Word: queens
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LONDON: Her back was to the crowd below. But as she stood for the BBC camera, Queen Elizabeth II spoke as she never had before: live for the British people from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. This was about as accessible as Her Majesty gets. Indeed, after 40 years of opening Parliament and pre-taping her Christmas broadcasts, the Queen was now making an extraordinary attempt to return to her people's hearts ? by expressing grief over the death of Diana...
LONDON: The Queen speaks to the people at 1pm Eastern Time. This is only the second time any British monarch has made a televised speech outside of Christmas and the opening of Parliament. It comes not a moment too soon. Yesterday ? the U.K.'s fifth day of mourning over Princess Diana ? saw an increase in public distaste over the way the Royals have handled their grieving. Meanwhile, the Diana sightings began, and that noted celeb hotspot, Ecuador, passed a tough anti-paparazzi...
...palace also bowed on the issue of the Buckingham Palace flag, announcing that the Union Jack would fly at half-staff there on Saturday in place of the monarch's personal flag that the Queen would not lower. The length of the funeral parade route through London has been tripled to accommodate the anticipated huge crowd...
Dandridge built a career as a suave nightclub singer before playing the jungle queen in Tarzan's Peril (1951). Here and in Bright Road (1953), a sweet drama starring Dorothy as a rural teacher, she flashed limpid eyes aching with sympathy; imagine Olivia de Havilland with a little sex and a little color (Dorothy's face had to be darkened with makeup...
...ultra-buff teenage superstar who adores "Meg" and addresses the Great Goddess Hera as "Mom." Maybe Disney didn't realize that Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for impieties far milder than that. What next? Medea, who kills her own sons after Jason jilts her, as a perky homecoming queen who struggles with low self-esteem...