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...People love what's next," says Ricky Gervais' fussy museum manager, explaining why many of the beloved old-fashioned exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History are being shipped off to storage at the Smithsonian Institute, to be replaced by holograms. Even Ben Stiller's Larry Daley, the former night guard at the museum, seems to have moved on. He's now the infomercial king, hawking such wares as the Glow in the Dark Torch in excruciatingly stilted exchanges with George Foreman...
...People may love what's next, but the Night at the Museum movies are a big swoony smooch to the old. Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) is our heroine, full of moxie and quaint phraseology. The Tuskegee airmen face off against Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon and Al Capone. Even big old marble Abe Lincoln gets to take his shot. (Hates pigeons, it turns...
...Daley with his superior-quality museum-guard skills who must ultimately save the day. It's amazing what you can do in the planet-saving department if you just have a uniform, a pass and the right flashlight, apparently. One of the most eye-opening special effects of an effects-laden movie is how it makes minimum-wage employment appear to be a rewarding and glamorous career...
...Nobody is going to learn from the Museum movies. Neither will anyone mistake them for the kind of sophisticated entertainment one normally finds on the Mall, in the non-Capitol parts, anyway. But in bringing history, literally, to life, and having as much fun with it as it is computer-graphically possible to have, director Shawn Levy and Reno 911 writers Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon at least make it worth noticing. And perhaps preserving. Progress is good, but as the ancient Pharaohs knew, a good headdress never goes out of style...
...Hotel, located right on the banks of Lake Otsego is celebrating its 100th season. Like Mohonk, the resort is serving up special dishes from its 1909 menu, including rack of lamb Monte Carlo with Parisian potatoes. The hotel is right in town, within walking distance of the Fenimore Art Museum (the current exhibit features American artists' impressions of Rome at the turn of the century) and the Farmers' Museum, a living museum and ode to farming, with maple syrup-making and butter-churning demonstrations and a blacksmith shop. A special anniversary package starts at $299, breakfast included, through June...