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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A musical adaptation of Jack's climb produced by the Prince Street Players, a New York City repertory company...
...easy to see why she fascinates a daring young psychiatrist (John Cullum) who wants to frogleap Freud into the mental future. After all, she knows his phone is ringing before it rings, and she can grow plants faster than Jack's beanstalk by singing nicely to them. She sings nicely to the audience, too, especially in Burton Lane's best song, What Did I Have That I Don't Have?, a wistful identity query in which Daisy wonders why the good doctor dotes on her 18th century self. In other numbers, Lane's score improves Lerner...
Change in Time. Thus, the "race to the moon" began. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration raised its sights; Congress opened its pockets and poured all asked-for funds into NASA's outstretched hands. The U.S. space program sprouted like Jack's beanstalk, sucking up men and money at a prodigious rate, sending its tendrils into every state. Infant space industries grew overnight to monster maturity. Scientists and engineers flocked to space centers to find their pots of gold. There seemed no end to the bonanza. Before it was over, the moon race might cost $40 billion...
...Peaceable Revolution. Freeman's bureaucratic beanstalk grew from a very small seed. Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, first head of the Patent Office, was keenly interested in agriculture, and in 1839 he managed to get from Congress an appropriation of $1,000 to distribute new plants and gather agricultural statistics. Agriculture remained a division of the Patent Office until 1862, when Abraham Lincoln signed a bill establishing a separate department under a Commissioner of Agriculture.* Lincoln said that Agriculture was "peculiarly the people's department, in which they feel more directly concerned than any other." Since about 60% of Americans...
None of this matters in the least. Too much respect for tradition never hurt a fairy tale; the important thing is the telling. Film Maker Foreman and Director J. Lee Thompson (Tiger Bay) send their Jacks up the beanstalk at double time, and keep them moving by setting off enough gunpowder to supply South America's politicians for a decade. The saboteurs, especially Quinn and Actress Pappas, are an agreeable lot of brigands, and if their destruction of the giant and their eventual escape down the beanstalk are thoroughly predictable, what perverse child would have it otherwise...