Word: cleopatras
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...magnets, which come in all shapes, sizes and prices, have a medical history dating back centuries; Cleopatra purportedly wore one on her face to preserve her youthful appearance. Yet thanks to modern marketing techniques and such high-profile users as Irabu, biomagnets could be the hottest thing since sliced bread, which some doctors say would be just as useful affixed to the body. "This is off-the-back-of-your-medicine-wagon kind of stuff," Dr. Douglas Foulk, assistant professor of sports medicine at the University of Colorado, told the Denver Post. "We have zero evidence that [magnets] are beneficial...
Oliver Stone: "It was definitely a conspiracy. The soothsayer warning Caesar was in on it from the beginning, but he began to feel pangs of doubt. Obviously Brutus was deeply jealous of his friend, but the conspiracy penetrated still further, probably including the now-emperor Octavian, as well as 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?). To his credit, the actor-director-adapter approached this job not as a solemn duty or an egotistical stunt, but in the sensible belief that the greatest work in dramatic literature damn well deserved to be filmed in full. Next to this, all other movie versions, from Laurence Olivier...
...nature's infinite book of secrecy, a little I can read," says a soothsayer in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. And last week a team of marine archaeologists provided a glimpse of what they contend are lost secrets of the real Antony and Cleopatra: surreal video footage of 2,000-year-old statues and stelae from a site less than 20 ft. underwater. The ruins appear to correspond to a palace in ancient Alexandria--perhaps the love nest of classical history's most powerful lovers, the pair who, the Bard wrote, "kiss'd away Kingdoms." Proof may still be wanting...
DIED. CLAUDETTE COLBERT, 92, effervescent star of an earlier Hollywood; at her home in Barbados. In films that included such classic comedies as It Happened One Night (for which she won an Oscar) and The Palm Beach Story, as well as a pre-Liz Taylor Cleopatra, she played women who, through charm and technique, had to persuade society that they were something other, better, more glamorous than they really were. In doing so, she became the epitome of couture elegance and city-girl pluck. The Colbert heroine walked the earth in sensible shoes and met each adversity with a throaty...