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...European royalty of English blood were expected- the King's fondly beloved sister, quiet Queen Maude of Norway; his pushing, unwelcome cousin, Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania; his sorrowful, most welcome cousin, ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, and her profligate, haemophilic offspring, the former Crown Prince, Don Alfonso. He will sail direct from the Jubilee for Hollywood on the maiden voyage of La Normandie, or so he was saying last week in Paris night clubs...
...modern example of the latter are Nixon itself and Y Tu Mama Tambien, by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron, who is also one of the producers of Nixon. Cuaron laments the lack of genuine political fervor behind the majority of American cinema. In a recent interview he described various films by foreign directors who are trying to make a statement. What he disagrees with is the American notion that these filmmakers and their countries hate America. “We love America,” says Cuaron. “Most of us love America, what we don?...
Despite a long and public courtship, the deal fell apart and the Yankees swept in at the 11th hour and were able to pry Rodriguez away from the Rangers in exchange for second baseman Alfonso Soriano...
...film movement cannot develop solely on the efforts of directors," Salles says. "Italy had great directors like Visconti and Fellini but also actors like Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina. Now in Latin America you have Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu [Amores Perros] and Alfonso Cuarn [Y Tu Mam Tambin] but also a generation of young, talented actors such as Gael." Garca Bernal realizes his good fortune: "Destiny and luck have given me and many other actors the chance to be in a certain position where no one else has been...
...former TV news anchorwoman Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano [May 31] reported that this was the first royal wedding in Spain in 98 years, and added that this time around the celebrations were muted in memory of the March 11 bombings. You might have noted that Felipe's great-grandfather Alfonso XIII's marriage to Victoria Eugenia, the granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, on May 31, 1906, was seriously marred by an anarchist bombing attack on the bridal procession on its way from the cathedral to the palace. The newlyweds escaped injury, but more than 20 people died and many more...