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...Grandpa! Have me, hold me, cherish...
...Buck Owens and His Buckaroos and Roy Clark will sing and pick and fiddle over the summer months, backed up by other country-and-Western performers like Grandpa Jones, Stringbean, Conway Twitty, Tammy Wynette, Sonny James and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Once upon a time (c. 1910) there was an inventor named Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke). He and his two children-apparently spawned by autogenesis, since there is no mention of a mother-live with their potty Grandpa (Lionel Jeffries) and a bunch of malfunctioning machines, ingeniously designed by Rowland Emett. Like the man who invented five-up and six-up and then gave up, Caractacus falls just short of greatness. His vacuum cleaner not only cleans the rug, it swallows it. His color television set just broadcasts wobbles. His Icarus act fizzles when the rockets tied to his back...
...down to a thin treacle, the film-and the car-take flight. Caractacus spins a tale of adventure, with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as the hero. The car soars and sails, evil Baron Bomburst (Gert Frobe) covets it and unleashes comic villains to kidnap its owner. Instead, they get Grandpa. Off he goes to Vulgaria, a horrid land where children are forbidden. Underneath the baron's castle, the banished boys and girls have hidden for years, waiting for salvation...
...GRANDPA IS A PIRATE, by Jan Loof (Harper & Row; $2.95). A small boy and his grandfather have an exciting make-believe adventure with pirates and return before grandmother has even awakened from...