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...POPI (CBS, Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.) may safely be ignored. It is the latest comedy about minorities-in this case Puerto Ricans-to argue that people respond to being discriminated against by becoming more lovable...
...inevitable that the hottest sentence in the hottest bestseller could have come from La Boheme: "What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died?" You can say that her movie, though soapy, is better than her silly book. You can say that Director Arthur Hiller (Popi) has managed to provide an amalgam of Harvard and Graustark−an enchanted campus where all the people look like movie stars, and all the movie stars try to look like people...
...skaters swept around the rink performing all sorts of fancy maneuvers again and again for the cameramen. It should come out looking fantastic. For a few sequences the director Arthur Miller (who just did Popi ) had the camera fastened between two hockey sticks with a skater moving it over the ice after the puck. The whole contraption looked like a large but frail vacuum-cleaner as it swooped in and out of the players trailing the puck...
...POPI. The plight of the poor is told with humor and bite in this surprisingly successful comedy. Alan Arkin is magnificent as a Puerto Rican widower with three jobs, struggling to get his children out of a New York ghetto...