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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bubble Boy Brouhaha | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bubble Boy Brouhaha | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents and Children: Who's In Charge Here? | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Hit Factory | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cable Guys Lining Up For AT&T Broadband | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

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