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BRAVO PICASSO! (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Documenting the artist's life and work with a massive display of canvases and sculptures, some seen via satellite from Paris' Grand Palais and Petit Palais exhibits...
...also half the spread's name. The Win in Winrock is for Winthrop, but the Rock is for Rock the bull, not Rockefeller. Then he put in six artificial lakes, rebuilt the original house as a stone-and-glass palazzo, pumped water 850 ft. up the side of Petit Jean for an irrigation system, built roads and an airfield. He owns four planes, including a ten-passenger jet, employs five pilots, and has flown more than 3,000,000 miles with his private air force. He has no hobbies apart from occasional tree-pruning excursions. His vocation and avocation...
...most visitors, jostling their way through the huge crowds in Paris' Grand Palais, Petit Palais and Bibliothèque Nationale, it was more like threading a path through a maze presided over by the commanding, and at times terrifying, 20th century Minotaur. To guide viewers, Paris newspapers were running floor plans, and a TV program highlighted the "100 hinges," or turning points, in Picasso's career. Critics could have doubled that number; yet the overwhelming impression was that, for all of Picasso's protean changes, what is essentially Picasso is now well known...
LOVES OF A BLONDE. Slight but abrim with humorous insights, this delightful Czech comedy observes what happens when a pudding-faced pretty from a small town succumbs to a callow young piano player and follows him to his petit-bourgeois home in Prague...
Such caveats may be too harsh. Just how tremendous his lifetime's accomplishment has been will be best seen next month when Paris' Grand Palais and Petit Palais, in a birthday salute, opens the largest Picasso show ever assembled, with 800 works, including 100 from Picasso's own collection. Will he attend? "Go to Paris?" says Picasso. "But I go there only to see my dentist. At the moment, I haven't a toothache...