Word: scardino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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APPOINTED. MARJORIE SCARDINO, 49, head of the firm that publishes the Economist; as CEO of the media conglomerate Pearson; in London. She is American and the first woman to lead a major British public company. STEPPING DOWN. DAVID BRINKLEY, 76, acerbic network-news fixture; as host of ABC's This Week with David Brinkley; on Nov. 10; in Washington...
starring Hal Scardino...
Omri, played by Hal Scardino, is a young boy who brings his plastic action-figures to life by placing them inside a magic cupboard in his bedroom. He locks the door with a magic key, and when he opens the doors again, the figures come alive...
Unfortunately for this film version, much of that charm is lost in the corny way Scardino delivers his lines...
...Scardino's freckles and Letterman-style gap between his front teeth are cute from far away. When they take up the entire screen for the majority of the film, however, you begin to wish the director would cut to a Scope commercial and remind kids to brush their teeth...