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...tenth Duke of Rutland, and lead singer of the British aristo-rock band, the Business Connection. Despite the group's white-collar name, Lady Teresa's connections are strictly blue blood. Her father owns Belvoir Castle, one of Britain's most imposing homes; her 15-piece band includes the Marquess of Worcester on vocals and the 19th Duke of Somerset on drums. A horsewoman and London-educated artist, Lady Teresa found her latest calling after she was invited to sing backup vocals for the one-year-old band, which counts Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Diana among its fans. True...
...worldly Gonzagas of Mantua. They would have appreciated the jealousies the sale has triggered. Britain may still seek to keep the painting in the country by refusing to grant an export license. And Daniel Wildenstein, an unsuccessful bidder, howled, "I am furious not to have the picture." The Marquess of Northampton, however, was said to be delighted by the price. But then, of course, he was the owner...
...past five years. DIED. CAMILO JOSE CELA, 85, prolific, provocative author whose challenging prose won him the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature; in Madrid. One of Spain's greatest intellects of the 20th century, Cela gained entrance into the Royal Spanish Academy at 42 and was named marquess of Iria Flavia (his home village) by King Juan Carlos in 1996. DIED. GREGORIO FUENTES, 104, fishing-boat captain who inspired Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer prizewinning novel The Old Man and the Sea; in Cojimar, Cuba. Fuentes met Hemingway in 1928, and helmed the author's yacht Pilar for nearly three decades...
Shortly after the premiere of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895, the Marquess of Queensbury, rankled by his son's homosexual relationship with Wilde, harassed Wilde in public. Wilde responded by setting in motion a libel suit that would eventually lead to his own conviction for sodomy, then imprisonment and loss of public appreciation of his art. Gross Indecency recreates the trial that shook the creative world, drawing from a number of accounts, including Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas, George Bernard Shaw and Wilde's riotous testimony during the trial itself. Wilde crafts...
...Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a way that managed to transport a righteous '60s moral stance on Viet Nam ("Baby killers!") back in time to portray the Japanese as more or less innocent victims of American beastliness and lust for revenge. As if the Japanese had been conquering Asia by Marquess of Queensbury rules. The curators said to the American public, "Murderer! Hello...