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...speaks her mind. And Fleet Street's columnists speak theirs, making the high-profile Lady Antonia a high-priority target. A succinct explanation for this targeting is offered by the London Daily Mail's senior feature writer, Geoffrey Levy: "She's an aristocrat. She's beautiful. She's a celebrity. And she is a successful writer. She is an irresistible target." Her father, the seventh Earl of Longford, sums up Fleet Street's anti-Antoniasm in a word: "Jealousy...
...gilded young aristocrat at Oxford and the Jewish lad from London's East End would never have intersected. "But it was our great good luck," Antonia says, "that by the time we met, we were both recognized." Opposites, fully formed, attracted...
Bancroft, playing a South American aristocrat, sounds more like South Brooklyn and about as aristocratic as a hash-house waitress. Alexander ably sketches differences among the dowager's airhead sister, mean daughter and timid nurse, but, as the last, lapses into a singsong that has become her trademark shorthand for innocence. Adding to the problem, Robert Allan Ackerman's archly formal staging emphasizes ritual over a sense of place. Still, the two women establish an ever shifting power dynamic. In the last fantasy, when they embrace fondly in an imagined courtyard, their warmth and urgency enable the audience to share...
...power. "A British sailor is any man's equal...except mine," he continues. This role, while certainly not a sympathetic one, is the jewel of H.M.S. Pinafore. Percus' facial expressions and the way he used his body to express his arrogance and frustration were perfect for the swollen-headed aristocrat...
Cash starved and struggling, Britain's Jaguar PLC has decided to take the course favored by many an aristocrat facing hard times: marrying into money. Last week, three days after Japanese investors bought a majority interest in Rockefeller Center, the 67-year-old maker of sleek, purring luxury sports cars and sedans agreed to be taken over by America's Ford Motor for $2.5 billion. The deal is likely to win approval from the required 75% of Jaguar's stockholders...