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...Erotic Roman caricatures depict her as a harlot. She is a sensual and tragic figure in Renaissance paintings and objets d'art. Her modern face comes straight from Hollywood, embodied most famously in 1963 by Elizabeth Taylor-whose off-screen affair with her own Mark Antony, co-star Richard Burton, recalled the 14th century writer Giovanni Boccaccio's description of Cleopatra as a woman "who became an object of gossip for the whole world...
Does Giuliani think his kids or their schoolyard friends --and enemies--don't read the papers? G.O.P. outrage must be in the same lockbox it rested in when family-values conservatives like Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde and Dan Burton were found to have indulged in the same conduct for which they were condemning others. Rudy himself is a Morality Czar, trying to shut down strip clubs and block funding for museums he finds offensive to Catholics. He's becoming offensive to Catholics. Can someone shut him down...
...remote-control fireplaces! The never-cooked-in kitchens! The shark tanks! HGTV president Burton Jablin admits it's all a bit far removed from the sawdusty realm of Bob Vila. But the shows have helped fast-growing HGTV expand beyond its swatch-wielding base. "It's informational voyeurism," Jablin says, maintaining that the average homesteader can still take away useful tips from Joy Philbin interviewing Ivana Trump in her "cozy," 10,000-sq.-ft. Palm Beach house on At Home with... ("Set yourself a budget!" Ivana advises.) "Though," he adds, "certainly people also watch for the catty appeal of saying...
www.planetoftheapes.com LOOK Trippy, futuristic, hairy TIME WASTER Meditate on director Tim Burton's simian haircut. Listen to him repeatedly insist this is not a remake OVERALL MERIT Good effort, but pixels can't evoke those damn dirty apes...
rebellion. Director Burton has long been quoted as not wanting to produce a sequel or a remake of the original, so campy antics will be largely gone, and the Statue of Liberty ending is definitely excluded. Online trailers suggest a sprawling epic, replete with dazzling pyrotechnics and extensive blending of animatronics and live actors to animate the thousands of primates that appear sympathetic or belligerent. It's got the trappings of standard summer blockbuster fare, but Burton's brooding atmospheric photography (Batman) and quirky, alternative sensibilities (Beetlejuice) should guarantee more depth than the rest of the summer's offerings. [Interesting...