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...late Lord Mountbatten said in 1978. "The Queen is not going to abdicate. Everyone would advise her not to, beginning with the Prince of Wales." Last week a source close to the royal family told TIME: "It is a fair assumption that the Queen will continue on the throne for as long as her health permits, and she, with her family's support, feels she has a useful job to do for the state." One member of the immediate family also made it quite clear that Charles will have a long wait-perhaps 20 or 25 years-before...
...therefore a real coup for Coe to entice Plummer (whose Macbeth he directed years ago) back to the AST after a 26-year absence. While the historical Henry V ascended the throne at 26, Plummer is today roughly twice that age (51 or 53, depending on your source). It would be idle to expect him to recapture that youth for which the French dauphin insults Henry with a present of tennis balls. With more than a dozen important Shakespearean parts under his belt, not to mention other major classical roles. Plummer remains at the height of his phenomenal vocal control...
...hazards. Two of the last three Teamster bosses, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, were sent to prison on corruption charges. After his release, Hoffa vanished, presumably rubbed out by the Mob. Says Jackie Presser, a Teamster vice president: "That chair isn't a throne, it's an electric chair." His point...
...dally with his male friend Lucano when Poppea or his Empress Ottavia is not around. Seneca, Nero's wise old mentor, advises him against marriage to Poppea and, for his counsel, is forced to commit suicide. Ottavia, whose crime is wanting to keep her husband and her throne, is exiled-set adrift alone at sea. Meanwhile, Ottone, who has tried to murder Poppea in her sleep, is banished. When Poppea finally marries Nero and is crowned Empress of Rome, vice has triumphed over virtue, and all at the command of the god of love...
BORN. To Princess Anne, 30, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, and her husband Mark Phillips, 32, a former army captain: a daughter, their second child, who ranks sixth in line to the British throne; in London. Weight: 8 Ibs. 1 oz. No name has yet been chosen...