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DIED. King Vidor, 88, bold but adaptable Hollywood director who made his first full-length movie (The Turn in the Road) in 1919 and acted in his last one (Love and Money), released earlier this year; of congestive heart failure; in Paso Robles, Calif. Born in Galveston, Texas, Vidor favored epic spectacles and epochal statements in such movies as War and Peace (1956) and his 1925 antiwar triumph, The Big Parade. "My heroes," said Vidor, "don't bellyache; they wake up and they work for changes...
...ranged from a tedious game show to Walter, a stops-out original television film starring Ian McKellen as a retarded outcast assaulted during his first night in a mental hospital by a hunchbacked midget. All the shows will be developed for Channel 4 by independent producers; by subsidizing 20 full-length features for the Film on Four series, Chief Executive Jeremy Isaacs hopes that his channel can help rejuvenate the country's languishing movie industry. As Britain settles in with Channel 4's new programming, it can also look ahead to the coming of cable. Parliament is expected...
When dining out, a fur coat is a fantasy necessity. Fendi's one-of-a-kind Croiset Norka fox ($75,000, from Neiman-Marcus) would do nicely, but a "full-length sweep of splendor" made of Russian snow lynx bellies ($125,000, from Sakowitz) is more tasteful if less carefree. To stay svelte, anyone would love Heartmate, an electronically controlled aerobic exercise bicycle ($4,000, from Abercrombie & Fitch). The avid pedaler can listen to music, AMFM, or view television on the machine's console, while monitoring digital read-outs of mileage, heart rate, calorie expenditure and countdown timing...
Harnessed to what is not a terribly fresh scenario to begin with, the preposterous premise of the "jinx" certainly can't pull a reasonably adult audience through a full-length feature film. Unfortunately, the redoubtable presence of Bette Midler can't either. She doesn't get a chance to act seriously, as she did in The Rose; for can she turn the whole thing into a high-camp parody, as in her wonderful stage shows. The material is simply too bland to get hold of, Even Midler's trademarks, the peroxide hair and fluorescent clothes, don't glitter as they...
...erotic quality that is unexpected in so detached an artist. The bodies-always female-are not beautiful in the classic sense. Heavy-haunched and often pregnant, Soyer's models have inspired his freest, most impressionistic and ultimately his finest work. Among his most memorable pieces are the full-length 1952 Nude at the Whitney Museum, the lithographs at the Hirshhorn print show and the drawings of nudes that are scattered through his entire oeuvre...