Word: knighting
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...suffering and loyal. How can you tell? Because they have put themselves through some spectacular duds on his behalf. (The Order, anyone? The Four Feathers?) Having captivated them as a rascally but tender heartthrob six years ago with teen catnip like 10 Things I Hate About You and A Knight's Tale, Ledger, 26, then virtually disappeared from the kind of movies they--and almost everyone else--enjoy. The chisel-jawed Australian is decent enough to acknowledge this. "I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before...
...Pascal, head of Columbia Pictures, who took him under her wing and laid out a buffet of starmaking career moves. In short order, he was Mel Gibson's son in The Patriot, and then--without so much as an audition--he was given the lead in A Knight's Tale. The posters proclaimed, HE WILL ROCK...
...destroyed whatever buzz he had generated in the industry. Thoroughly. He went after roles in which he wasn't the son or romantic lead. The result was that, with the exception of Monster's Ball, all the films he has made since A Knight's Tale got critical drubbings or have been commercial busts or both (including this year's The Brothers Grimm and Lords of Dogtown), at least in the U.S. Even Brokeback Mountain, which was the talk of the Toronto and Venice film festivals and has generated lip-smacking advance criticism, could be a tough sell. Many people...
...DIED. BEST MATE, 10, champion Irish-born steeplechase racehorse; in Exeter, England. A three-time winner of the prestigious Cheltenham Gold Cup and beloved by racegoers, the legendary gelding collapsed from a heart attack just before the last jump on the Exeter course as his trainer, Henrietta Knight, looked on. Known to millions of fans as "Matey," he had just returned to form after recuperating from a burst blood vessel. "He died doing what he loved, which was to race," said Knight, of the graceful, gutsy and reliable jumper...
Didn't those wags who write headlines for British tabloid newspapers have a field day with this story! YES-SIR-DAY, HARD DAY'S KNIGHT and, of course, DUB ME DO, the papers crowed when it was announced that aging vegetarian, philanthropist and, oh yeah, former Beatle PAUL MCCARTNEY, 54, was to be knighted. All the Beatles were previously given M.B.E.s (Members of the Order of the British Empire), although John Lennon subsequently sent his back as a protest against the Vietnam War. "It's a fantastic honor," said McCartney, "and I'm gratefully receiving it on behalf...