Word: pollyannaism
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WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). First of a three-part telecast of Disney's 1960 movie Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills. Color...
...peak earned $200,000 a year and spent a good chunk of it replenishing a 2,000-item wardrobe (plum bowlers, mauve gloves, light grey dinner clothes), later turned to meatier roles, beginning as the city editor of The Front Page (1930) and ending as the unkempt eccentric of Pollyanna (1960), yet forever maintained his dandy image with such outfits as a mink-collared ulster, paisley scarf, brown Borsalino hat, sapphire-studded watch, and cigarette case inscribed "To Adolphe Menjou, from his warmest admirer, Adolphe Menjou"; of hepatitis; in Beverly Hills...
...hardly qualify, heaven knows, as a Euphoria Gazette, safe and suitable for Pollyanna's night table. We have too much of the world's sadness and spite to report. But our 102 correspondents around the world are in fact on the lookout for the merry and the positive as well as the anguish and the agonizing. A fair proportion of the half a million dollars a year we spend on cables, and the $300,000 that is our reportorial telephone and telegraph bill, is spent on news that is not just crisis. Not because we are trying...
Summer Magic. Hayley Mills has graduated from Pollyanna to Mother Carey's Chickens in this latest bit of Walt Disney Americana. Dorothy McGuire and Burl Ives also figure in the innocent little plot. Great escapism for jaded pre-teeners...
...Louis (Les Amants) Malle: "She's actually the angel come to announce the destruction of Babylon." Still others have compared her to everyone from Joan of Arc (defending popular virtues against monarchists with Napoleonic delusions) to Lolita. In fact, Zazie is less of a Lolita than a Parisian Pollyanna, for she is a warmhearted fille, completely uninvolved in the sordid sex life that she is always talking about...