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...good stuff. Nicolas Roeg casts his wife, the exemplary Theresa Russell, as King Zog of Albania foiling a terrorist plot to the strains of Un Ballo in Maschera. Jean-Luc Godard sets Lully's Armide in a Paris gym. Body builders pump iron; two gorgeous sorceresses dust them off. Murder is in the air, and the kinetic poetry Godard can create from the way a woman's hair falls across her face. Julien Temple's witty episode -- quick gags and endless tracking shots -- plops Rigoletto into California's baroque Madonna Inn. A movie producer philanders in a room decorated...
RONNIE GETS GOP FROM LEKA, SON OF ZOG, the headline might have run-and every word would have been true. California's Governor Ronald Reagan, 56, has been friendly for years with Prince Leka, 28, the throneless son of Albania's late King Zog, who was deposed in 1939. After a visit to Sacramento last spring, Leka wrote from Paris that he would be sending "a small token of appreciation," namely a 15-month-old, 700-lb. elephant. The beast's name: Gertie, which Nancy Reagan thought lacked a certain chic, and is why the Sacramento...
...German princeling named William of Wied was selected by the Great Powers to be its King. William could stand Albania for only six months. Ten years later, Ahmed Bey Zogu, son of a tribal chief, successively became Prime Minister, President and then King. As King Zog, he lasted until 1939, when Mussolini invaded Albania. During the war, the Albanian underground fell under the control of the Communists led by an equally ruthless pair of partisans named Hoxha and Xoxe (pronounced Hoja and Jo-je). In 1949 Hoxha, a firm Stalinist, hanged Xoxe because he inclined toward Tito...
Died. Ahmed Bey Zogu, 65, former King Zog I of Albania, who helped his Balkan land shake off Turkish despotism only to see it taken over, first by Italy, then by the Soviet Union; of stomach ulcers and a liver ailment; in Paris. "My life is an adventure story," said Zog, a mountain chieftain who rose from Premier to President to King, reigned for eleven years before Mussolini's troops chased him into lifelong exile in 1939. Zog, whose notorious chain-smoking (150 cigarettes a day) came as close to killing him as four assassination attempts, spent his last...
Coke & King Zog. Writing hundreds of letters a week, he touts books and movies (current examples: Moss Hart's autobiography, Act One, and the film version of The World of Suzie Wong). Coca-Cola has bought the Hoffman touch, as have Bulova watches, Gambler Frank Costello, and King Zog of Albania. Sometimes called a "suppressagent" as well, Hoffman collects healthy fees from his clients for keeping material out of the papers. Israeli government officials, for instance, recently proposed to shake the earth with a photograph of Jewish Converts Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe doing a September Morn scene knee...