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Then how on earth can the master of comedy be upstaged by slimy green goo? Yes, yes, it sounds ridiculous, but that's exactly the case in Disney's Flubber, an update of The Absent-Minded Professor (1961). It is Williams this time who stands agape as the Jello-like "flubber" flies, morphs, and dances its way all over the screen. The underwritten characters cannot survive the assault of the translucent slime. Indeed, special effects save the movie--the glorious jello is the only thing in Flubber that makes any type of impression...
Those who believe that Disney is the synonym for animated films have not met Visiting Lecturer in Animation Caroline Leaf...
...Mouse Eyes the Net Having gobbled up Times Square, the Disney Corporation stalks a bigger prey: the Internet. Disney?s new filtering search engine aims to make the Web safe for families, but will it eliminate free speech...
...also going to become as bland and tedious as television? There's no word yet on which sites will get the Disney seal of approval, or whether news sites will receive special dispensation from Walt's boys to speak as freely as necessary. "Filtering mechanisms prevent children from obtaining a great deal of useful and appropriate information," says a new report from the Electronic Privacy Information Center. They should know ? in tests on engines not unlike Disney's, searches for, say, "American Red Cross" blocked 90 percent of all sites mentioning the name...
...Still, a Disney search engine ? no matter how widely used ? would only be one of many. And AOL's Steve Case ? who also plans to introduce filtering software Monday ? points out that at least the industry is being seen to do something. "Regulation is not necessary," insists Case. Congress, where men even more powerful than Disney execs reside, awaits convincing proof...