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...four stories in the recent reprinting of Louisa May Alcott's Behind A Mask are closer relatives to "Melrose Place" than to Little Women...
...Alcott's time, cheap weekly magazines regularly published sensational stories of bloodlust and scandal Authors frequently tossed off these frothy pieces to pay the bills while waiting for a publisher to accept their more highbrow works...
Ozick said she identified as a child especially with Jo March, the writer among Louise May Alcott's Little Women...
Donnelly said the forty minute show will profile Alcott's childhood and services as a Civil War nurse, abolitionist leader, and woman's suffrage crusader...
...have to worry about Little Women. As a movie, it is exotic in all the wrong ways for today's market--all hoopskirts, candlelight, good deeds and genteel language. In Louisa May Alcott's world, heavy snowfall was a big-time special effect, sausages for breakfast made for a woozily joyful Christmas, and it was omnipresent death, not omnipresent divorce, that threatened childhood's serenity. Can a movie that faithfully reflects this life--at once harder and more innocent than life in America today--and does so without condescension, preachment or gross sentiment, make its way in these times...