TV & VIDEO - Nov. 9, 1990

Video Royalty: Prince Charles plays an environmentally friendly heir to the British throne in his comic video debut with John Cleese. The royal thespian has a key role in “Grime Goes Green: Your Business and the Environment.” The 30-minute video premiered Thursday at a meeting sponsored by Business in the Environment, which published an environmental guidebook for industry. Cleese plays James Grime, a decidedly un-green industrialist who is shown frantically cleaning his plant ahead of a royal visit. The prince tells him that “if everybody’s going to wait for a royal visit before they clean up their act, we’ll never get anywhere. . . .”