Word: cleopatra
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...seduce all women in sight with a suave nonchalance that is part Fred Astaire and part Elvis. In “There’s the Rub,” a dazzling Andersson manages to be touching and moving, even while dressed in more makeup, skimp and sparkle than Cleopatra...
...most eclectic cast in movie history--Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen--in the second longest film released by a major studio (after Cleopatra). If Kenneth Branagh doesn't win an Oscar for his four-hour, uncut Hamlet, he should at least cop a Chutzpah Award...
...become a prizefighter in New York and later an actor. I was never part of his family really, and it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I had a relationship with him. He played one of the Nubian slaves in a version of Caesar and Cleopatra, that sort of thing. In high school once, I saw a picture of my father in Look magazine, performing in a play by Lillian Smith called Strange Fruit. I was quite proud of that...
Aloe has been a staple in home medicine cabinets for skin health since Cleopatra's time. According to a report in the journal General Dentistry, there is growing evidence that the plant's sap can also treat many mouth maladies, from cold sores to painful gums after a tooth is pulled...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Galileo and Pope Paul V. Thomas Becket and Henry II. Encounters between great figures, especially when their world views clash, can create historical watersheds. Such an encounter, writes James R. Gaines, took place on a spring evening in 1747, when an aged Johann Sebastian Bach arrived at the court of Frederick the Great, ruler of Prussia. Frederick, a music lover with as deep a passion for the arts as for waging war, had summoned Bach in order to set him a musical challenge--one that Bach triumphantly met two weeks later when he presented Frederick with...