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GOP pollster Frank Luntz revealed a possible Republican strategy if they run against Al Gore. He said he would focus attention on the fact that Gore was born exactly nine months after the famous "Roswell incident" - the alleged landing of space aliens which, according to conspiracy theorists, was covered up by U.S. government agencies. And here I just thought Gore was abandoned by his parents and raised by trees.

Salt Lake Olympic organizers are concerned that French athletes may revolt when they find they can't find wine in Utah. The other countries are concerned that French athletes, sober and deprived of wine, may actually run in the correct direction this year.

Star Wars Phantom Menace did 62 million in its opening weekend, but that's far short of expectations, and even below "The Lost World". A spokesman for 20th Century Fox explained it with a variation on Yogi Berra's famous "nobody goes there any more because it's too crowded". He said people stayed away because they thought there were no tickets available, not because of the poor reviews. My friend in New Mexico told me that he and his girl went to the 12:01 first showing on the first day, and there were only three other people in the theater. (He liked the movie, by the way)

The captain of a Swedish cruise ship that sank off Malaysia said that the evacuation went flawlessly because the crew saw Titanic so may times. Unfortunately, their stay on the island didn't go as well, since the crew's only other movie was "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

If you haven't heard, wrestler Owen Hart was killed this weekend, when a stunt went wrong.

Three excellent finds from FR today. This is Sheryl Lee, topless in Angel's Dance, which hasn't even been in general release yet. It features another of our Fun House idols, Mac Davis. I like to think of him as the reverse Michelangelo. Michelangelo was possibly the only person in history to be at the very top of so many diverse professions. He was the greatest architect of his time, probably the greatest sculptor of any time, and I hear he could paint a bit as well. Mac, on the other hand, has been absolutely abysmal at several different unrelated careers. His acting is about on the Shatner level, many consider him the worst songwriter of any time, and his singing sucks pretty bad as well. Come to think of it, he doesn't even talk that well. Both Mac (Lubbock) and Joe Don Baker (Groesbeck) are Texas boys. I'm pretty sure Hugh Grant is not.

Here's Sheryl Lee again. Just cleavage this time.

And here's Catherine Deneuve, still stunning at 55. She's not nude here, but I read that she did a topless scene in Pola X, which was screened at Cannes.