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...Mom always said milk was good for you. But Mom hasn't been heeding her own advice. For decades, milk consumption has trickled downward while that of cola has nearly tripled. Among beverages, milk ranks fourth in popularity after soft drinks, coffee and beer...
This glow is only half hidden under her shapeless clothes, half disguised by her boisterous enthusiasm for baseball, half explained by her relationship with an ego-flattening mom (Lauren Bacall, dripping comic venom in award-winning doses). In short, the fine feathers of a star we all know to be a strong, smart and sexy woman keep peeking through her ugly-duckling getup. This spoils whatever suspense this story might hold, and most of its humorous potential too. Unacknowledged vanity is ever the enemy of comedy. And, come to think of it, of romance as well...
...blankly as though you were quizzing them about hedge funds or Harold Pinter. The boys, no budding back-to-the-landers, are the sons of TV-friendly Manhattan media professionals, but neither James nor Everett has ever watched Saturday-morning cartoons. "This is family time," explains Everett's mom Priscilla Glover, "one of the few times during the week we can all be together. Everett knows he can watch the Disney Channel whenever he wants, so he doesn't beg to glue himself to the TV on the weekends. He doesn't even know what he is missing...
...ANGRY-WHITE-MALE MEMORIAL PRIZE: To this year's overanalyzed demographic cliche--the soccer mom...
...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 and refuses to leave, take her to Mother, the delightful Albert Brooks comedy about a guy who moves back in with his nudgy mom (Debbie Reynolds...