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DIED. Roy E. Larsen, 80, Time Inc. magazine marketing wizard, a creator of The March of Time and first publisher of LIFE, who was a top Time Inc. executive for 56 years, 21 of them as president; in Fairfield, Conn, (see PRESS...
...fault, like the virtue, is the author's. He writes powerful interludes, only to vandalize them by reducing his characters to prototypes. By midnovel, Fabian is shown to be, in his creator's phrase, "a portable man," at home everywhere and nowhere. Like other Kosinski men, he is unable to love without domination or lose without humiliation. His fears are for himself, not for the human condition; his vaunted independence is merely a lack of compassion. His wanderings are like those of the brain-damaged who range farther away from an object when they try to approach...
...season's most bizarre, and inexplicable, developments is the resurgence of cop and detective shows. They account for a third of the new series. California police, already glorified by NBC'S CHiPs, will now be featured in both ABC's 240-Robert (from the creator of CHiPs) and CBS's Paris (starring James Earl Jones). Joe Don Baker plays the New York City chief of detectives in NBC's Eischied (a spin-off of the TV miniseries To Kill a Cop); Claude Akins is a smalltown Southern sheriff in the same network...
...scope of Coming Home, beyond the wrenching drama of The Deer Hunter. These promises, though broken, can still be seen in the film. Like other legendary movie mishaps, from D.W. Griffith's Intolerance to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, Apocalypse Now is haunted by the ghost of its creator's high ambitions...
...fair, and Kermit chooses dragonfly ripple. Milton Berle runs Madman Mooney's Hubcap Heaven, a very used car lot, and Steve Martin is loathsomely realistic as a hostile waiter. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy also make a brief appearance, one of their last. Jim Henson, the tall, skinny creator of short, froggy Kermit, has made a gallant gesture in dedicating the movie to Bergen's "memory and magic...