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...called himself "the best playwright ever to have defended a murderer at the Central Criminal Court." The claim is neither entirely immodest nor self-deprecating. It is English Author John Mortimer's way of pointing out that the careers he has pursued seldom overlap. A barrister who became a Queen's Counsel and practiced in the loftiest reaches of the British legal system, he might also be described as the best lawyer ever to write for the stage (A Voyage Round My Father), screen (John and Mary) and television (Brideshead Revisited, Rumpole of the Bailey). Now Mortimer, 62, has earned...
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died, wrote the man who most disliked him, the poet and engraver William Blake, "All Nature was degraded;/ The King drop'd a tear into the Queen's Ear,/ And all his Pictures faded...
...Charles once wooed Diana. Like her good friend the Princess of Wales, Sarah Ferguson said yes, but her official betrothal to Prince Andrew had to wait until his mother returned from a trip to Australia and New Zealand. By the time Buckingham Palace released the expected announcement on the Queen's stationery last week, a crowd had gathered outside the gates. Meanwhile, Fleet Street was in a tizzy of breathless speculation that began in January after "Fergie" was invited by the Queen to a week-long New Year's house party at Sandringham...
...settled down with a proper "Sloane Ranger." Well, perhaps not entirely proper. She had been previously involved in a three-year affair with a racing-car driver 22 years her senior. But then Andrew has a past as well. The effervescent, redheaded Ferguson has long been a favorite of Queen Elizabeth's. She is , distantly related to the Queen through her father, Major Ronald Ferguson, who is Charles' polo manager, a close friend of Prince Philip's and a cousin of Princess Alice, widow of the Queen's uncle. Andrew and his intended, both now 26, knew each other...
...they'll love you for it. But the plot of Highlander would make the Flat-worlders Society gasp with incredulity Immortal beings who can only be killed by decapitation battle with broadswords in modern day Manhattan for a prize of ultimate enlightenment? And all this accompanied by a Queen soundtrack? Simple fantasy characters like Conan could only stare uncomprehendingly at such a ridiculous plot...