'BUBBLE' TROUBLE Remember John Travolta's 1976 movie ''The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,'' about a guy with Primary Immunodeficiency? Now imagine it played for laughs. That's the premise of Disney's ''Bubble Boy'' (Aug. 24), starring Jake Gyllenhaal, and at least one person doesn't think it's funny. Fred Modell, who runs the Jeffrey Modell Foundation (named for his son who died of the disorder), says he called studio executive Andrea Marozas and asked if Disney would help increase awareness of the disease, or even add a coda about the syndrome in the end credits. Marozas agreed to work with him, according to Modell, only to tell him weeks later that they were ''on their own.'' Marozas wouldn't comment, but a Disney source says, ''We did investigate [possibilities], but when it came down to who the movie is marketed towards, it didn't make sense. [Teenagers] aren't going to read the credits or click on to their website.''
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