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...Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón's decision last Tuesday to investigate several Moroccans, including a few high-ranking officials, for alleged atrocities against the North African Sahawari people between 1976 and 1987 after Spain withdrew from its former colony of Western Sahara. The fact that the Spanish monarch's visit to Melilla on Tuesday coincides with the anniversary of the Green March - the day in 1975 when 350,000 Moroccans poured into Western Sahara to claim the region - only adds to the friction...
...countries that claim to be the closest of allies, Spain and Morocco sure do fight a lot. The latest chapter in their ongoing love-hate fest came this week, as Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia made a trip - their first as monarchs - to Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish cities that Morocco claims as its own. They were on official state business and it was the first time a Spanish monarch had visited since 1927. Last Friday, Morocco's King Mohammed VI protested the royal visit by withdrawing his country's ambassador to Spain and on Monday, as thousands...
...results of a public vote to name a cat on the children's show Blue Peter (producers rejected the winning entry "Cookie" in favor of "Socks") and showing a trailer for the documentary A Year with the Queen with scenes shown out of sequence to suggest (deceptively) that the monarch had stormed out of a photo session. That scandal claimed a number of scalps, including the boss of BBC1, Peter Fincham, who resigned on Oct. 5. Two weeks later, the BBC's director general Mark Thompson announced plans to kill off some 2,500 jobs, mostly in news and factual...
...Allison (again with Mitchum), whose plot sounds like the first line of a joke - did you hear the one about the Marine and the nun, stranded on a Pacific island? There's the spark of attraction too when she plays the English governess to Yul Brynner's Siamese monarch in The King and I. Shall they dance? Divinely. Consummate their affections? Unthinkable...
...Elizabeth, as a number of movies have proved over the decades, was a great historical figure but not a great dramatic one. The historical Queen undoubtedly had tolerant and democratic impulses of the kind that are imputed to her here. But she was also a canny, hidden and manipulative monarch, not given to broad, emotionally riveting gestures. I suppose you can commend Blanchett for playing her that way, even if it leads us to see her as more of a modern career woman - sly and ironic at her best - than she must actually have been. But there's something anti...