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Micky Arison thinks so. Arison is CEO of Carnival Corp., the cruise-industry behemoth that bought the venerable but floundering Cunard Line, which operates the QM2. "The concept of the Queen Mary was the reason for the acquisition," Arison says. Plans to build the big liner were announced within months of Carnival's 1998 takeover of Cunard, and Arison believes he can make $120 million from the QM2 "in a good year...
...Queen reigned for 31 years, crossing the Atlantic 1,001 times, three of them carrying Winston Churchill. During World War II, she gave up her old rich crowd to carry servicemen and their families. She was much beloved. So last week, when Queen Elizabeth II stood in blustery winds on a pier in Southampton, England, and released a bottle of champagne against the bow of the dowager's heir to christen her the Queen Mary 2, the new vessel, the largest cruise ship ever built, had a huge legacy to live...
DIED. VESTAL GOODMAN, 74, Grammy-winning singer known as "the Queen of Gospel"; of complications from the flu; in Celebration, Fla. With her elaborate hairdos and the trademark white handkerchief she waved at audiences, Goodman and her husband Happy dazzled fans in live performances that were reminiscent of early camp-meeting evangelism. In five decades together, the Happy Goodman Family act recorded 15 No. 1 gospel hits...
...Most Hong Kong thrushes are sweet vixens. Mui was different. Her large eyes, beaky nose and small, lurid gash of a mouth gave rise to another sobriquet: the Ugly Queen of Pop. That's a harsh way of saying that Mui was a throwback to chanteuse Bai Guang and other Shanghai "sour beauties" of the pre-Mao era. The sour beauty sang of love as a burden that made the sufferer superior. Mui was that survivor: battered but proud...
...hometown houri: not a showgirl or call girl but the girl next door (or next-office), the succulent embodiment of ordinary Americana. The job of posing for a girlie magazine was now not a shame for a young woman but a kind of honor, like being chosen Homecoming Queen. What John Skow wrote of the Playboy Club Bunny - that she was ?half geisha and half double-malted? - applied even more to the Playmate gestalt. Brilliantly, and bit by bit, Hefner had domesticated the nude...