Word: queen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...royal family saw it as a sad and moving story of a close relation." Princess Margaret went up to Hytner at intermission, "drink firmly in hand," and asked what ailed the twitching, foaming monarch. The King, Hytner explained, suffered from the metabolic disorder porphyria. "And what causes it?" the Queen's sister asked. As her advisers and courtiers semaphored behind her to wave off the truth, antiroyalist Hytner smiled sweetly and said, "It's hereditary...
...disease's cause and effects, then added, "I understand there are six people in Dartmoor ((prison for the criminally insane)) who say that they are the real Prince Charles. I often wonder if perhaps one of them is the real Prince Charles and I am the insane one." Queen Elizabeth did not see the play, but she has met its star, Nigel Hawthorne, at a couple of receptions. "From her remarks," Hawthorne says, "clearly the Queen is under the impression that I am Sir Humphrey Appleby" (the dithery politician he played on the TV series Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime...
...Fidget and wait. Conversation in this part of the line turns on why the Queen is opening Buck House (as its staff calls it) at all, even if it's only for two months. Main text and official reason: she needs money to restore the part of Windsor Castle that was ruined in a fire last year. Subtext: p.r. to make up for the behavior of her offspring and their spouses -- Di the bulimic fairy princess, fat Fergie and her toe-sucking Texan "financial adviser," Charles' ambition to become Camilla Parker-Bowles' Tampax. Will a trot through the state rooms...
Since the palace opened on Aug. 7 to less-than-capacity crowds -- 7,000 to 8,000 initially expected, yet actually drawing only 4,500 a day -- the English press has been quoting disappointed Americans and Japanese who felt entitled to a look at the Queen: at least Mickey Mouse, one kid complained, was always present in his Magic Kingdom of Disneyland. You can't expect her to pop out like a cuckoo on a clock, but there isn't even a painting of her on view -- only her ancestors. The burden falls on Queen Victoria, whose portrait en famille...
...sitcoms often are, for instance, it's hard to imagine anyone but Fox churning out a turkey like Living Single. Rap singer Queen Latifah plays one of four "upwardly mobile" black women trying to make it in New York City. Sound familiar? So are all the jokes, including an extended one in the pilot episode about a roommate whose suave boyfriend turns out to be -- gasp! -- married, and predictable put-down lines that depend on characters behaving like either insufferable snobs or total idiots. Stuck-up roommate: "Are you saying that I am shallow?" Wisecracking girlfriend: "Like a kiddie pool...