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...have experimented with short, often merely schematic, stories. Broadway's current, warmly received Story Theatre opened with a collection of Grimms' Fairy Tales and is shortly to add a sampling of Ovid's Metamorpheses. A selection of Revolutionary War tales is in preparation. While at the Loeb, Laurence Bergreen, Huck Finn's director, himself staged a handful of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales last semester...
Bergreen has reorganized-and necessarily simplified-Twain in order that Huck's gradual recognition of the nigger Jim's humanity and, more than that, friendship provide a thematic structure. In counterpoint are arranged those episodes ashore in which Huck discovers the prevailing inhumanity of most other pre-Civil War, Mississippi Valley traditions. Perhaps because for many in the audience, suspense is precluded by knowledge of the book, while, for the rest, the bare precis that remains appears emotionally shallow, Huck's journey down the Mississippi lacks even the rudimentary sense of adventure that Tom Sawyer would demand of such...
...unfurls. And unfurls. For 21 hours Little Big Man turns the tableaux on nearly every aspect of Western man. Thomas Berger's panoramic novel owed its salinity to an immediate relative, Huckleberry Finn, from which it ransacked idiom and hyperbole by the chapterful. Like Huck, young Jack had no social insight; he accepted violence and duplicity the way he regarded sleet and fire−as aspects of earthly life. The film happily preserves the chronicle's innocence, if not its exact text...
After 317 covers for the Saturday Evening Post, plus countless ads for everything from varnish to the Boy Scouts, Norman Rockwell is enshrined-in the U.S. at least-as "the best-known artist who ever lived." He is certainly the chronicler of one American dream, with its gawky Huck Finns, jolly G.I.s, laundered blacks and apple-cheeked mothers in bifocals; its flags, turkeys, sneakers and little clapboard banks. Today Rockwell's America may seem almost as distant as Thomas More's Utopia, but this sumptuous tome pleasurably suggests why his genre pieces, painterly apple-pie to the last...
...passer who likes to look in one direction and throw in another, the 6-ft, 3½-in., 205-lb. Manning has the size to uncork the long bomb -or fake it and go powering down the sidelines. A freckle-faced country boy, he looks a bit like Huck Finn in hip pads-and talks like him too. When asked about Archie fever, he says, "The only thing I can figure out is that Archie is a different name. Maybe if it were Bill or something, none of this would have started." Not a chance...