Mary Tyler Moore gets statute in Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota is home to statues celebrating mythic characters such as Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. Now the state has another -- this one immortalizing Mary Tyler Moore's famous hat toss.

A bronze statue capturing Moore flinging her tam was went on display Wednesday at the downtown intersection where she originally twirled in the opening montage from her 1970s television hit, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

After introductions by Mayor R.T. Rybak, Moore emerged smiling and waving. Sonny Curtis, who sang the theme song from the show, "Love is All Around," sang it again and played guitar as the crowd of about 2,000 sang along.

Then the drape over the statue was pulled away, showing Moore smiling widely as her tam left her fingertips.

"Some people will say to me, 'You know, I grew up watching you.' And I say to them back, 'I did too,"' Moore said.

'Vanity Fair' touts Chelsea as sex symbol

LONDON -- It's a long road from gawky adolescent to twenty-something sex symbol, but Vanity Fair magazine says Chelsea Clinton has made the transition.

The magazine pronounces the daughter of former President Bill Clinton "the new J.F.K. Jr.," referring to the good-looking son of former President John F. Kennedy, killed when his private plane crashed in 1999.

In an article that exhaustively analyzes Chelsea Clinton's time at Oxford University and her previous, more sheltered life in the White House and the Arkansas governor's mansion, Vanity Fair says she's recently grown more flamboyant and more comfortable with her public profile.

The change "has done what no one would have thought possible years ago, when Chelsea was a girl with braces in billowing Laura Ashley dresses," the article says. "Chelsea Clinton has become a sex symbol."

The story appears in Vanity Fair's June issue, which goes on sale Friday.

Stars' adoptive boy cleared by Immigration

WASHINGTON -- The baby boy that Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton are adopting is among 18 Cambodian children the Immigration and Naturalization Service has cleared for adoption by American families.

Jolie and Thornton, like other families, still must apply for a U.S. visa for their son, but the process is expected to be smooth since the INS has investigated the case of each child it has cleared.

In all, 121 Cambodian children have been cleared for adoption or completion of adoptions by 113 American families since Dec. 21, INS spokesman William Strassberger said Tuesday.

On that date, the INS stopped issuing visas for children adopted from Cambodia amid concerns that some were not genuine orphans. The action drew an outcry from families with pending adoptions and from some members of Congress.

--From wire reports