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...dozed in your seat as your child sat rapt in communion with a lonely lad and his pet whale. Now it's Flipper, a remake of the 1963 film that spawned two sequels and a TV series. But it's still the same primal kitsch: boy finds dolphin, boy loves dolphin, adults wonder what's the big deal with the boy and his dolphin. Jeez! Adults don't understand anything...
...DOLPHIN-SAFE COMPUTING...
...blandishments of all those morality movies (Flipper, May 17; Alaska, July 14; Kazaam, July 17; The Adventures of Pinocchio, July 26; The Spitfire Grill, August 23, et al.) about misunderstood kids with Dondi eyes and platinum hearts who learn The True Meaning of Friendship from a MENSA-level dolphin, a genie played by Shaquille O'Neal, an adorable polar bear or Martin Landau as Geppetto. For two other childlike films, adults (and adult-like children) may have a hope...
Indeed, Leary's recent guest list is both eclectic and electric: Yoko Ono, goddaughter Winona Ryder, former Mama Michelle Phillips, dolphin researcher John Lilly, onetime Dodger catcher Johnny Roseboro, the widow of Aldous Huxley, the members of the industrial-metal group Ministry, and Ram Dass, who used to be Leary's old Harvard bud Richard Alpert. Oh, yes, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins just dropped by and dropped off a tape of Dead Man Walking. "It's a little hectic up here," says Leary's personal assistant, a young woman with magenta-streaked hair, Technicolorfully tattooed legs...
Proponents of the Boxer bill say complicated enforcement procedures and the potential for corruption under the Stevens bill will mean that dolphin deaths will rise again. Proponents of the Stevens bill argue that the alternatives to encircling dolphins have proved destructive to both tuna populations and other species, such as sea turtles and sharks. All that leaves Anthony O'Reilly, chairman of H.J. Heinz Co., which owns StarKist, loath to make any change that might be misinterpreted by dolphin-loving consumers. "I believe the definition should not be changed in the absence of consensus of scientists and public opinion...