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...noble deeds, perilous cave exploration, playing 'hooky,' and otherwise escaping the realities of life--all intermingled with the inescapable wit of Twain--kept this city boy from Detroit fascinated through many of his grade school years. Perhaps, then, it was deja vu--memories of happy hours spent with Tom, Huck Finn, Becky Thatcher, Aunt Polly, and company--that motivated me to see what the Reader's Digest, making its debut as a film producer, had done to my old favorite in the process of adapting it into a movie musical...
After each performance, the Otrabandists push out into the river again. There, as Huck Finn said, things are "mighty free and easy and comfortable," despite an occasional near collision with a barge. "We like the idea of just being taken by the current," says Actress Diane Brown. "You can take a deep breath and. whew...
MONDAY: Husbands. (1970) Okay, so it's a hopelessly adolescent indulgence of innocent Huck-Finnish male friendship fantasies. It is a good one. John Cassavetes directed and co-starred with Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara. CH.7 11:30 p.m. Color...
Almost from the beginning, novelists have gone to bat for the game. Ring Lardner saw baseball as the great American comedy-look through the knothole and you found uniformed counterparts of Huck Finn and Charlie Chaplin...
...played by a redhaired, freckle-faced 12-year-old humanoid named Johnnie Whitaker, on leave from his true calling, which is shilling for a line of kid's clothes. Jeff East plays Huck like an old-fashioned fraternity boy dressed up for the Sadie Hawkins Day dance in Al Capp's Dogpatch. Warren Gates as Muff Potter and Celeste Holm as Aunt Polly struggle against the killing banality of Taylor's direction; but only Jodie Foster, as Becky, suggests that she somehow remembers what it is like to be a real person in a real world...