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...After her parents' messy divorce when she was eight, Diana, her brother and two sisters shuttled back and forth between separate households. Charles was not caught up directly in such marital maelstroms, but he saw at close range how the marriage of his aunt Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon cracked, then tottered and finally fell into little gaudy bits...
...Great Impersonator used unique methods for his special effects. The voice of bumbling Inspector Clouseau is swiped from a Paris hotel concierge; in The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, a film that will be released next week, Sellers imitates the uncle of his friend Lord Snowdon. Aurally acute listeners to Chance may recognize the voice of Comedian Stan Laurel. Although he was unmusical offscreen, he could become an opera star if the part required it. "Peter couldn't sing a bloody note," recalled Actor Wilfrid Hyde-White. "Yet when he sang Caruso, he took high Cs like Caruso...
...actor "began to transform himself into a computer," Burton says. "He pretended he was a machine reading a tape of several voices and rejecting one after another until the right voice registered." Over the course of the interviews, Sellers managed to imitate human voices as well, ranging from Lord Snowdon's uncle (who inspired the accent for Fu Manchu, his next role) to Movie Mogul Walter Mirisch, a favorite target in Sellers' sniping at Hollywood. While Burton was spared the savage imitations Sellers sometimes does of his interviewers, she admits, "I detected a sprinkling of my sloppy American...
BORN. To Lord Snowdon, 49, English photographer whose 19-year marriage to Princess Margaret ended in divorce in May 1978, and the Countess of Snowdon, 37, the former Lucy Lindsay-Hogg: a daughter, her first child and his third...
MARRIED. Lord Snowdon, 48. who received his title one year after he married Britain's Princess Margaret; and Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, 37, researcher for Associated Television, who will now be known as the Countess of Snowdon; both for the second time; in London. A photographer, Antony Armstrong-Jones met Lindsay-Hogg in Australia four years ago when they worked together on a BBC documentary...