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...Bernard Berenson. To the latter he maintained a long though not always harmonious apprenticeship. In an autobiography, Another Part of the Wood, he spoke of Berenson "perched on the pinnacle of a mountain of corruption." In return, Berenson complained that when Clark sold a painting, he was a gentleman improving his collection, whereas when Berenson did the same thing, he was a dealer turning a profit. It is certainly true that Clark's inherited wealth-his great-great-grandfather had invented the cotton spool-enabled him to do his work without conflict of interest in an art world that...
...slot on network, it went out on prime time on PBS, straight to 5 million refugees from electronic gunk. The size of this audience would not have impressed Fred Silverman, but enough people tuned in for their weekly fix of what Paul Claudel called "l' allure du vrai gentleman Anglais" to make a star of Clark. Thus he became the Leonard Bernstein of the visual arts, a fate that enormously surprised him: once, after running the gauntlet of hysterical fans at a ceremony in his honor at the National Gallery in Washington, he was so overcome with embarrassment that...
...other people doing it. Health and diet books make up six of the 15 titles on the New York Times bestseller list. Jane Fonda's workout how-to video cassettes placed No. 2 on the charts last week, behind the movie An Officer and a Gentleman...
When Richard Gere, resplendent in his Navy whites, carried Debra Winger off into the celluloid sunset in An Officer and a Gentleman, audiences everywhere cheered and cried. If the 1940s-style sentiment was effective, the symbolism was apt: the military's "white knight" image, tainted for years by the stigma of the Viet Nam War, has been spit-and-polished. "Things have really changed," marvels Rick Field, a Navy recruiter in Longmont, Colo. "It's back to the days when the troopers are the good guys...
Pouty sultriness seems to be in high demand these days, and Debra Winger, 27, has the pout that everyone touts. Through Urban Cowboy and An Officer and a Gentleman, her tousled curls and hazel eyes have made her a box-office wonder and an agent's dream. Next up are Mike's Murder, due out this fall, and Terms of Endearment, now filming in Nebraska, in which she plays the difficult daughter of Shirley MacLaine, 49. Early whispers report a battle offscreen as well as on between Winger and MacLaine. The onetime Irma la Douce used to toss...