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PARK SQ. CINEMA. Blende Venus 6 & 9:45. Scarlet Empress...
...audience can never quite settle down to the entertainment for fear of some impending exam. Knowing the names of the characters does not really help, since their natures change with bewildering rapidity. Click: here is Messalina gamely struggling to protect her virginity from Caligula. Presto: here is Messalina, Empress to Claudius, cuckolding him wholesale in the foulest brothels of Rome...
...Those monkeys were like angels," recalls Tamotsu Ueda, former mayor of Oita, Japan. It was an April day in 1958, and Emperor Hirohito himself had come with his Empress to visit Mount Takasaki Natural Monkey Park. When the monarch set foot in the park, some 500 monkeys, as if on cue, spilled out of the woods to welcome him. One affable creature even jumped up on the Empress's shoulder...
...brunette beauty who talks tough to cops and gets away with it is Empress Farah of Iran. Her country's police are "ill-mannered and inconsiderate," she told them to their collective face in a speech at the police academy. "They show unnecessary favor to royal motorcades and owners of large, luxurious cars." Later she explained that "often when we are passing by, policemen push people-including children -away in their attempt to serve us. This is no service." The police brass said that the royal remarks would be noted carefully. The police cadets cheered...
...last December's war with Pakistan, which left India the dominant power on the subcontinent, a senior British diplomat wryly commented that the victory had made Indira Gandhi "Empress of India." After last week's state elections, in which Mrs. Gandhi's New Congress Party scored the most overwhelming electoral victory in the history of independent India, an American official added: "And this was her coronation...