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...young Cash was such a huge and instructively troubled figure that, in any movie about him, other characters are inevitably supporting. That's the case with Walk the Line, even though it means to trace the growing love story that snuck up on him and June Carter, princess of the singing Carter Family. Carter was Cash's polar opposite: sun to his shadow, a pixie to his wraith, as chatty as he was withdrawn, a natural comic at home in the limelight - whereas he seemed to have been dragged on stage to testify to the crimes and heartbreaks...
What's in a name? Lots. For example, Leonor, the one just given to the princess born to Felipe, the heir to Spain's throne, and his former-journalist wife, Letizia. Lay-o-nor rolls off the Spanish tongue and has a right royal ring; a león is a lion, oro is gold. But frankly, a Leonardo would have been better. Maybe not to the thrilled parents, or the hundreds of journalists on goo-goo detail outside the Madrid clinic where the princess was born. But yes, the Spanish constitution would definitely have preferred un hombre. It says...
...Princess Di Indignity stalked her like a reporter from Hard Copy. First came Camillagate -- the wide publication of transcripts of a racy phone call between Prince Charles and his mistress -- then further revelations of steamy teletalk between Di and her own Squidgygate pal. As the year progressed, Di became more and more emotionally volatile, and soon after a tabloid ran secret photos of her working out on a weight machine, she announced her partial retirement from public life...
...Best Equal-Opportunity Offenders Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson, who achieved the impossible -- lowering the moral tone of a Friars' roast -- when the Cheers star, in blackface, paid an epochally crude tribute to Whoopi. She later vexed the Anti-Defamation League with her published recipe for ''Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken...
...their old Gatorade bottles away for them. Even when I’m sure it’s been one skipped section or several un-returned phone calls too many, they look lovingly at me (slightly red-eyed from heavy partying) and silently beg, “Save me princess, save me.” We aspiring heroines, we obliging females, we are only too happy to comply.Speaking of royalty, I’m reminded of a few age-old fairy tales from our childhood—Cinderella and her pumpkin, Snow White and those seven dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty should...