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Send in the teen clichés. Alvin (voiced by Justin Long) joins the football team and wins a game; Simon (Matthew Gray Gubler) gets a toilet swirlie from the jock bullies; Theodore (Jesse McCartney), fretting that his brother act is close to breakup, runs away from home and gets menaced by an eagle at the zoo. There's also a musical-talent sing-off that pits the little guys against a female trio of chipmunks, the Chipettes, laboring under the management of evil Ian Hawke (David Cross), the villain from the first movie...
...Parisian courtroom last week as it finished taking testimony about a vast wiretapping scheme driven in part by Mitterrand's personal obsessions. His illness, first diagnosed in 1981, the year he took power, resurfaces in lurid detail this week in a book - written by his personal doctor, Claude Gubler - originally banned by a French court in 1996 for breaching the President's medical privacy. His foreign policy, often considered driven by small-minded jealousies, is presented in a far more positive light by several historical works due out soon. Even his fatherhood is getting another airing: later this month Mitterrand...
...however, Mitterrand's blood tests showed the cancer had started to grow again. Surgery was now unavoidable, and Mitterrand had to tell the public about his condition. According to Dr. Gubler, the French President was so sick during his last months in office that "he was no longer capable of carrying out his duties," a claim that Mitterrand's family and the politicians who worked with--and against--him deny. In any event, he turned over the keys of office to his successor, Jacques Chirac, last May. Finally, three Saturdays ago, according to the French newspaper Le Monde, he asked...
...question of how sick Mitterrand was, and when he learned about it, is now the center of a fierce political debate in France. Last week his former personal physician, Dr. Claude Gubler, published a book disclosing that Mitterrand had, despite promises to be candid about his health in office, kept the seriousness of his cancer secret from the public for more than a decade. Shortly after publication, a French court banned the book from sale...
...vision is lyrical, and his execution is both monumental and uncannily luminous. Sunshine and clear air seem to flow over the rich, rolling land of Gubler's canvases into the rooms where they hang...