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...only 28--he didn't grow his soup-strainer mustache until the mid-'60s, and his face and figure gradually rounded into kindly Falstaffian proportions as the years went by. (The bowl haircut, however, was always a wig.) Though he cautioned parents against using TV as a baby sitter, knowing some would anyway, he made himself into a virtual grandfather. "It was not a show," he would later say. "It was a visit...
...wretched excess, offering more than 700 drawings, photographs, collages, film clips, set and costume designs, letters, manuscripts and bits of memorabilia. There are portraits of Cocteau by Jacques-Emile Blanche, Man Ray, Picasso and Andy Warhol, and portraits by Cocteau of Modigliani, Picasso and Kisling, each done in the sitter's own style. It's all in dire need of editing, but remains surprisingly good entertainment, which is appropriate for a man who had more than one talent to amuse...
...rarity: a first-love story so well remembered and honest that it reminds you what falling in love feels like. The narrator, Craig Thompson, grows up in rural Wisconsin in a devout Christian family. Craig's childhood is one long bout of fear--of bullies, hell, the baby-sitter who molests him and his little brother--until, at a Christian winter camp, Craig meets Raina, a doe-eyed outsider from a troubled family...
...Mary was my baby sitter when I was a child, and she said, "So basically, this is just us." I said, "Well ..." She laughed...
That was pre-TV, of course. The home medium soon functioned as a baby-sitter and an incubator for precocious talent: Billy Gray of Father Knows Best, Ronny Howard (later Oscar-winning director Ron) on The Andy Griffith Show and the endless cattle, or calf, call of Bradys, Huxtables and Facts of Lifers. But those youngsters could rarely transform their video adorability to the higher voltage of films. The minors stayed in the minors. Big-screen producers remained oblivious to the 8-to-13 set. Nobody thought to make, say, a black-cast Cody Banks spy saga: Agent Urkel...