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...decade of shame happened because unlike Hugh Grant, Robert Downey Jr. and Bill Clinton, who bounced back like flubber, Reubens chose not to go out on the contrite circuit--talk-show appearances and celebrity-magazine confession stories. And it was partly because parents use their TVs as baby sitters, and no mom wants her baby sitter breathing heavily in a sparsely filled theater...
...programs recorded from TV. This year, prior to departure, we taped Abby's morning tube routine (Barney, Arthur, Blue's Clues, etc.) to get her off on the right traveling foot each morning. Ditto for the elder kids' video faves, which tend to be less enlightening fare (though Flubber has much to teach us about physics...
Whatever the quality, the quantity is certainly up this year. Disney virtually created, and for a decade has owned, the kidophilic Thanksgiving period with its animated films (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin) and live-action retreads (101 Dalmatians, Flubber). But this year turkey time looks like a family free-for-all, and The Rugrats Movie could grab the golden drumstick...
...that women's sports are becoming Big Business (five years ago no one would have noticed if Sales used those Flubber-soled sneakers), their development is being closely monitored by the Old Guard. And the growing pains aren't pretty. Big East commissioner Michael Tranghese told the New York Times he would not have given the go-ahead if it had been a men's game. His choice words included: "Males are made differently than women...Men compete, get along and move on with few emotions. But women break down, get emotional...These are entirely different sports cultures." Sure, Mike...
Analyzing Flubber is a futile venture. This is Disney at its mainpulative best. Characters and plausible storylines are stampeded in the onslaught of special effects. Williams stands agape as the Jello-like substance flies, morphs and dances its way all over the screen. The underwritten characters go down before the assualt of the translucent slime...