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...this rather twee family lacks. Royal stirs them all to life, and this great, bumptious performance by an actor gleefully rediscovering his funny bone stirs us to appreciative life too. As with Anderson's Rushmore, there's a certain annoying preciousness to this film--it's not so consistently wise or amusing as he thinks it is--but it has its moments...
GRANDPARENT COOL Just a generation ago, elderly people in children's literature were often portrayed as grumpy, mean or doddering, but a University of Florida study has found that contemporary kids books now overwhelmingly depict grandparents as upbeat, active and wise. Researchers believe that elders are getting added positive attention because more people are living to be active grandparents. The number of people age 65 or older has tripled over the past 50 years to a record 420 million worldwide, and older people in general are better educated, retiring earlier and living longer, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report...
When Rosanne Cacciarelli Wise, the third-grade teacher, first sees Mike, she too bursts into tears and does a small swoon. "Before Sept. 11, a hero to these children was Superman on TV," she tells him. "After everything awful that happened, they need some good to come out of it, and you've been that for them the last few months. They need a hero they can see and touch...
...never comfortable "sittin' in the sun, countin' my money," to quote the title of a Berlin tune that Louis Armstrong took to #30 in 1953. Around that time he prepared a musical, never produced, about Wilson and Addison Mizner (a Sondheim musical on the Mizner brothers, "Wise Guys," has languished for years). His last produced musical, the 1962 "Mr. President," meant to capitalize on the fascination with Jack and Jackie Kennedy but ran only eight months. He spent more than a decade on a sixth trunk-song film, "Say It With Music," which was finally killed...
...Mood-of-the-nation-wise, December had a few things going for it that may not last. The war in Afghanistan went swimmingly, with the Taliban crumbling at every turn and al-Qaeda troops scattering to the four winds (and some U.S. detention camps). The stock market - no doubt drawing heavily on the feel-good war news - rose about as fast and as steadily as the Taliban fell. And for those in a reflective mood, who couldn't feel confident about 2002 being better than 2001? Why, it's just...