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'X2' holds grip on top box office spotBy Times Staff Writer© St. Petersburg Times published May 12, 2003 LOS ANGELES - Mutants preserved their power at the box office as X2: X-Men United remained the No. 1 movie, taking in $41.4-million in its second weekend. Eddie Murphy's family comedy Daddy Day Care, in which he plays an out-of-work father who starts a toddler-tending business, opened in second place with $27.6-million, according to studio estimates Sunday. X2, the sequel based on the comic book about genetic mutants with superpowers, lifted its 10-day total to $149-million after an opening weekend of $85.6-million, the fourth best of all-time. Fox tells doctors: "care deeply'MIAMI - Michael J. Fox urged the next generation of doctors to "care deeply" about medical research that will advance the treatment of incurable diseases when he addressed the graduating class of the University of Miami Medical School. Fox, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991, addressed more than 130 graduates at Saturday's ceremony as both a patient and a medical research advocate. "In the last few years, I've gone from talking to my agent on my cell phone to discussing cell biology with leading physicians," said Fox, 41. University of Miami president Donna Shalala, who sits on the board of Fox's foundation, presented him with the president's medal. Lewinsky urges parent-child privilegeLOS ANGELES - The federal government should guarantee parents protection against testifying against their own children, former White House intern and reality TV host Monica Lewinsky says. In an opinion piece published in Sunday's Los Angeles Times, Lewinsky said it seemed appropriate on Mother's Day to urge Congress to establish a parent-child privilege. "We have a husband-wife privilege, a doctor-patient privilege, an attorney-client privilege and even a privilege between priest and penitent," she wrote. "Isn't the parent-child relationship every bit as important, if not more so?"  © 2006 • All Rights Reserved • St. Petersburg Times
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