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Playing a kid in "Jack" who gets picked on for being different brought back some sore childhood memories for Robin Williams.
"At the time I was about 10, it was more of a physical thing," Mr. Williams said on the syndicated entertainment-news program "Extra."
"There were a couple of bullies. There was one guy I remember specifically. They'd find you different ways to go home, like through Arkansas, even though I live in Illinois."
In "Jack," Mr. Williams plays a 10-year-old boy stricken with an ailment that makes him age four times faster than normal. It's quite a leap from his last movie role as the gay owner of a drag queen nightclub in "The Birdcage."
Past film credits for the actor-comic who got his first big break on TV with "Mork and Mindy" include "Jumanji," "Mrs. Doubtfire," and "Dead Poets Society."
The youngest female singer to hit the country charts in years is a 13-year-old girl whose first album is headed for a debut at No. 1.
Critics call LeAnn Rimes' vocal talents mature, but she's still a kid at heart.
"It's really cool," she said of her success. "I still can't believe it's happening."
Her album, "Blue," also is making its debut this week on Billboard's pop chart at No. 4, having sold more than 124,000 copies in its first week in stores.
The Texas teen-ager also bested her idol Wynonna's 1992 self-titled solo debut, which moved 121,000 copies its first week.
"There's nothing typical about this 13-year-old," said Wade Jessen, country chart manager for Billboard magazine. "The country format needed a water-cooler type artist, someone people can talk about."
LeAnn is touring as a headliner at smaller country venues, and will play four dates next month as the opening act for the 32-year-old Wynonna.
Quirky comic Ruth Buzzi of "Laugh-In" fame wasn't kidding around with a 72-pound Alaska king salmon she hooked on a recent fishing trip.
"I fought it for 35 minutes," Buzzi said after landing the big fish last week on the Kenai River in Alaska. "It had me doing laps around the boat."
The funny lady known on "Laugh-In" both for doing the Watusi in a skimpy bikini and playing a little old lady in a hair net had more than one close encounter with wildlife on the Alaska vacation trip.
Out on a stroll, Ms. Buzzi and husband Kent Perkins came upon a cute moose calf, followed close behind by its mother.
We ARE amused.
Queen Elizabeth toured the British animation studio in Bristol, England, that makes the Wallace and Gromit stop-action shorts Friday, where she got toy models of the characters and a royal screening.
"I never really found out if she knew our work or not," animator Nick Parks told the British Broadcasting Corp. "But she watched the clips and she seemed to be laughing in all the right places."
Aardman Animation created the Academy Award-winning shorts about a withdrawn bachelor and his savior dog. Its first feature-length film is in the works.
Buckingham Palace said the queen knew of the studio's success, but was unfamiliar with the films. When presented with models of the characters, she said her grandchildren would enjoy them.
Shown the small plastic model that comes alive as Wallace on film, the queen delicately removed a white glove and squeezed it.
King Hussein is recuperating in a London hospital after surgery to remove an abscess, the monarch's doctor said yesterday.
"The abscess was fully drained and His Majesty is recuperating in his hospital bed now," Lt. Gen. Samir Farraj told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from London. He declined to elaborate.
The 60-year-old monarch underwent the surgery at the London Clinic on Friday night and will be discharged today, Mr. Farraj said.
Mr. Hussein is on a private visit to London.
A palace official said earlier that the king underwent the surgery Thursday and left the hospital the same day. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy.
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