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...Some reviews say the show glazes over too many details and makes Imelda a little too sympathetic. But he insists that’s the point....
...While Charles (Dominic West) vainly mounts a campaign to improve Camilla’s public profile and Queen Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton) tries to draw a line under the ignominy of divorce, they are haunted by reports...
...In 2011, a Hawaii court fined Marcos and his mother Imelda Marcos $353mn for contempt of court in a case stemming from human rights violations during the martial law rule imposed by his father, the late...
...Certainly, shoe collections, once the preserve of women such as Imelda Marcos, have leached into male culture, with connoisseurs populating entire rooms in their houses with box-fresh trainers....
...In between, it passed through the hands of Ferdinand Marcos, the late dictator of the Philippines, and his wife, Imelda, served as the home of the ill-fated Trump University, and was struck on a foggy night...
...The last 150 pages bring us up to date, as Dickie digs a bunker with a prepper friend (“Doom and Doomer”, Imelda calls them) and tries to retrieve that lost past....
...I had a dressing room with Dame Judi Dench and Petula Clark and Julia Mackenzie and Imelda Staunton and it was terrific, a real feeling of community....
...His current project is Here Lies Love, a disco musical on Broadway about Imelda Marcos, a former politician and first lady in the Philippines....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] David’s interest in Imelda Marcos began when he came across a video of her dancing under a disco ball with the Saudi arms dealer, Adnan Khashoggi....
...Another comes from Carmel’s memories of her father leaving the family when she was 12, her mother Terry’s illness, and the cruelty meted out to Carmel by her older sister Imelda, a character self-ennobled...
...Take a break from the news Talking Heads frontman David Byrne is back in the spotlight with a disco musical about Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines....
...But the public’s view seems to be just an external validation of what the Queen (now played by Imelda Staunton) already fears within herself....
...In a similar vein, Abad has reproduced as postcards Imelda’s collection of Old Master paintings, which were sequestered from the family and sold by Christie’s on behalf of the Republic of the Philippines...
...It’s not easy to find the proper middle ground.”In 2011, a court in Hawaii fined Marcos and his mother Imelda Marcos $353mn for contempt of court in a case stemming from human rights violations during the...
...Imelda Marcos, one-time Philippines first lady and possessor of 3,000 pairs of shoes, is fashionably late. She air kisses Bonny, waves regally to the others....
...Imelda Marcos failed in a presidential bid the following year, but won a congressional seat in 1995....
...Hundreds of pairs of shoes from Imelda’s infamous wardrobe are still on show in a museum in Manila, but many voters no longer see them as a brand of shame....
...His mother, Imelda, notoriously left behind a collection of 2,700 pairs when the family fled the Malacañang Palace in 1986, after the People Power revolution....
...Caroline Quentin introduces herself by tartly announcing that “Imelda Staunton was not available”, before proving that she’s the only woman for the job with a sidesplitting stream of malapropisms: “Cleanliness...
...Midway through the first half of the season, Imelda Staunton as an ageing Queen Elizabeth II delivers the oft-quoted “Annus Horribilis” speech....
...Marcos Jr’s 92-year-old mother Imelda, who was convicted of graft in 2018 in a case now under appeal, was among those attending his inauguration....
...The Marcos family fled to Hawaii in 1986 after facing the “People Power” mass protests, and Ferdinand died there in 1989, But Imelda Marcos, the dictator’s widow, Marcos Jr and his sister Imee Marcos returned...
...Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos presided over what has been called a conjugal dictatorship. It was also a world-class kleptocracy....
...The first family fled to exile in Hawaii and left then-first lady and Bongbong’s mother Imelda’s 3,000 pairs of shoes behind in the Malacañang presidential palace — a collection that remains a symbol of...
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