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...April, ABC-TV will air a prime-time special on brain development, directed by Rob Reiner and featuring such A-list stars as Tom Hanks and Robin Williams. It's the opening shot of an elaborate multimedia blitz that is coordinated by Families and Work Institute, based in New York City, and includes public-service announcements, magazine specials, home videos, online sites and CD-ROMS. "I couldn't create a big, federally funded program," says Reiner. "But I certainly can put on a show to raise awareness about how the first three years critically impact the way a child later...
...Reiner says he became interested in baby brain activity three years ago during his own analysis. Now he is taking his case directly to the top. He has been urging President Clinton to host a Washington summit on the subject, and last month sat beside Hillary Clinton at a White House arts-award dinner. The next day she gave a speech that included a long section on early-childhood learning. "It's an important issue for the President to get on," says Reiner. "You talk about trying to fix the welfare situation. This...
...Reiner is one of dozens of celebrities who have joined Hollywood's latest children's crusade. Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston and Henry Winkler have all donated their names, their time and even their money to various kids' causes. Not only did Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw co-found the Children's Action Network, which makes educational films and sponsors immunization campaigns, but Spielberg also chairs the Starbright Foundation, an innovative charity group that deploys entertainment technologies to help ease the suffering of sick children...
...Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi, written by Lewis Colick, purrs along like a TV movie with a grander budget. And like those fact-based disease-of-the-week dramas (the virus here is racism), this one is defeated by its lack of suspense. The case's outcome isn't the only thing that's predictable; so are the prejudices and motives of nearly every character...
Abortion controversy? We got it: Citizen Ruth stars Laura Dern as a pro-choice icon who changes her mind. The I.R.A.? No problem: Some Mother's Son has flinty Helen Mirren playing the mother of a Belfast hunger striker. And American racism? Take your pick. Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi re-enacts the trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the murderer of Medgar Evers; John Singleton's Rosewood is about the attempt to dislodge an affluent black community...