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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19930716
Author:Ginny Holbert

HEIDI (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) The Disney Channel, 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday and Monday

Noley Thornton is a freckle-faced, curly-haired, 10-year-old charmer. But she's no Shirley Temple. Thank goodness.

Thornton is, however, a perfectly respectable Heidi. Somehow, with her pixie face and air of serious, wide-eyed curiosity, she manages to be cute, lovable and endearing but never cloying. You can understand why the grouchy old gramps would want her around.

Heidi, written in 1881 by Johanna Spyri, is a classic kiddies weeper that has been adapted for a half-a-dozen movies, from an animated version ...

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