The Lanta Garden Home, where sons carry monkeys on backs and my girls write the sisters' names in the sand.
Speaking at an international conference of Islamic clergymen, Izzat Ibrahim, the No. 2 official in Iraq after President Saddam Hussein, said, "We demand from the Islamic and Arab nation to rise quickly to expel the sons of monkeys and pigs, strangers on the land".
"Of Marco?" The image of his son's sweet monkey face, his milk-chocolate eyes, his plump cheeks, and his loose spirals of chestnut hair appeared to James.
In France, another local-boy comic favorite, Jamel Debbouze, fell just outside the global top 10 with a $3.5m take for an unusual choice of directorial debut: Pourquoi J'ai Pas Mangé Mon Père?, an animated romp about the exiled son of a monkey king that looks somewhere between Ice Age and Year One.
We've also got a new edition of Practice Space from Tel Aviv with Monkey Son of a Donkey.
Their son, Liam, lost his monkey "Ah-Ah" on a camping trip; three years later, his mother found the monkey — the real lost monkey, not some shadow of a substitute — through an impulsive Internet search, and the two were reunited.
My son climbed over the monkey bars toward the lone boy and started to say hello when Mr. Mean snarled, "Hey, get outta the way!" My son wasn't deterred.
During the pleasantly hot afternoons, we read, slept, typed on our laptops or, when my son called out, "The monkeys are back," filed out into our armchairs on the veranda to watch the show.
More than 190 acts will appear at this year's festival with Mumford and Sons and Arctic Monkeys joining the Rolling Stones as headliners.
Tickets sold out in minutes last October, long before The Stones, Mumford and Sons, The Arctic Monkeys and Public Enemy were confirmed as headliners.
