![]() Without the promised open-ended appeal or the punch you might expect, it's an empathic, resonantly muted glimpse of TJ's world. There are unspoken tensions between the two adults, but the episode ends with laughter and the children dancing to Mr. Man and Miss Lee fix him up and you infer that it was her gin bottle that came off the roof. ![]() He's not hurt, but WT comes running onto the broken glass with a hole in his sneaker. If all of this is a bit plotless for the most likely young audience, youngsters will snap to attention when, toward the end, TJ tosses his ball into the air and something else comes smashing down on him. And with TJ we enter the dark, "real weird" apartment of old Miss Beanpole who sends him to the store. (The message is, she drinks a lot.) We meet TJ's friends WT, seven, and Blinky, a girl of eight with shining eyeglasses. Man the janitor-"a real, real, real nice man"-and, later, his wife Miss Lee who has a beautiful smile but sometimes doesn't even see you. We're introduced to TJ's Harlem block via his fantasy, illustrated in columns of TV-boxed frames, of the cop chase that might occur there. ![]() ![]() This is billed as "a children's story for adults, an adult story for children" it comes through at about an eight-year-old level and it's told from the viewpoint, and in the idiom, of a four-year-old who seems a bit older. ![]()
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