Word: pollyannaism
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Disney's Pollyanna is looking more like an aging Lolita now, but it's perfectly all right. Old Child Actress Hayley Mills, who will reach 20 this month, arrived in Manhattan under the proud chaperonage of her parents-though a photographer did manage to ascertain that the kid has lovely legs. In fact, she is such a family concern that for her latest picture, the Upcoming Gypsy Girl, Mother Mary Bell Mills wrote the script, Father John Mills directed and Daughter Hayley acted as a 17-year-old who falls in love with a gypsy. "This silly thing...
...gratuitous shock seems to be Malle sporadically rebelling against the Pollyanna optimism of his genre, the happy go-lucky western. His compulsion to zoom in on open wounds, his close-ups of pock-marked faces, his pointless scrutiny of a knife-thrower accidentally wounding his apprentice: these all seem as far from the film's context as the London slums that socially-conscious Tony Richardson muscled into Tom Jones...
Sweetness and light were her stock in trade as Walt Disney's Pollyanna, but now that she's turned 18, Britain's Hayley Mills has become sweet lightning. Rising like the seasoned trouper she is from a 103° sickbed to prance in the chorus line at a London benefit, the "glad" girl shook a dazzling pair of legs and uncorked some un-Disneyfied bumps and grinds. In a separate bit, she vanished into a box as a magician's assistant, but demonstrated conclusively that she is one child star who won't need...
...Whenever we turn on TV, President Johnson is on the screen. He drones on with Pollyanna prunes and prisms and a string of soppy platitudes. He is the talk-ingest President we've ever had. It would be better for the country if he did less talking and more thinking...
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The second of a three-part rerun of Disney's 1960 movie Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills...