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Pinocchio: On TV's big night of three spectaculars costing $1,325,000 (TIME, Oct. 14), NBC's Pinocchio itself was worth the price of transmission. Collodi's tale of the wooden doll who turns into a real boy is a moral fable; yet it is also a down-to-earth story of broad fun and cliffhanging climaxes, and it takes a sophisticated view of human foibles. NBC's version was a rollicking production full of style and striking images, a bouncy score, and dances depicting the fluttery rhythms of liberated marionettes and the slow-motion...
...Marina decides to live, and she comes bursting out of her doll's house with all the thump and golly of an oldfashioned, wear-the-pants, want-the-vote feminist. Along with his last-century liberalism, alas, Moviemaker Cacoyannis brings a last-century sentimentality. But somehow, despite its faults, the film is all of a piece, all of a personality, well cut and remarkably well photographed. It is just possibly the best full-length talking picture ever made...
...women think Robert Kennedy is a "doll." Well, to me he is just a mop-haired, ambitious young Catholic whose father made his fortune out of banking, Wall Street and selling Scotch whisky. As to brother John for President, in spite of the frenetic buildup being given him, let us remember that America is primarily a Protestant country and the majority of our people would not want a man who believes in a foreign ideology to stand at the helm of our Government...
...Some condemned by the Legion: The Moon Is Blue, Baby Doll, The Miracle...
...fractured English of the pop-music world, "payola" is whatever the guy or doll in search of a hit slips to the guy or doll who can make one. Performers, writers and publishers and their song pluggers pass payola to A & R (artists and repertory) chiefs, who decide what the record companies will record; the companies, in turn, spread payola around to selected disk jockeys. If the custom is fully understood in the trade, it is rarely discussed outside it. But last week Singer Frank Sinatra fired a telegram from Hollywood (a town with its own brand of payola...