Word: queens
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...reason people hate the show is because they don't like the people on the show. We saw Princess Di on T.V. talking about cheating on her husband and about her bulimia. No one said 'How dare she.' No. She looked great and spoke the Queen's English...
...Queen of Nice, but ROSIE O'DONNELL seems to have higher ambitions than royalty. Like sainthood. Claiming that she's "sick of all the crap" that goes along with being host of a daytime talk show, O'Donnell tells the November issue of Ladies' Home Journal that she plans to quit her highly profitable show when her contract runs out in 2002 so that she can concentrate on facilitating adoptions. O'Donnell, who has four adopted tykes of her own, recently opened a Rosie Adoptions office in New Jersey, and she already claims responsibility for 39 adoptions, including...
Hailing from the Baroque era, this Antonio Cesti opera tells the tale of an Egyptian queen and her trials of loe. Director Sarah Meyers describes the "funny, light stories that make it accessible to modern audiences." Reduced significantly to a more condensed version, the opera features a "well-balanced production" of both Harvard students and students of the New England Conservatory...
Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III opens shortly after England has lost its American colonies and shows the Establishment gone amuck. The King is mad, the Prince of Wales is scheming to displace his father, the Queen and the Prime Minister are determined to keep him in power and a host of incompetent doctors and parliamentarians wander in and out of the center stage. Politics as usual...
...Shaws pay their greatest homage, though, to Chicago writers. A guest can curl up in the queen-size bed in the Sara Paretsky Room and get lost in a V.I. Warshawski mystery. Or creep in on little cat feet to the Carl Sandburg Room. The Mike Royko Room, with its antique three-quarter bed, is best suited for the lone traveler, while the Studs Turkel Suite in the carriage house provides a break from Working...