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...story of Helena, a young girl who stumbles upon a passage to an alternate world of masks through a mirror. Her adventures take her through a magical world, seen only in work like McKean’s, and into interactions with her Puckish guide Valentine and the villainous Queen of Shadows. It is like “Alice in Wonderland” through the modern looking glass...
...women were the principals in the traditional 'kissing hands upon appointment'-a ceremony in which the leader of the winning party is summoned to Buckingham Palace, there to be designated Prime Minister of Britain by the monarch and asked to form a government. The monarch, of course, was Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 53, a grocer's daughter from the English Midlands, who last week led her Conservative Party to a decisive victory ... Thatcher thereby became not only the first woman to head a British government but the first to lead a major Western nation...
...clef penned by a former assistant to Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour. In the movie, MERYL STREEP plays Miranda Priestly, the temperamental, overweening editor of a fictional fashion glossy called Runway--a character based loosely on Wintour. But the movie's stylists did away with the fashion queen's dark bob and sunglasses, reportedly to make the character sexier, more provocative and not so devilish. Or maybe they thought Wintour's real look is just way too scary...
...disc DVD collection (Garbo: The Signature Collection) and a fine documentary (Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird's Garbo, which can be found on TCM and in the DVD set). A first look at her classics--Flesh and the Devil and A Woman of Affairs among her silent films, Queen Christina and Camille among the talkies--will allow younger viewers to take a sip of their grandparents' intoxication. "What, when drunk, one sees in other women," Kenneth Tynan wrote of her, "one sees in Garbo sober...
...experts agree. "I find it slightly scary that there are people around who are taking it so lightly," says John Oxford, a professor of virology at Queen Mary School of Medicine in London, who studies the avian flu virus. Oxford argues the Netherlands' response is a more effective way to reduce the risk of wild birds transmitting the virus. The Dutch learned their lesson the hard way two years ago; then a milder virus strain led to the death or destruction of 31 million birds at a cost of more than j780 million. The virus also infected 83 people, most...