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...members are no longer needed in Hollywood. But they shouldn't worry-not yet anyway. Flesh-and-blood thespian Sean Hayes blesses Mr. Tinkles-and the audience-with a hilarious effete voice and wicked ad libs, and the movie is better for it. Another promising sign for humans: in Planet of the Apes, opening next month, director Tim Burton creates talking animals the old-fashioned way-by putting actors in monkey suits. As Stanley Kubrick realized more than three decades ago, computers have their place, but so does primitivism, even...
...Bush's trip, commentators had enjoyed viewing a supposed chasm between the sensibilities of modern Europe and those of the U.S. To believe some, one side of the Atlantic opposed the death penalty, was committed to arms control and wanted to save the planet; the other executed people for fun, was looking forward to a new arms race and thought global warming a minor inconvenience compared with doing without its SUVs. Strange, then, that the first live bullets used in the wave of recent protests against global capitalism should have been fired not in Seattle or Washington but in peace...
...cache, you take the prize but leave something else for the next person and sign the log book on your way out. According to geocaching.com there are now caches in all 50 states and in 46 countries. Later this summer 20th Century Fox will stash props from the movie Planet of the Apes in geocaches around the country as part of a stunt-marketing campaign. Now that Hollywood has discovered it, look for more than a rubber snake in a coffee...
...Minister Goran Persson, on the European Union: "It's one of the few institutions we can develop as a balance to U.S. world domination." HIP-HOP Rap activist and former Public Enemy front man Chuck D, on hip-hop artists: "We have finally realized our collective power around the planet...
...uranium in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima came from the Congo. So does the cobalt, essential in the construction of advanced fighter aircraft, as well as diamonds, gold and some of the purest copper on the planet. Even the coltan computer chips in the latest Sony Play Station are made from columbite-tantalite, a mineral mined in the Congo...