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...instance, the publicity surrounding “The Last Station,” a film about Leo Tolstoy’s final days and his relationship with his wife Sofya (played by Helen Mirren) strongly evokes that of “The Queen,” the 2006 drama that also stars Mirren and also focuses on a short period in the life of an aging historical figure. I’m betting “The Last Station” will have a similar cinematic life trajectory as “The Queen,” which was nominated...
...single, “Chop Suey,” and Wayne’s slow, aggressive, auto-tuned drawl recalls Marilyn Manson. On top of this, Wayne tells an unbearably trite story about high school in disappointingly simplistic language. Explaining how his feelings for the prom queen were never returned, Wayne whines, “She didn’t realize she chased the type of guys / That don’t believe in ties, trying to apologize.” Not only does this story lack all of the angst present in the music, but its rhymes are contrived...
...Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms, York Bettys, bettys.co.uk, started out in 1919 when Swiss confectioner Frederick Belmont set up shop in England. The company's flagship store in York (there are five others in Yorkshire) was inspired by the interior of the Queen Mary cruise liner, and is a grand concoction of burnished oak paneling, floor-to-ceiling windows and ornate mirrors. Yorkshire specialties such as hot buttered pikelets - a kind of thick pancake - and fruit scones vie for menu space with cakes, pastries and hot meals. See 10 things to do in London...
...directors had exoticized Simmons' beauty; the Americans mostly domesticated it. She suited Hollywood's fondness for coming-of-age stories about the great and famous. In George Cukor's The Actress she played the teenage Ruth Gordon, desperate for Broadway acclaim; in The Young Bess Simmons was a budding Queen of England, co-starring with her first husband, Stewart Granger. She ornamented De Mille-style antique epics like The Robe and The Egyptian, which required only that she look good and speak well. And she went up against Brando first in the 1954 Desirée, where...
...saying the Queen of England is anything like the madam. I'm not saying that. I'm saying the madam is like a queen, a very different thing...