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...Queen Elizabeth II, so it is reported, she is known as "our Val," after the Valkyries of German legend; other members of the British royal family are said to refer to her as "Princess Pushy." And in the British press last week the 6-ft.-tall Princess Michael of Kent, wife of the Queen's first cousin, was at the center of controversy because of the discovery by the tabloid Daily Mirror that the princess's late father, Baron Günther von Reibnitz, was both a Nazi and a major in Hitler's notorious SS. The princess, who was born...
Publicity has followed the princess since she married Prince Michael nearly seven years ago, partly because she has been divorced, partly because she is a Roman Catholic and greatly because of her self-assertiveness. When asked at a press conference about the Nazi connection, Prince Philip, the Queen's husband, replied, "You must be kidding. I'm not going to talk about that...
...leading man and the cerebral fire and ice of a character actor. He brings off the hortatory set pieces of command with howling fervor and excels at the gentle comedy of courtship, pouring his heart into the cracked vessel of his schoolboy French as he woos the French princess Katharine (Cecile Paoli...
...wondrous bestiary tended by young Taran and his winsome would-be princess Eilonwy. The menagerie includes Hen Wen, the clairvoyant pig, whose bottom is rounder and wigglier than Madonna's; Gurgi, whose species is unknown, but who is definitely cute, cuddly and comical; the Fairfolk, minuscule fairy creatures who come and go in clouds of Disneydust; and the three witches, who are more funny than frightening. Leading the forces of evil is the Horned King. His body is skeletal, his voice sepulchral, and his eyes glow red like coals. His aide-de-camp is a little green horror known appropriately...
...Princess Idaââs message seems outdated by modern standards, and unfortunately the story itself and its songs are not compelling enough to overcome this conceptual flaw. Regardless of the workâs merit, the actors and directors collaborated admirably to synthesize a good production of perhaps only a mediocre musical...