Petit Princes: Deux
Alex Carter - March 12th, 2008Prince Harry, age 23 and third in line to the British crown, has been working as a battlefield air traffic controller in Afghanistan since last December. This is remarkable not so much in that a prince was deployed, but because the U.K. press kept it under wraps for three full months. Alas, all discretion must come to an end. A couple of renegade reporters publicly disclosed Prince Harry’s location, forcing him to come home weeks earlier than scheduled. This is good news for Buckingham Palace, the representatives of which have been complaining of a lack of press since the hard-partying Harry went abroad.
Across the channel: vive la France! Or so says Angelina Jolie, who plans to bear and raise her freshest spawn-to-be there. She claims her French roots, courtesy of her mother, make this land of wine and MILFs an ideal rearing ground for the likes of Shiloh pt. 2.
In unrelated but interesting Jolie news, her Francophone announcement comes just after the publication of an editorial she wrote for the Washington Post, which discusses the millions of Iraqi refugees who have been ousted from their country by war (I trust you know which one). After holding out for years, it’s getting increasingly hard not to have a crush on her.
For the second alas in one column—and the second nod to royalty—I must divulge the sad fact that the artist known off and on as Prince since the heady days of Purple Rain, is having a hip replaced. Over two decades of daily high-heel boot use have not come for free. The petite (5’2’’) 49-year-old has been told surgery is necessary to repair his battered frame. It’s a long way from Erotic City!
Last week I mooned over the gorgeous Marion Cotillard, and she must have heard me, for lo! Behold! Gossip’s running rampant! It appears that Mademoiselle Oscar winner made comments in a 2003 interview that questioned the U.S. government’s involvement in the 2001 fall of the World Trade Center, strongly insinuating that it was part of a domestic conspiracy.
Cotillard also expressed doubts that man has in fact scaled the moon. Major American studios may take this with a negative grain when casting their blockbusters, but me, I like’em crazy.
For my Bravo heads, Tim Gunn thinks Hillary Clinton can’t dress worth nothing. As he told Conan O’Brien during a guest appearance, he believes in “the semantics of fashion”—in other words, that as her campaign (by some measures) flounders, so too does the power of a power suit.
To conclude, here’s a soundtrack for the hectic lives chronicled this week: the freshly postpartum Christina Aguilera is headed back to the studio to make an all-pop album.
As they say at the Renaissance Festival: Huzzah!