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Devlin and Emmerich's Godzilla is accused of being annoyingly Spielbergian and lacking personality as well as wits: "Any forefather (and, given his reproductive capacities, foremother) of a new species that chooses to travel halfway around the globe to lay his eggs in the middle of Manhattan doesn't seem built to survive, evolutionarily speaking" (David Edelstein, Slate ). The film's failure (it's doing relatively poorly at the box office) may also be due to overexposure to disaster movies.
Last month, feminist foremother Gloria Steinem took to the New York Times op-ed page to argue that the sexual harassment laws should not protect Paula Jones.
Well, any forefather (and, given his reproductive capacities, foremother) of a new species that chooses to travel halfway around the globe to lay his eggs in the middle of Manhattan doesn't seem built to survive, evolutionarily speaking.