Word: belgiums
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...customary mode, holding court among younger actors; he's a sort of Fonz character among the adoring young Turks. He joshes with the people who approach him, but becomes almost respectful when Steve Taylor, the producer of a local shoestring cable TV show, introduces him to "the Prince of Belgium" - a flaxen-haired man who resembles nothing so much as a middle-aged weatherman from Minneapolis...
...Every party has a perfect exit point. The Gladiator posing with the Prince of Belgium seemed to be that moment...
...crews. I wander around and see Robert Wuhl, the star of HBO's "Arli$$," being interviewed by one of the crews. Elsewhere I overhear young actressy types being urged by boyfriends and/or publicists to thrust themselves before the cameras. To my surprise I spot the prince of Belgium now working with his TV producer pal as an interviewer. "I thought he was the prince of Belgium," I ask Steve Taylor. "Yuh, he is. He just likes interviewing people too." Since Britain's current generation of royals includes media-hounds such as Fergie and Prince Edward (though he asks interviewers...
...Europe as well. Foot-and-mouth has already led to the slaughter and incineration of 180,000 pigs, sheep and cows in Britain, with 100,000 more marked for destruction. On the day that the U.S. banned European meat, import doors also slammed shut within the European community. Belgium, Portugal, Spain and Germany banned French meat, and German border police began checking all incoming trucks transporting meat. Consumers on both sides of the Atlantic, who want their meat products on the shelves but would like them free of pathogens, thank you, are generally in favor of whatever it takes...
...this regard the European Union is anything but unified. Fifteen countries with the potential of imposing 15 different bans on one another's food is the stuff of chaos. In Holland, Belgium and Germany, some officials actually took the side of the livestock against the British and French, criticizing the strategy of killing animals rather than vaccinating them--a difficult matter for a lot of reasons, not the least being that animals have to be re-inoculated every six months. All this is causing a rising fever in the body politic of the European Union--an unanticipated side effect...