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...kid in movies, fresh from beltin' 'em out on Broadway, Hutton seemed unaware the camera she was playing to wasn't in the upper balcony, it was as close as a lover; or that movies had perfected a sound system that carried her voice into the theaters. So she sold every word, every note, every gesture, as if she were on a mountaintop and the audience down in the valley. "Watching her in action," TIME wrote in the Hutton cover story, "has some of the fascination of waiting for a wildly sputtering fuse to touch off an alarmingly large firecracker...
...every bit as rumbustious as his star, nonetheless cast her as the recipient of most of the mayhem rather than the perp; and he didn't give her any numbers to sing. The set pieces here are all conversations - between Trudy and Norval or Trudy and her savvy kid sister (Diana Lynn) - eight extended dialogues, from two to four mins. long, and most of them done without cutting away. That means the performers have to build the emotion, the tension, the comedy, on their own, relying on their timing to take each scene from zero to 60. Hutton manages this...
...circumcised to minimize wind resistance." In his early maturity he has soft curls and a winsome grace; Chazz sneers that he looks "like a 15-year-old girl, but not hot.") When Jimmy is stripped of his gold medal, his father immediately "unadopts" him and dumps the kid at the side of a highway. Even his No. 1 fan, against whom Jimmy has a restraining order, complains that "It's embarrassing stalking a has-been...
...Press published The End of Adolescence, by psychiatrist Philip Graham, who argued that British teens deserved more respect and less condescension from adults. But Epstein's book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen, goes even further: it says that once they can prove themselves competent, kids should have all the rights of adults. "Just about everything we do tells [teens] they're incompetent," Epstein writes. "We protect them from danger (driving, cigarettes, alcohol); we don't trust them to work or own property ... We don't allow them to make basic decisions about their health, education...
...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy or pdf.] THE LAST MIMZY Rated PG Opened March 23 MEET THE ROBINSONS Rated G Opened March 30 BLADES OF GLORY Rated PG-13 Opened March 30 ARE WE DONE YET? Rated PG Opens April 4 WHAT THE MOVIE IS ABOUT Kids find weird toys on the beach that give them strange powers. Trouble with the law ensues Orphan geek boy travels to the future to foil a plot by a nefarious man in a bowler hat Two feuding ice skaters--one rough, one gentle--must work together to have a future...