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Though political humor pervaded Keaton dialogue—when he’s asked by his girlfriend’s father, “What are you, a dancer, poet, communist?” Alex replies, “No sir, I’m against all those things”—the show was not concerned with taking a political stance. Politics were always subordinate to family, a message reinforced by the producers’ decision to replace the original opening credits, a series of photographs from Elyse and Steven’s hippie days, with...
...Please, Sir, Can You Print Some More...
...even before Nancy's books became international hits, the sisters were notorious; the "Mad, Mad Mitfords," the press loved to call them. Diana, a spectacular beauty, married an heir to the Guinness fortune but then jettisoned him to take up with Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of Britain's fascist party, which, Lovell says, made her "arguably the most hated woman in England." Just as scandalous was Unity, a close friend of Adolf Hitler's and so worshipfully devoted to him that she shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany (she survived with some brain damage; Hitler...
...Christmas Eve, I'm wishing away the last minute shoppers as I crawl east on 57th Street - and the cop directing traffic at 5th Ave. stops me. "Sir," he inquires reverently, as other drivers stop and stare, "is that really a Cadillac...
DIED. NIGEL HAWTHORNE, 72, British stage and screen actor internationally known for his role as the pompous, conniving civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby in the 1980s British television series Yes, Minister; of a heart attack; in Hertfordshire, England. Expert at dry, laconic wit, Hawthorne scored a late-career triumph in the title role of The Madness of King George, for which he was nominated for an Oscar...