Word: princess
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Just one telephone call would have stopped it, one. Is that too much to ask, really, having served the royal family for 21 years?" Paul Burrell, Princess Diana's former butler, on how the royal family could have prevented him from publishing a memoir that her two sons say would "mortify" their mother...
OSLO: SCANDINAVIAN CHARTER YACHTS Sail out of the harbor on the 16.7-m Princess, explore the fjords and stop at some shoreside museums. Up to 22 passengers for $2,957 per day AUCKLAND: NEW ZEALAND CLASSIC YACHTS Recently refurbished, the 14-m, 69-year-old launch Lady Gay once carried royalty and patrolled the city's shores during World War II. Now you and 19 friends can take it for a run at $1,191 a day SINGAPORE: ATLANTIS YACHTS For up to 12 passengers, a 19.8-m superluxurious Italian-built yacht can cruise past the skyline, around the leafy...
...novel, wants to say and show. If the lure of finding out repels you, then the filmmakers have succeeded. You've heard the movie is sexy. There is sex, of a kind, but it's notable only because it happens to Ryan, who for decades, it seems, has been Princess Perky, and who is fine, not great, in the role. Anyway, the sex is mostly in the talk, which is in its way as violent as the grisly murder tableaux. Ruffalo's whispery voice, his Brando-wannabe mannerisms and the ambiguities of a shady cop in a whodunit...
...life, death and legacy of Veronica Guerin are different. In Ireland her murder--believed to have been ordered by drug thugs she had exposed--cued mourning of an intensity that rivaled Princess Diana's the following year. Guerin (rhymes with cheerin') has been the subject of two films, the fictionalized When the Sky Falls, with Joan Allen in the lead role, and now a smartly mounted and modulated biopic, Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett...
...cruel arbitrariness of the caste system. An older Tatta, the mischievous pariah, reappears and takes the prince away from his palace of luxury to experience the real world. There he meets Migaila, a bandit that he falls in love with. Returning home, though, Siddhartha is compelled to marry a princess and struggles with the calling to become king of a defenseless country or a monk...