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...Pont Show of the Month: When Humorist S. J. Perelman talked with interviewers about his libretto for CBS's musical Aladdin, he mused: "It is an extremely simple story known to every unintelligent schoolboy. Very little exists beyond the bare bones of the legend. It will take 90 minutes. That means a whole lot of me ringue." Producer Richard (Cinderella} Lewine spooned up $350,000 worth of meringue, enough to satisfy all the princes of Persia - and give viewers indigestion...
...Onetime Cinemoppet Shirley Temple was signed last week as narrator for a series of one-hour fairy tales, and things look Grimm elsewhere. CBS is preparing a 9O-min. musical version of Aladdin for the fall, and NBC has at least six others brewing, including Pinocchio, Hans Brinker and The Pied Piper...
...tantalizing as her question: "There is no contradiction, once you stop to think what images of beauty arise from fairy tales. They are images of money. Gold, caskets of gold, caskets of silver . . . the cave of Ali Baba stored with stolen gold and silver, the underground garden in which Aladdin found jewels growing on trees ... A wholly materialist city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world's unconscious: a miser's glittering hoard . . . This is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries...
...offer thumped down in the U.N.'s political committee like a bag of gold on a bargaining table littered with I.O.U.s. By the gift of material weighing no more than a hefty Notre Dame fullback, the U.S. presented the world with a package more fabulous than Aladdin's wildest dreams...
HURRICANE LUCK, by Carl Carmer (Aladdin; $2), finds the author of Stars Fell on Alabama in a Florida seaport town telling the heartwarming story of a boy who loves his fisherman dad and vice versa...