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BOTTOM LINES "Because they can earn more money on the dole, Ma'am." Barry Mitford, deputy page to Queen Elizabeth, explaining to her why five footmen quit their jobs...
...Dunn, a family friend, the $30,000 affair was a step up from Andrews' first wedding, which cost a fourth as much. This time, a separate coordinator was hired just to handle the children at the ceremony, who were ferried about in an antique Rolls-Royce complete with uniformed footmen. The rehearsal dinner, a picnic at a lake, included a trout-fishing derby. "All I did then," remembers Andrews of her earlier, more modest trip down the aisle, "was show up with the dress and the groom. My mother did everything...
...ground zero of the de facto stop McCain movement recently, as a guest speaker at the Republican Governors Association at La Costa, a luxurious California resort with clay tennis courts, milk baths and valets dressed like footmen...
This is the sort of cast where even the footmen are brilliant and the sort of play that rewards such casting by dishing out juicy scenes and hysterical lines to even the most minor characters. One such minor character is the Duke of York (the younger son of George III), played by Julian Rhind-Tutt. With few lines, Rhind-Tutt turns his vacuous twit character into a running gag that grows funnier with each repetition...
...have absorbed whatever lessons the text offered. Instead, he was destined to become the painter most identified with the big vogue of the early '80s, "appropriation": the copying and scavenging of images and stylistic packages, or even of whole works, from other art and the mass media. Works like Footmen, 1986, are palimpsests: some grainy silkscreens a la Warhol, a head roughly quoted from a 17th century Spanish painting, a figure leaning over a railroad bridge, a scrawled yellow outline of a girl in hot pants. They suggest narrative but deliver none...