Word: caligula
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...really like Andy Hardy, a starry-eyed boy who liked to have a good time," mused Author Gore Vidal about his latest subject, the Roman Emperor Caligula, who once appointed his horse as Consul and twice abducted brides of noblemen in the middle of their weddings. "He was a hedonist." Vidal's screenplay is scheduled to go before the cameras in Rome next year. Appropriately, the $7 million production will be financed by a 20th century hedonist, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione...
...course with illustrated color slides. The audience can never quite settle down to the entertainment for fear of some impending exam. Knowing the names of the characters does not really help, since their natures change with bewildering rapidity. Click: here is Messalina gamely struggling to protect her virginity from Caligula. Presto: here is Messalina, Empress to Claudius, cuckolding him wholesale in the foulest brothels of Rome...
...which the female populist, labor lawyer and champion of the oppressed mercilessly oppresses her own staff. Some other politicians, most famously Lyndon Johnson, have been known to bully their workers, but Bella, with that perfect name, the Latin for wars and beauty, is an interoffice tyrant undreamt of since Caligula...
...Caesar & Caligula. Rarely had the voices of dissent been raised so loud, or carried so far, or trained on so many issues. The young formed the sword's point of protest students on a thousand campuses, Negroes in a hundred ghettos, hippies in their psychedelic enclaves. But there was hardly a segment of society that seemed immune to the disaffection. Housewives were alarmed by growing grocery bills, farmers by tumbling prices for their produce, parents by their alienated children, city dwellers by the senseless violence around them...
...without a contumelious attack. Wherever he went, from a speaking engagement in Los Angeles to a cardinal's funeral in Manhattan, he was dogged by shouts of "Murderer!" and "War Criminal!" or chants of "Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many kids did you kill today?" He was likened to Caesar, Caligula and Mussolini...