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...Entertainment and a former programming sachem at Nickelodeon, is more emphatic. "Kids' TV is where you find the stars, not of tomorrow, but of today," he avers. "Movie directors don't need casting tapes anymore; they just need to turn on the TV. This is a golden age--Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland...
...What's great about the kids today," Ross says, "is that they can act exactly the age they are. That's the throwback to Mickey and Judy putting on a show. Today kids put on a show every day, and millions come to watch." Ross is referring to Nick and the Disney Channel, two of cable's major revenue and talent streams. But he and others are convinced that the stars--and, more important, their fans--can meet in the movie theaters. "Those are people who are likely to leave their house and go and buy tickets," says Stan Rogow...
Salisbury lived in Shenzhen with his 6-year-old son, Mickey, who also contracted a mild case of SARS, according to Michelle...
...film centers around the three folk groups who have reunited for the concert. The most prominent of the three is Mitch and Mickey, a hopelessly maudlin duo played by Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy, who sports one of the more grating speech impediments in recent memory. Another band, the Folksmen, is comprised of the same actors playing the same instruments they butchered in Spinal Tap, but reinvented as balding, anachronistic folk singers. The script makes a serious mistake in under-using the Folksmen, replacing the genuine tension of their metal alter egos with some inane squabbling over...
...often than not, the jokes are tired or run thin very quickly. Ed Begley, Jr. plays a Swede with deep Jewish roots, an idea that is only half-baked but is awkwardly employed several times. Even more unsettling is the uneven tone set by the relationship between Mitch and Mickey. While their genuine romantic tension is carefully developed, it is far too out of place in a comedy of this nature. An attempt at resolution is tacked on at movie’s end, but offers little satisfaction to the viewers, who have emotionally invested too much in these...