traces his life from boyhood through the Depression and World War II; Details of some of his buildings; Architectural sketches.

Reviews the movie `Kindergarten Cop' directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pamela Reed, Penelope Ann Miller, Carroll Baker and Alix Koromzay. Plot summary; Criticisms of Schwarzenegger's acting.

Reviews the motion picture `Air America,' a comedy starring Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson.

Reviews poet Anne Stevenson's new biography, `Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath,' about the poet and author who committed suicide in 1963.

Reviews `The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,' a novel by Oscar Hijuelos about a Cuban mambo group that worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s.

Reviews `Richard Burton: A Life,' a biography of the late actor by Melvyn Bragg.

Review of `Night Studio,' a memoir about the late painter Philip Guston, by his daughter Musa Mayer.

Film review of director Paul Mazursky's `Moon Over Parador,' about an imaginary Caribbean country where an actor, Richard Dreyfuss, takes over for the dead dictator. Also stars Sonia Braga. . See also (Time, 9/12/88, 1c, p76 1/3p)

Reviews two baseball films. `Eight Men Out,' John Sayles long-awaited film about the Chicago White Sox throwing the 1919 World Series, and `Stealing Home,' starring Mark Harmon as an amateur baseball player on the skids.