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DIED. PRINCE RAINIER III, 81, Europe's longest-reigning monarch, who, as ruler of Monaco for 56 years, transformed his tiny, nearly bankrupt principalitya longtime gambling playground for Europe's wealthy éliteinto a tourist-friendly international business center; after a month-long hospitalization for heart, lung and kidney ailments; in Monaco. With the help of his 1956 fairy-tale marriage to Hollywood royal Grace Kelly, Rainier modernized a community once called a "sunny place for shady people," building affordable hotels to draw middle-class visitors to its famed Monte Carlo casino and popularizing the mini-state, which...
Willig learned this lesson the hard way, at a 1998 screening of Elizabeth—in which Cate Blanchett’s turn as the titular queen was briefly supplemented by a cameo appearance by Marie De Guise, the sixteenth-century Scottish monarch who happened to be the subject of her senior thesis...
...waterfalls, and are always accompanied by rhythmic chants. Grass skirts, leis and decorative ferns, nuts and shells, are intended to symbolize the integration of nature with Hawaiian life. There's no better place to learn about the hula, and watch the best dancers in the business, than the Merrie Monarch festival, held from March 27 to April 2 in the town of Hilo on the Big Island's east coast. The 40-year-old festival is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the hula in particular and Hawaiian culture in general. The weeklong fiesta, Loh and Behold Avant-garde...
...always accompanied by rhythmic chants. Grass skirts, leis and decorative ferns, nuts and shells, pictured, are intended to symbolize the integration of nature with Hawaiian life. There's no better place to learn about the hula, and watch the best dancers in the business, than the Merrie Monarch festival, held from March 27 to April 2 in the town of Hilo on the Big Island's east coast. The 40-year-old festival is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the hula in particular and Hawaiian culture in general. The weeklong fiesta, which attracts up to 10,000 people...
...universe. With a virtual monopoly on budgets and technical skill, L.A. was clearly the place to be for a foreign director with a single art-house hit, Bandit Queen. He was an immediate success. In 1998, Kapur directed Blanchett in Elizabeth, about the life of England's 16th century monarch. The movie was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one. Its magic, says Blanchett, lay in Kapur's slightly demented reinvention of period drama. "Elizabeth could have been incredibly musty," she says, "but Shekhar brought this East-West sensibility to it. The dancing. The way he moved from point to point...