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...inexpensive tearjerker will earn about $80 million. Rookie of the Year (a boy and his fastball) and Dennis the Menace (a boy and his grandparent surrogate) have won solid numbers, and Searching for Bobby Fischer (a boy and his pawn) may find fanciers. Enough kids are seeing the 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to make it Disney's top film of the summer. But given all the toddler fodder Hollywood produced, the Children's Crusade did not show up in force...
...about as funny as lung cancer. He plays Rabbi Tuckman, a Friar Tuck stand-in who acts as master of circumcision with the slogan "Circumcision: Half-off". (Ouch!) His strong (only?) point is gratuitous penis humor, used so that the kids in the audience, who should be seeing "Snow White," would get a chuckle. Some people, such as Brooks, should not direct and act at the same time--nor, for that matter, should we let them do either separately...
...world's largest indoor ski slope has no up-close competition from nature -- and that explains the excitement over it. SSAWS, which stands for Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter Snow, is a $366.9 million building shaped like a giant mechanical centipede whose highest hump reaches 25 stories. On opening day two weeks ago, hundreds of summer skiers, eager to escape muggy Tokyo, lined up for the first runs down the slopes. Regular, outdoor Japanese slopes are notoriously crowded -- and SSAWS is likely to be as well when it is fully operational. However, SSAWS is only 30 min. from Tokyo Station...
SSAWS is also much better kept. The 1,607-ft. slopes are routinely groomed to take out moguls and ice spots that might send skiers crashing into the wall. Every night workers lay down a fine layer of fresh powder. "The quality of the snow is incredibly good here," says Mihoko Ehara, 24, a waitress. "But because it is so good, I think that if you skied here too often you might lose touch." Still, unlike Seagaia, SSAWS really has little to offer apart from snow. The skiing is fine for the first few runs -- and is especially surreal...
...meteorologists have more than just last week to answer for. In March, 20 states from Florida to Maine were briefly paralyzed by an atmospheric oddity that scientists called an extratropical cyclone -- a blizzard with hurricane- strength winds that blanketed parts of North Carolina with 50 in. of snow. In early winter, some Southwest cities got a year's supply of rain in six weeks. A record number of tornadoes (1,381 in all) touched down on U.S. soil last year, as well as the nation's costliest weather disaster, Hurricane Andrew, which destroyed $20 billion worth of property in Florida...