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...loved the book! Now see the movie! That's how Hollywood used to sell films based on best sellers. But if the film is a notorious flop, like Cleopatra or Heaven's Gate or last year's The Bonfire of the Vanities, the pitch is, You hated the movie, now read the book about how this bad movie got made -- and how it got made...
Newton and Cleopatra--with Mary Hamer, fellow on history of representation. In the Bunting Institute at 34 Concord...
Although the pool does not in its present form resemble a typical mainstage, the site actually does have a history of dramatic productions. The most famous of these, Peter Sellars's staging of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra," took place in the late seventies and was filmed on a barge floating on the water...
...authoritarianism. A series of "baseline" essays, commissioned by the Portland, Ore., school district as a reference for teachers and now in widespread use elsewhere, contains some sweeping assertions: "Black literature is manipulated and controlled by white editors and publishers." And: "Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color." The claim that ancient Egypt, one of the cradles of Western civilization, was a black culture is a central tenet of Afrocentrism. Corroborating evidence is flimsy, but that is apparently not important. Writes John Henrik Clarke, professor emeritus...
...time spendthrift film is still Cleopatra, which cost $44 million in 1963, or $194 million in 1991 dollars. Even today, though, $100 million is not peanuts for a movie. (The first Terminator cost a chintzy $6.5 million.) The T2 price tag may have achieved its round figure only in the gossip that passes for hard news in Hollywood. "I wish I'd had $100 million," Cameron says with the wistfulness of a teenager who got a Porsche for Christmas, but without...