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...broken (possibly as a result of being dropped); a mandible had been snapped and crudely repaired; and the highly important solitary skull appeared to have had pieces rubbed, scratched and broken off it. It's now alleged that the damage was most likely caused by someone making a cast with a special substance that is painted or sprayed on and hardens into a rubbery mold. Equally infuriating to scientists is the possibility that the supposed illicit casting may have altered the skull so no exact record of it can now be made. "It's simply outrageous," says Peter Brown...
...Brown used computerized tomography (CT) scans and computer imagery to make the Morwood team's cast of the skull. He claims the crude cast-making method that damaged the skull is illegal. "It's a bit like some scholar went to the British Museum and stole the Rosetta Stone and made a copy of it, trashed the original in doing it - then had the only copy,'' he says. Jacob denies that any damage was done to the bones in his lab - or even that a cast has been made. "(The Australians) blame us for everything," he says. "They think they...
...Brown believes he has proof that a cast was, in fact made. There are witnesses to the process in Jacob's lab, he claims, and part of the returned skull is covered in "red gunk" consistent with casting. He says there could be several reasons for making an illegal cast. Copies could fetch up to $5,000 from museums abroad. Jacob "might just want this copy for his private collection," he says. "But he's gone to a hell of a lot of trouble for something he's claiming is not important...
...center, Melinda can boast a charismatic actress. Mitchell has often been cast as the excess-baggage wife (Phone Booth, Man on Fire, Finding Neverland). Here, channeling the neuroses of all preceding Allen heroines, she exudes a hurt and danger, an intensely sexual intelligence that plays off her patrician beauty. In her care, Melinda is part comic, part tragic, all magic. --By Richard Corliss
...Bruce Almighty and Ferrell as the weatherman in Anchorman. On March 24, he will play the lead in NBC's remake of the beloved BBC sitcom The Office. There's also a Woody Allen movie, a Nicole Kidman movie and Virgin, which he co-wrote. And he has been cast as the lead in a film version of Get Smart, despite the fact that the spy-spoof remake doesn't have a director, a script or even a concept. "Plus, I might have been in Racing Stripes," he says. "I don't even know...