Word: royals
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Meantime, Michael Grade is leaving to "go to work for Lear." This does not mean that he is auditioning for the Royal Shakespeare Company, however, only that he is becoming president of Norman Lear's TV production company in California. This will put him an ocean away from Sweet Fanny, but within hailing distance of Burbank, allowing him to watch the Tonight show five times a week...
...result of their business success, the couple from the basement flat in Pimlico has won a British export award and been invited for a visit on the royal yacht Britannia. The Ashleys now live much of the year in a 17-bedroom, 18th century chateau in northern France. At a small airfield near by, Bernard keeps a Beechcraft King Air plane, which he uses to fly off to business meetings. And while fashion trends come and go, Laura Ashley in tends to continue selling ruffles and romance. Says she: "What the eye sees is important. High tech is too hard...
People who have never been able to be a movie star in their lifetime can now become one after their death with a videotaped will. For $350, Royal Color Portraits Inc. of Massapequa and Albany, N. Y., will record up to 15 minutes of an individual's reciting his or her last will and testament. The tape can then be played back after the person has died. The service, called Posterity Pix, includes a scriptwriter and makeup...
...Britain's public and private passion, is rooted in the late 18th century. In that formal, opulent era, imperial collectors sent a steady stream of exotic flora from the newly acquired lands of Africa and America, and the first plantings were made in what was to become the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In those heady years, Robert Thornton, a physician and amateur botanist, spent his passion and his fortune commissioning paintings and engravings that he hoped would become a national treasure. The Temple of Flora (New York Graphic Society; Ill pages; $35) is an exquisite review of his labor...
Christmas cards became popular in the 1860s, when people experimented with sending visiting cards inscribed simply Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. In the late 1800s, the royal family adopted the practice and employed distinguished artists to design the cards. Thereafter the custom spread rapidly across Europe and America...