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Cardboard Steel. Panel Chairman Fred Rogers, producer of one of television's leading children's programs, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, says: "Commercials stress that in order to play you need a toy, that your mental resources are not enough." Another panelist, Mrs. Joan Ganz Cooney, creator of Sesame Street, worries about the distortions in children's ads. "The product," she notes, "looks attractive on the screen because the cardboard materials are shiny and made to look like steel...
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...about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas." Albert Finney, as Scrooge, knows how to act cold, and he knows how to sound cold. His performance is really remarkable, though after all he has dialogue that even Mister Magoo can make effective. The problems with his Scrooge are not exactly his fault: in the first place he doesn't look like Scrooge. I've always pictured Scrooge as a shriveled up old man with small beady eyes and thin, bloodless lips, sort of like a nun who taught...
...Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (NET): "You make each day a special day by just your being you," announces Fred Rogers on each show. The message could be written in Karo syrup, but behind the modulated tones there is a calculation and a moral. Rogers, 41, is an ordained Presbyterian minister with ten years of broadcasting experience. His goal, he says, is to "help children recognize jealousy, rage, sadness and trust as facets of loving and being loved." His NET program is, in the deepest sense, a Christian show, aimed at a reassurance and realization. A typical song speaks of nakedness, "some...
...eyes of heavyset leering businessman who offers me a smoke, a stick of gum, a wink. Too early. Perhaps I should have looked harder for a seat; this area between cars is no-man's-land, and certainly no woman's. Same hazards as walking alone down 42nd St. Mister, mister, leave me alone; today is the day of Women's Liberation. Tonight I am going to march, strike for equality. Strike for Equality. I think I should talk to this man, explain why his low-voiced suggestions are an insult, but it is too early...