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...wonders." On sidewalks and playgrounds, children are still playing with their dredel, the four-sided tops marked with the Hebrew letters nun, gimel, he and pe-first letters of the words ness gadol haya po (a great miracle happened here). Said one urchin this week to an onlooking grownup: "In other countries, the last letter on the dredel is shin for shama (there). Aren't we lucky to be here-in a place where miracles really happen...
...Wanting is the beginning of getting," a grownup tells Lovejoy. "Then why don't people get things?'' the girl asks. "Because they don't want hard enough," answers the grownup. What Lovejoy wants more than anything in the world is a garden of her own, as rare in Catford Street as a tree in Brooklyn. By hook and by crook she starts one, but a gang of the neighborhood's teen-age toughs stomps it out. The leader of the gang, a rough-hewn Irish Tom Sawyer by the name of Tip Malone, makes his private peace with Lovejoy...
When audience research showed the TV networks that nearly as many fathers as kids watched western movies, they realized that they were missing a bet. So, with a clatter of hoofs and a hi-yo, the networks this season launched a flood of "grownup" westerns and began drawing a bead on the competition. Last week CBS's Gunsmoke shot up past an NBC Spectacular (Max Liebman's Dearest Enemy) by a score of 20.8 to 17.3 in the Trendex ratings. At ABC, the Cheyenne segment of Warner Bros. Presents has piled up so many more viewers than...
...read your review ... I feel that a grownup should not judge a child's movie. I would not attempt to judge a grownup's movie...
...lonesomeness and the longing of a witty and sophisticated adult to return again to the gentle irresponsibilities of childhood and to view from there the absurdities of adult life. As a man, Lewis Carroll was an inspired escapist. As a boy, he seemed merely too anxious to be grownup. His bitterest plaint is that against a Victorian Good Fairy...