Sonny: Hi Julian. How you doin’? I’m Scuba Sam, Scuba Steve’s father. You see my boy needs to take a bath. The only problem is he’s afraid to bathe alone. So I was wondering if maybe you could keep him company in the tub.
Julian: [nods his approval]
Sonny: Terrific! And after the bath you have to try and study hard. ‘Cause if you want to be a member of the Scuba Squad, you have to be smart.
Julian: I can be in the Scuba Squad?
Sonny: Oh sure! All you have to do is work hard. And don’t tell a soul about the Scuba Squad ‘cause then everybody’s gonna want to join. And one more thing, be nice to the delivery guy, would ya? It’s not his fault he can’t read. Take care.
Hard to believe it’s been 25 years (and a day) since Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy hit the big screen. The Rotten Tomatoes divide remains one for the ages: 39% Critics vs. a 74% Audience Score. Its accolades were equally split. Sandler won Best Actor in Blockbuster’s Entertainment and Kids’ Choices awards and took home the Worst Actor in the Golden Raspberry awards.
If you’ll pardon us flexing our dork-ness, the dismal science scored -80% for regional service sector activity in June. Month to date, four out of the five gauges from Federal Reserve Banks of New York (-4.7, purple line), Philadelphia (2.9, light green line), Richmond (-11.0, light blue line), Chicago (-16.7, yellow line) and Dallas (-4.1, lilac line) flagged a contraction in activity. That the broad-based weakness has persisted for nearly two years warns of a deep impairment in service sector revenues.