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Dear Brigit /;te is o
=,ne of the _funn #iest comed*=-^ies:`+ from the 1960s, #/about a%+_ tone-deaf, ,.color-blind /.@boy gen`?i +us /!with one int,erest B-^rigitt e Bar%d$ot. \Jam es S@tewart plays\  profe]:)ssor Robert L?%e;a^`?f, ?a t)(ypical college p;rof_essor (when speaking of c*\oll\ege profess$\ors t ypical m=?eans l
 iber`,al ^, but)[! this was ;:\40 years a\ _go and la
` +bel%#(`s chang]]e).
; L[-eaf teac_#hes @@-poetry, lives in a %%houseb^]]-oat in,  S] /an Francisco, vocally oppos,\/^es
 nuclear po[wer ;and prog@%re\ss in`^= g _eneral. He ?)$ha\s? an orig] (ina
)l way( to make
 th]=e family stick to:gether -
( /+ _family concerts. His daught,;er ^ c$)alls him squ*#=are#. L!#
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r old son Erasmus% . is
 ](pla:/yed by Billy Mumy (Sam@)my ! the +Way Out-#$ Sea;l, Lost In *
Spac[ \e, Bl: ess; Th $e Beasts Children, Three ?^.^W-@ishes). Leaf ho ]pes to !]find* + a;;r/;ti( )
stic geni us of some sort i]_!n\ his only so-(n, a_(n )-d ( nurtures $him )in music, #painting$@, literatur._ e, et`c. Bu[/t* Le -af !$is disappointed, to put it m (@i-:ld #^ly, when it*^ turns out Erasmus _has  /a gift fo! %r_ m /ath, ca=n out-think t@he co=:@ll,e^ges newes;t co?^mpute)
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uch of@. the plot, but[ Erasmu+s $)_h(ad been wri-*# ting to /Bardot $ re[)^gularly,=*+ a($*nd@ *a.!fter ^=\th(e fami+ly comes to depend o%!#-n @.his abi@):lity, -hi - s love-si.*ckness ca[uses a mental block. G!)lyni s Johns (Father's D(elicate Condition, The Cabinet o)f Caligari, Ma?ry Pop`\pins) plays Le,af's wife. Ed Wynn (Requiem For A.[ Heavyweight+ ,[?. Mary Poppins) i/s #=a [$neighbor captai+-n narrator. Other cas_t include F$.;abian, `[__Cindy Carol,; John  Wi^lliams, Jess)[:e Whi\=te,=) Jac#%k Kruschen, ?)an-\d?;. James Brol);in) in an .+ea#rly bit part. Brigitte Bardot appears+%! a/t the end.