VIDEOHeigh-Ho, It’s Off to Video: The animated...

VIDEO

Heigh-Ho, It’s Off to Video: The animated Walt Disney classic “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” will be issued on video for the first time this fall. The 1937 film was Disney’s first full-length animated feature and remains one of the most popular animated films of all time. In conjunction with the limited-time release, Disney promises “the most expansive marketing effort ever undertaken for a video,” including retail merchandise and promotions at Disney theme parks, on Walt Disney Television shows and on cable’s Disney Channel. (See related story in Business.)

ART

LACMA Crowds Double for Picasso: Crowds have more than doubled at the L.A. County Museum of Art since the Feb. 13 opening of “Picasso and the Weeping Women: The Years of Marie-Therese Walter and Dora Maar,” a small, but critically well-received exhibition of works by Spanish master Pablo Picasso. According to figures released Tuesday, museum attendance during the show’s first week (ending Saturday) was 16,795, considerably higher than LACMA’s usual weekly draw of about 7,000. And weekend crowds waiting to see the show stretched down the museum’s long entrance and around the corner onto Wilshire Boulevard. On Sunday alone, 4,890 folks turned up at the museum, compared to the average Sunday crowd of 2,000. The show closes May 1.

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Uffizi’s Michelangelo Room Reopens: Crowds jammed into Florence’s Uffizi art gallery Tuesday for the re-opening of the Michelangelo Room, damaged last May by a car bomb that killed five people in the Italian city. The room, where the Renaissance artist’s celebrated “Holy Family” is among works on display, was the first to be restored in the gallery’s west wing, which was most heavily damaged. Italian officials have blamed the Mafia for the blast, which damaged 32 works of art. The remainder of the Uffizi’s west wing--15 more rooms--is due to reopen by the end of 1994.

MOVIES

‘Last Action Hero’ Losses Revealed: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s summer film, “Last Action Hero,” may turn out to be the biggest box-office bomb ever. According to an internal profit-and-loss statement obtained by the New Yorker magazine, Columbia Pictures had an “unrecouped balance” of more than $124 million when the film was pulled from release in September. In comparison, “Heaven’s Gate,” the infamous 1980 flop that nearly destroyed United Artists, lost only $44 million. Columbia executives have insisted that through additional revenues including video receipts, “Last Action Hero” will eventually break even.

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Spielberg Watch: The latest announced tribute to director Steven Spielberg will take place March 8 during the 20th Annual People’s Choice Awards, which will be televised on CBS. Spielberg, who is favored this year to finally receive a best director Oscar for “Schindler’s List,” has done well at previous People’s Choice Awards--his films “Jaws,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “E.T.” were all Favorite Motion Pictures winners.

QUICK TAKES

Fox-TV has set March 15 as the air date for retired basketball star Magic Johnson’s first prime-time special. On the 8 p.m. show, Johnson will step into the interviewer role in talks with Tom and Roseanne Arnold, Whoopi Goldberg, Garth Brooks and basketball star Shaquille O’Neal. . . . NBC’s “The Second Half” returns to the network March 22 in a new 8:30 p.m. Tuesday time period. And a week earlier, the comedy “The Good Life” moves into its new 8 p.m. slot with back-to-back episodes airing from 8 to 9 p.m. . . . Father and daughter directors David Lynch (“Twin Peaks”) and Jennifer Lynch (“Boxing Helena”) are uniting to direct “Welcome to the Edge,” a new live-action special-effects advertising campaign for cable’s Sci-Fi Channel starting in mid-March. . . . Candice Bergen will present the Lifetime Creative Achievement Award to director-producer Mike Nichols (“The Graduate,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” “Working Girl”) during the eighth annual American Comedy Awards March 6.