Marvin Zindler, the flamboyant pioneer of TV consumer reporting whose crusade against a rural brothel inspired The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, died Sunday from complications of pancreatic cancer, Houston television station KTRK said. He was 85. Mr. Zindler, the bellicose consumer crusader for Channel 13, announced his illness in a report from his hospital room this month. A former sheriff's deputy and the heir to a retailing fortune, he was one of the most widely recognized celebrities in Houston. And, at a reported $1 million a year, he was one of the highest-paid local broadcasters in America. "Marvin was...