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Brave and bright, good-natured and ambitious, naive and vulnerable -- all in all, saysTIME's Richard Schickel, Babe is "probably the most winsome orphan to appear on the screen since Freddie Bartholomew impersonated David Copperfield 60 years ago." Of course, he's a piglet, but still, he's a liberal humanist on trotters, capable of the occasional odd, soulful thoughts on mortality, and a welcome addition to a public life largely given over these days to swinishness of a less exemplary kind. Director Chris Noonan's fable shines with the classic virtue of the form--surface simplicity, seductive imagery...
...interviewer was interested in the orphan angle and had asked how her mother died, and her response was that she had died in an auto accident," said one committee member who asked to remain anonymous...
...This building stood happy but a little forlorn, as an attractive but unclaimed, unnamed orphan--bright, studious, charming, convivial, but still nobody's actual child, "Rudenstine said...
...Gina Grant who has been reformed into a model citizen. On the other side stand the "law-and-order" people who look at the brutality of the case and the lack of documented physical abuse. They see not a self-made honors student but a self-made orphan...
Harvard was apparently interested in Grant because of the "orphan angle" as much as because of her academic achievements. The enchantment of the noble admissions officer with Grant's rags-to-riches success story and the disgust when faced with the reality behind that myth creates a wonderful irony, illuminating the shallow standards on which admission applicants are judged...