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After a phenomenal streak in which Suzanne Jones attained All-American status in five of six seasons in cross-country and winter and spring track, her taxing athletic schedule appears to have taken its toll. The senior will miss most of the cross-country season with a stress fracture...
...about the father-son relationship between Sabatini, who never had a son, and Kellogg, whose father died when he was six. This would be an utterly ordinary thesis in most films, but the force of Brando's potrayal of the paternalistic Sabatini and Broderick's capable rendering of the All-American rural innocent provide The Freshman with convincing human impact. Just as The Godfather succeeds largely because it was able to make the family life of the murdering, lawbreaking Corleone family somehow seem real and touching, its parody The Freshman is able to rescue itself from the destruction of Bergman...
...keep the crowd engaged during intermission with New Kids multiple-choice trivia contests (Q.: Who is Jordan's favorite singer? A.: Frank Sinatra) and with repeated, insistent references to McDonald's, which has pitched in a bundle to sponsor the group's U.S. tour. "They're a very wholesome, all-American group that has the same kind of family values that McDonald's has," explains David Green, the company's senior vice president of marketing. "We continue to search for new ways to get to the 'tween' market: a little too old for Ronald McDonald but a little too young...
After seven days of total immersion in such prime-time platitudes, other smaller, less socially significant mysteries remain. Why was Grace, the tall, blond judge on L.A. Law, the only person allowed to voice the all-American sentiment that she hates her job? What happened to all the neighbors who used to drop by for coffee on all the sitcoms, and why have they been replaced by work groups? Why are there so few good meals and so many bad restaurants on television? Why are there no nostalgia shows reprising the '50s or '70s? And how about the biggest puzzle...
...minutes a visitor can see an 1864 American-flag campaign broadside, collections of Coke bottles through the years (the original was designed by Alexander Samuelson in 1915), a little bag that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for a San Francisco glass-and-china shop in 1942, the sweetly all-American Ritz cracker box, the computer-animated opening credits to the 1978 Superman movie and six pages from USA Today...