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...immensely entertaining and seemingly acute chronicle of the week Diana died, as dramatized through the very different reactions of stern, befogged Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) and of Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), who was keenly attuned to public sentiment and how to manipulate it. The film, written by Peter Morton and directed by Stephen Frears (best known for Dangerous Liaisons), won the screenplay and actress prizes at Venice this month. Friday The Queen helps launch the 44th New York Film Festival before opening in selected cities...
...share what love we have, smile when we see others, because tomorrow is not a guarantee, and all we have is today.” In addition to Macey, S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation, Gene A. Corbin, executive director of Phillips Brooks House, Alford, and Reverend Peter J. Gomes also spoke at the service, and the Kuumba singers performed. Counter spoke of the “loss of a member of the Harvard community.” He read a short Richard Fife poem entitled “No Person is Ever Truly Alone...
...sharing in that New Haven-wide curse. FM, to gauge the reaction of our less-than-better halves, bravely picked up the phone to see how the Yalies are going to cope. “I mean, it’s embarrassing,” says Yale senior Peter J. Pacelli. “I think it’s consistent with the attitude that Harvard is where fun goes to die.” Pacelli, a fraternity president, says that he might get liquored up at Yale, and then drive up in “some kind of party...
...This choleric temperament would define Cleese's post-Flying Circus personality: as Basil Fawlty in his Fawlty Towers sitcom; as the martinet sergeant in the film of Peter Nichols' Privates on Parade; and, right now, in Spamalot, as the Voice of God. When Arthur cravenly compliments Him on the notion of a quest for the Grail, Cleese the Almighty bellows in that distinct and cutting tenor: "Of course it's a good idea. I'm God, you stupid...
...meals from lobbyist Jack Abramoff. He's not seeking reelection, putting his House seat in danger for Republicans. And that's not all the problems for the G.O.P. in Ohio. "You've got a national anti-Republican, anti-incumbent sentiment that wasn't there two years ago," says Peter Brown, who surveys Ohio races for the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. Voters aren't happy about the economy, Iraq or President Bush here either. Even Neil Clark, a veteran G.O.P. lobbyist and former top Republican state senate official, says "The state is poised to have a very bad day for Republicans...