My Week with the Beanstalk  Dec 2 - 4, 2001  My Week Contents
What if the fairy tale were true?    And what if it were four
hours long? And what if it starred Matthew Modine and Vanessa
Redgrave? What would you do then, huh, smart guy? Betcha never
thought of that one.   Hour One           Hour Two          
Hour Three           Hour Four    Hour One:    What are you
talking about? What's going on?      Jim Henson's Jack and the
Beanstalk: The Real Story is the amazing story of a really
pretty guy who doesn't know anything. He's really cute and rich
and everybody seems to like him a whole bunch, but he's pretty
clueless, and nobody ever tells him what's going on. There.
That's Hour One.      Seriously. That's about it.       But now
I have a whole column to write about it, so here goes. Jack is
played by Matthew Modine, a pretty movie star with really nice
hair. In an early scene, we see him with a tight T-shirt walking
on a treadmill, and he's all muscly and lit in a warm, golden
glow, so he looks like he'