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...their final weekend, March 5 through 7, the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh will journey "privately" to Yosemite National Park, where the royal entourage will take over the entire Ahwahnee Hotel (121 rooms) and allow photographers only one brief opportunity to take pictures. As they tramp through the woods and gaze at the mountains' majesty, they will finally get the chance to be the plucky and curious British tourists that they really are. -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Mary Cronin with the Queen and Alessandra Stanley/Los Angeles
...researching a biography of Charlie Chaplin, the author is usually found in the comfortable Cambridge, Mass., home he shares with his wife, Novelist Anne Bernays. His study is littered with dolls, posters and memorabilia of "the Little Tramp." Why a film figure? Like Twain and Whitman, he believes "Chaplin rightly thought he was creating a new kind of language." The new languages need an interpreter: "You hope to be on the inside of your subject, but also hold a distance from him," Kaplan says. But sometimes it does not work that way. "I once dreamed that Walt Whitman was pursuing...
...film about Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn is remarkably devoid of any anti-American sentiment. Ironically, its illusion of reality is broken only once, when the director chides a Soviet, not an American, weakness. Confronting the corpse of Dr. Robinson in the graveyard, the tramp is unable to remember having killed him and mumbles, "It must have been the vodka...
...tracks are torn up? Neil Simon has reworked and revived his 1962 musicomedy farce, complete with Cy Coleman's winningly melodic score, but he cannot restore its sociological geography. His brassy heroine, the evocatively named Belle Poitrine (Mary Gordon Murray), a non-lady who is a bona fide tramp, wants to acquire culture, fame, wealth and social acceptance. In 1982, culture is a two-syllable word that has disappeared from most vocabularies, and a bona fide tramp has a hammerlock on fame, wealth and social acceptance, provided she selects the right ghostwriter to indite her saucy memoirs...
...this community: no drugs, no violence or threats of violence, and no sexual activity in the house. I broke the third one," she states flatly, "and I wear this to keep in touch with my weakness." A large posterboard hangs from her neck. It reads, "I am Miss Tramp...