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Earlier yesterday the heir apparent to theBritish throne visited a market mill in Lowell,Wang Laboratories, and the Harvard-affiliatedDana-Farber Cancer Institute where he met withchildren being treated at the center...
...plane taxis to a halt, the 100 or so people on the runway start waving their American and British flags frantically. They hope to catch a first glimpse of Charles, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the throne. Dressed in their Sunday best, the crowd pushes against the ropes watching as the band, clad in Revolution-era uniforms, strikes up "God Save the Queen...
...apocryphal: While on an official visit to a palace in the Middle East, Charles fell slightly behind the tour group. As he exited a door, a servant entered. Upon catching sight of Charles, the servant assumed the Prince was the butler he was assigned to meet and handed the heir to the British throne a pile of clothes to press...
Such confusion is not surprising. Although, the heir apparent has continued the tradition of a nattily dressed Prince of Wales, he looks like a well-to-do businessman rather than the future King of England. But the 37-year-old Charles is one of the most famous people in the world, sought after wherever he travels. He's known for the post he gained through birth, but respected for his intelligence and dignity, loved for his humor and British good looks. His office carries little political weight, but he has the power to influence subtly British policy...
Looked at analytically, Me and My Girl should not be so infectiously exhilarating. The lyrics are banal and devoid of wit; the songs, though hummable and winsome, tend to have the same simple beat; and the narrative -- a reworking of Pygmalion in which a cheerily crooked Cockney finds himself heir to an earldom and a fortune if he can learn to behave like a swell -- is comic but farfetched. Yet the gaudy $4 million production has an unabashed desire to please, touches of sprightly invention (a mounted suit of armor abruptly walks offstage; ancestor portraits come alive and tap-dance...