Word: columbus
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directed by Chris Columbus...
Forget whether or not your housekeeper is an illegal alien. The real question, at least in "Mrs. Doubtfire," is whether or not she/he is your estranged husband in disguise. Directed by Chris Columbus, "Mrs. Doubtfire" is the tale of Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams), a man who dresses up as a nanny in order to be near his kids. Buoyed by Williams" antics and the innocent reactions of his wife Miranda (Sally Field), their three adorable children and Miranda's new suitor Stuart (Pierce Brosnan), the movie succeeds in providing some genuinely funny light comedy, but ultimately suffers from its attempt...
...Siberia to Alaska on a land bridge that now lies beneath the icy Bering Sea. From its colonial beginnings, the history of America has largely been the story of how immigrants from the Old World conquered the New. As the historian Carl Wittke noted, eight nationalities were represented on Columbus' first voyage to a continent that eventually received its name from a German mapmaker (Martin Walseemuller) working in a French college, who honored an Italian explorer (Amerigo Vespucci) sailing under the flag of Portugal...
More immediately, they and director Chris Columbus had to contend with their star's newfound desire (see last year's Toys) to play the holy fool. Williams' head contains a multitude of characters -- some of them real, some of them American archetypes -- and as a vocal quick-change artist, Williams has a unique gift not only for dead-on impersonations of these characters, but also for setting them all free on a babbling stream of consciousness. These manic monologues are impolite and utterly incorrect politically. They articulate our secret, subversive thoughts. His impersonation of Mrs. Doubtfire shows that...
...CROIX, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. Five centuries after the event, the U.S. National Park Service has dedicated a park at the only documented site now part of the U.S. where Christopher Columbus' crew landed on the explorer's second voyage to the New World; the date was Nov. 14, 1493. A 370-hectare enclave on this island's north shore, the Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve has the largest remaining mangrove forest in the Virgin Islands. The park harbors a wide variety of endangered flora and fauna, including giant swamp ferns and bottle-nosed dolphins, and includes...