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...Crown Matrimonial, British Playwright Royce Ryton qualifies as one of the grounds keepers of history. He rakes up a pile of yellowed 1936 newspaper clippings to reassemble the tale of how Edward VIII abdicated his kingship in order to marry "the woman I love...
...recent session for promotional photographs, Riggs posed as legendary masterful males. He mugged in turn as Rudolph Valentino swishing a sword, Tarzan swinging with Jane, Henry VIII brandishing a turkey drumstick. Divers bosomy blondes sprawled at his feet, including two of his new friends, Sandra Giles and Susan Holloway. When Susan observed that "these pictures aren't very sexy," Bobby agreed and asked Susan to take off her clothes. She complied to the last thread, and Bobby Riggs Tudor began pawing like a satyr. "Wow! This is more fun than turkey legs. Turn around, honey, let them see more...
...Because Christians could not make interest-bearing loans in medieval Europe, borrowers turned largely to Jews. Only in the 16th century, after the Reformation and John Calvin's defense of interest under certain conditions, did lawmakers begin redefining usury as the collecting of "excessive" interest. In England, Henry VIII set an interest ceiling of 10%, which some U.S. mortgage lenders would like to see put into effect...
...drink yourself silly or read books." While he admits to doing his share of the former, it was inflight reading that paid off for Wakeman. On a flight from Richmond to Chicago last year, he read N. Brysson Morrison's The Private Life of Henry VIII and got the idea for Six Wives...
...between God and Adam. Gone too are most of the lofty jawboning sessions with angels who tend to sound like an unfortunate blend of Dean Rusk and Charlton Heston. Collier skips the Creation entirely, as well as the war in heaven (in fact, most of Books III, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI), except for the fall of Satan's defeated forces toward hell. Where it suits his purposes, though, he uses Milton's verse verbatim-and with reverence. Collier has Satan and his minions in the burning lake repeat until all hell rings with their shout of defiance...