Word: princess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THIS IS A LOVE SONG, OF COURSE. Aladdin the street rat is taking Princess Jasmine on a flight into the liberating skyland of first love. But the Tim Rice lyric, riding the lush carpet of Alan Menken's melody, also defines the sorcery of movie animation. Artists wave the wand of a pencil over a piece of paper and, like the most genial genie, create unbelievable sights, indescribable feelings. "Don't you dare close your eyes!/ A hundred thousand things to see!/ Hold your breath, it gets better...
Like the enigmatic emblem that serves as its title, the album, which its creator describes as "rock soap opera," flirts with esoteric meanings as it chronicles the love affair between a pop superstar named Prince and the princess of a fictional Middle Eastern kingdom. Still struggling to reconcile his animal instincts with his loftier passions, Prince once again bares his tortured muse -- a silver-throated satyr torn between heaven and hell. But this time around, the paradox is addressed with a wry self-awareness that suggests he has struck a productive truce with his old demons. Chaste confections like...
Most cruise ships and hotels say they haven't yet got around to planning their millennium festivities. "We're worried about the cruise business this year, much less 1999," snapped a reservations manager at Princess Cruises in Los Angeles. At Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, bookings are not accepted beyond May 1993, and no thought has been given to fin-de-millenaire entertainment. But don't be discouraged by such myopia; things can change at the mere drop of an inquiry. In 1983 when the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City's Times Square was still under construction, screenwriter...
Most magically, there was a glorious children's theater program at the Hudson Guild, funded by Helena Rubenstein. By age eight, the not-yet Whoopi was hooked. "I could be a princess, a teapot ((she laughs at the memory)), a rabbit, anything. And in a way, it's been children's theater ever since. I've only recently begun believing that I've grown up, and acting is what...
These scandals capped a spring and summer of monarchical discontent. In April the palace announced that after two years of separation, Princess Anne would divorce Captain Mark Phillips, her husband of 18 years. June saw the publication of journalist Andrew Morton's best seller on Princess Diana, portraying in excruciating detail the travails of a young woman trapped in a cold and loveless marriage. Morton's accounts of her five suicide attempts and struggles with the eating disorder bulimia were shocking enough. Worse, by monarchists' reckonings, were the signs that Morton had enjoyed the cooperation of Diana's friends...