Pendulum Honey-Glazed Ham

After failing miserably to duplicate the success and quality of Tim Burton's Pee Wee's Big Adventure with Big Top Pee-Wee, one has to wonder why director Randal Kleiser would get the keys to another popular franchise. Perhaps Kleiser isn't completely to blame, but Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is an altogether unworthy follow-up to 1989's Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, nonetheless. Stinking of greed on the part of all parties involved and featuring performances that are completely phoned in, the sequel is...

Dark Angel-lead Jessica Alba stars in the title role of this film, the feature debut from music-video director Bille Woodruff. Honey is a girl from the streets who works in a record store, teaches the occasional dance class at a community center, and treks downtown every weekend to hit the clubs and try out some new moves. There, she meets a music video producer (David Moscow) who offers her a chance to be a choreographer -- but at a price she eventually learns she's unwilling to pay. Determined...

Solo performer: Jerry Clower (spoken vocals).Jerry Clower.Producers: Caroline Prutzman; Snuffy Miller.Jerry Clower's Country Ham is guaranteed to make you happier than a pig in slop -- although the record was originally issued in 1974, routines like "The She Coon of Women's Lib," "Ole Slantface," and "The Young People of Today" sound even fresher decades later, proof positive that Clower's genius is truly timeless. ~ Chuck Donkers