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Winter movie preview: Can 'Dolittle' do it for Iron Man? Will 'Mulan' outdo Disney's recent do-overs?

Greetings from Chicago, where we just spent the second-warmest Christmas in nearly 150 years.

Warm weather meant football outside, and eating strata and habanero-spiced chili and homemade pie inside at my wife's parents' place. My father-in-law's annual model train set-up around the Christmas tree included a drive-in movie scene, complete with two dozen little cars and a drive-in screen (portrayed by a portable DVD player) showing "American Graffiti. That film comes from a time when director George Lucas hadn't yet become the Palpatine

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