Enough is enough. Though there's probably more to say about the Newsweek story, which has received the dead-horse treatment here over the past week, I'll hold my tongue for now. Suffice it to say that the more people I talked to this week, the more clear I became that the story did not sketch a picture of happiness for anyone. That, of course, is a load of what Eddie Murphy, nowadays, would call poop.

And speaking of Mr. Murphy, Daddy Day Care opened today to generally sour reviews. The two big complaints: 1) the comedy is as sfe and sickly sweet as can be (true) and 2) Eddie has completely lost the edge that made him such a fun guy to watch in the 1980s (also true). At least two reviews suggested that he was becoming Bill Cosby, a target of Eddie in his younger days. This was not meant as a compliment. I still enjoyed the 90 minutes (as did newly minted Pultizer-prize-winning critic Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post. The only other Pulitzer-prize-winning film critic, Robert Ebert, hated it), but the film won't be remembered at Oscar time. It may not be remembered a month from now, when it'll be out on video ...

Daddy Day Care did give a springboard to at least one dad: Hogan Hilling penned an editorial for his hometown paper suggesting that some stereotypes about dads worth doing away with were instead being given the Eddie Murphy treatment. I can't say that the movie offended my sensibilities in the same way (I'm pretty hard to offend, though), but Hogan came through with the line of the week: "The fact is that we as a society don't have much trust in men as caregivers for our children." All in favor of changing that, raise your hands ...