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...sets were appropriately largescale and colorful, with a retrofuturistic spaceship and a powerfully suggestive open-jawed entrance to the Duchess Tisimmense's lair. The costumes were spectacular, especially the metallic droids', Hugh Jegg's and the Duchess' with its immense accoutrements...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Drinks Before, Not After | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

Rosenberg, who portrays the aptly named Duchess Tisimmense, admits that he is pretty happy with his role, which requires a voluptuously shaped costume and flashing lights in all the right places...

Author: By Brendan H. Gibbon, | Title: MEN IN HEELS | 2/15/1997 | See Source »

...DUCHESS OF YORK put on a brave face at the launch of the James and the Giant Peach video in New York City--and made the movie's star, PAUL TERRY, put one on as well. Back home, however, things weren't so peachy. First, the Daily Mirror published conversations taped by Fergie's psychic, "Madame Vasso" Kortesis, in which the two use kitschy code: referring to Di as "Blondie" and Fergie's men by numbers. Her ex, Prince Andrew, is No. 2; lover-in-her-dreams-only John F. Kennedy Jr., No. 9. Then, Fergie stopped trying to block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 14, 1996 | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

THAT'S WALLIS AS IN WALLACE According to a new book on the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. Simpson was a man. The author, Michael Bloch, was told this by a doctor whose colleague had examined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 2, 1996 | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...exemplary. Homer's gods on Olympus, after all, played out elaborate soap operas of venality, stupidity, cruelty and greed. The Windsors, bearing up well under their hereditary burden of chinlessness and a tendency to run to twits, managed nonetheless to turn the saga of the stunningly unbright Duke and Duchess of Windsor into one of the century's great love stories. Perhaps Charles and Diana, in their follies, are simply enlarging the dramatic franchise of the family, giving it a contemporary feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDHOOD IN A FISHBOWL | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

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