Word: imelda
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...Imelda Marcos also returns in Donald's short history. This time, her name is Mary Todd Lincoln, and her obsession with shopping can be directly linked to the death of her son, Tad. Shoes, however, weren't Mary's thing; at one point, she bought 400 pairs of gloves in three months. Donald's history of Mary Lincoln's growing insanity during the White House years is stronger than his history of Lincoln himself, but then again, it's always more fun to read about someone going insane than someone slaving over letters and military decisions...
Park, Lord and screenwriter Karey Kirkpatrick stocked Chicken Run with a cross section of Brit types: Bunty (Imelda Staunton) is bossy; silly Babs (Jane Horrocks, who played Bubble on Ab Fab) is forever knitting--when she gets morose, she knits a noose. Mac (Lynn Ferguson) is the nearsighted soul of Scottish ingenuity. Fowler (Benjamin Whitrow), a crusty veteran of the RAF, says Yanks can't be trusted: "always late for every war." The hens' lines to the outside world are Nick (Timothy Spall) and Fetcher (Phil Daniels), two music-hall Cockney rats--larcenists with a soft streak...
...PHILIPPINES Hostages, terrorism, apparent origin of Love Bug. Imelda's shoes weren...
...that the couple showed up to meet her without an attorney. "I have never done an interview with someone--not that I can remember--who was under the umbrella of suspicion without a lawyer present." And Walters has interviewed a long list of suspected lowlifes: Claus von Bulow, Imelda Marcos, Michael Milken. Says Walters: "Even Monica had a lawyer...