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...London Daily Mail spotted the prince and playmate Katherine "Koo" Stark on a flight to Barbados, all hell was bound to break loose. The photographer called the office, received orders to cancel his vacation and follow the prince instead, and was soon joined by a multitude of Fleet Street Johnies eager to cash in on the scoop...
...Cambridge. But the press tumbles, and it turns out that the young lady, who is said to have dined with the prince and his mother Queen Elizabeth II, is an American-born, onetime soft-porn ingenue who had starred in a racy 1977 British quickie called Emily. Within hours, Fleet Street has culled naughty photos of Stark naked and splashed them across its front pages. The Queen by this time has to be in an absolute tizzy. From Australia, she reportedly orders Andrew to cut short his vacation and bans both unmarried sons from entertaining "overnight guests" in the palace...
...drama teacher who wants to stage a show called A Cafeteria Line and exhorts his aspiring actors to "share a trauma with me." Beatts, Friedman and their writers pack solid laughs, a little sentiment and sidelong satire of such youth-oriented enterprises as Grease and Fame all into a fleet half-hour. So far, Square Pegs is the sweetest surprise of the season. -By Jay Cocks
...intimate that if Johnny weren't so honest and sincere and funny, you'd know it. I wish he had married my sister Goldie." But with all honor to Goldie's memory, this does not address the full question of Carson's appeal. In a fleet and surprisingly touching documentary called Johnny Goes Home, aired last February and well worth repeating, Carson is seen revisiting many of his boyhood haunts, including his high school, and being greeted with a surprise birthday party during half time at a Friday-night football game. Carson wipes away some tears...
...page parody? Yes indeed, for Oates needs the space, as she explains: "Alas, how shall we describe the trajectory of Romance? How shall we, obliged to toil in mere words, seek to illume the fleet, fluttering, gossamer sensations, elusive as the hummingbird, that course along the veins, and swell the captive heart, of the credulous...