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NEW ORLEANS -- The Louisiana Supreme Court has given a judge a six-month suspension for wearing blackface makeup, handcuffs and a jail jumpsuit to a Halloween party. Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans in Columbia Pictures' White Chicks - 2004Judge Timothy Ellender will lose all of his pay during the suspension. That totals more than $50,000. Ellender, who is white, said the costumes worn by him and his wife were meant as a joke. She dressed as a policewoman. And the party's host, Ellender's brother-in-law, was dressed as Buckwheat. The justices agreed Ellender did not mean to insult blacks. Still, they...

can't believe nearly a month after the Wayanses released "White Chicks," the only public criticism has come from a white country singer who was defending a comedian in blackface. In the film, Marlon and Shawn Wayans play bumbling FBI agents who basically don whiteface to impersonate two rich white sisters. The movie parodies Hampton socialites, but it also perpetuates stereotypes that apply to whites of any economic level: whites can't dance, they're nonconfrontational, and the women are clueless and easy. Blacks still face cultural stereotypes in entertainment, but picking on whites is annoyingly pervasive in entertainment geared toward African Americans....

The following letter was sent to Lou Calabro, San Francisco representative for the European American Issues Forum, as a satirical commentary on the film, ''White Chicks.''      I've got a great idea for a movie.     Two hip, heroic, athletic, attractive, intelligent, European-American, male law-enforcement officers (brothers in real life) go undercover posing as two black females.  Wearing black face, speaking Ebonics, fooling simple minded black folk, spoofing black culture and its sincerely held beliefs, demeaning black men and women, outwitting stupid black villains, strengthening negative stereotypes wrongly attributed to many black Americans--all in order to uncover fraud, corruption, and graft,...

'WHITE CHICKS" LIKELY TO LICK 'FAHRENHEIT" Will the flood of attention given to "Fahrenheit 9/11," which Lions Gate and IFC Films will bow in 868 venues, translate into boffo B.O.? While Michael Moore's pic has dominated headlines this week, it's not the top dog going into the weekend box office race. Continuing the summer's trend of midweek bows, Sony/Revolution's "White Chicks" opened on Wednesday, taking in $4.2 million from 2,412 locations. Opening day results put pic, which stars Marlon and Shawn Wayans as undercover white girls, on a pace to dethrone Fox's "DodgeBall" at the top of the box office...

'White Chicks' likely to lick 'Fahrenheit' Thu Jun 24, 6:07 PM ET Gabriel Snyder, STAFF This article was updated at 6:54 p.m. Will the flood of attention given to "Fahrenheit 9/11," which Lions Gate and IFC Films will bow in 868 venues, translate into boffo B.O.? While Michael Moore (news)'s pic has dominated headlines this week, it's not the top dog going into the weekend box office race. Continuing the summer's trend of midweek bows, Sony/Revolution's "White Chicks" opened on Wednesday, taking in $4.2 million from 2,412 locations. Opening day results put pic, which stars Marlon and Shawn Wayans (news)...