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Churchill came of a military dynasty. His ancestor John Churchill had been created first Duke of Marlborough in 1702 for his victories against Louis XIV early in the War of the Spanish Succession. Churchill was born in 1874 in Blenheim Palace, the house built by the nation for Marlborough. As a young man of undistinguished academic accomplishment--he was admitted to Sandhurst after two failed attempts--he entered the army as a cavalry officer. He took enthusiastically to soldiering (and perhaps even more enthusiastically to regimental polo playing) and between 1895 and 1898 managed to see three campaigns: Spain...
BOSTON--The Real Man of the Year was nowhere to be seen, but that didn't stop 19,028 fans and a high-wheeling crowd of international wrestling/boxing media from packing into the Fleet Center last night for the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF) Wrestlemania XIV...
...Iron Mask is a puff piece, good for one of those weekends when there's nothing else to do and the quality of the movie is not too much of an issue. DiCaprio plays both the young King Louis XIV, a philandering and utterly obnoxious young man, and his secret twin brother Phillipe. Phillipe has been locked up in a dungeon for the last six years with an iron mask on his face to conceal his identity. When Louis sends ex-Musketeer Athos' (John Malkovich) son Raoul (Peter Sarsgaard) back to war so that he can pursue his betrothed Christine...
...older and wiser." GERARD DEPARDIEU is Porthos, JOHN MALKOVICH is Athos, and GABRIEL BYRNE is D'Artagnan, their friend and captain. The film by first-time director Randall Wallace (Oscar-winning screenwriter of Braveheart) is being shot in France and also stars LEONARDO DICAPRIO as the Sun King, Louis XIV...
...French designer Thierry Mugler. She loves shopping at the pricey places--Versace, Fendi, Chanel. Her taste in clothes, however, isn't always as sure as her taste in music. She tries on a floor-length purple coat that looks like something Rick James would have worn to Louis XIV's coronation. "Oh, my God!" she exclaims, loving it. Next, a lumpy bright orange coat that makes her look like a citrus industry spokeswoman...