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...VIII," the second ballet performed, opens on a note eons away from the innocent romanticism of "Company B." Choreographer Elisa Monte describes her dance, set to bass-pounding, Eurotechno "music," as "a personal duet dealing with couples in a love-oriented environment," in which the "moods of a relationship...ecstasy, anger" were emphatically expressed...
Figuratively speaking, Princess Diana has been beheaded. Now all that remains is for Prince Charles to ascend the throne in due course; his appropriate name then would be King Henry VIII the Second. Long live hypocrisy! JOCELYN MARY SEEMANN Durban, South Africa...
Hollywood has been cashing in on mad King George and Richard III; now roomfuls of diaries and papers dating back to Queen Victoria could become scripts, beginning with Edward VIII: The Inside Story. In merchandising, the royals have not done nearly as well as The Lion King. That would change...
Richard III, as conceived by actor Ian McKellen and director Richard Loncraine, is one bold customer. Here is Shakespeare's upper-class mass murderer reimagined as a clever fascist in the court of Edward VIII. The 1930s was a decade of ruthless strongmen, in both European politics and Hollywood movies. Gangsters, mesmerizing in their amoral ambition, were the men of the moment; they lent a sick thrill to the front page and entertainment section. This Richard is such a fellow, Hitler as Scarface. From the opening titles, which explode in a blast of artillery, to the closing image of Richard...
...recent find gives scholars hope, though, that more can be discovered even in this most-explored of Egypt's archaeological sites. Notes the antiquities department's Abd El Aziz: "We still haven't found the tombs of Amenhotep I or Ramesses VIII," he says. "We have 62 tombs in the Valley of the Kings, but in the Western Valley, which runs perpendicular to it, we have discovered only two tombs...