Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Benjamin and the O'Keefes weave the typical convoluted plot around a medieval kingdom ruled King-James Version (Jon Murad). His daughter, Princess Diana Loneliness (Bart St. Clair) comes home from a "fairy" college (Puck U.) to find that her mother, Queen Anne Sober, has mysteriously died...
Prettiface has more devious plans in mind, however. Behind her vapid facade and over-stuffed brassiere lurks a scheming mind and evil intentions. She soon confesses to her grumpy (but hilarious) Jester Gigolo (John Berman) that she actually killed her sister so she could rule the kingdom...
...blood-soaked leadership of the crime family based in the western town of Corleone -- and through it, of Sicily's criminal kingdom -- had finally repelled a country that romanticized and at times even sympathized with the so-called men of honor. Says Pino Arlacchi, a sociologist and author of two books on the Mafia: "Every time he had to make a choice between convincing and killing someone, he chose to kill...
...other taxes to raise are two voluntary ones: tobacco and gasoline. In Canada and the United Kingdom the tax on a pack of cigarettes is more than $3. Here, with state taxes, it's 50 cents. If we added a buck (still lower than Germany and about the same as France), we'd raise $20 billion a year. Anyone who didn't want to pay could switch to one of the cheaper "generic" brands (only 13% have so far) and save much of the tax that way; smoke less; or quit. Side benefits: high prices deter kids from becoming smokers...
...precedent, clearly, is Ralph Lauren. Lauren brilliantly created a multibillion-dollar kingdom by exploiting middle-class Americans' yearning for a patrician past they never had. As his empire grew, his vision stayed focused. No one admires the Polo king's achievement more than Karan, whose great ambition seems to be to repeat his success...