26 JUNE 1982, page 35

Cinema

Growing up Peter Ackroyd The Chosen ('A', Academy Two) T he apparent smallness of this film belies the largeness of its imagination; it is set in the Jewish area of Brooklyn in......

Theatre

Living doll Mark Amory A Doll's House (The Pit) Design for Living (Greenwich) Captain Brassbound 's Conversion (Hay- market) Dreyfus (Hampstead) Wild, Wild Women (Astoria) A......

Television

Madness Richard In grams M y columnar neighbour, Jeffrey Ber- nard, who recently celebrated his 50th birthday, should take comfort as 1 do in what another Spectator columnist,......