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Back on home turf, another royal couple was doing what the world has become all too familiar with: the Waleses were slugging it out in the headlines. Bitterly estranged for nearly two years, both Prince Charles and the Princess of Wales have used the press to court public sympathy and approval. In the meantime, Squidgygate and Camillagate have become part of trendy patois; front-page dramas have been cranked up over crank phone calls; and James Hewitt's confessional has redefined the word cad. Last week the battle reached what may be the climactic point. The Sunday Times printed excerpts...
...violin. Amidst these lessons, Marais also receives lessons of a different sort from the master's daughter, Madeline (Anne Brochet). The two actors display a shy desire for each other that's beguiling. Marais and Madeline's love sours and when Marais finally leaves her to play with the royal court, she perishes...
Playwright David Hare does. And in Racing Demon, which is visiting Los Angeles in a Royal National Theatreproduction, unfashionable form and seemingly distant subject matter are suddenly made vividly relevant. At the center of Richard Eyre's dark, stark yet ever bustling production stands (or rather slumps) the weary figure of the Rev. Lionel Espy (Oliver Ford Davies), a man who has lost not only religious faith but also the consolations of secular humanism with which he has been making do. To the political right and above him is his bishop (Richard Pasco), also faithless but fiercely insistent that...
...book about bridge, the man who invented the trick gave it a name. It's called the Fishhead Coup, and those who understand it say the move is the bridge equivalent of a royal flush. To pull it off takes unusual cunning. To invent it, a person would need an even rarer combination of intelligence and guile...
Meanwhile, royal hell nearly broke loose in England, where heir-to-the-throne Charles revealed yesterday in an authorized biography that he was prodded into a loveless marriage by his emotionally distant dad, Prince Philip. The Queen's hubby -- also in Russia -- reportedly castigated Charles today for going public. The skinny on the newest scandal: this may be the final sign that Bonnie Prince Charlie carries too much baggage to be King...