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...competition. Sending the A team to sites of big stories is another hefty item; a weekend in Reykjavik cost each network around $1 million. And in the days of affluence, says a former CBS executive, "Dan Rather used to go overseas with an entourage that would have made Cleopatra comfortable." Those days ended when new managements arrived at the networks...
...program notes, Sellars announces right off the bat that he is bringing as light a touch as possible to what is ostensibly some serious dramatic business: Caesar arrives in Egypt and is seduced by the lips and legs of Cleopatra, who wants his aid in deposing her brother Ptolemy, the king of Egypt. The typically non-historical subplot stars Cornelia and her son Sestro, who are out for revenge after Ptolemy slays paterfamilias Pompey as a gift to Caesar and an excuse to put the moves on Cornelia himself...
After Maria exhausts her dramatic repertoire--which includes mother, daughter, sister and husband to Dolores--she takes an asp in hand and reclines on a banquet table to die as Cleopatra...
This monumental survey deserves to be published to the strains of the triumphal march from Aida. The Art of Ancient Egypt by Kazimierz Michalowski (Abrams; 600 pages; $125) embraces some 5,000 years and 30-odd dynasties. Cheops, Tutankhamen, eleven Ramseses, a dozen Ptolemys and Cleopatra enliven a history that contains the seeds of the Western imagination. Polish Professor Michalowski links chapters on anthropology, language, society and craft with more than 100 pages of diagrams and maps. Some 900 pictures, including 145 in color, illustrate masterpieces of sculpture and painting seldom seen in print. Here, scholarship and grandeur are inseparable...
...Cleopatra, who must have spent hours rimming her eyes with kohl each morning, would no doubt have loved the latest gift of cosmetic surgery: tattooing a thin dark line along the upper and lower lids to augment or replace conventional eyeliner. Since the operation was introduced in the U.S. a year ago, about 15,000 of her modern-day sisters have scurried off to ophthalmologists, dermatologists and plastic surgeons in unblinking pursuit of a fuss-free made-up look. The operation appeals especially to athletic women who do not want to worry about runny eyeliner and to those with poor...