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...Made the Asp Too Short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 22, 1962 | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...your report on Cleopatra's death scene [TIME, June 8]: the Egyptian asp is a cobra, attaining a length of about 5 ft. when grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 22, 1962 | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

Newly hatched asps would probably be at least 9 or 10 in. long. The 6-in. Egyptian asp-in training for two months-used by aoth Century-Fox in its forthcoming film Cleopatra evidently is a retarded baby, poor thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 22, 1962 | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

With a $30 million sigh of relief, 20th Century-Fox finally brought Elizabeth Taylor and a real live six-inch Egyptian asp within striking distance of one another for the death scene in Cleopatra. "The asp," said Fox flacks somewhat ambiguously, "has been in training for two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 8, 1962 | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...could bring her wayward Welshman to heel, had their four-year-old daughter Kate flown in for added persuasion. "I'm finished," wailed Liz, gobbling sedatives "for my nerves." Not quite. 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra still has the big suicide scene to shoot. The asp was waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 4, 1962 | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

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