Posted 11:44 AM by Gene

And elsewhere in the vast world of idle typing, a pop-cultyure cri-TIC insists there's a big market for "family" films -- films, we don't need to guess, like AAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLVIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!! This, our pop-cultyure cri-TIC wants us to believe, is an advance for the public. We should point out for starters that Walt Disney died in 1966. Moreover the last twenty years have been littered with "family" movies that were mostly about merchandising (witness anything starring SHREK or the characters of DR. SEUSS) or synergistic tie-ins (like the ROWLINGCORP and LUKE SPIELBERG tentpoles) or glorified grossout comedies. Just because THE CONSPIRACY says something is suitable for kids doesn't mean diddly-squat. If good taste has been split off from quality (and we know what that's done to quality), here we have the kiddie audience split off from both. So now we have three-way dreck. Nor do we forget SAMMY GLICKMAN's boys have been trying to up the ante by pushing more violence into "family" films; the show-biz résumé writers drooled when ROWLINGCORP made its tie-ins more "edgy." Even if we take this flackery on the level it's not flattering that so many parents use the popcorn restaurants for baby-sitting. Meantime we will certainly NOT forget how these toadies helped invent NC-17 in hopes it could destigmatize pornography. When it comes to show-biz the press speaks not with a mere forked tongue but with a complete 32-piece set.