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...Yorkers know that RUDY GIULIANI bows to no man. And now they have learned that even powerful women with scepters are out of luck. The former mayor of New York City visited London last week and received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth for his leadership on Sept. 11 and its aftermath. But U.S. citizens, unlike subjects of the Commonwealth, don't kneel before the monarch, and so Rudy stayed upright. Giuliani received a silver cross and a star pin, but despite being compared to Winston Churchill during the blitz, he is not entitled to affix an official "Sir" before...
...time. The image of the 20-year-old's faux-sexy, Barbiefied prettiness is as pervasive a presence in American homes as the Pope's used to be in Italian ones. Now Spears joins Mandy Moore, in the surprise hit A Walk to Remember, and Aaliyah, in Queen of the Damned--the film the R.-and-B. star made just before her death--in a trifecta of teen queens turned screen queens. Girl power is back in the 'plexes, and this time it sings. Can the new batch of thrushes have the impact of Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, Lena Horne...
...threnody of "sex, blood and rock 'n' roll," in the words of its lead vampire, Lestat. (Director Michael Rymer's film is based on an Anne Rice novel.) While Lestat, played with a handsomely snaky androgyny by Stuart Townsend, wows the kids with his rock-star act, the ancient Queen Akasha waits to be roused from her slumber. Waits for most of the movie: Akasha-Aaliyah doesn't show up until the last third, by which time she has received a bigger buildup than the sled in Citizen Kane...
...issues raised by Aaliyah’s death and the release of The Queen of the Damned are, thankfully, far more intriguing than mere self-glorification (Augustus) or venality (whoever is behind the 500 posthumous Hendrix albums). For one thing, there is the infinitely dark, even brutal, irony engendered by the fact that Aaliyah plays the title role: the queen of the damned. If, a la Coleridge, we suspend our disbelief a moment (as viewers of Queen must do) and assume the existence of those quaintly dichotomous extra-somatic resting-places Heaven and Hell, then it seems that only...
...Aaliyah’s role in Queen also derives great intrigue from some of Anne Rice’s earlier work. As one might expect from a genre that has as its protagonists denizens of an eternally undead demimonde, vampire literature seems to be linked almost inextricably to conscious and unconscious reflections on mortality and immortality. Such is indeed the case in Interview with the Vampire in which Louis, the vampire being interviewed, expresses deep ambiguity about his eternal unlife. On the one hand, Louis laments the loneliness and drudgery of eternal existence, talking of “languishing...