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...dolphins, that is. The aquarium offers a variety of "dolphin contact" activities like the one I witnessed at the outdoor pool. Five rubber-suited visitors waded hip-deep into the water to touch, rub and coo over a handful of trained dolphins, including one that resembled a small whale. The idea of touching animals with big teeth freaks me out, so I retreated to the relative calm of the indoor aquarium. But the interior was no more soothing. Just as I was stifling a yawn over the sea anemones and tropical fish, I turned a corner and saw a monster...
...typical ofSmith's melting-pot London, is half Chinese, half Jewish. We also meet black English Jews and an African-American Buddhist.) But Alex has a more pressing concern: finding Kitty Alexander, a reclusive, aging film star in New York City, whose rarely seen signature, the white whale of celebrity ephemera, he has pursued since childhood...
...would appear KEIKO has a problem with his own kind. After starring in three Free Willy films as a youth, the photogenic killer whale lived in aquatic parks, where he became accustomed to humans. Worldwide protests against his captivity led his handlers to release him off the coast of Iceland in July. Now, however, he has turned up in Norway, seeking adoration and herring from Homo sapiens, around whom he seems most comfortable. Some Norwegian salmon fishers complained that Keiko was scaring off their catch, and one scientist suggested he be killed for his own good. Norwegian officials offered last...
...sublime film on view, was Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, the animated fantasy that broke Japan's all-time box-office record a year ago and is now opening in North America. The People's Choice Award, voted by the festival's audience members, went to Niki Caro's Whale Rider, the New Zealand saga of a Maori girl who dreams of being her tribe's first female chief. It is an old-fashioned story smartly told, and enchantingly played by young Keisha Castle-Hughes...
...THAR SHE BLOWS Those with time to spare?lots of time?might consider a side trip to Lamalera, on the island of Lembata just east of Flores, where subsistence whaling has been practiced for centuries. Depending on the currents and swell, it can be anything from a four-to seven-hour odyssey in a small, pitching craft from the Flores town of Larantuka. Sometimes months go by without a single whale sighting, but if you happen to be present when a bull sperm whale is harpooned you will think you've been swept back to the days of Nantucket whaling...