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...season's series, only one priceless ingredient is missing-her longtime Minneapolis neighbor, Rhoda Morgenstern. For four years Valerie Harper impersonated that adamantime Jewish waif and grew more skilled with each show. This year, hi the best show-business tradition, she was strong enough to spin off to her own production. Her new series has relocated her in Manhattan, where Rhoda has actively searched for an apartment, a job and a man-and miraculously found all three. She has also found a supporting cast that rivals Mary's: Harold Gould (Pop), who helped sharpen The Sting; Nancy Walker...
...diary expresses an avid interest in other people. Anais portrays individuals according to their idiosyncracies--Dr. Max Jacobson, Martha Graham, and a waif named Nina, attracted by "Nin" as to an echo, among them--and societies according to the idiosyncracies of their individuals...
...Girl from Petrovka is a direct descendant of Sally Bowles and Holly Golightly-another kooky waif, whom withdrawn writers find irresistible. Such girls are no better than they should be but-in show biz, anyway-are widely believed to make up with their innocent high spirits what they lack in common sense and stability. In this case, the gamine is played by the ubiquitous Goldie Hawn. The author, whom convention dictates must reluctantly fall for her despite bouts of reformist palaver and exasperation, is played by Hal Holbrook...
Boys Town, founded in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan and celebrated in film and folklore, still beckons homeless boys to its 1,500-acre campus just outside Omaha. The statue of a tattered waif, a smaller lad slung over his shoulder, still stands at the entrance with the legend: "He ain't heavy, Father. He's m' brother." Otherwise, Boys Town is a community rocked by change...
These muted old man's mutterings are sadly devoid of energy or strong feeling. Surprisingly, so are Chaplin's assaults on witch hunting. His King be comes the protector of a precocious waif (played by Chaplin's son Michael) whose parents refuse to testify before a congressional committee. The King breaks up the deliberations of the com mittee with a fire hose that unfunnily goes out of control...