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Such brilliant success, according to popular wisdom, must have left dark and dreadful shadows. Biographer Vicki Goldberg, an art and photography critic, has indeed dug behind the Bourke-White legend to find some details that the daring camera girl chose not to develop in her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963). But these snippets hardly amount to the negative image of a triumphant life. Bourke-White did not outdistance her wildest dreams; she plotted her course to the top, assessed the costs along the way and willingly paid them...
...Hudson, and late last week appeared at a Senate subcommittee hearing urging her former husband John Warner and other Senators to authorize $80 million in Government funds.) Once shy in public, "the world's most beautiful woman" finally seems to be enjoying her undimmed status as a living screen legend. At the start of last week the Film Society of Lincoln Center honored that legend with its lifetime achievement award. Resplendently slim in a petaled silk organza gown by Arnold Scaasi, Taylor, 54, arrived (45 minutes late, typically) to take her seat in a box next to her mother Sara...
Scott is a past master of artifice. In Alien (1979) he devised a grungy spaceship through which a ravenous parasite moved and mutated. In Blade Runner (1982) he created a city that existed simultaneously in the 21st century ! and the film noir 1940s. Legend offers more of the hermetic same. Virtually all of the movie's "outdoor" sequences were shot in the caverns of England's Pinewood Studios. The fairy dust that caresses the heroine is borne on wind machines. Most of the actors play their roles (goblins, elves, trolls) inside elaborate masks. The whole idea is to turn image...
Scott must have thought the story of Legend was immensely rich and complicated; the film begins with a 168-word crawling preface. Yet it is as simple as a bedtime tale, and may have the same effect: putting the kiddies right to sleep. Lili (Mia Sara) is a fairyland princess, all coquettish glances and sweet mischief. Her beau, Jack o' the Green (Tom Cruise), is a swain of the woodland working class. When Lili touches one of the magic white unicorns--can't have your bucolic fantasy without some unicorns--the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry) begins to work...
...black magically turns this virgin into Salome, fit for a satyr king. The film has grown up now; this is a bedtime story peopled with creatures of enticement and desire. Though Jack comes to the rescue, and Lili comes to her senses, their victory rings hollow. For the erotic legend that brings Legend alive is older than King Arthur, let alone Luke Skywalker. It is as old as the Eve in every woman and the snake in every...