Word: regales
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...challenge to sing as to hear. In The Slipper and the Rose, the melodies slosh around lyrics that have largely to do with the frustrations of love and royalty. The Prince (Richard Chamberlain) bellyaches tunefully about the difficulty of finding a loved one from amongst the array of regal dogs put forward by his father the King (Michael Hordern). These complaints absorb rather more time than they should, and result, directly or indirectly, in several dance numbers of singular clumsiness. The dancers-presumably professionals-look like nothing so much as the members of a Little League team doing...
...Bergman and Charles Boyer. The material, adapted from a novel by Maurice Druon called Film of Memory, would seem suited to all: a sentimental, gilded fairy tale about a poor Italian provincial (Liza) who comes to Rome to work in a hotel. She buddies up with a batty, once regal contessa (Bergman), who urges her always to "be yourself-the world worships an original." The girl follows this advice and becomes a first-magnitude movie star...
...paranoid state of mind. The dictator, known as "the general," has ruled for 100 years. He begins as a popular, benevolent figure. As his power overripens and corrupts, he sells his country's coastal waters, murders his enemies and finally withdraws to his palace to live in regal squalor with his concubines. He still keeps up with public sentiment, however -by reading the graffiti on the walls of his servants' outhouses...
...battle in red and aqua, a regal contest between the strikingly handsome, radiantly smiling wives of the presidential candidates at either end of convention hall. By engaging in light-hearted maneuver, Nancy Reagan, queen of the north galleries, and Betty Ford, queen of the south, relieved the tense arithmetic of the delegate fight. In this spirited display of elegance, it was impossible to declare a winner...
...equipment served me so little." Heston's latest brush with the big boys is as King Henry VIII in Director Richard Fleischer's film The Prince and the Pauper. The actor needed plastic in his makeup plus padding on his body to effect the appropriate regal bearing. "My eyes are deep set; his were close to the surface," observed Heston. "My face is angular; his was square. My mouth is large; his was small. My nose is angular and broken; his was square and short." The makeup worked just fine in the end, noted the actor...