Article: ABC's `Anne Frank' steps beyond attic into horror

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ABC's `Anne Frank' steps beyond attic into horror

By JOANNE WEINTRAUB

of the Journal Sentinel staff

Sunday, May 20, 2001

The subject of a Hollywood movie, an Oscar-winning documentary, a recently revived Broadway play and too many books to count, Anne Frank's brief life seems to need no further retelling.

In fact, when ABC announced last year that its miniseries was in the works, I was sure it would be a feel-good rewrite of the Holocaust -- not the Disney version, exactly, but a good-looking, earnestly inspirational moral lesson ending with Anne's famous words: "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."

Except for the production's handsome ...

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