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...PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. On Independence weekend, fiddlers from across North America will gather in Port Townsend for the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes. The fiddlers--experts on violin and banjo--will play traditional tunes from their hometowns across the U.S., Canada and Mexico...
...Mandy movies, Aaliyah's fits into the prevailing guy mode: a threnody of "sex, blood and rock 'n' roll," in the words of its lead vampire, Lestat. (Director Michael Rymer's film is based on an Anne Rice novel.) While Lestat, played with a handsomely snaky androgyny by Stuart Townsend, wows the kids with his rock-star act, the ancient Queen Akasha waits to be roused from her slumber. Waits for most of the movie: Akasha-Aaliyah doesn't show up until the last third, by which time she has received a bigger buildup than the sled in Citizen Kane...
...legendary vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) stretches out in his bath of rose petals, Queen Akasha (Aaliyah) runs her hands slowly over his face. Gradually, as his eyes close, she bends her head forward, closes her bared teeth around his neck and takes a big, juicy bite...
...married the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, who was made the Earl of Snowdon. She told friends that she decided to accept his proposal when she learned that Townsend was to wed a Belgian woman. Snowdon introduced Margaret to an even wider world of artists, actors and writers. But within seven years, their marriage was in decay. Though they would hold things together while their children, David and Sarah, were growing up, both of them were finding companionship elsewhere. For a while Margaret found some with actor Peter Sellers. She reportedly seduced him on the drawing-room sofa at Kensington Palace...
...DIED. PRINCESS MARGARET, 71, glamorous younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II known for her jet-setting lifestyle and unhappy love life, following a stroke; in London. Margaret's 1953 romance with royal aide Peter Townsend made newspaper headlines around the world because he was divorced, and after two years she bowed to convention and broke off the relationship. Ironically, her subsequent 1960 marriage to society photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones ended in divorce in 1978. Once a heavy smoker, she suffered at least two earlier strokes and had recently been confined to a wheelchair. DIED. ANNALEE WHITMORE JACOBY FADIMAN, 85, screenwriter...