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...assumed the throne in 1961, just before the evacuation of French colonial military forces negotiated by his father Mohammed V, the new King told his people: "The man you knew as Prince Moulay Hassan no longer exists." He adopted a quieter life, refused to set up an official harem, and married Lalla Latifa, a commoner who has borne him two sons and three daughters. Hassan, who earned a law degree at the University of Bordeaux, has written three different constitutions, each of which guarantees freedom of the press, speech and religion. Such freedoms have receded as his reign has continued...
...Southampton estate with his new bride, an insufferably prim young woman named Constance (Innes-Fergus McDade). Unbeknownst to him, however, his mansion has been appropriated by a gang of enterprising bootleggers who have managed to charm their way into the good graces of "The Girls," a sort of Platonic harem that takes care of Jimmy's house while he's away and takes care of Jimmy while he's there. In a little under 24 hours, Jimmy discovers he's committed bigamy, obtains two annulments, and takes yet a third wife--the Lady Kay (Shella McCarthy), sister of the Duke...
...stipends of as much as $35,000 each, and visiting scholars were boarded in luxury at the Santa Barbara Biltmore. Says Senior Fellow Dr. Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex, "Hutchins may have set out to study democratic institutions, but he ran this place like a Byzantine harem...
...audience, and the way the slinky soprano voice wooed the ears as much as the lithe body invited the eyes. By 1927 she had received an estimated 40,000 love letters and 1,192 proposals of marriage, one from a rajah who offered to get rid of his harem. Acting on the theory that the show never ended, Baker could be seen regularly strolling down the Champs-Elysees with two leopards or a pair of swans on a leash. Gradually she found France more congenial and became a citizen in 1937, eventually buying a medieval chateau in the Dordogne Valley...
...Fellini's large doses of insanity. Uncle Teo climbs a tree and refuses to come down until ordered to do so by a midget nun who will have none of his nonsense. A peddler claims that one night a diminutive arab sheik checked into the grand hotel with his harem and invited him up for a tiring evening. Even the priests are allowed to join Fellini's beatific vision. Foolish as the churchmen are, Aurelio's termagant wife turns out to be the genuine image of sainthood...