Word: queenly
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Perhaps he found his text for this compartmentalized life in the book The Young Melbourne, which he once told me was his favorite. It is the story of William Lamb, Queen Victoria's early Prime Minister, who presided at the height of the British Empire. It describes a world in which the young British aristocracy served brilliantly in Parliament, finance and the military during the weekdays but then romped through each other's bedrooms on the weekends. They seized what they wanted--women, land and office...
...highest honors, however, go to Bonham-Carter, queen of the British period piece film, who wins more sympathy for the ambiguous, ambivalent villainness Kate than perhaps James ever intended to be diverted from Milly. Bonham-Carter's Kate is alternately seductive and alienating: entrapped by circumstances, at once manipulator and manipulated, cruel and vulnerable, she makes us see her as both perpetrator and victim of her own deep-laid, cold-blooded plots. It was this problematic nature of Kate's character--or, as she phrases it with succinct deadpan cool, the "bitchy attributes"--that attracted the actress to the role...
...expect no less of Bonham Carter, who has been a source of posh insolence since her 1985 screen debut as the teen-age Queen of England in Lady Jane. She is our modern antique goddess--a balky Ophelia, for instance, to Mel Gibson's Hamlet. But it is in the early 20th century that her sweet imperiousness has been put to smartest use; she has made no fewer than four films based on E.M. Forster novels (A Room with a View, Maurice, Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howards End). She finds the age attractive--"Women tend...
...Flying. She has played Marina Oswald (the TV movie Fatal Deception), Woody Allen's selfish wife (in Mighty Aphrodite), Sister Clare to Mickey Rourke's Francis of Assisi (no, really, in the 1989 Francesco), a French-speaking fashion designer (Portraits Chinois), a bachelor-party stripper (the BBC's Dancing Queen) and a scrubwoman who lops off vital parts of her deceased loved ones--tongue, lungs, finger, penis--as a protest against mining conditions in Nova Scotia (Margaret's Museum...
Since then, largely through his own doing, Brown has become better known as a volatile tabloid spectacle--throwing punches on disco floors and inexplicably vanishing from New Edition's reunion tour. There have also been frequent rumors of turbulent relations with his wife, pop queen Whitney Houston, in which Brown is usually cast as the heavy...