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...them is the real Prince Charles and I am the insane one." Queen Elizabeth did not see the play, but she has met its star, Nigel Hawthorne, at a couple of receptions. "From her remarks," Hawthorne says, "clearly the Queen is under the impression that I am Sir Humphrey Appleby" (the dithery politician he played on the TV series Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister...
...sparkles through the palm trees. The movie star, her platinum hair shielded from the wind by a scarf, drives up in a turquoise convertible. Her boyfriend, dressed incongruously in suit and tie, leaps into the car with a boyish bounce. "Let's go, Monroe," he chirps. She replies: "Yes, sir, Mr. Attorney General...
...reporter wasn't swayed. "I'm just a student, sir, and we're just a community newspaper. I'm not sure we need the exposure...
...Crimson reporter was beginning to enjoy this. "Well, sir...
...loony recluse, stalking the ornate staircase of her pseudo palazzo in murderous rage. The juxtaposition is a miracle of stagecraft -- the weighty rococo mansion thrusts up and over the partygoers with noiseless ease -- and is also the signature moment of London's most anticipated theatrical event this year. In Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation, the movie classic Sunset Boulevard has much the same theme as his greatest hit, The Phantom of the Opera. Normal life is lived in company, the two shows say, but great passion demands an almost secluded privacy. If leaving reality for fantasy is demented...