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...experience. Here you're being asked to sympathize with a rich, famous actress because she is slightly less rich and famous than she wants to be. That wouldn't matter much if Fat Actress were funnier, but it's simply as indulgent as a pint of Chunky Monkey. Think it's impossible to make fun of your weight on TV and still end up with a vanity project? Fat Actress proves you wrong again. --By James Poniewozik
Perhaps anticipating that outcome, Perot does not rule out running himself. When asked why his name and face are featured on the new party's ads, Perot told Larry King that it is "like the albino monkey at the zoo"--the freak who draws more visitors. But will Perot's familiar, grinning mug attract more voters to a third party or drive them away? It is a question only a billionaire could pursue...
...once accidentally turned in a picture to Diversity & Distinction of myself in a semi-monkey suite...
...allegations against him. MEANWHILE IN CHINA ... Nothing to Crow About So much for the hen that lays the golden egg. The Chinese year of the chicken - which dawns this week - has brought hard times for vendors of the nation's New Year toy mascots. 2004's year of the monkey saw huge demand for toy simians. But surplus plastic roosters and terry-cloth chicks are still crowding store shelves in Beijing . Some blame the problem on the inadequate cuteness of domesticated fowl; others point to the fact that the Chinese word for chicken is slang for prostitute...
...that decision does not sit well with a lot of Americans. So at a time when religious faith is increasingly worn on public sleeves--most prominently that of the President--a dispute that dates back to the celebrated 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" is being replayed around the country in legislatures, courts, school-board meetings and parent-teacher conferences. School administrators in rural Dover, Pa., visited biology classes last week to read a declaration proclaiming, among other things, that "Darwin's theory [of evolution] ... is a theory, not a fact." And in suburban Cobb County, Ga., officials pasted stickers on biology...