Princess

The Duchess of York (aka Fergie) and her newborn daughter are already home from the hospital, and the kid still doesn't have a name. We'd be glad to help. This newspaper could sponsor a Name-the-Princess Contest. We've had a lot of experience, and we're sure the Zoo would be glad to give us a reference. EL SECRETARY Lauro Cavazos of Texas this week became the first Hispanic ever appointed to a presidential cabinet. The new secretary of education will serve only a few months; his predecessor, William Bennett, doesn't leave until Sept.

This summer, hair weaves are taking a turn for the kinky, the curly and the wavy. Why is this news? When black women first started sewing hair onto their scalps during the 1990s en masse, the resulting shoulder-length bobs were as much about achieving a smooth texture as it was about having length. Fabulous hair was defined as long and straight. However, as more black women have come to terms with their natural curl pattern, store-bought tresses are trending toward the fuzzy rather than the flat-ironed.

Jenyiah, 6, loves to be in the spotlight and dreams of one day winning the American Idol competition or being "Princess for a Day. " In the meantime she is busy doing all kinds of "girly things" such as playing with dolls and dressing up and getting new clothes. Jenyiah enjoys styling hair and is quite adept at making long braids. Other favorite pastimes include playing educational computer games, having stories read to her, and riding her bicycle and scooter. Jenyiah is a bundle of energy and doesn't enjoy any activity where she has to sit still.

The tour starts at 12:30 p.m. every weekday, led by enthusiastic volunteers in love with the grand old building. It is inspiring to hear the history, to discover the hidden delights in a structure so superficially familiar yet, really, so unknown. It is also terribly frustrating. The closing years of City Hall's first century are leaving the massive building desperately in need of care. With foundation walls 25 feet thick, it is far too sturdy to fall down or apart. But like an aging, forgotten princess clinging to a ratty coat, its dingy exterior sags pathetically.

Epic and intimate, historical and contemporary, moving and thought-provoking, the impressive "The Princess of Montpensier" has something for all and sundry but especially for those who like to believe that films can be as boldly intelligent as they are entertaining. As directed and co-written by the veteran French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier with an expert cast of familiar and unfamiliar faces, "Princess" is a costume production rich in all manner of classic dramatic elements. Say hello to selfish schemes, bitter rivalries and the complexities of power and dynastic relationships at a time when France was divided by a bloody religious war between Catholics and Protestant Huguenots.

A disappointment from Eddie Murphy and a surprise from Ally Sheedy are the big news among the new arrivals at video stores. BEVERLY HILLS COP II (1987) (Paramount) $89.95. 102 minutes. Although this destructo-derby was last year's top box-office hit, it isn't a movie - it's a heart attack. (Eddie Murphy's filmography is on Page 1-D.) MAID TO ORDER (1987) (IVE) $89.95. 92 minutes. A reverse-Cinderella confection in which the princess is turned into a maid and not the other way around, Maid to Order takes a pumpkin of a fairy tale and merrily turns it into pumpkin pie. Ally Sheedy is appealing as the spoiled Beverly Hills princess who learns humility and humanism when she has to clean the Malibu pad of vulgarians Dick Shawn and Valerie Perrine, whose mansion is furnished in Early Pee-wee Herman and Late Caesars Palace.

Prince Andrew arrived at a London hospital today with a bouquet of red roses to visit his wife, Sarah, and their newborn daughter as delighted Britons celebrated the princess' birth on an especially lucky day. Champagne corks popped, bells rang and cameras flashed outside Portland Hospital in central London with the announcement last night of the birth of a 6-pound, 12-ounce girl to Andrew, the Duke of York, and his red-haired duchess, the former...

There's a word for women like Giselle: Supercalifragilistic. Ditto her film, Enchanted . A cartoon princess from the fairy-tale kingdom of Andalasia, Giselle falls down a well, comes up a sewer, and lifts a manhole cover to find herself - now made of flesh and blood - smack in the middle of Broadway. Both in the geographical and musical meanings of the word. Amid the hectic rush and rudeness of this Whole New World, the pilgrim in white taffeta remains undaunted in her quest for True Love's Kiss, which inspires her to song.

"I am thrilled to have worked so closely again with Jamie Lee Curtis, who has the most famous pair of bazooms in your country. " - Brit actor John Cleese, on his "Fierce Creatures" co-star As Princess Diana walked a minefield in Angola yesterday, she was unwittingly walking one at home. Some of Britain's conservative pols are furious with remarks she's made this week while on a Red Cross mission in war-ravaged Angola, calling for an international ban on land mines.

Vanessa Paradis , 39, on Tuesday was confronted with that most pressing question: Is she still Johnny Depp 's one and only? Or is the couple no more? The French model, singer, and thesp gave a reply that philosophers will still be deciphering centuries from now. "You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house," Paradis told French radio station Europe 1. "In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.

Disney on Ice's Dare to Dream production continues to skate through Philadelphia until Jan. 1, bringing classic and new princess stories on ice to the Wells Fargo Center. This musical ice-skating production will feature three story lines involving Disney characters: Rapunzel from the movie Tangled ; Princess Tiana from the film The Princess and the Frog ; and Cinderella. Princess Tiana, Disney's first African American princess, is a young woman from New Orleans who dreams of opening her own restaurant - and meets, and finds love with, Prince Naveen.

This week's DVD releases feature a Norse god, a former princess, and a New York fireman. Thor , Grade A-minus: The God of Thunder gets sent to live with humans to find his humanity. Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman star. It takes three elements to make a great movie based on a comic-book superhero: an actor who embraces the role, a director who treats the material with respect, and fantastic visual effects. Thor has all three. The hulky/hunky Hemsworth embodies the charm, strength, and power of the character.

IT'S THE REASON your attic is stuffed with your grandparents' old boxes. It's why you pay Public Storage 90 bucks a month to store your parents' old stuff, and why you brake for yard sales. Somewhere in all that mess, a treasure lurks - maybe. For Francesca Polli, 43, of North Jersey, a bunch of junk contained a jewel. Ten years ago Polli was the new owner of an old fixer-upper in quaint Campbell Hall, N.Y. The home, an old Cape cottage, once belonged to John Taylor, a retired super of a highfalutin Manhattan apartment building.

MONACO - At her royal wedding, Britain's Kate Middleton donned an heirloom tiara charged with historical significance. Princess Charlene of Monaco opted for something more personal, choosing a bold, asymmetrical creation that symbolizes the onetime Olympic swimmer's love for the sea. Made by French-German jeweler Lorenz Baumer, the "Diamond Foam" tiara, in white gold and with nearly 60 carats' worth of diamonds, evokes the spray thrown off a crashing wave....

MONACO - After waiting for nearly 30 years, the glitzy principality of Monaco has a new princess. Charlene Wittstock, a onetime Olympic swimmer from South Africa, married Prince Albert II in an intimate civil ceremony Friday. A more elaborate religious ceremony will be held Saturday. Wittstock follows in the steps of Grace Kelly, the Hollywood beauty and Philadelphian who wed Albert's father, Prince Rainier III, in 1956 and had three children with him. Grace died in a car crash in 1982; Rainier died in 2005.

MONACO - Charlene Wittstock has not one, but two tough acts to follow. As the future princess of Monaco and wife to longtime bachelor Prince Albert II, the Zimbabwe-born, South Africa-raised former Olympic swimmer is to succeed Grace Kelly, whose 1956 wedding to Prince Rainier III is still widely seen as the gold standard for royal nuptials. And as if the blue-eyed Hollywood beauty-turned-beloved princess didn't cast a long enough shadow, Albert's long-awaited marriage to Wittstock comes on the heels of the royal wedding of the decade, Kate Middleton's union with Britain's Prince William.

IT WAS YOUR typical fairy-tale romance: A fame-hungry princess with a penchant for baring her breasts fell for a prince's grandfather. Thrilled with his good fortune, the prince's grandfather asked the buxom princess to marry him, and when she said yes, he locked her in the castle until their wedding day. But five days before the ceremony, the princess ran away - to party in Las Vegas. Crystal Harris spoke with "Entertainment Tonight" about leaving Hugh Hefner , whom she'd met in 2008 and moved in with two weeks later, and said there were several reasons she decided to break off her engagement.

The image of the perfect fairy-tale bride is in the midst of a makeover. And fashion has everything to do with it. The shift may be slow, but it's far from subtle: Lacy bracelet-length sleeves are popping up within a dress market once dominated by strapless styles. Sparkling tiaras paired with fingertip-length veils mean baby's breath and cathedral-length headpieces have some competition. Slimmer A-line bias cuts are featured alongside the pretty poufiness essential in the early millennium.

On Friday and Saturday, families can enjoy outdoor activities and entertainment at the 50th annual Fitler Square Spring Fair. The free fair, scheduled 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, will offer children's games, face painting, and other activities. The Friday lineup will feature performances by singer Josh Schurr from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. and the Philadelphia School A Cappella Chorus beginning at 4 p.m. On Saturday, the string band group City Lights will take the stage at 11 a.m. At 1 p.m., the Philadelphia Freedom Band will perform.