'Annie' is the embodiment of hope,

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

I was looking for an interesting story and exceptionally exotic characters,

Her spirit and her optimism are organic to the American spirit, and that's what this show is about.

a whole new crop of kids and adults.

That song is gone, it's gone, it's gone. Charles and I have often looked at one another and can't even remember the lyric or the tune.