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Scout (Mary Badham) is six when the story begins, and her brother Jem (Phillip Alford) is ten. Their mother is dead, and they live with their father (Gregory Peck), a lawyer named Atticus Finch. One day they hear a peculiar squeak in Miss Rachel Haverford's collard patch...
...petulant and ill-mannered creature, who posed the other chickens around and sometimes ate their food. If the old woman tried to punish her, Charlie just stopped laying eggs. So the crafty peasant woman taught the other chickens (whose names were Ludwig, Amintore, and Paul-Henri to peck Charlie, and she taught Charlie's baby chicks to form little circles around their mother so she couldn't move. The woman even told her son, who wrote a column about giraffes for the New York Times, to put up little signs in the barnyard saying: "Pride Goeth Before a Fall...
...when the other chickens went to peck Charlie, they pumped into the little baby chicks and started pecking them instead, and the baby chicks fell to quarrelling, and the other chickens fell to quarrelling, and Charlie ate all their food. And Charlie ate the crafty peasant woman's food, too. The chickens didn't read the signs because they couldn't understand English...
...attention to Prometheus-even though his intent is not to translate myths into modern terms, but to illuminate a modern hero's death with myths. Updike slights Prometheus, and his book surfers. The reader learns little more than that Peter is bright, has psoriasis (the vulture's peck, presumably), and that as an adult he is a second-rate abstract painter with a Negro mistress...
Sunday Night Movie (ABC, 8-10 p.m.). On the Beach, with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins...