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...Baker walked the jury through the events on the night of the crash and the two months leading up to it. Along the way, he plucked out - and then crushed - some of the main elements of Britain's favorite conspiracy theory; the same ones that Dodi's father, Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, points to as evidence to support his allegation that the secret service murdered the couple on Prince Philip's orders...
...castle was seized by the Communist regime from the heirs of its original owner, the great-granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, Princess Ileana. After the Iron Curtain fell, her heirs petitioned for the castle to be returned. Last year Ileana's son, Archduke Dominic von Habsburg-Lothringen, 63, was finally successful. Under an agreement between his lawyers and the government, Habsburg was returned the castle in exchange for an agreement to keep it open as a museum until 2009 and give the government the right of the first refusal if he chose to sell...
Everyone is slightly touched--moved and deranged--by the force of love in this sweet, knowing film from director Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer). Morgan Freeman presides as a kind of benign deity observing these moonstruck creatures, especially a coffee-shop owner (Greg Kinnear) with a soft heart and rotten luck with beautiful women. Sexy, funny, sad and defiantly romantic, Feast of Love is the rare movie to cuddle...
...claimed that Malamud’s novel was too boring and depressing. This summer, as I languished away in the Cambridge sun, something—a longing for the familiar, perhaps—told me to revisit Malamud and his tale of an old Jewish grocery store owner whose newfound, gentile assistant tries to help the Bober family while fighting his own, prominent internal demons. I instantly recalled why I enjoyed the novel so much the first time. On its surface, sure, it’s boring and depressing: Poverty, shattered dreams and the mundane happenings inside a floundering neighborhood...
...Czech Prime Minister about buying the last major post-communist brewery still in state hands - which also happened to be the Czech namesake of its flagship brand. "The truth is that I would have to quit drinking beer altogether," Moravec grunts at the prospect of a new owner tampering with the Budvar magic. "Better that than to drink some slop...