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Rachel's birth virtually collided with last year's media blitz about new brain research that warned of the need to provide our youngest citizens with a rich array of stimulating experiences. Everyone from Rob Reiner and Robin Williams to the Clintons embraced the cause. The White House even held a baby-brain summit. As a new mom, I was intrigued--and unnerved--by the scientific breakthroughs and dire warnings about the consequences of ignoring them...
...king of the (ant)hill for a second consecutive weekend, while former champ "Rush Hour" moved up a notch to second position, according to studio estimates. "Antz" earned about $15.4 million, followed by Jackie Chan's "Rush Hour" with $11.5 million. "What Dreams May Come," an afterlife romance starring Robin Williams, fell one place to third with $11 million. The nightclub comedy "A Night at the Roxbury" held steady at fourth with $6.2 million...
...seem about as compatible as Apple Jacks and peanut butter. But with the channel's first fiction contest, MTV has managed to find a novel that sets the demands of pop culture alongside the standards of literary fiction and emerges as a unified whole. The winner of the contest, Robin Troy '96 delivers Floating, a novel that is young and entertaining enough to be MTV, yet mature and developed enough to be thought-provoking and powerful...
...Robin Williams, fresh from his Academy Award, again leaves his comedic training behind him in his role as Chris Nielsen, who dies in a car accident and must travel from heaven to hell to save his wife (Annabella Sciorra) after she commits suicide in her despair over his death. Although the plot is the standard quest situation, it demands that the film deal with the question of religion, God and the afterlife. Somehow they drop God from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams...
...soundtracks inevitably surface as a particular season's Love Song. Be it sentimental (Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" from Armageddon), bitter and/or vengeful (Mary J. Blige's "I'm Not Gonna Cry" from Waiting to Exhale) or, most common of all, composed by Bryan Adams (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves's "Everything I Do [I Do it For You]," Don Juan DeMarco's "[Have You Ever] Really Loved a Woman?"), these Love Songs dominate radio play-lists and often surpass their related movies in popularity. Indeed, how many of last year's senior proms were perfumed...