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...shouldn't worry-not yet anyway. Flesh-and-blood thespian Sean Hayes blesses Mr. Tinkles-and the audience-with a hilarious effete voice and wicked ad libs, and the movie is better for it. Another promising sign for humans: in Planet of the Apes, opening next month, director Tim Burton creates talking animals the old-fashioned way-by putting actors in monkey suits. As Stanley Kubrick realized more than three decades ago, computers have their place, but so does primitivism, even...
...spokesman for Burton said Wednesday that no investigation or hearings are planned. And the White House is refusing, for the most part, to cooperate with a General Accounting Office investigation, requested by Democrats, of the operations of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force. In fact, much tongue-clucking has ensued over at the White House. "We understand that there have been past, partisan battles over investigations, but these were battles and investigations this president and this administration were not involved in - this president was off in Texas being governor," Bush aide Dan Bartlett told the Washington Post...
...that belies two facts. One, the Bush Administration has actually rewarded some of those who doggedly pursued alleged wrongdoing by the Clinton crew with prominent administration jobs. And two, Burton himself is still investigating Clinton-connected events, six months after the man himself rode out of town...
...Alfonse D'Amato's chief counsel in his Whitewater investigation. Ted Olson is now solicitor general, having spent part of the last 8 years helping out with the American Spectator's zealous prosecution of Bill Clinton -even as his wife, Barbara Olson, who used to work for Dan Burton, appeared on a fleet of TV talk shows defending Ken Starr's investigation of Clinton. Brett Kavanaugh, who used to work on Starr's independent counsel probe, is now ensconced in the White House counsel's office. And Tim Griffin, a former Burton investigator, has been operating in a sort...
...Then there's Burton himself. He continues to pursue the matter of Clinton's 11th-hour pardons, and maybe he should - even though there's a serious grand jury probe already being run out of the U.S. Attorney's office in New York. But last Friday he called a hearing on a nine-year-old Florida case involving a former local official who says he was abused by investigators working for Janet Reno, then the chief prosecutor of Miami-Dade County. The alleged victim fled to Australia after being cited for contempt of court, maybe because his car theft report...