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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19930718
Author:Bruce McCabe, Globe Staff

"The human condition hasn't changed much in a hundred years. That's why `Heidi' still resonates. It's about a young girl without a family who finds herself living in split homes, looking for a core family, desperately looking for a home. What could be more contemporary?"

So says Jeanne Rosenberg, who adapted Johanna Spyri's 1881 novel for "Heidi," a four-hour miniseries airing tonight and tomorrow night at 7 on The Disney Channel.

Jason Robards costars with Jane Seymour in the classic three-handkerchief tale of a young girl looking for love and confronting abandonment. The miniseries also ...

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