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...Dalmatians" is more than a keen marketing ploy, although Disney is sure to accumulate plenty of doggie dollars. Director Stephen Herek has smartly chosen to remain faithful to the cartoon, maintaining the story's buoyant wit and inherent cuddliness. One hundred and one adorable Dalmatians are difficult to resist, and the film works well even without the luxury of canine dialogue. But the best reason to see "101 Dalmatians" is the wickedly entertaining performance of Glenn Close, who is perfectly cast at the dastardly Cruella...
...film's closing scenes are the only time when the story diverges from its animated predecessor. Screenwriter John Hughes can't resist turning the film into a hybrid of one of his "Home Alone" movies, featuring a drawn-out sequence of physical comedy. De Vil's henchmen Horace and Jasper play the Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci roles, as they are flung through windows and into frozen ponds. Cruella ends up the victim of much of this comic buffoonery, as she is kicked by a horse, squashed by an overweight hog, and immersed in a vat of molasses. This sequence...
...harmony ends there, however, because Detroit is likely to resist the proposal for smart air bags. Automakers insist that elaborate systems tailored to the weight and position of each occupant would be difficult to engineer and test, and could add as much as $600 to the cost of each vehicle. But just as in its earlier opposition to air bags, Detroit may learn to live with all that extra trouble--and so too may the driving public...
Reeves is determined to resist the government's strong-arm tactics. He has declared that he will go to jail before he sells out his students, claiming that the government is attempting to undermine academic freedom...
Student demonstrators at U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Riverside have demanded that university administrators resist following Prop. 209 guidelines, reduce student fees and rename a building at the Berkeley campus in honor of Mexican-American labor activist Cesar Chavez, according to U.C. Berkeley spokesperson Robert L. Sanders...