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In other Washington State primate news....a Spokane family's illegal pet monkey, escaped from their home Thursday and went on a biting rampage. A group of friends walking their dog first noticed the monkey running down the street.

Microsoft has had a Halo movie in the works for a while now, but it looks like it was killed this week. Universal was supposed to produce the Redmond-written script, a budget was set of $145 million and no less than Peter Jackson was set to produce, but late last week it was revealed that the studio wanted to renegotiate terms and Microsoft bailed. A great post on the subject at GigaOm asks, "The real mystery is why Microsoft is still plowing ahead. Has anyone bothered to tell them a Halo movie must be one of the most ill-inconceived film projects ever?"

A couple weeks ago, we erroneously reported that button-down genius Bob Newhart would share the Benaroya Hall stage with the Seattle Symphony. Though Newhart is indeed an amateur drummer, we regret to inform there’ll be no such onstage mashup. However, it is true that Bob and Bob alone will perform his standup comedy act at Benaroya -- where in 1999 we attended his last Seattle performance -- Friday night at 8 and Saturday afternoon at 3.