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...wrapping her role as the pregnant unwed teenage Virgin Mary in Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story, due out in December, unwed teenage KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES, 16, is pregnant. No, this isn't the Second Coming; the New Zealander best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in 2002's Whale Rider is bearing the offspring of her boyfriend of three years, Bradley Hull, 19. After carrying the Son of God in her belly throughout 1st century Israel, Keisha should have no trouble with a regular pregnancy. And if she wants to skip the whole delivering-in-a-stable bit, that...
...antics.For those who loved Ferrell's arrogant newsman in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, also directed by McKay, here Ferrell again struts about, proclaiming in a later scene that his nickname "El Diablo" means "fighting chicken," much as he explained in Anchorman that San Diego actually means "a whale's vagina...
...Felling the Gentle Giants I was distressed to read "Revenge of the Whale Hunters" [July 3]. Norway's flouting of the International Whaling Commission rules is particularly offensive because it bespeaks the whalers' pleasure in defying international opinion. This summer a group of tourists who had gone to Norway to see and photograph the magnificent animals were horrified to see a whale harpooned before their eyes. That bloody scene was followed by the grisly sight of the butchering of a carcass on another ship. With its income from North Sea oil, Norway has no economic reason to support its contemptuous...
...Having read your article on the possible resumption of whaling by some countries, I am appalled at how we humans have not learned the lessons of the past. Whalers kill these gentle giants by shooting them with harpoons tipped with grenades, which explode inside a whale's body. We, through our uncontrolled population growth and greed, are pushing to extinction the other wonderful life-forms that share this little planet with us. One remedy would be to boycott all goods from nations that persist in the barbaric practice of commercial whaling. I refuse to purchase any goods made in Japan...
...will be long before China and India become the new superpowers. I wonder how the U.S. will cope when it no longer has the power to dictate to the rest of the world. Owen Hollifield Cardiff, Wales Felling the Gentle Giants I was distressed to read "Revenge of the whale hunters" [July 3]. Norway's flouting of the International Whaling Commission rules is particularly offensive because it bespeaks the whalers' pleasure in defying international opinion. This summer a group of tourists who had gone to Norway on a whale safari - to see and photograph the magnificent animals, not shoot them...