Word: cleopatras
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Votaries of the cat take a different view. From Cleopatra to Colette they have praised Felis domestica in stories, songs and poems for grace, independence, intelligence, perseverance and fastidious ways. Unlike the dog or man, cats do not form Soviets or pyramid clubs to achieve dubious pack goals. While they may pick a top cat, felines do not seem to require rigid hierarchies when a number of them live together. If human, cats might play solitaire, but they would never sit around with the gang and a few six-packs watching Monday Night Football. Their aloof singularity lies...
...tried to get out of a picture, Butterfield 8, that eventually won her an Academy Award. When the film was first shown to her and the ever compliant Fisher, they thought it was so bad that they threw their drinks at the screen. She felt more at home in Cleopatra, but off-camera she quickly fell under the spell of Burton, her Antony. He, in turn, held her in contempt, at least at the beginning. As Fisher-not the most objective source, to be sure-tells the story, Burton was mainly interested in latching on to the international fame that...
...Perhaps in her only silent picture, For the Love of Mike. "I had no idea what I was doing, and I should never have played in silent pictures anyway. I wanted to talk!" And talk she did, in that voice of brushed velvet, through such films as Cleopatra, Midnight, The Palm Beach Story, Since You Went Away, Three Came Home and It Happened One Night, for which she won the 1934 Academy Award as best actress...
...American composer whose lyrical music won him international popularity; of cancer; in New York City. Celebrated in his 20s for works like the Overture for the School for Scandal, he later won Pulitzer prizes for his opera Vanessa and for Piano Concerto No. 1. His grand effort, Antony and Cleopatra, was a rare failure for a composer who loved and understood the human voice and stood apart from avant-garde trends...
...unsteady young man named Charles (John Heard), is bonded. The other half has gone back to her husband. She is Laura (Mary Beth Hurt), a pretty and appealing but not very confident young woman who regards herself as quite ordinary. To the love-sotted Charles she is Cleopatra, and that is part of the problem. Each of them is unstrung, he by the crazy intensity of his love, she by his insistence that she is a marvel among women...