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...Angel...
...runs the pragmatic advice of the nation's newest and youngest sob sister. She is Angel Maria Cavaliere, age ten, a carpenter's daughter in Philadelphia who three times a week gives sage counsel to the prepuberty set in the pages of the Philadelphia Bulletin. In only three weeks, "Dear Angel" has drawn more than 1,000 letters from youngsters seeking wisdom on everything from schoolyard bullying to parental restriction...
...idea was Angel's alone. A self-confessed expert at dispensing advice ("There are 39 in my class, and I must have solved problems for all of them"), Angel wrote the Bulletin asking, "Please may I have a summer job? I know I could help people with their problems because I like people." Paul Murphy, assistant to the managing editor of the normally staid Bulletin, thought it was worth a try, and the "summer job" may turn into year-round employment. The salary of $50 a week is not bad by sub-teen standards, and Bulletin editors are even...
...Bulletin selects the letters for Angel to answer in order to screen out obscene ones written by what she calls "crankpots." The editors profess a hands-off policy with her copy and insist that it goes out to her followers just as she writes it. Angel ponders three letters for each column, takes an hour to write answers in longhand, then laboriously types them. She works in her bedroom on the second floor of her family's row house, shooing away three younger siblings as deadlines approach and the pressure mounts. Her quick success has made Angel consider giving...
...late Producer Charles Feldman thought gags like that belonged on the screen. He signed Woody, then at the Blue Angel, to write the script for a bathroom farce called What's New, Pussycat? The lines were awful and so was Woody; in a small part, he gave a convincing imitation of a man badly frightened by a producer. With Pussycat, says Allen, "I learned something about picturemaking. When you're making a big picture for $4,000,000, there are a lot of people around, and they tell you they are PROTECTING THE INVESTMENT. They wanted a girl...