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...cups, trashing Victoria's mother. It's a funny bit, ending with Richardson huffing off and some dry old man saying, ruefully, "Families." This scene has the mark of something written expressly for Broadbent by Fellowes, but in Lytton Strachey's biography Queen Victoria, and again in Christopher Hibbert's, you'll find that scene, told exactly as it is onscreen. The only difference is that Blunt's Victoria doesn't burst into tears as the real princess apparently did; the movie heroine has more backbone...
Cast members of Saturday Night Live don't often flourish after leaving the show, but Julia Sweeney--who left in 1994 after four seasons and one memorable character, the androgynous Pat--has had more than her share of tribulations. Her marriage to TV writer Stephen Hibbert ended in divorce. Her movie It's Pat opened in just three cities, got bad reviews and was banished to video. Her brother Mike was told he had lymphoma, and she had to take care of him. Then, just weeks before his death in April 1995, Sweeney found out she had cervical cancer...
Through his travels he learns to agree with Christopher Hibbert, saying "the peoples of Europe have for at least three hundred years been living up to their stereotypes." He then states that since the sixteenth century travelers have described "the Italians as voluble, unreliable, and hopelessly corrupt; the Germans as gluttonous; the Swiss as irritatingly officious and tidy; the French as, well, insufferably French...
Several men told recruiters in Albany, N.Y. they want to enlist but only if they could go to Lebanon or Grenada immediately, said Capt. Richard Hibbert. Told they would need four months' training before going overseas, most changed their minds...
After a rather uneventful 6-1 whitewashing, Meyer fell upon hard times as Alison Hibbert regained her composure, drubbing Meyer, 6-2. But the skillful Crimson veteran returned to her first-set style to conquer Hibbert, 6-3, for the match...