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...that Queen Elizabeth II has asked Prince Charles to divorce Princess Di, he is saying that he does not intend to marry again. The news ends speculation that Charles would marry his longtime paramour, Camilla Parker Bowles. The divorce looks to be as simple as the wedding was grand. Under British law, when there are grounds for divorce (and there are), and both people agree to go ahead with it, the couple has only to fill out the legal papers and pay a $60 fee. After a six week waiting period, the marriage is terminated...
...pleasure; and the consort--Philip in the case of Elizabeth, Di in the case of Charles--has always been in a rather awkward spot. In Di's case, the indignity was compounded by the fact that Charles already had a woman for purposes of companionship and love. Camilla Parker Bowles was his real partner, Diana just a means of reproduction...
...daring, often endearing actress, Leigh virtually patented the role of neurotic little-girl-lost in such cable-ready classics as Sister, Sister and Miami Blues. Lately, though, strenuous mannerism has clotted her work: bizarre accents in The Hudsucker Proxy and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, and, here, a surrender to the excesses of actressy masochism. As Sadie, she leaves no emotional scab unpicked. It's a role for which her voice, carriage and technique are ill suited; she's too small for these grandiloquent gestures. Georgia's big set piece is an eight-minute (or possibly eight-hour) Joplinesque...
...that was new. But the confirmation of what was rumored--the sum of which would not be salacious enough to get her on Jenny Jones--was a bit of a bombshell coming from a member of the royal family. Yes, she knew her husband was making nasty with Camilla Parker Bowles in 1986, thanks to "woman's instinct" and "people who cared about our marriage." Yes, this worsened her bulimia and self-abuse. Yes, she hurt her own arms and legs. And yes, she had her own affair, with James Hewitt, her riding instructor. But no, she didn't make...
...good acting, and shriek for soul." A daring, often endearing actress, Leigh virtually patented the role of neurotic little-girl-lost in such cable-ready classics as "Sister, Sister" and "Miami Blues". Lately, though, strenuous mannerism has clotted her work: bizarre accents in "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle", and, here, a surrender to the excesses of actressy masochism. As Sadie, Corliss notes, Leigh leaves no emotional scab unpicked. "It's a role for which her voice, carriage and technique are ill suited; she's too small for these grandiloquent gestures. Georgia's big set piece...