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Even more graphic evidence of decadent splendor, Marcos-style, was afforded by a private collection of more than 500 videotapes unearthed in Manila and New York. In one of the tapes, taken by an exclusive presidential crew, Imelda cavorts with bejeweled guests in a private Malacańang disco, complete with disk jockey's booth and man-made waterfall. Another video chronicles an abandoned bacchanal aboard the presidential yacht, celebrating the birthday of the youngest of the three Marcos offspring, Irene Araneta, last year. A man in a baby bonnet bursts out of a cake. The First Lady jives under flashing...
...visitors found themselves inside a bizarre combination of Macy's and the palace at Versailles. As hundreds of Manila's poorest, many of them in ragged clothes and rubber sandals, shuffled between golden ropes through Malacańang Palace, the residence of former President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda, they witnessed a show of conspicuous consumption beyond their imaginings. Inside Imelda's boudoir were two queen-size beds on an elevated platform, and a grand piano. The former First Lady's washbasin was made of gold. Downstairs, in a not-so-bargain basement, the woman who used to refer...
...opening the doors to Malacańang Palace last week, President Corazon Aquino was hoping to close the doors, symbolically, on an era of covert monarchy. True to her campaign promise, the new leader turned the Marcos mansion into the People's Park, a public museum. Faithful so far to another promise, the former housewife showed every sign of for-swearing the designer life-style of her predecessors. She still operates out of a guesthouse next to the Spanish-style palace and commutes to work from her modest suburban home...
...greed," said one nun after her glimpse into the life-style of the rich and famous. "In the palace, I saw all the seven capital sins." Even visitors accustomed to more affluent surroundings were stunned. "Next to Imelda," said Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz of New York after visiting Malacańang, "Marie Antoinette was a bag lady...
Studios will try anything new--like putting an indie-minded director on a big project--as long as it has been done before. Sony Pictures hit it big pairing Spider-Man with Sam Raimi and then hit the fan when it mated The Hulk with Ang Lee. Now Christopher Nolan, best known for his twisty art thriller Memento, gets a shot with Batman Begins. He says all he borrowed from the franchise was Batman himself, and even this Batman will be a mystery to fans. "I saw a small gap in pop-culture movie history," Nolan says, "the film where...