LATEST 'HEIDI' GOES MODERN.(LIVING) From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: March 29, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 The Cincinnati Post. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Associated Press

GENEVA -- Heidi tints her hair blue. Peter swings a baseball bat and surfs the Web. Clara is a jealous adolescent. The goats have new names.

In a new movie released for the 100th anniversary of the death of Heidi author Johanna Spyri, the Alpine heroine, her goatherd and crippled friends are virtually unrecognizable in a world of skyscrapers and single-parent families.

''This is a modern Heidi, a young person with contempo...

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