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...everything involving the Drifters was some kind of wonderful. The singers were shamelessly exploited by their manager, George Treadwell. He owned the group outright; he paid the members a salary of about $500 a month, which covered payment for all recording dates and an exhausting tour schedule - and they received no royalties from their hit records. When Ben E. King confronted Treadwell for a raise, he was booted out of the group...
...Burton?s "reimagining" did score one outright coup. The insight that apes, if they did indeed take over a planet, would still behave very much like apes - and even more so when angry or otherwise aroused - was a clear improvement on Schaffner?s stiffly human-aping overlords. Led by Tim Roth?s manic and maniacal (if slightly hammy) turn as General Thade and Helena Bonham Carter's incredible suffusing of her liberal-princess chimp with a warm and sexy glow, the hairy actors rule this movie. And of course Burton?s choice of Rick Baker as makeup man made...
...Beijing won the Games easily. In voting that could have gone four rounds, the capital captured an outright majority of 56 ballots in the second. Paris, a top rival, polled a paltry 18 votes?four behind the other front-runner, Toronto. French politicians immediately acted like sore losers, and pointed to the problems that have dogged China's bid from the start. "I am saddened for Paris, but ashamed for the Olympics," said centrist parliamentarian Alain Madelin, who added that China deserves a gold medal for violating human rights...
...fall, CCA-treated lumber sold in the U.S. will contain a warning label, and stores will be provided with stickers and signs for their displays. At the same time, the Consumer Product Safety Commission agreed to ask for public comments on petitions that could lead to an outright ban of CCA. In Florida, dozens of playgrounds have been shut down, and Governor Jeb Bush has ordered a state-run wood-treatment plant to switch to another preservative. While adults wrestle with the politics of the problem, however, it's kids who may be paying the ultimate price...
Democrats made sure the MCCAIN-EDWARDS-KENNEDY bill reached the Senate floor first. But many Republicans hope to modify it with large chunks of the rival BREAUX-FRIST-JEFFORDS bill (or kill it outright with amendments). Kennedy will have to budge on some issues--like whether the bill will pre-empt state laws. Bush hopes the bill gets weakened before it reaches the conference committee, leaving room for compromises he wants...