European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                 r books courting the Princess in i and t i by Alan Flippen the associated press. Y Peter Lefcourt is taking some major league criticism these Days and it in t for Hisook about two baseball players falling Inlove with each other in the Middle of Pennant race Lefcourt whose 19&z novel the Dreyfus affair used a love affair to skewer major league baseball and american society is now taking on Britain and its Royal family with Bis new Book. In i and i an american screenwriter not unlike Lefcourt himself goes to England to research a show Aboh the Princess of Wales. He meets her at a party and they fall madly in love. What happens next caused an uproar in Britain Long slow lovemaking on the floor of Kensington _ Palace an elopement to the United states and after More mildly steamy love scenes a life of Domestic Bliss As proprietors of a Mcdonald s restau rant in suburban los Angeles. Royal Book Row the headlines screamed. It s appalling that Diana can be used to sell fic Tion like this sniffed Diana s step grandmother Barbara Cartland. I crossed Over a line Lefcourt admits. By sex Ual izing her i took a step that the brits weren t ready  " part of the uproar he thinks is due to his being an american with the impertinence to write about the British Royal family. _ there s also a class thing he says. She s a Princess and he s an american  the Book takes shots at Many other aspects of British upper crust society a reference to Prince Philip expressing that benign but congenital anti semitism of the european upper classes was deleted from the British edition for Legal reason but Only the sex seems to have caused a stir. _ it s unfortunate because it s a very Sweet roman tic novel and if she read it f think she d feel that Way Lefcourt says. Satire is something of a new turn for Lefcourt _ who won an emmy for Cagney and Lacey in 1984 and whose resume in 20 years As a screenwriter also includes eight is enough the scarecrow and mrs. King and two fistfuls of to movies would Diana go this route he first tried put Black humor in his debut novel the Deal written during a lengthy period of unemployment in Hollywood in 1989, and Hopes now to move full time into Book writing. Satire is not a big thing on television he says. "1 worked As hard As i could and did a Good Job As a screenwriter but it was t a Job i put my heart and soul into. My voice is a Black humorist. That s what i like to do the Dreyfu affair was patterned after the French uproar a Century ago Over a jewish army offi cer s false conviction for treason. I started with the premise that what could Hap pen in the 1990s in America that would cause this political polarization he says. I came up with what if two baseball players fell in love -. He attributes the Lack of a backlash to the fact that baseball rather than denouncing the Book Sim ply ignored it. I think they were smart enough to realize that if they came out and condemned it they would simply push  i and i by contrast was an idea that came to Lefcourt while he was in England two years ago re searching a lbs to script called women of wind Sor. When it was Over i Felt something inside me kind of stirring. It was an emotional reaction to this woman needing to be rescued he says. I chose a Black comedy Way of doing it because instead of a dashing Knight i made him a screenwriter from " Southern california.". Words of Windsor excerpts from Peter Lefcourt s novel dirndl. We walked along in silence toward Jack friars Bridge the setting Sun at our Back. St Fadely she _ stopped turned to me and said i could become very fond of you i looked at her and saw moistness in the Corners of her eyes. I wanted to lick the tears away. Instead i reached my hand inside her Hood and placed it against the Side of her face. I could feel the heat of her flesh under my fingers. Her whole body seemed to shudder in a sort of paroxysm of released tension. It was a defining moment a watershed moment. In retrospect i see that moment on the embankment As the first kiss and surrender. Though we did not kiss. Not  was becoming Clear that the windsors perceived me As a threat. It Only remained for the Queen to add her Point of View. And that was t Long in com ing. It happened at Tea before i was driven off to Aberdeen to catch my plane Back to London. We were in the drawing room again All of us and the corgis and the Queen was talking about a horse she had put to stud recently. Of course one never knows How these things work out docs one nobody contradicted her so she went on. It really is entirely a matter of Breeding she looked right at me when she said it. Yes of course i mumbled. Lunch finally Over it was siesta time. We would reassemble on the Tennis court in two hours. I and i withdrew tothe guest Wing and As soon As we were out of sight we fell into each other s arms. It was like that very first night at Kensington Palace. We were All Over each other standing up in the Hall Way. We barely made it up the stairs. We bolted the door of i s room and shed Pur clothes. Though there was a big comfortable bed the covers turned Down for siesta we did t use it. We Sank to the floor under the open window and went at it like Alley cats.  _ Best Sellers new York times list hardback fiction t the gift by. 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