From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V12 #80 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Wednesday, October 3 2007 Volume 12 : Number 080 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [pt] Yes, Anna Anderson [handal@r2d2.reverse.net (Richard Handal)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 01:49:54 -0500 (CDT) From: handal@r2d2.reverse.net (Richard Handal) Subject: [pt] Yes, Anna Anderson Hi, All, There was a swell review of a biography of Anna Anderson in Sunday's Washington Post. Her life and Tori's proximity to where Anna spent her final years inspired the song Yes, Anastasia. (Along with some hinky crab, apparently.) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/27/AR2007092702316.html Royal Pretender Was the woman pulled from a Berlin canal the daughter of the murdered Russian tsar? Reviewed by Selwa Roosevelt Sunday, September 30, 2007; Page BW08 A ROMANOV FANTASY Life at the Court of Anna Anderson By Frances Welch Norton. 357 pp. $24.95 The story of the last days of the Romanovs -- and especially that of the Grand Duchess Anastasia -- seems to have no end. But its tragic beginning is well-known. In July 1918, in the cellar of the "House of Special Purpose" in Ekaterinburg, a city in the Ural Mountains, Bolshevik gunmen executed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, along with the tsarina, their four daughters and only son. For almost a century since that terrible event, rumors have circulated that one or more of the royal children survived and pretenders have surfaced claiming to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the most tenacious one being a certain Anna Anderson. Countless books, articles and movies have explored and romanticized Anderson's persistent claim that she was the youngest daughter of the tsar and the sole survivor of the massacre. [ . . . ] I didn't realize that Anna had so many dedicated supporters and benefactors. The U.K. paper The Guardian reviewed this book in March . It seems to have just come out in the U.S., but it's been out for a while in the U.K. I always wonder why they change the cover art. And the U.S. version is supposedly longer. Hmm. Maybe we require larger print over here. I thought Tori and the band were playing well together on Monday's Leno. Funny what nearly 50 concert dates will do. It's another world from the promo things they do *before* a tour. For anyone in the U.S. who's been frustrated that she's touring here last, your patience is about to be greatly rewarded. We decidedly did not draw the short straw on this one. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V12 #80 *************************************