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Among apes there are few celebrities: Tarzan's pal Cheetah, Dian Fossey's friend Digit and, of course, King Kong. Now we can add a female to that list. BINTI JUA ("Daughter of Sunshine") was sitting in her enclosure at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo when a three-year-old toddler, in the uncontrolled exuberance common to his species, fell 18 ft. into the area, knocking himself out. Although his lack of fur showed he was not one of her brood, and Koola, her daughter, was clinging to her side, Binti gathered the boy gently in her arms and took...
...hiking trip: make sure you take a friend along and run like hell. In choosing your companion, it is important that you select someone older, in worse physical shape and with more cellulite than you. You don't have to outrun the bear. You just have to outrun your pal. JOEL R. BRYAN Westlake Village, California
...actions are thoroughly loath-some--particularly torturous is one scene where he reluctantly meets his phone pal in person--but he hates himself for doing it all. He's not a malicious or perverted person (he takes a train to Amelia's and Laura's country house when they start receiving obscene phone calls), but merely weak, still treating his discomfort with his Alzheimer's-afflicted father with teenagerly stubbornness...
McConaughey was the only actor that Schumacher and Grisham could agree on for the role. Still, Schumacher was worried that the film might founder on the tiny pebble of its star's anonymity. So he eliminated it. At Christmas he mentioned to his close pal Liz Smith that her fellow Texan was hot stuff. She duly noted it in her column. "I've never even met Matthew McConaughey," Smith admits. "But I trust what Joel tells me." Schumacher then hosted a screening of the unfinished film for New York City's media elite. Out of that came a Vanity Fair...
...outlines of "The Nutty Professor" go back to our old pal(s) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and, more specifically, the Jerry Lewis classic by the same name. In this version, however, the professor, Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy, thanks to seamless makeup) consumes a formula that cures both the excessive frumpiness and (in a twist on the original film) lumpiness that he believes might hamper his success with an attractive young grad student (Jada Pinkett). The new Klump, under the alias Buddy Love, proves devious and reckless in his pursuits, threatening the research money sought so assiduously by the unctuously...