Word: barone
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...will come as a great surprise if Baron Cohen appears on stage without the diamonds—er, “ice”—urban trackwear and scathing wit that distinguish him as Ali G, the fictional character who has taken Europe and the United States by storm in recent years...
...course, no one can be sure what Sacha Baron Cohen will do when he takes the stage today. Perhaps he will talk about his own career as an academic at another Cambridge (the English university, where he studied history) or use his international background (half Israeli, half Welsh) as a springboard for thoughts on foreign policy...
...DIED. FRANCES SHAND KYDD, 68, estranged mother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales; on the Isle of Seil, Scotland. The daughter of a baron and the Queen's lady-in-waiting, Shand Kydd had three girls and one boy during a 15-year marriage to Edward John Spencer. When the couple divorced in 1969, the future princess, then eight, remained with her father...
...second husband, art collector Baron Raoul Kuffner, emigrated to the U.S., and her glittering career came to an abrupt end as the Art Deco style reached its sell-by date. But she lived to see the rediscovery of her between-the-wars work in the '70s and its acclaim by a new generation, before dying in Mexico in 1980. It's said her last wish was to have her ashes scattered in the crater of the volcano Popocat?petl?a fitting gesture to end a flamboyant life...
...Baron Cohen first gained popularity in his native Britain on “The 11 O’clock Show,” a satire of nightly news...