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Mattel: When kids "read" to Goodnight Blue from her favorite storybook, she closes her eyes, lowers her ears and gradually fades off to sleep and starts to snore.
It pulls a couple of amusing tricks with its narrative (the second act doesn't come until after the fourth, whereupon everything starts to--sort of--make sense), but this kind of flimsy romantic confection is either utterly charming or it collapses into a heavy slab of obviousness.
One of the problems with a presidential year is that it starts so early.
But all the papers fail to explain how a storm qualifies as a hurricane (once its top sustained winds pass 74 mph) as well as the quaint method by which tropical storms and hurricanes are named (an alphabetical system that starts over each year with a name beginning with "A" and is planned years in advance, so that we already know that the first such storm of 2002 in the Atlantic region will be called Arthur, the second Bertha, and the eighth Hortense).
. . The one bright spot of the night: At 8 PM, TNT starts its 24-hour marathon of A Christmas Story . This movie captures what being a kid during the holidays is about: demented Santas, bickering parents, and the endless agonizing over whether you'll receive the year's hot toy.