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...lady bug to promote the Oscar-winning director's other "bug"--Pixar's computer-animated film A Bug's Life. Lasseter's tale of greedy grasshoppers and anxious ants broke the Thanksgiving holiday box-office records with $45.7 million in ticket sales and slaughtered its main competitor, Babe: Pig in the City. Hollywood, skeptical before the release, took note. BUGS LEAVE BACON ACHIN', Daily Variety snorted merrily...
...Babe: Pig in the City...
Like so much in this harsh world, Babe the sweet-souled, stouthearted pig worked better as a surprise than he does as a sequel. You can't blame the little porker; fame has not gone to his head. But his handlers, led by director George Miller, have succumbed to a desire to test the powers of his innocence against creatures more ferocious than those that inhabited Farmer Hoggett's essentially benign barnyard. Or maybe it was the powers of their special-effects wizardry that they wanted to strut, for the cast members of Babe: Pig in the City are larger...
...Babe's new pals are a testy, teasing, but not entirely lovable lot, among them a poodle that owes a lot to Tennessee Williams' damaged females, a pit bull whose lineage might be traced back to The Godfather's family, and a game, crippled mutt that seems to have been inspired by old Lon Chaney roles. In short, they are knowing yet desperate inventions. So is the farcical but flat rescue that Babe and Mrs. Hoggett lead when their friends are impounded by motivelessly malign city authorities. Studio executives ordered last-minute fixes on the film because they found...
...BARBIE A babe since 1959 and now worth almost $2 billion in sales annually, Barbie was fashioned by Ruth Handler Mattel's co-founder. The first doll wore a swimsuit and cost $3. Over the year Barbie's had 30 relatives and companions, but only one boyfriend...