Word: cleopatras
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...Boston Ballet's production of Cleopatra-with lush costumes, breathtaking scenery and evocative, lyrical dancing-rightfully puts the Bangels to shame, and offers a refreshingly beautiful take on a classic tale...
...Fields described Mae West as "a plumber's dream of Cleopatra...
...Elizabeth Taylor, though, who became the most famous, and the silliest, Cleopatra, long ago in the early '60s, in an apocalyptically awful movie that was at the time the most expensive ever made--much of the expense being run up in the care and feeding of Elizabeth Taylor and her dipsomaniacal Welsh Antony, Richard Burton...
...actuality of Egyptian history, Cleopatra was never so violet-eyed and opulently creamy. In American popular culture, just emerging from the Eisenhower '50s, such gaudy shamelessness was still a surprise. Taylor evicted her husband Eddie Fisher, and Burton cashiered his wife Sybil. The Queen of the Nile and the Prince of Denmark fell into each other's boozy, lascivious arms and set off on a saga of extravagant narcissism that became a celebrity contribution to '60s excess--except that it had no redeeming social value. As the civil rights movement marched, and Vietnam tore America apart, and Presidents were assassinated...
...actuality of Egyptian history, the Queen of the Nile was never so violet-eyed and opulently creamy. And American popular culture, just emerging from the Eisenhower '50s, had rarely staged such shamelessly excessive scandal. Taylor evicted her husband Eddie Fisher, and Burton cashiered his wife Sybil. Cleopatra and Hamlet fell into each other's boozy, lascivious arms, and set off on a saga of extravagant narcissism that became a celebrity contribution to '60s excess - except that it had no redeeming social value. As the civil rights movement marched, and Vietnam tore America apart, and presidents were assassinated or driven from...