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Like Hughes, who made his name writing and directing adolescent stories such as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Columbus has an affinity for tales of the young told by the young (he directed Adventures in Babysitting and wrote Gremlins and Young Sherlock Holmes). "For this picture I was mostly inspired by old David Lean films," he says, "particularly Oliver Twist and Great Expectations, because they are told from a child's perspective. No one has shown the terror of being a child in an adult world better than Lean...
High on the networks' agenda this fall is courting the teenage audience, which has been wooed so successfully over the past few years by the Fox network, MTV and other competitors. NBC has come up with hip-hopping shows like Ferris Bueller and Fresh Prince of Bel Air. CBS is trying to get the youngsters who flocked to the theaters for comic-book extravaganzas like Batman to tune in for a lavishly produced fantasy series, The Flash. (Unfortunately, the show has been scheduled in the Thursday-night death slot, opposite The Cosby Show and The Simpsons...
There are a few rays of light on the fall schedule, but most of them are reflected glory. NBC's Parenthood is funnier and cuts closer to the bone than most family sitcoms, largely because it does such a good job of duplicating the hit movie. Ferris Bueller, based on the John Hughes teen flick, is a fast- and-loose joyride, with Charlie Schlatter doing a good Matthew Broderick impression as the high school big shot. And in a season with an abnormally low population of crime fighters, NBC's Law & Order has a no-nonsense, almost clinical approach...