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...state school. Crushed by this rejection, Reuben vaguely longs for the parents who let him be a baby and specifically hates the psychologist-headmaster (Burt Lancaster) who demands that he grow up. One day a new teacher comes to the school, an amiable but muddled musician (Judy Garland) who represents the common confusions of feeling about defective children. At first she feels revulsion, then she feels pity, finally she feels love. All three reactions, the film asserts, are inadequate...
...script of A Child Is Waiting is put together with care and conscience, and on the whole Director John Cassavetes (Shadows) does a remarkably mature and measured job of putting it on film. Garland is good, Rowlands and Hill are excellent, Lancaster has never been better, and young Ritchey lives his role with such empathy that most spectators will simply assume he is one of the real defectives. But time and again the real defectives steal the show. At first the spectator can see only their defects, but at last he sees what lies behind the defects: children much like...
...work often suggests stale Disney sprinkled with Kitty Litter, but at one point the picture wittily displays Mewsette as she might have been painted by Monet, Van Gogh, Seurat et al. Judy Garland, as the voice of Mewsette, yowls enchantingly. And even those who think that the plot is a very old sardine may admit that it is often amewsing, in a clever script by Dorothy and Chuck Jones, to read between the felines...
...Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Judy Garland, Singer Robert Goulet, Comedian Woody Allen...
...Wizard of Oz (CBS, 6-8 p.m.). For the fifth straight year, as the holiday season approaches, CBS whips up the old twister and brings back the M-G-M movie with Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger and Billie Burke...