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Nobody would mistake Bubble Boy, the Disney Touchstone movie that opened last week, for high art. It's full of the tasteless humor and crude pratfalls that appeal to fifth-grade boys. Critics have called it a "gross-out comedy." But at least one boy was not amused. "I was just furious," says Jason Shuman, 10, of Sudbury, Mass. "I thought it was a movie that shouldn't have been out in the first place." No wonder. Like the film's hero, Jimmy Livingston, Jason suffers from an immune-system disorder that makes him highly susceptible to infections...
DIED. KIM STANLEY, 76, protean Broadway actress, most admired for portraying a dizzying range of characters--a tomboy kid sister in William Inge's Picnic (1953), a nightclub chanteuse in Bus Stop (1955)--with notable humor and pathos; in Santa Fe, N.M. Stanley also made a few scattered but striking film appearances, earning Academy Award nominations for her roles as a deranged psychic in Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and the tyrannical mother in Frances...
...might say Rat Race is an updated variant of It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, except that the new film was directed by a guy who actually has a sense of humor (Jerry Zucker) and written by a funny guy named Andy Breckman...
...revelation, for it sets before us an artist who deserves to be rated as one of the great American talents, and should have been long ago; an aesthete of unshakable integrity who looked and talked like Popeye the Sailor Man, a cigar-chomping wisecracker of diabolic humor whose curriculum vitae (timber worker, carpenter, sailor, U.S. Marine Corps marksman, acrobat, gandy dancer and voluble loner) was not, to put it mildly, of a kind normal in the art world...
...husband. She left her abusive spouse, put herself through college, became a lawyer, then a self-help/spiritual guru, motivational speaker, best-selling author and perennial Oprah visitor. Now, with her own syndicated show launching Aug. 13, Vanzant is hoping the same life story, empathy and straight-talking humor that made her the quintessential talk-show guest can make her the quintessential talk-show host...