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...also less gushy and girlish (Romy Schneider covered that ground in 1954's Victoria in Dover). Victoria left ample and surprisingly intimate diaries, as well as her sketchbooks, which provided evidence of her platonic infatuation with Lord M. (she mostly got misty-eyed over the idea of him as a young man) and her nearly instantaneous attraction to her cousin Albert, whom she described as "extremely handsome ... he has a beautiful nose and a very sweet mouth" - which is certainly true of Friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Young Victoria: How a Queen Shapes Her Destiny | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

Jong Un, according to Fujimoto's book, is his father's favorite in part because, more so than the two other male Kim offspring, he has a take-charge personality. Kim regards Jong Chul, Jong Un's older brother, as being "girlish." And their older half brother, Kim Jong Nam, appears to be a flake, having been detained and deported in Japan in 2001 after traveling on a phony passport and claiming he wanted to visit Disneyland. Jong Un, Fujimoto writes, is different. He and his brother Jong Chul enjoyed playing basketball - but after the games, Jong Chul would just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea's Next Kim: Dad's Favorite, Kim Jong Un | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

That picture of the Holy Father might also bear traces of Bacon's anguished dealings with his own father, who had rejected his girlish son. But it's a mistake to read Bacon's work too quickly by way of his life. That's true even of the ferocious triptychs he made after the suicide of his lover George Dyer, a onetime London hood who killed himself in their hotel room on the eve of Bacon's first big retrospective, in Paris in 1971. In those pictures Bacon didn't simply unload his grief. He used it to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragic Hero: A Majestic Francis Bacon Show | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...considers underdogs—attracting more attention to the show than ever before. Will the public choose Jafargholi, who lives with his single mother and cat? Or Boyle, a single woman, who until recently lived with her mother and cat? Will we choose the mannish old woman or the girlish young boy? But to think that who wins this fight is up to any of us, to think that the public will be presented with unbiased representations of Boyle and Jafargholi’s talent, is to be naïve. And isn’t that what great television...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Truly Boyles Down To | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...solid achievements in plays and movies and on television, Richardson was first, and unfairly, thought of as Redgrave's daughter. Although she was not blessed with Redgrave's white-hot, almost alarming incandescence - that grand stature mixed with a girlish vulnerability - Richardson had her own gifts. Her public presence was spikier, more knowing and skeptical; she seemed not so much ageless as modern, less questing than questioning. She could locate the befuddlement of a brainwashed heiress (in the movie Patty Hearst), the crassness of an old-time good-time girl (as Sally Bowles, a Tony-winning turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richardson: A Star Always Worth Watching | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

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