Word: chumming
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Come to the Cabaret, old chum. This time you'll hardly recognize the place. The Kit Kat Klub, where Sally Bowles tried to sing away the gathering Nazi storm clouds in the 1966 musical Cabaret, is a real cabaret now, a converted nightclub where theatergoers can sip drinks (but can't rustle programs, handed out only after the show) while immersing themselves in Berlin decadence circa 1929. Or is it 1999? The club has a seedy-chic, downtown, S&M look: the dancers have runs in their stockings, and even the orchestra members, in sleeveless black tops, look ready...
...borrowed pink dress. Anyway, the sight stuns the parents of the boy who makes his entrance so gaily bedecked. He is Ludovic (Georges du Fresne), a sweet child convinced he's a girl. No point in lecturing the lad; Ludo blithely pursues his obsession. Of a school chum, he says, "We're going to marry when...
...cellular to an aide. Maybe he'd be in a better mood if he were in jeans and sweaters like the other volunteers. But Baldwin is twisting about in a tight gray suit. Comparing himself to the rancid glop that fishermen use as bait, he says, "I'm the chum...
...chum he is. From the moment he enters the Greek cultural center that serves as the tour's home base, people are after him, begging for autographs (Baldwin obliges) and introducing their wannabe-actor friends (Baldwin is polite). It could be worse. He could be younger brother Billy, who is along for the tour and is the center of a permanent amoeba of giggling girls. But it could be better. He could be older sister Beth, who sits unnoticed amid her famous brothers. "They have sisters?" asks someone in the crowd. "We're known as Nothing and Nobody," jokes Beth...
...then at Oxford University, he was dubbed "Champagne Charlie" by the press for his partying ways. In 1989, at 25, Spencer became engaged to Victoria Lockwood, a fashion model whom he had known for just 10 days. Serving as best man at his wedding was Spencer's Oxford chum Darius Guppy, who was later imprisoned for staging a jewelry theft intended to collect $2.8 million in insurance money from Lloyd's of London. Spencer has stuck by Guppy, first supplying half his bail and later allowing the former convict to live in a house on the Althorp estate, the family...