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...DIED. PRINCESS JULIANA, 94, soft-spoken "People's Queen" of the Netherlands for 32 years, who recognized the independence of Indonesia, ending 346 years of colonial rule; in Baarn. Shy and unceremonious-she liked to ride her bicycle in a simple flowered frock and was known to pour tea herself for guests-Juliana helped guide the Netherlands through the social upheavals of the 1960s...
...They did?at least on television. She was cast as Little Swallow in the Chinese-Taiwanese serial, Princess Pearl. For the first of many times, she played a commoner who gets a makeover and reveals her true nobility. The series was a huge hit in China (there are peasants who still have the Princess poster in their homes) and with Chinese living in Europe and the U.S. Nothing in the series beguiled viewers so much as the almond-eyed girl in the title role...
...with the star-is-born recognition she got from Princess Pearl, Zhao had a rare lapse into self-approval: "The show had the highest ratings in the country. So I said very confidently to myself, 'in China I've already gone as far as I can go in television. It's time to try something new.'" Hong Kong was waiting for her, with featured roles in Andrew Lau's The Duel (as a spoiled princess) and Jeff Lau's Chinese Odyssey 2002 (this time her makeover was from mannish to femme...
...until the end of Bitches that the stereotypes get nasty in their references to race and religion. The Guerilla Girls discuss Sallie Mae, white trailer trash, Lauren, the Jewish American Princess (“What does she make for dinner? Reservations”), Susan, the White Girl Who Goes After Black Men and Tiffany, the Foxy Flygirl with six-inch fingernails. They argue that by laying these stereotypes out on the table we will be better able to disarm them, perhaps removing their power to shock and hurt...
...It’s the dresses that made us want to gag that really count. Poor Uma Thurman. A woman who consistently wears some of the finest clothes in the fashion world, Uma must have had a blunt object hit her before the show, because her pseudo-kimono-warrior-princess dress was absurd. Her ensemble was either a feeble attempt at educating herself on international culture or a cheap promotion for Kill Bill. Either way, this mishap will be forgiven but not forgotten...