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...played all the great queens: Cleopatra, Gertrude in Hamlet, Queen Victoria in the 1997 film Mrs. Brown. She has great swaths of Shakespeare locked in her brain: all of Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream and "probably most of Measure for Measure." So, for British actor Judi Dench, figuring out how to inhabit the role of Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love was no great mystery. "I thought she would be a commanding person," says Dench, who is herself a rather gracious person, and all of 5-ft. 1-in. tall. "I thought that...
This year, girls snapped up Madeline ensembles by the handful, though Cleopatra, Xena and Jasmine costumes vied for first place as well, at least according to Jean, manager of Broadway Costumes. Phoebe Huth (age 5, daughter of John Huth, Professor of Physics) said she planned to dress up as the mermaid of Disney fame since, as she put it, "I like Awiel." Her getup: "It has spawkles all over it. It looks like it's silver in the middle and it's a dwess and it's gween on the bottom to look like a mewmaid. And I'm going...
...become a Hollywood fixture and one of the industry's more versatile actors; of cancer; in Los Angeles. He survived a run of sensitive-boy roles in the '40s (including Lassie Come Home and How Green Was My Valley) to appear in adult parts ranging from Octavian in Cleopatra (with close friend Elizabeth Taylor) to the chimpanzee Cornelius in the Planet of the Apes film series...
LIAISON DANGEREUSE The hero of Philippi dumped his wife, who happened to be the Emperor's sister, to take up with Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt...
...with a healthy appetite for '90s sonic experimentation and boundary crossing. Neo-soul artists tend to create music that's a good deal more real, a good deal more edgy than the packaged pop of, say, teen-oriented groups like the Spice Girls and Cleopatra. And they tend to write lyrics that are more oblique and yet more socially and emotionally relevant than those of gangsta rappers...