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...Princess Diana's Legacy Why do people still love Princess Diana [Sept. 3]? Because she was compassionate, warm and humane. Why are Prince Charles and Camilla unpopular? Because they seem unethical, cold and selfish. Diana left the world an infinitely rewarding message of generosity and kindness. Akikazu Nagatomi, Kunitachi City, Japan...
...Alas, after the death of the princess of Wales, the people I knew were not "snuffling into their tissues." They were shrugging their shoulders over this dim, vastly undereducated clotheshorse, this media creation who had fallen harder for her own myth than even her besotted admirers. Ten years later, some people are still obsessed by the silly creature, largely, I suspect, because they're obsessed with princess fantasies. Let's hope that once this anniversary is past, they will get a grip, grow up and move on. Leslie Brown Kessler, Chicago...
...original thought it ham-fisted. In the Jackie Chan pic Armour of God, the brothers excised a narrative back story that had served to explain the tension between Chan's character and a love interest. Fearing such treatment when the Weinsteins acquired the award-winning Japanese animé feature Princess Mononoke, the film's producer mailed Harvey a katana - a Japanese long sword - with a note that read "No cuts...
...people still love Princess Diana [Sept. 3]? Because she was compassionate, warm and humane. Why are Prince Charles and Camilla unpopular? Because they seem unethical, cold and selfish. Diana left the world an infinitely rewarding message of generosity and kindness...
...achievements," as I saw crowds sobbing hysterically over mounds of rotting flowers, I can't say that my opinion of the British (normally quite high) was at all improved. Ten years later, some people are still obsessed by the silly creature, largely, I suspect, because they're obsessed with princess fantasies. Let's hope that once this anniversary is past, they will get a grip, grow up and move...