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...Queen is dead. Long live the Queen! More than 200 years after Marie Antoinette of France was guillotined, she is having a resurrection of sorts. Kirsten Dunst, below, plays the doomed royal in the biopic Marie Antoinette, out this week. But the big screen isn't the only place you can see signs of Marie mania. A tastemaker in her day, she's shaping style today as well, and her mark can be seen everywhere from fashion runways to the china cabinet. Check out some of the latest products--no, cake is not one of them--inspired by the style...
FASHION MODEL Read Caroline Weber's engaging book Queen of Fashion for an inside look at Marie Antoinette's sumptuous royal style. Or be queen for a day, and try on some gowns yourself: Alexander McQueen and John Galliano have M.A.-inspired designs...
...certainly trumps honesty or creativity. During the Clinton impeachment imbroglio, the Democratic consultant-entertainer James Carville wrote an entire book, titled Stickin', celebrating those who stuck with the boss. But loyalty was a one-way street in the House of Clinton, a royal court where the King and Queen blithely discarded unwanted retainers like used Kleenex. Even Carville's merry band of consultants was tossed after the 1994 congressional-election debacle. As a result, several of those discarded, like George Stephanopoulos, Robert Reich and Dick Morris, exacted their revenge in brutal memoirs...
...illustrate that the costs of continued power will affect everyone, the final conversation shows a chastened Queen explaining to Blair the speed at which the populace turned against her. She then declares that Blair must realize that, though he seems overwhelmingly popular at that point, “it will happen to you too Mr. Blair. Suddenly and without warning, it will happen to you.” Blair’s recent decision to step down early next year in the light of spiraling opposition is a fitting epilogue...
Bottom Line: This film intelligently and entertainingly explores a previously untreated passage in the Diana mythos. It presents a balanced portrayal of the enigmatic Queen Elizabeth II that, paradoxically, can induce only one conclusion: off with the head of state...