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Prince Charles and Princess Diana are a handsome and delightful young couple who have the good fortune to be living a real-life fairy tale. Their appeal is universal. Even so, the amount of media hype accorded their visit to the U.S. is beyond reason. The majority of Americans, who do not live in either Washington, D.C., or Palm Beach, Fla., realize that the visit is inconsequential, a prime example of a media-created event. Jack W. Gould DeSoto, Texas...
...Prince and Princess of Wales take their roles of representing their nation seriously without taking themselves too seriously. Would that our politicians could do as much. Kenneth Cuthbertson Coralville, Iowa...
...smile invisibly behind the star. Each dancer's bio may have been trite: a child finding refuge and transcendence in dancing school (At the Ballet), a mouse whose charms are augmented by cosmetic surgery (Dance 10, Looks 3), a teenager whose parents find him dressed as a drag princess. But touched by the minimalist magic of Director Michael Bennett, they found life in the viewer's mind...
Viscount Althorp, brother of the Princess of Wales, says, "She's got a big, fat bottom." Her grandmother put on earplugs when she sang. Hardly the way to treat a lady. Unless she happens to be Lady (Helen) Teresa Margaret Manners, 23, daughter of Charles John Robert Manners, the tenth Duke of Rutland, and lead singer of the British aristo-rock band, the Business Connection. Despite the group's white-collar name, Lady Teresa's connections are strictly blue blood. Her father owns Belvoir Castle, one of Britain's most imposing homes; her 15-piece band includes the Marquess...
Murnau, one of the greatest silent-film directors, went to Tahiti (with documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty) to make this ethnographic idyll spiked with Hollywood-style melodrama. A boy who has fallen in love with a local princess dives for pearls in a deep-sea grotto that is guarded by a possessive shark. The simple story is told with rapturous visual poetry that captures both nature's beauty and its threat. Murnau, 42, had his own rendezvous with tragedy: he died in a car crash shortly before Tabu's release...