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These things change, of course. Not a month ago, Karen Hilton, a director of New York's Wilhelmina model agency, was talking about her newest and ritziest signing. Princess Stephanie of Monaco, she said, "has the look that is in, a little boyish but sexy." Now, she insists, "people are just looking for something to say about her because she's a princess. She never struck me as boyish." It appears that the princess, like a new imported automobile, is undergoing some last-minute modification for domestic consumption...
...Wilhelmina agency told Vogue that the princess's New York trip was "indefinitely postponed," but Editor in Chief Grace Mirabella says, "I didn't get the feeling she was never coming." Rumors started to fly like sand gnats. Stephanie was suffering from exhaustion, or something even more dire, in a private hospital outside Paris; her father, Prince Rainier, had put his royal foot down right in the middle of the burgeoning career...
...Times not to mention the husband of Margaret Truman Daniel. Harry S. Truman's daughter Daniel appears to have known, or at least met, multitudes of VIP's from around the world. And he spends nearly 250 pages relaying anecdotes and recollections of almost all of them. What Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands wore or what King Farouk said is about as serious as this book becomes. It would be downright irritating if it weren't so enjoyable...
Without half its complexity of plot, Diva would be captivating. The photography is stunning, particularly during a climatic sequence in an abandoned warehouse. The acting is low-key and effective. Fredrich Andre plays the handsome Jules with an appealing and desperate innocence. Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez as the diva, gives the insecure prima donna an amusingly American French accent, an appropriate haughtiness of manner, and a crystalline singing voice. Thuy An Luu and Richard Bohringer (as Alba and her boyfriend) are very good at behaving strangely, which appears to be their primary function...
...Morgan Kane ended all speculation with the announcement that the legwork was the product of Joyce Bartle, 22, a native New Yorker. "I was embarrassed that I had to prove that the legs were mine," says Bartle. "You know your own legs when you see them." After all, the Wilhelmina model has filled stockings for Hanes, L'Eggs and Givenchy. Bartle scarcely minds all the controversy. Says she: "This will give me a leg up on my competitors...