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Well, Hollywood is offering a few scraps from the Christmas table for this neglected minority audience. Jingle All the Way follows a desperate parent searching for the one toy his child hopes will be under the Christmas tree. The director is Brian Levant, who moved plenty of Flintstones merchandise with his last film hit; the star is Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself a preposterous and popular action figure. For the science nerd in all of us, there's Star Trek: First Contact, eighth in the series, second with Patrick Stewart helming the Enterprise. And if Grandma drops by for Christmas dinner...
...overwhelming hegemony. Last month, for instance, New York City signed on to D.A.R.E. at an estimated cost of $8.8 million. Even though Life Skills has been tested in 50 New York schools over the decade, police commissioner Howard Safir said he had never heard of it. Meanwhile, Glenn Levant, head of D.A.R.E. America, dismisses his program's negative evaluations: "Just because someone publishes a paper and calls it a study does not really mean anything, particularly when you're dealing with something as subjective as whether prevention works," he says. "Only in America do you get kicked for doing good...
Nonetheless, Levant met with Botvin several weeks ago to discuss the professor's ideas. Combining D.A.R.E.'s marketing prowess with Life Skills' apparent effectiveness might eliminate one campaign issue in the year...
...Harvard; lighting designers Roxanne Lanzot and Alan Symonds created just the right mood for each number, always keeping the star in the forefront. In jazzier numbers, the lights displayed the members of the orchestra (all 15 of them), swinging in their tuxes; during the soupier songs, like Oscar Levant's "Blame It on My Youth" or Gershwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me," the spotlight picked out deLima, glamorous in the darkness...
John Goodman and Elizabeth Perkins as the eponymous heads of household, Rick Moranis and Rosie O'Donnell as the Rubbles, and Elizabeth Taylor, who plays Fred's insulting, overbearing mother-in-law, all tread a nice, comically persuasive line between caricature and naturalism under Brian Levant's direction. And while more than 30 writers worked on the screenplay and untold numbers labored to re-create the ambiance and effects that the animators once tossed off with a few squiggles of their pencils, The Flintstones doesn't feel overcalculated, over-produced or overthought. Nor, however, is it aimed solely...