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...debut at the age of 4 in Dad's revisionist take on The Charge of the Light Brigade. By then, Redgrave had become the brightest new light of stage (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) and screen (Morgan, Blowup, Camelot.) Having separated from Richardson, Redgrave took up with Franco Nero, her hunky co-star in Camelot. (See pictures of Natasha Richardson's life...
...from anger to perplexity. It was this performance that convinced Steven Spielberg to cast Neeson as the star of Schindler's List. The actor had a similarly galvanizing effect on Richardson. Married at the time to actor Robert Fox, she divorced him and married Neeson the following year; Franco Nero gave the bride away, Natasha's father having died in 1991. The couple had two sons, Micheal, 13, and Daniel...
Judging from tales about the rise and fall of empires, there is always a point when things are going so well that the emperors doubt that anything could ever go wrong. "THRIFT," warned Nero's adviser Seneca, "comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse." In the Old World, nations grew fat and then lazy, until they collapsed under their own weight. But that was not to be our story. American greatness--the vision of the founders, the courage of the pioneers, the industry of the nation builders--reflected a mighty faith in the power...
...planned act" against Hindus that the "culprits will have to pay for" - a position he sticks to today. Whatever the truth, the carnage that followed was terrible. In 2004, following an investigation into the incident, India's Supreme Court ruled that the chief minister was "a modern Nero who watched while Gujarat burned." A recent report by investigative magazine Tehelka went further, blaming the violence directly on senior BJP politicians and sympathetic police officers. One BJP politician, unaware that he was being recorded by a Tehelka reporter, allegedly said that Modi had told him that he and his colleagues...
...hotel collaborates with Nero (real name Sergio Iacomoni), chief trainer and president of the Scuola Gladiatori Roma, so it can provide guests with something more original than a gym. The courses are proving just as popular as corporate team-building exercises as they are for young classicists and their parents...