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JUDGMENT CALL For women, it can be empowering; for everyone, not a bad way to access your inner beast...
...probably watch. Because no matter how hackneyed the trappings get, there's still a fresh beast at the heart of every season: A cast of 16 ordinary money-hunters and exposure-seekers who find out what it's like to want to be stranded on a desert island, and the possibility of one of them - maybe a nurse and mother of two with a sweet smile, a steel spine and a mortgage - will win a million bucks...
...gentle giant, contentedly living alone in the middle of the woods, going about his business, scaring away the occasional angry mob intent on slaying him-you know, the usual things ogres do. However, Shrek's happy, if lonely, life is disrupted when little Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) enlists the beast to track down Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), whom the monarch seeks to make his bride. Joining Shrek in this journey, due to the law mandated by Animation Codes and Regulations Section 231b, is a wacky sidekick. In this case, that character takes the form of a donkey, aptly named Donkey...
...dollars Disney has made repackaging the theme of pretty-but-unusual-girl-gets-lucky: handsome prince marries a sea creature (The Little Mermaid), handsome prince marries maiden who's been dozing for a hundred years (Sleeping Beauty), newly handsome prince marries bookworm with eccentric dad (Beauty and the Beast). Funny, though: the curtain falls at the wedding. The implicit message is that the chase is more exciting than the prize...
...100th falls on Sunday, April 29. Rove, an autodidact and amateur historian, insists that presidents should be judged on a 180-day timetable, since the legislative calendar follows one. That theory won't stop the barrage of analysis that will begin this week, so, to feed the media beast, Rove and Hughes met with GOP surrogates in the Old Executive Office Building last Thursday to hand out a script. The central message: Bush will not overhype the moment. The White House is presenting its achievements as a celebration of the joint accomplishments of Bush and Congress. The President will entertain...