People: Mar. 14, 1983

What has 20 elephants, 27 camels, 120 bullocks, 60 members of India's 61st cavalry and Amy Irving? (No fair peeking.) It's The Far Pavilions, a six-hour cable-TV mini-series now filming in Jaipur, India. Irving, 29, says that her role as an Indian princess has inspired in her "a royal feeling. I notice that my posture has improved." She has also honed her horseback riding. "Now," says Irving, "I can walk like a princess and ride a horse like a cowboy." Much better that than riding like a princess and walking like a cowboy.

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