Word: batmans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mommy, Mommy! I want Turtles! Gimmie Barbie! Can I have Batman?" Cruising the cereal aisle in the local supermarket these days is like changing channels on Saturday morning: a Crayola parade of sugarcoated turtles, ghosts, bats and bears goes by. Kids have an insatiable sweet tooth for breakfast foods based on cartoons, movies, toys and games, a fact that has cereal makers rubbing their hands and a growing cadre of parents hollering "Enough...
...based on industry polls of Friday-night receipts. With so much money at stake, this summer's calls could be highly emotional. "There are a number of films that can do $100 million or more," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of Disney Studios. "But you can't look for another Batman; that's a fool's mission. There will be triples and home runs, but probably no grand slams...
...only proposal I can offer is not original. I heard it first proposed in the movie Batman. Beholding the filth and depravity of Gotham City, the Joker exclaimed "This town needs an enema!" I think that if the Joker had been with me at the formal the other night, he would have agreed with me, that an enema--a big one--is just what this college needs...
...sons, ages 8 and 4, are having a deprived childhood, and they resent it. Although virtually all their friends have seen Batman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, my wife and I have stubbornly refused to let our children join the crowds at the box office. We cling to the old-fashioned, even reactionary, notion that watching one act of violence after another may be harmful to very young minds...
...being ridiculous? I admit that as a kid I saw Roy Rogers shoot-'em- ups and the brutal battles between Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck. These didn't warp me for life. But I never saw anything so violent as Batman before I could tie my shoelaces, and to this day I don't have the stomach to watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As a teenager I thought the Rolling Stones' Let's Spend the Night Together was cool, but it's a long way from that to this Guns N' Roses lyric: "Panties 'round your knees/ With your...