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Nobody would mistake Bubble Boy, the Disney Touchstone movie that opened last week, for high art. It's full of the tasteless humor and crude pratfalls that appeal to fifth-grade boys. Critics have called it a "gross-out comedy." But at least one boy was not amused. "I was just furious," says Jason Shuman, 10, of Sudbury, Mass. "I thought it was a movie that shouldn't have been out in the first place." No wonder. Like the film's hero, Jimmy Livingston, Jason suffers from an immune-system disorder that makes him highly susceptible to infections...
...alone. All over the country, victims of similar diseases and their families and friends are outraged by Bubble Boy, which they say trivializes and misrepresents a life-threatening condition. They have asked Disney to add public-service announcements to all screenings and to contribute to immune-disease organizations; some are asking consumers to boycott the film. "It's really crossing the line," says Marcia Boyle, founder of the Immune Deficiency Foundation in Towson, Md. "Can you imagine a movie that makes fun of kids with cancer...
...what I was doing in that regard." So she began subtly trying to guide her clients away from certain amenities, advising some parents to scale back on the queen-size beds for seven-year-old girls or the themed bathrooms that rivaled the Small World ride at Disney World...
...HYPE Disney's answer to Shrek. BOX OFFICE $22 mil. SPIN "Not every movie is going to hit $100 mil. It's right in line with our expectations." --Viane...
...Disney and its gang - and Comcast, not to be counted out by any means - the upside of a marriage is pretty much the same: all of Lord Armstrong?s lands and a big step up on the ladder to the content-and-technology, one-stop-shopping convergence heaven everybody swears is the future of broadband...