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...Oscars because, as everyone knows, they give the best acceptance speeches. Swinton managed six witty, well-formed remarks in her minute or so on stage. Day-Lewis, upon ascending the stage, knelt before his presenter, Helen Mirren, who'd won last year for playing Elizabeth II in The Queen. "That?s the closest I'll ever come to getting a knighthood," he said, flashing something we never thought this magnificently intense actor was capable of: a broad, blinding smile...
...Turns out, vampires aren't that easy to kill. In an interview with TIME, the best-selling author of Interview with the Vampire and The Queen of the Damned has revealed that she plans to write one last book about Lestat, the feared yet beloved blood-sucking main character in her gothic novel series. "When I published my first book about the Lord I said I would never write about those characters again," Rice acknowledged. "But I have one more book that I would really like to write. It will be a story that I need to tell...
...British fleet set sail, Thatcher regained some of her customary fire. Her basic position was that Britain would not negotiate until the Argentines withdrew. "We have to recover those islands," she declared in a television interview. Evoking Queen Victoria's words from the "black week" of December 1899, when attacking British forces were being repulsed in the Boer War, she declaimed: "Failure? The possibilities do not exist. I'm not talking about failure. I am talking about supreme confidence in the British fleet, superlative troops, excellent equipment. We must use all our professionalism, our flair, every single bit of native...
...nonstop score. Furthermore, the several choreographed dances are all entertaining and add that bit of pizzazz that makes this production so unique. While the plot’s resolution may seem a little cheesy, the show itself concludes in true Pudding fashion with an astounding drag-queen-filled, Vegas-worthy performance, complete with feathers, sparkles, and a can-can line. Well-rehearsed and wildly entertaining, this last number epitomizes the energy and spunk that the Pudding builds throughout the entire production...
...fond of calling for a return to "Victorian values," by which she means the virtues of thrift and self-reliance, hard work and sense of duty. (In an inspired bit of parody, the liberal New Statesman illustrated a special issue on the subject with a photomontage of Thatcher as Queen Victoria.) As Peregrine Worsthorne, associate editor of the conservative Sunday Telegraph, puts it, Thatcher "is as ignorantly contemptuous of the so-called values of the idle rich as of the so-called idle poor...