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After 52 years, one flawed film, and countless high school hack jobs, the song-and-dance classic finally gets the star treatment it deserves in a made-for-TV adaptation. Sure, Close may be far from her ingenue years and Connick could use some lip-synching lessons, but it's hard to resist the WWII love story (much better here than in Pearl Harbor), the stirring Rodgers and Hammerstein score, and Murphy Brown's Robert Pastorelli in a coconut bra.


Posted Aug 24, 2001 | Published in issue #610-611 Aug 24, 2001 | Order Article Reprints