The crowning moment of his year in Washington came when he organized a party where some 200 girls showed up to dance with 20 boy pages.
In the first, Little John decapitates a monk who, understandably, has squealed on Robin (the outlaw had deprived him of £100); more shockingly, "Much the Miller's Son" deals in the same way with the monk's innocent boy-page, "for fear lest he would tell".
With "Boy Crazy," (Page TK) Malige reprises his decades-old collaboration with the fashion demigod Hedi Slimane.
"Then was Jack Falstaff, now Sir John a boy and page to Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk," reminisces Shallow to Silence, and we suddenly see the juvenile, perhaps slender Jack.
His "Tutankhamen: Boy King" page is a history both of the discovery of the tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 and of the boy king himself, "a shadowy and little-known figure of the 18th Dynasty".
Re "Raid in Miami Opens New Front in Struggle Over the Cuban Boy" (front page, April 24): The only thing wrong with the action that Attorney General Janet Reno finally authorized to seize Elian Gonzalez and return him to his father was how long she took to do it.
With the other hand, the boy was paging through the menu, as he looked at the pictures of the food.
Grady Tripp, played by Michael Douglas in "Wonder Boys," reaches page 2,612 (single-spaced) of his novel, though he eventually thinks his pages are excremental.
Two of the program's sponsors came in: Mrs. Lydia Wasserbach, who with her husband designed Lullaby-Lite and Ben Stanley, president of Semco Electronics Corporation which makes Page Boy Baby Sitter and Page Boy Baby Sitter Receiver.
Joe McAleer, a historian who has written about Harlequin, told me that Harlequin romances have traditionally followed a formula: "Boy meets girl, boy loses girl on page 56, and, by page 180, the book would end with a marriage proposal".
