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...begins Canadian Timothy Findley's fourth and most peculiar novel. In Ragtime style. Famous Last Words assembles a vivid cast of historical personages, among them the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lana Turner, Ernest Hemingway and Charles Lindbergh. But here the famous names do not move to syncopated jazz; instead the work resounds with tainted anthems...
...Though Romance marks Oxenberg's acting debut, she is not unfamiliar with the privileges of the privileged classes. Related to both Charles and Prince Philip, Catherine is the daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, the grandniece of the late Princess Marina of Greece (who later became the Duchess of Kent), and a cousin of Queen Sofia of Spain. How's that for precision Di casting...
This emotional modernization is mirrored by an updating in the play's setting. Refreshingly. Brown has shunned an aggressive Peter Sellars-brand recasting of the entire operetts--the gondoliers who become kings are not Haitian boat-people, and the local duke, duchess and grand inquisitor are not the Trilateral Commission...
...wild and drunken noble, the Duke of Orleans, seized a torch and, shouting "Who are they? We'll soon find out!" lit the string of mummers. A young duchess, throwing her robe over the king, extinguished the sovereign, while one flaming courtier bit through the rope and dived "like a flaming comet" throught the window into a cistern in the court. The other four "whirled hither and thither through the horrified mob, struggling with one another, fighting with the flames, cursing, shrieking with pain," as Walsh describes it. Although the flames at last burnt out, none of the four maskers...
Foot's newest book, his eleventh, reflects that very amplitude of intellectual riches and experience. Debts of Honour is Foot's ode to his political and literary heroes, in 14 fond chapter-biographies. Those idols range from Benjamin Disraeli and Thomas Paine to the Duchess of Marlborough and Jonathan Swift, His heroes usually share one trait: a determined foresight. As he writes in his profile of Disraeli, "the good Tory": "If anything is really to be done in the world, it must be done by visionaries; men who see the future, and make the future because they...