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...Kids resent imputations that their show is canned and that they continue to play Pinocchios to Starr's funky Gepetto. Says Jon Knight: "I think we have a lot of spontaneity, if there is such a word." Beefs Wahlberg: "People don't give us credit. Janet Jackson sat down with her producers and came up with the concept of Rhythm Nation. That's the same thing we did with our album." If there is a unifying concept behind Step by Step, it is one of forthright -- indeed, brazen -- commercial calculation, which is one thing that sets the Kids apart from...
...business has changed dramatically since the time when Gepetto-like craftsmen turned out spinning tops, dolls and sleds. The onetime humble toymakers have evolved into giant fantasy factories that are battling for the hearts and attention of America's children with marching armies of curious and sometimes fearsome characters. This year the two largest U.S. manufacturers, Hasbro and Mattel, expect to ring up more than $1 billion each in revenues for the first time ever. Total retail toy sales grew 20% last year, thanks to a healthy economy and the excitement stirred by such blockbuster products as Coleco's Cabbage...
Pinocchio. This professional production by the famous children's Hour Theater will undoubtedly inspire youngsters and big people alike (and also small old people). For one dollar you can see Pinocchio, Gepetto, and a very long nose. (It actually grows on stage, we're told.) It's sponsored by the Kirkland Nursery-Kindergarten, where some of the most intelligent, likeable, and well-directed kids we know go to school. Saturday, January 18, 10 a.m. --Rick and Dottie Briney...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7-8:30 p.m.). "Pinocchio." TV adaptation of the children's story, starring Peter Noone as Pinocchio and Burl Ives as Gepetto...
...inspires sympathy and even love when she is thwarted by scheming conspirators. Earle Edgerton and Margaret Groome, as Sir Fox and Madame Cat, work together hand in glove. Their nonchalance and dastard evil, dispelled at the end when they too become human, are lustily executed. J.D. Shucter as Gepetto the puppetmaker, peers with great authority through horn rims, though his early slapstick might appear a trifle strained. Marc Brugnoni's Sandwich Man is marvelously rakish and sly, but no one ever gets really scared, for his unctuousness naturally makes him more humorous than frightening. Blue Fairy's role is difficult...
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