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...angry Versailles resident about the racket over at the chateau. Earlier that evening, 50,000 people had trekked out to the magnificent 17th century palace-home of France's royal court until the revolution of 1789-for a fireworks festival celebrating the arrival of summer. While Roman candles and rockets cannonaded across Versailles's famed formal gardens, one visitor secreted a time bomb in a cupboard in the chateau's south wing. The blast, which went off some time around 2 a.m., was verified by the police one half-hour later when a squad car made...
...Prince Michael of Kent, 36, handsome first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, whose diversions have included international bobsledding and fast cars; and Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, 33, an aristocratic Austrian interior designer; he for the first time, she for the second; in Vienna. Because his bride is a Roman Catholic (her first marriage was annulled), Prince Michael was obliged under the Act of Succession of 1700 to renounce his place as 16th in line to the British throne...
Pretty Baby--This is one of the most talked-about films of this year. It is also one of the worst films of this year, recommended only for people, with Roman Polanski-esque leanings. As you probably read in People or the National Enquirer or something, Pretty Baby features the astonishingly ripe 12-year-old starlet, Brooke Shields, as a child growing up in a New Orleans whorehouse around 1917. Director Louis Malle's camerawork is beautiful, as it has been in many of his earlier films, but the story and acting in this fiasco are purely insipid. Particularly...
...price of the auction: $2,214,000 for a gleaming Mosan medallion made in A.D. 1150 for the Abbey of Stavelot in Belgium. On behalf of the Nuremberg art museum, a London dealer paid $2,029,500 for another 12th century enamel, an arm ornament made for Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's coronation robe...
Beatty followed Splendor with a string of movies?The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, All Fall Down, Lilith?that turned out to be disappointments, but enlarged Beatty's image. Along the way, he earned a reputation for being hard on directors. "If the director was indecisive, Warren would absolutely destroy him," says Robert Towne. "He'd ask so many questions?and he can ask more questions than any three-year-old?that the director didn't know whether he was coming or going. I think Warren's drive to be a producer was that he feared he would get into...