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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Broadway Triumph, however, makes the case. Its heroine, a princess disguised as a man, seeks the hand of a prince from a deposed rival family. To get her way, she bullies servants and promises to marry the prince's unworldly guardians -- an austere philosopher who spots her true gender and his matronly sister, who doesn't. The production is vividly pretty. What makes it work, though, is its edge, sharper than Shakespeare's in similar plots -- especially when the bamboozled guardians realize they have been cast aside and stare with shame and despair into a slowly fading light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Now This Is a Comeback | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...Princess Leia has had a baby and fictionalized it. Carrie Fisher, author and screenwriter of Postcards From the Edge and Surrender the Pink has again made art imitate life by using her own life as the source for her latest novel, Delusions of Grandma. The absolute Hollywood insider, Fisher had a baby, so her novel is having...

Author: By Sarah M. Rose, | Title: Fisher Lands a Whale Of a Deluded Comic Novel | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

...sure, these shows are more objectionable in the mass than individually. Sawyer's interview with the Manson women, despite a couple of squishy moments ("The homecoming princess who sang in the church choir -- remember her?"), was relatively restrained and undeniably compelling. Stone Phillips was less circumspect with Dahmer ("Was it the killing that excited you, or is it what happened after the killing?") but didn't pander needlessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Manson Family Values | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...Holly hunter, "The Piano"--Overcomes mute button and Princess Leia hairdo...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: OpArt | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...Earl of Caithness, Transport Minister, resigns his post just before his in-laws reveal the reason for his wife's recent suicide: his affair with former secretary to Princess Anne, Jan Fitzalan-Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And You Thought Those Royals Were Naughty ... | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

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