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- Mary McGrath
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- Location: Milton, MA, Massachusetts
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- "Charley the Spelling Whiz"
- Summary: a profile of a speller who competed in the Scripps National Spelling Bee 2004
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Review of Charley the Spelling Whiz
Mary McGrath
Posted on June 28, 2004 at 05:19 PM
This piece lacks the spell of the feature length documentary film but it's trying to achieve the same thing. At less than three and a half minutes there's not a full enough portrait of Charlie and cutting between spelling words and some quick biographical details doesn't seem to work so well either. This story doesn't seem to have an ending. How did Charlie do in the competition? Were we listening to the official Bee or a warm-up? Who won?